Jesus said "The kingdom of heaven is within you" as well as "seek ye' first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added unto you". Between these 2 statements I can hold a genuine belief that the message Jesus was expounding was really more in lign with that of eastern philosophy than of the Judaic theology that the gospel is associated with. There is more than a small amount of incongruency between Jesus' teachings and that of the OT, Thei messages are almost mutually exclusive in all areas. But because "Christian" theology relies on certain prophetical connecting links between the two, what would otherwise be considered blatant goes largely unnoticed.
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