Dr. Richard H. Hiers

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  Richard H. Hiers wrote the Trinity Guide to the Bible (2002).He is Professor of Religion at the University of Florida.

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  Richard H. Hiers wrote the Trinity Guide to the Bible (2002).He is Professor of Religion at the University of Florida.

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  Dr. Charles Thaxton , lecturer and author in the field of Intelligent Design ; Richard Hiers , professor at University of Florida at Gainesville

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  4. Richard Hiers: Jesus and the Future
  
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  Richard Hiers: Jesus and the Future
  
  This is an extraordinarily interesting commentary on the fundamental problem of modern systems of Bible interpretation making the claim to be following Jesus.
  
  Professor Hiers was trained at Yale University and taught there after receiving his doctorate.He has been since 1960 professor of religion at the University of Florida.His point of view is that the Jewish aspects of Jesus' gospel have been constantly suppressed by theologians and churches and thus often hidden from the public.Jesus was in fact a Jewish preacher of the coming Kingdom of God.The Kingdom of God is positively not in Scripture the "rule of God in our hearts now."(It is certainly true that God must rule through Jesus in the heart of the Christian, but this is not the meaning of "Kingdom of God.") The Bible has other language to describe that feature of the faith.The Kingdom of God is a kind of code word to describe the hoped-for national liberation of the land of Israel and the beginning of a brand new era of history, including worldwide peace.This is to occur, according to Jesus' Good News (Gospel) about the Kingdom, when Jesus comes back.
  
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  The following observations of Professor Hiers from his Jesus and the Future (John Knox Press, 1981) underline the way in which this fundamental truth about the Gospel of the Kingdom has been distorted, eclipsed or suppressed by established religion:
  
  "Interpreters of Christian persuasion have ordinarily not been especially interested in what Jesus intended and did in his own time" (1).
  
  "Christian interpreters tend to suppose that Jesus set out to establish the kind of Christianity they experience as familiar and meaningful" (1).
  
  "It has been less than a century since a few biblical scholars first began to realize that the historical Jesus proclaimed as of first importance something quite unfamiliar either to modern Christianity or to modern thought: the Kingdom of God.""The Kingdom Jesus proclaimed was entirely future.

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