The Kingdom Is Within You and Outside of You
Ask a seven-day-old child about the place of life
This article is going to be a lot like my last one which you can read here. I’ve written these articles to demonstrate how the Gospel of Thomas¹ seems to operate.
Let’s take a look at a fairly complex saying:
Saying 11: Those Who Are Living Won’t Die
Jesus said, “This heaven will disappear, and the one above it will disappear too. Those who are dead aren’t alive, and those who are living won’t die. In the days when you ate what was dead, you made it alive. When you’re in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?”
The opening line, with another heaven above this heaven, might remind one of Paul’s third heaven:
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2Co 12:2 KJV)
That doesn’t really tell us anything, though. Then the bit about the dead not being alive, maybe that is meant to tell us something about this heaven above heaven, together with the living who won’t die. Okay, wait. Maybe this is…
