THESIS 95: THE CITY OF GOD

Earthly cities depend (in vain) on walls and military garrisons for protection.[330] Christians, as the Temple-City of God,[331] need no such walls, no such polis.[332] The New Jerusalem is the Anti-Polis.[333]

Exposition

See our Bible Study/Essay, "Patriarchy and National Security."

A Biblical Defense of Pacifism

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

330. #11; #20; Deuteronomy 28:52; Psalm 18:29; Jeremiah 51:58

331. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21; Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 3:12; 21:2ff.

332. #20; 2 Samuel 22:2-3; Isaiah 25:12 - 26:1; 60:11,18; Zechariah 2:4-5

333. Revelation 21

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