Friday, August 25, 2017

Canada Interrupta: the parable of the city

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 Canada Interrupta 

Another parable, from Genesis 4. This is what he told them:

Is the kingdom of God like this?
     For it was the Lord that put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him. But then he sent Cain away from his presence. And Cain lived from that time forward in the land of Nod, or Wandering, east of Eden. It was there the Elders invented guilt, for none wanted his daughter to act on her desire for Cain. But one came to know him nevertheless, and she became pregnant and had a son named Enoch, which in Urdu means hook. And he built a city, where guilt could be more easily hidden than in the villages or among the herding clans so that, sometimes at night on certain streets, it couldn’t be seen at all.

Is the kingdom of God like this?
08.25.17

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