The eternal universe, the Big Bang, Genesis 1

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That doesn’t surprise me. Paul Stathern has a book I enjoyed listening to on 10 cities that led the world. There was a wild quote at the end with a double entendre for the New Jerusalem. I’ll dig it up and I know still need to get back to you on the Lion and Lamb passage.

Here it is:

Pithy quotes from our current reading which give us pause to reflect

“Yet the idea sown by this one small voice would eventually spread throughout the Roman Empire, even outlasting it, so that Christ’s ideas remain central to our entire western culture and spiritual outlook, whether one believes in his god or not. It was the idea that survived, as ineradicable as the genes of the Phoenicians.” Paul Strathern, Ten Cities that Led the World As the book closed, and the final remark was made about that city, “the unknown unknown” to lead the world and “determine th…