{"id":207,"date":"2025-04-18T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/my-kingdom-is-not-of-this-world\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T06:00:22","slug":"my-kingdom-is-not-of-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/my-kingdom-is-not-of-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My Kingdom is not of this World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Thus Jesus to Pilate at John 18:36.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">What does &#39;this world&#39; refer to?&#0160; In the &quot;Our Father&quot;&#0160; we pray: &quot;Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.&quot; Reading these two texts side-by-side one might conclude that God&#39;s kingdom is to be realized on earth and not in a purely spiritual realm, and that therefore&#0160; &#39;this world&#39; at John 18:36 refers to this age of the earthly realm and not to the earthly realm as such.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Yes or no?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus Jesus to Pilate at John 18:36.&#0160; What does &#39;this world&#39; refer to?&#0160; In the &quot;Our Father&quot;&#0160; we pray: &quot;Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.&quot; Reading these two texts side-by-side one might conclude that God&#39;s kingdom is to be realized on earth and not in a purely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/my-kingdom-is-not-of-this-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;My Kingdom is not of this World&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,166,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-new-testament","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}