Originally posted by souverein
Pudgenik: "Where your heart is there shall your treasure be."
Beautiful. Less then 10 words needed to finish quarrels about right or wrong.
Actually, Christ himself qualifies RBHills statement,
(Matthew 15:19-20) For example, out of the heart come wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thieveries, false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things defiling a man. . .
(Mark 7:20-23) . . .Further, he said: “That which issues forth out of a man is what defiles a man; for from inside, out of the heart of men, injurious reasonings issue forth: fornications, thieveries, murders, adulteries, covetings, acts of wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, an envious eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, unreasonableness. All these wicked things issue forth from within and defile a man.”
It therefore seems to me to be incongruous with the teaching of the Christ that the Kingdom of God should reside within a person.