A Tale of Two Cities
When growing up, do you remember playing the game Jacks? It involved a couple of bouncy balls and many non-descript "jack" pieces that were packaged together and sold in a small net bag. The first time my cousin introduced me to it, I questioned how a game could be played using such randomly opposite pieces. But nevertheless, their distinctions allowed for an enjoyable and often competitive pastime. Just as the jacks and balls were combined to form a game, Augustine writes of two peoples who are joined to live on Earth until Judgment passes. Although they share things necessary for mortal life, the way in which they live and the purposes they serve greatly differ. This creates a unique distinction between the two which is to proceed to the end of history.In The Essential Augustine, edited by Vernon Bourke, Augustine introduces the two peoples by describing their origins. God created man with the hope that they might "be bound together in harmony and peace..." (Bourke 200). However, in the Garden of Eden so great a sin was committed that by it human nature was altered for the worse and was...liable to sin and subject to death. And the kingdom of death so reigned over the men that the deserved penalty of sin would have
According to the book of Revelations, this cycle of God versus self and good versus bad is to continue until the second coming of Christ and the judging of the living and dead. As Romans 6:22 states: "But now, being freed from sin and becoming servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. It is practiced by an assemblage of people with a "community of interests. Those who choose to live in the earthly city "shall become fools" while those who live in the heavenly city shall have everlasting life (Bourke 202). Augustine continues to relate the differences between the two cities by telegraphically comparing them.
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