If one reads the 114 verses of the Gospel of Thomas, which is the source of the synoptic gospels, they will find many references in the teachings of non-Jewish Jesus about the kingdom of heaven being within man.
The Gospel of Thomas serves as a truth-filter for those Gospels, edited, redacted and interpolated as they are in several instances; which in such altered state were deemed acceptable by the Emperor Constantine.
If one reads the 114 verses of the Gospel of Thomas, which is the source of the synoptic gospels, they will find many references in the teachings of non-Jewish Jesus about the kingdom of heaven being within man.
The Gospel of Thomas serves as a truth-filter for those Gospels, edited, redacted and interpolated as they are in several instances; which in such altered state were deemed acceptable by the Emperor Constantine.