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To: annalex; Forest Keeper; Quix; Kolokotronis; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; kosta50; wmfights; jo kus

“Hence, some works do not save, and some works do, under grace. “With fear and trembling work out your salvation for it is God working in you”.”

Whe Jesus said if He cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the Kingdom of God has come near to them, does that mean as long as He cast out devils the Kingdom was near or that the casting out of the devils by the Spirit was evidence that the kingdom was near?


13,208 posted on 04/21/2007 8:20:00 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan; Forest Keeper; Quix; Kolokotronis; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; kosta50; wmfights; ...
But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.

I think, the direct meaning is that the kingdom of God is when demons are cast out, both in the sense of individual sanctification and in historical sense for all men. There are references to the Kingdom both in the sense of personal theosis and historically:

And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. (Mark 12:34)

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 4:17)


13,230 posted on 04/21/2007 12:26:36 PM PDT by annalex
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