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What is the Kingdom of God?
1. Is there a difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven?
Was Jesus a real king, the head of a government, on earth as it is in heaven, or was he just a rebel street preacher claiming to be a king of some kingdom in an unseen spirit realm? Bible Ref^[1] Note: ^[2]
1. Why do churches teach and preach that the kingdom of heaven, aka the kingdom of God, is not a physical kingdom on earth? Bible Ref^[3] Note: ^[4]
2. If the kingdom of God is a government, and it has its own laws and jurisdiction like any other government, why do people think they can be loyal citizens of two different governments? Their civil government and the kingdom?
3. Did God really say that we can give our allegiance and fidelity to both?
What is a "tithe"?
1. How does the kingdom of God work? Bible ^[5]
How can I get to Heaven?
1. Is the Kingdom of God where we go when we die?
2. Didn’t Christ say He was giving the Kingdom of God or heaven to His little flock? Bible Ref. ^[6]
What does the word “god” mean as used in the Bible?
1. When the bible mentions God or gods is it really just talking about unseen deities that people worship through religious rituals and ceremonies?
Does God love me?
1. Or does God hate me?
2. Who are the Nicolaitan?
What have the "poor" ever done for me?
Didn't Jesus already die for my sins?
Won't Jesus fix all this when he comes back?
Should I be living like the Amish?
Why should I care about Jesus?
Does God answer prayers?
Who is the Anti-Christ?
Isn't Jesus's real name "Yeshua"?
We are told to pray in the name of Jesus. Does simply saying the word, Jesus, after a prayer make the pray righteous?
Is it lawful to pay taxes?
Should babies get baptized?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
What is the "rapture"?
How much should I give in church on Sunday?
Which religion is right?
What is the Holy Spirit?
Are "Christmas" and "Easter" evil?
Is "money" evil?
What is "sin"?
How should I pray?
How can we get prayer back into public schools?
Is Sunday the Sabbath day?
Is gay marriage Godly?
What are the "weightier matters?
1. of law, judgment, mercy and faith"
  1. Is law a general term for all rules government society or are there numerous forms or types of law? If so, what are some of the different forms or types of law? How do individuals become involved or engaged in the various forms or types of law?
  2. Judgment? I thought we were not suppose to judge? But don't I judge every time I make a choice?
Is there any evidence that civil governments today recognize the Law of God? And if so, how do those nations interact with the Law of God? Is the Kingdom of God recognized by the Law of Nations? Or is the Law of God just something that doesn’t really have any force of law at all, but is mere fiction, and only the law of men through the written will of various legislative bodies, like kings, parliaments, legislatures, congresses, etc. the only forms of law that have any legitimacy to be obeyed? Therefore, the Law of God doesn’t have to really be obeyed by anyone because its merely religious fantasy for those that believe?
I have heard many Christians say that it is impossible to keep the law of God as presented in the Old Testament. In a sense, God’s original law was imperfect. God didn’t know what he was doing, really, so He created a temporary form of law until He could come up with a new constitution, covenant, or contact, which would then make the old covenant null and void. If this is so, why do ministers in churches still preach on certain precepts in the Old covenant, such as the tithing statutes, but other precepts have been done away with, taken out of the way, no longer having to be obeyed simply by saying some words about believing in Jesus? Is this really how God works? Is God incompetent? Is God not really omniscient and omnipotent, therefore unable to make His law perfect the first time, where men merely have to comprehend God’s law, understand God’s law and then come into agreement with God’s law in order to know how to keep it. The United States as a civil government has millions of laws and regulations, yet citizens are expected to know, understand and keep all those laws and regulations that affect them. Why is man’s law superior to God’s law in such a way that God’s law couldn’t be kept and therefore had to be made null and void? Does that mean we don’t have to keep the laws of man just because we say that those laws are too hard to keep?
Are the Ten Commandments still a valid covenant or constitution? If so, do the commandments only apply to interpersonal relationships, such as between two individuals, or do the commandments also govern community, social or national relationships too? And if so, how could the commandments be understood in regards to larger groups of people like communities, nations, states, countries. Can nations violate the law of God? Can nations, lie, covet, steal and murder? Can nations commit a type of adultery? Can nations have other gods? Can nations make graven images? Can nations take the name of the Lord in vain? Can nations violate the Sabbath law?
Do all the stories, parables, chapters and verses in the Bible apply to all individuals, all the time, regardless of personal choices? It seems that some precepts are directed at specific people in specific circumstances, so if I am not doing exactly the same things those people did in those specific instances, then those precepts would not apply to me and I couldn’t twist them to make those precepts fit a completely different situation or status? For a type of worldly example, the United States laws that deal with the distillation of alcohol are written out in the United States code, which I might read, but if I am not distilling alcohol, those precepts, laws and regulations don’t apply to me, and I can’t take those laws and regulations dealing with the distillation of alcohol and apply them to my personal situation of being a manufacturer of wood glue?
I have heard people use two terms, church and congregation. Do they mean the same thing or do they mean different things?
Does God ordain civil governments? If so, then why do so-called Christian nations, like the United States, use a variety of methods, including economic sanctions, and military force, to topple or overthrow civil governments God has ordained? If not, then what is God's purpose for allowing men to create their own governments and systems of law?
There are several references in the Bible to left hands and rights hands. There is even a verse in Matthew 6:3 where Christ tells us not to let our left hand know what our right hand is doing. This obvious is a metaphor for something because I control both my hands. So I always know what both of my hands are doing. So what is this metaphor trying to show us?
Why are there sometimes such huge differences in meaning from the Hebrew words and Greek words when the translators use the same English word. For example, the word "devils" is used in both the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible, but the Hebrew words and their parent roots that are translated "devils" in the Old Testament mean vastly different things than the Greek words and their roots that are translated "devils" in the New Testament. The Hebrews seem to be sticking to their custom of concrete word pictures that are easily understood, while the Greeks seem to be sticking to their abstract word pictures and imposing their deeply ingrained mysticism and mystery religion. Don't these cultural differences cause a lot of confusion when we read the same English word that has been translated from these very different Hebrew and Greek words?
In the Bible we see a repeating pattern of groups of people rejecting God and going their own way, electing to have kings rule over them, to worship other gods, to violate God's laws, and God says he won't hear their prayers when those same people start suffering the consequences of their choices to reject God's way. Why do people think they can do the same things those people did that God counted as a rejection of Him and His way, but believe and think that today God doesn't care any longer, but chooses to forgive that rejection. In other words, is there any validity to the "once saved, always saved" eschatology?
Is the United States Constitution ordained by God?
1. Are the precepts of God found in Deuteronomy 17 applicable as a way to determine if a nation, state or country's constitution is divinely inspired or ordained by God?
  1. Don't all nations throughout history claim that their foundational covenants or constitutions are divinely inspired by God as a form of justification or as prove of righteousness?
Where does the divine right of kings come from?
1. Does the divine right of kings have a foundation in the God's law?
  1. Did men take what was righteous about the doctrine of the divine right of kings and twist it to their own destruction?
  2. How does the precept the law of the father relate to the theory of the divine right of kings?
Is democracy a form of government that God has ordained?
1. In the movie, the Patriot, Mel Gibson's character asks an assembly of land owners, why would I trade one king 3000 miles away for 3000 kings one mile away? Isn't this sentiment expressing the false idea that just by dividing the kings power into three departments, where We the People, are the king, isn't that having 3000 tyrant kings seeking to have their will rule over their neighbors one mile away?
  1. If this is so, could it be said that voting is calling evil good and good evil? And doesn't doing evil bring woe to people? Is this why we see so many different woes in the United States that people are complaining about? For example, I hear a lot of people complaining about illegal aliens and immigration reform. Isn't this just one of curses we see in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 for choosing to reject God and His ways and laws?
  2. Did God originally grant man dominion over other men? Isn't voting a form of exercising dominion over other men? Aren't we praying that our will, our desires, our reasoning and intellect, will be in agreement with the majority, which then becomes the law for the members of the national body politic?
  3. Does the "one accord" mentioned in the Bible mean a simple majority?
    1. Is a true "one accord" in the name or character of Christ arrived at by force, duress, coercion, even subtle force such as persuasion, tempting people, back slapping, bribery favors, etc.? Or do people come into one accord naturally, organically because what is written on their heart by God is written on the whole assembly's heart so they merely come into agreement without all the political wrangling.
What is the purpose for the mark God put on Cain? If Cain murdered his brother, Abel, isn't it an eye for an eye and Cain should be marked for death? Or is there a lot more to the story than a literally and cursory reading reveals?
Did God give man free will or are our choices merely an illusion? Is God's will behind all choices man makes, even the evil men seem to choose to do? Free will or pre-destination?
If man has an eternal spirit, where was this eternal spirit before a man is born in the flesh?
There are a lot of people that talk about their near death experiences. Could what we call near-death experiences today be what is referred to as resurrection in the bible? Or is resurrection, like baptism, also more of a lawful, legal, spiritual and physical act associated with repentance and returning to the Way of God. In the Bible it is mentioned that when we reject God, like in 1Samuel 8, we leave God's presence, like the "prodigal son" was "dead" to his family while he was off slopping pigs. But when we repent and return home, in the story of the prodigal we hear his father say, "you're brother was dead, but now he is alive". Was the prodigal son resurrected? Was he born again when he returned from "death", out of the presence of his father and family, unto "life" by repenting?
1. Is all the evil we see in the world, the groaning, the disease, the corruption, the pollution, the death, the war, the famine, just the consequences of man, individually, and collectively as a nation, choosing to be out of God's presence, being dead to God but alive to the gods many of the world?

