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Re:Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student l... by scarejunba on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:27PM (#20260254)
Where else? The Bible. Jesus is trying to point out that it doesn't matter whether you were pious all your life or came to it late. You still get to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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Re:Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student l... by hprotagonist on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:35PM (#20260306)
and the Kingdom of Heaven does not have to have anything to do with “what happens to you when you die”.

Along with “son of man”, it’s one of the more undefined but well known phrases from the NT.

I tend to think it’s got vastly more to do with improving the life we know than it does with anything about “getting to go to heaven if you’re good”

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Re:Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student l... by RandomTisk on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:40PM (#20260331)
The parable literally starts saying "The Kingdom of heaven is like"... so you can't really escape from that context.
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Re:Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student l... by hprotagonist on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:51PM (#20260385)
What I mean is that the phrase itself is not well defined. Certainly the parable is meant to tell us something about its character, but not necessarily its nature.

Until I was in adulthood I figured it meant “heaven”; that is not at all clear, actually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingship_and_kingdom_of_God#...

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