Beyond Dover Beach

I suppose in believing in an interventionist God I am a kind of inverted rebel. I have just watched a programme on BBCi player that focused on Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold where he speaks what at that time would have been the unspeakable. He is perhaps the first man of his era to formally deny the existence of God. But what kind of god was he denying, was it the concept of God widely held in the man made order of the Victorian era. A god believed in by the establishment- a mark of respectability? The fact remains that Jesus never favoured the established order and for this reason wasn't what was expected. Yes, he was for the most part law abiding but these were not the laws that he had personally created. He existed largely to point people beyond this temporary order to a new, contrasting, permanent one

Jesus's kingdom was not of this world