ScottA
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You are contradicting yourself and the scriptures.Error, the Kingdom of God is within us now, Luke 17:20 "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:"
Luke 17:21 "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
so your assessment want fly
and as for the spirit, it returns to God who gave it, you keep harping on flesh and blood entering the Kingdom of Heaven, no, that's a dead horse .
then you said, "and the elements of this world are "destroyed with fervent heat and with fire." This is the "solid evidence" of scripture". yes, did you not read Ezekiel 37, the valley of dry bones?, now scott, what is a valley? don't use your carnal education to answer, listen, a valley is nothing but a Lake without water. do you see it now? yes, the valley when filled with fire is the LAKE of FIRE. did you get the symbolism of a fact? yes this world will be on fire, but those in Christ will be in an Ark of safety. see Scott you might want to re-read Ezekiel 37 of the valley of dry bones.
PICJAG.
You say the kingdom of God is within you, as if to say within a flesh body; and that Christ in you will be an Ark, as if Christ had not ascended to the Father, and as if the flesh is not consumed with fire, even though you also said it would be, which is contradiction.
But He said the kingdom of God is within you, not referring to a place, but rather to the fact that God has manifest man outwardly, meaning apart from Himself, as He is not here nor there, but omnipresent.
So, the stumbling block for you remains that which is apart from God: the body of flesh. And that fire--that fire is holy fire: the Holy Spirit, which is the end of death, because it is the end of elements.