[kosta50]

Romans 8:9-11 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit

Really? So, you have no body?

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost

No wonder the Jewish Encyclopedia says Paul was no Hebrew scholar. You may want to look up what the Jewish Encyclopedia (with appropriate references to the Bible) says about the Kingdom of God. You may only then grasp the extent of Pauline innovations he dished out on his own accord to unsuspecting Greeks.

1 Cor. 4:20-1 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ..

Wow, I wonder where he got that one from!

Reign or sovereignty of God as contrasted with the kingdom of the worldly powers. The hope that God will be King over all the earth, when all idolatry will be banished...When, however, the trend of events led early Christianity to make a decided disavowal of all political expectations antagonistic to Rome, the conception of the Kingdom of God was made an entirely spiritual one, and was identified with the "'olam ha-ba" (= "the world to come"), the spiritual life, in which "there is no eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy spirit" (Rom. xiv. 17, Greek; comp. John xviii. 36). Rab speaks of it in the same way: "In the world to come there is neither eating, nor drinking, nor procreation, nor strife; but the righteous sit encrowned and enjoy the splendor of the Shekinah" (Ber. 17a)

In other words taken from the Jews and changed.

[Matchett-PI]

"In other words taken from the Jews and changed."

Not in the least. Get up to speed and aquaint yourself with The Semitic Totality Concept.

[AndrewC]

Really? So, you have no body?

Peter had you pegged millenia ago.

2Pe 3:16 As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.