Sannhetseeker: Make the Outside like the Inside and You Can Enter the Kingdom - Yeshua

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Thursday, January 6, 2005

Make the Outside like the Inside and You Can Enter the Kingdom - Yeshua

Continuing the previous post about the idea that the Kingdom (spiritual realm) is within, one finds in the Gospel of Thomas (and other places, including the Bible) the concept that the Kingdom or spiritual realm is really a state of altered consciousness. In her book The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels points to a series of verses (37:20-35) to show this. Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom.” They said to... Sign in to see full entry.

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