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170:5.16 [[Jesus]]' [[ideal]] [[concept]] largely [[failed]], but upon the [[foundation]] of [[the Master]]'s [[personal]] life and teachings, supplemented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Greece Greek] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_religion Persian] [[concepts]] of [[eternal]] life and augmented by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo]'s [[doctrine]] of the [[temporal]] [[contrast]]ed with the [[spiritual]], [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] went forth to build up one of the most [[progressive]] [[human]] [[societies]] which has ever existed on [[Urantia]].

170:5.16 [[Jesus]]' [[ideal]] [[concept]] largely [[failed]], but upon the [[foundation]] of [[the Master]]'s [[personal]] life and teachings, supplemented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Greece Greek] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_religion Persian] [[concepts]] of [[eternal]] life and augmented by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo Philo]'s [[doctrine]] of the [[temporal]] [[contrast]]ed with the [[spiritual]], [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] went forth to build up one of the most [[progressive]] [[human]] [[societies]] which has ever existed on [[Urantia]].

170:5.17 The [[concept]] of [[Jesus]] is still alive in the advanced [[religions]] of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Christianity Paul's Christian church] is the [[socialized]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism humanized] [[shadow]] of what [[Jesus]] [[intended]] the ''kingdom of heaven'' to be—and what it most certainly will yet become. [[Paul, the Apostle|Paull] and his successors partly [[transferred]] the issues of [[eternal]] life from the [[individual]] to the [[church]]. [[Christ]] thus became the head of the [[church]] rather than the [[elder]] [[brother]] of each [[individual]] [[believer]] in [[the Father]]'s [[family]] of the kingdom. [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] and his contemporaries applied all of [[Jesus]]' [[spiritual]] implications regarding himself and the [[individual]] [[believer]] to the [[church]] as a [[group]] of [[believers]]; and in doing this, they struck a deathblow to [[Jesus]]' [[concept]] of the [[divine]] kingdom in the [[heart]] of the [[individual]] believer.

170:5.17 The [[concept]] of [[Jesus]] is still alive in the advanced [[religions]] of the world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Christianity Paul's Christian church] is the [[socialized]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism humanized] [[shadow]] of what [[Jesus]] [[intended]] the ''kingdom of heaven'' to be—and what it most certainly will yet become. [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] and his successors partly [[transferred]] the issues of [[eternal]] life from the [[individual]] to the [[church]]. [[Christ]] thus became the head of the [[church]] rather than the [[elder]] [[brother]] of each [[individual]] [[believer]] in [[the Father]]'s [[family]] of the kingdom. [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]] and his contemporaries applied all of [[Jesus]]' [[spiritual]] implications regarding himself and the [[individual]] [[believer]] to the [[church]] as a [[group]] of [[believers]]; and in doing this, they struck a deathblow to [[Jesus]]' [[concept]] of the [[divine]] kingdom in the [[heart]] of the [[individual]] believer.

170:5.18 And so, for centuries, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity Christian church] has labored under great [[embarrassment]] because it [[dared]] to lay claim to those [[mysterious]] [[powers]] and [[privileges]] of the kingdom, powers and privileges which can be [[exercised]] and [[experienced]] only between [[Jesus]] and his [[spiritual]] believer [[brothers]]. And thus it becomes [[apparent]] that membership in the [[church]] does not necessarily mean fellowship in the kingdom; one is [[spiritual]], the other mainly [[social]].

170:5.18 And so, for centuries, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity Christian church] has labored under great [[embarrassment]] because it [[dared]] to lay claim to those [[mysterious]] [[powers]] and [[privileges]] of the kingdom, powers and privileges which can be [[exercised]] and [[experienced]] only between [[Jesus]] and his [[spiritual]] believer [[brothers]]. And thus it becomes [[apparent]] that membership in the [[church]] does not necessarily mean fellowship in the kingdom; one is [[spiritual]], the other mainly [[social]].