By Schubert Ogden
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The petition of the Lord's Prayer, "your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven," evidently presupposes that (1) God's kingdom comes because, or insofar as, God's will is done; and (2) whereas God's kingdom is yet to come, because God's will is yet to be done, on earth, God's kingdom has always already come, because God's will is always already done, in heaven.
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