== Footnotes ==

↑ Mark 12:41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury <1049>, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury <1049>: and many that were rich cast in much. Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury <1049>: Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury <1049>. John 8:20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury <1049>, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
↑ 1049 ~γαζοφυλάκιον~ gazophulakion \@gad-zof-oo-lak’-ee-on\@ from 1047 γάζα gaza gad’-zah of foreign origin; ; n f AV-treasure 1; 1 1) the royal treasury, and 5438 ~φυλακή~ phulake \@foo-lak-ay’\@ AV-prison 36, watch 6, imprisonment 2, hold 1, cage 1, ward 1; 47 1) guard, watch ; n n AV-treasury 5; 5 1) a repository of treasure, especially of public treasure, a treasury It is used to describe the apartments constructed in the courts of the temple, in which the not only the sacred offerings and things needful for the service were kept, but in which the priests, etc, dwelt: #Ne 13:7; of the sacred treasury in which not only treasure but also public records were stored, and the property of widows and orphans was deposited. Josephus speaks of treasuries in the women’s court of Herod’s temple. In the N.T. near the treasury seems to used of that receptacle mentioned by the rabbis to which were fitted thirteen chests or boxes, i.e. trumpets, so called from their shape, and into which were put the contributions made voluntarily or paid yearly by the Jews for the service of the temple and the support of the poor.
↑ Daniel 4:3 How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] his wonders! his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion [is] from generation to generation. Daniel 4:34 ¶ And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation: Acts 17:7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.
↑ For mortal man, a kingdom is a form of government. We see this all through the bible, even through the history of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. We see foreign kingdoms as governments in the Bible and secular history. We even see kingdoms as governments still today.
↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 16 ¶ But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. 20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
↑ Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

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