THESIS 11: CAIN'S CITY: THE AUTONOMY OF THE STATE

Cain's polis was an attempt to escape the Presence of God,[45] and was an "autonomously creative" act of rebellion.[46] Apostate man has ever since been characterized by the City/State[47] (polis - a deified, fortified political system)

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm).

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

45. Genesis 4:16

46. Genesis 4:17 (as distinguished from an "analogically re-creative" act, thinking God's thoughts after Him ["Enoch" = "dedication," "creation"])

47. Numbers 13:28; Deuteronomy 1:28; 3:5; 1 Kings 4:13

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