Kingdom now - Resurrection now

Christians generally accept that 'the Kingdom' and 'the resurrection' are linked metaphors in the New Testament.

The present tense of the Resurrection

However while there is a grudging acceptance that there is an important present tense aspect of Kingdom now, the present tense dimension of Resurrection now often gets missed.

Yet the present tense resurrection now doctrine is the core teaching of the authentic letters of St Paul

• Col 3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

• Eph 2:6 and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

  And is the foundation of the born again doctrine in the Gospel of John.

The great irony is that this key doctrine of Paul, was condemned in a letter now widely accepted to be wrongly attributed to him.

The authoritarian Church specifically condemned the concept that:

The resurrection (την αναστασιν) has now come (ηδη γεγονεναι) in 2 Timothy

2Ti 2:16 But shun profane, vain babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat like a gangrene; among whom are Hymeneus and Philetus, 18 who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some.

Why forge a letter to condemn a doctine that the real Paul held as vital?

To deal with the spiritual descendants of Paul. Marcion, Valentinus, and those who have been referred to as the Gnostic Christians.