Okay, we're going to spend a few videos, a series of videos, on the subject of the Kingdom of God and the Keys of the Kingdom, and the reason I need to talk about this is because I realize in talking to people that there is a big misunderstanding about what the Kingdom of God is, where it is, and what the Keys of the Kingdom are, who holds them, and what they're for.
So he makes it clear that he's going to be questioning the traditional Mormon and Catholic understanding of what the Keys of the Kingdom are. In the second video, he identifies the Keys not with priestly or institutional authority but with knowledge:
Our hypothesis is that the Word of God contains the Keys of the Kingdom, and by Keys of the Kingdom means it contains the way, the knowledge of the way to get into the Kingdom of God.
Today I checked the Orthosphere blog, of which I am not really a regular reader, and found a post by JMSmith called "What is the 'Kingdom of Heaven'? and What, Consequently, are its 'Keys'?" in which he also presents alternative interpretations of those concepts. Just as Adam identifies the Keys with knowledge, Smith repeatedly connects them with what he calls "the gnosis of the Gospel."
I'm not really interested in the question of "keys" (a concept absent from both the Fourth Gospel and the Book of Mormon) and don't have anything to say on the topic. I just note the coincidence.
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