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Reza Aslan | PBD Podcast | Ep. 222

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Is There a Kingdom of God?

Patrick Murray: Jesus was fully man, but only in so far as talking about him as a man makes the fact that he's God that much more extraordinary. He says scholars can't say with any confidence what Jesus meant by the kingdom of God unless they know what his audience meant by it. Murray: When we as religious people remove all the history and context, we stop even thinking about Jesus as a human being who is privy to context. But as an ethereal, eternal, everlasting, ghostly celestial being, with no context whatsoever, he's talking to you and me,.Murray: This was not a new religion for other Jews; there was nothing new about what he was preaching

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