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Bible Study What subject did Jesus teach on more than hell, money, salvation or repentence

SlickPen50 said:
Do I now?! I always love when people take one little thing, they've misunderstood, and then stretch it to cover everything about what you've NOT sad.

Thisnumbersdisconnected, Isn't the gospel OF the Kingdom of God?
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No, an no amount of trying to make it read that way will make it so. As I've said, plainly -- and you have no apparently contradicted -- is that the "good news" (the Gospel) God, in His mercy, has provided that remedy, a substitute for us—Jesus Christ—who came to pay the penalty for our sin by His sacrifice on the cross. That is the Gospel. Period. The good news truly has nothing to do with the kingdom of God/heaven. It has to do with the saving grace and power of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. I'll never agree with you that the gospel is "of" the kingdom. It isn't. Whether your believe you have or not, your effort to promote the kingdom as "the gospel" is an attempt to replace Jesus the "kingdom." Please stop.
 
Thisnumberisdisconnected.... Wow! I think you're a little wrapped around the axle... Again, you misunderstand what I am saying. I'm not replacing anything. I am not saying the kingdom is it and Jesus is nothing.

I think your Bible, in the three texts I cited, uses the word "OF", a preposition, to express the relationship between "the gospel" and "the kingdom of God." Therefore, I am not doing anything but pointing to the bible. Secondly, I am pointing to the fact that what Jesus was saying in His proclamation was seditious to the power structure around Him, and this is why they killed Him. Point being, "the gospel" or the good news OF the kingdom of God, is that there is another reality that God was revealing through Christ to all who would listen. And yes, there is salvation from sin and death and hell... BUT that is not all! This gospel of the kingdom (again a syntax flow which the bible uses) is about dying to the world and its order and being raise anew as a new creation (of God) within the world to represent God and His realm (ethereal as well as a dynamic in living) that the sinful can see, feel and touch, but they can't have unless they agree to dying to self and being reborn in Christ...

I don't know how you could disagree...
 
SlickPen50 said:
John 8:32, I think if you check the number of mentions money receives and that of the kingdom of God, you will find that the KOG ought weighs most subjects in the NT, and certainly the most popular subjects in "church" today. In many cases, money was was allegorically used to talk about the KOG. I can provide a list of texts that speak of the KOG, its quite lengthy.
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Subject wise yes, but I think by direct statement no.
 
SlickPen50 said:
I think your Bible, in the three texts I cited, uses the word "OF", a preposition, to express the relationship between "the gospel" and "the kingdom of God."
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It doesn't show a relationship because there is none. In the four New Testament uses of the phrase "gospel of the kingdom" (you overlooked Luke 16:16), the the word translated "kingdom" is basileia is not the kingdom itself, but the right of Jesus to have power and authority in the kingdom. Strong's states specifically that it is used in the NT to indicate the reign of the Messiah, and He will reign in the thousand years after the end of the Tribulation. The gospel of the kingdom, therefore, is nothing more than the confirmation that Jesus is Messiah.
 
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