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Originally Posted by Bible-believer
The kingdom of Heaven is not the Kingdom of God.
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Yes it is,
the KoH is always part of the KoG, but the KoG does not always refer to the KoH. That is why they are used synonymously in some contexts yet they are crucially different and distinct in others. If you are in the Kingdom of the Heavens you are also unequivocally in the Kingdom of God. But not everybody in the Kingdom of God is in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
It is similar to California (KoH) and United States (KoG). If you are in California you are definitely in the United States. But if you are in the United States you are not necessarily in California. So it´s correct to say when you fly back to your home in CA from Japan,
"great, I´m back in California" OR equally correct,
"great, I´m back in the US". But if you land anywhere else in US, you cannot say you are back in CA, only that you are back in the US.