Jesus proclaims a core political message. The breaking in, among men incoming Kingdom of God is any human claim to power in question. It is therefore by no means a "misunderstanding" when Jesus is finally executed by the Romans as a political rebel.
Yet The cell nuclei of the dawning Kingdom of God constitute very anti-political. The "New Israel" that Jesus founded in the circle of his closest followers, is based on the model of the family formed. One family, however, which in turn is declared contrary to the traditional patriarchal family model of the dominant society. The "Familia Dei" of Jesus of Nazareth is a group of middle level women and men who assist each other as brothers and sisters of the maternal care services and living all together safe in the care of Abba in Heaven.
Thus Jesus breaks on two social systems of its time: the family and the "Company". The theocratic model of Jesus transcends and subverts the dominant model of Israel and the whole Mediterranean world at that time at all. So Jesus is dangerous for both, for the fathers to whom their sons and daughters are lost, and sometimes the wives and the political and religious authorities, Jesus more or less ignored or declared irrelevant.
The Jesus gives the family model in preference to the political, has mainly practical reasons. Jesus' addressees are not the ruling classes but the little people. But the prime reference is the family. So Jesus creates in his kingdom of God message a counter-model to structured family life to the little people in the country, a new network of helping, supporting reciprocity in a maternal and fraternal spirit among the one Father in heaven. "
The Kingdom of God is preaching anti Jesuanic the patriarchal and maternal quality. It is nourishing, hegend and caring. The new reality for the einsteht Jesus in word and deed, is a kind of sublime set of parents: God as Abba, the manifestation of his rule as a mother. The images, which makes Jesus the Kingdom of God are clear, and indeed often taken from nature and that most of nature, which acts by itself, not the nature, which is cultivated by man. Since growing and sprouting something. As the leaven is working in the flour. As a treasure rests in the bosom of the earth. Since an abundance of food is (wonder bread / rich fishing). There is in conjunction with the Abba-father a nurturing, hegendes, caring wonderful motherly at work.
Since, more intuitive than deliberate, the ancient religion of Canaan mother reconciled with the 'new' religion of Yahweh. Yahweh is milder and Hawwah / Eve, the old Mother Goddess is de-demonized and raised to a new level. Jesus is the link between the two areas, the "divine" son, who proceeds from the union of heaven and earth. As a "word God "he is part of the LORD, as a shaman to the area of Hawwah.
The myth of "original sin" is overcome. Lord withdraws his curse and decreased Eva is increased. Jesus holds the two field in a very precarious balance. And shamanistic healers as demons Banner transforms himself constantly on the edge of the chthonic darkness, just think about the accusation that he cast out the demons with the help of the dark. As preachers of the Word of Yahweh again he is in danger of the ground under the feet to lose.
Nevertheless, concluded: The Vision Jesuanic reconciled by the Kingdom of God one too patriarchal God again a bit more natural to stick with his feminine-maternal side. It did not, that theology would be more involved with this aspect of Jesus' message.
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