In this final installment of a trilogy of lectures on the topic of ‘Humanity’s Struggle for a City of God’, I recapitulate the first two classes by going over the the migration of the Babylonian oligarchy and its network of cults to Persia, and thence to Rome after Alexander the Great’s victory over his father Philip of Macedon and the broader Persian empire which his father served.
Your history, while quite accurate in describing these two schools of thought, neglects a third, that of Orthodox Christianity, which has preserved and handed down an understanding that, 'Our Kingdom is not of this world'; that this world is meant to be a 'stepping off place' into another kind of reality altogether where whatever we Intend comes into being instantaneously.
This is a relatively unknown and seemingly difficult perspective for people to wrap their heads around, being so predominantly focused on 'this world', but nevertheless, it is what Christianity is actually all about...
The City of God is is a mystery as to what it is and clearly different than the rising of the morning sun upon which one thankfully has no control over.
Wow..... being captured by science through most of my education years I was deprived of almost any European or early history before the US. This is a nicely comprehensive over view of the positive and depraving aspects to human history and development for 2500-3000 years or so.... a brilliant overview to which I will point all the history deprived clickbait scholars into which I metaphorically run almost daily. Thank you. Matt.
Your history, while quite accurate in describing these two schools of thought, neglects a third, that of Orthodox Christianity, which has preserved and handed down an understanding that, 'Our Kingdom is not of this world'; that this world is meant to be a 'stepping off place' into another kind of reality altogether where whatever we Intend comes into being instantaneously.
This is a relatively unknown and seemingly difficult perspective for people to wrap their heads around, being so predominantly focused on 'this world', but nevertheless, it is what Christianity is actually all about...
https://substack.com/profile/100124894-steven-berger/note/c-42816212
The City of God is is a mystery as to what it is and clearly different than the rising of the morning sun upon which one thankfully has no control over.
Something is afoot here!
Wow..... being captured by science through most of my education years I was deprived of almost any European or early history before the US. This is a nicely comprehensive over view of the positive and depraving aspects to human history and development for 2500-3000 years or so.... a brilliant overview to which I will point all the history deprived clickbait scholars into which I metaphorically run almost daily. Thank you. Matt.
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