development in tech (like, say, agriculture) don't function as efficiency improvements but as supply boosts
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we begin in a Garden, end in a City, but throughout Scripture cities are symbols of human sin, and founded by Cain
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yet, it is urban life which allows more people to live on earth--God draws good from evil
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this is why I suspect a sort of "redemption of the city" is implicit in Christianity
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Maybe. Everything is temporary here below.
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Also Eden is not to be taken literally as a paradise of *material* abundance but rather *spiritual* abundance, 》
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》an abundance that is still available should one have but eyes to see it.
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There will be a physical world and souls will have bodies as long as the Divine hypostases "require" it.
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The physical universe is an imperfect reflection of the spiritual realm. Not our job to fix it but rather to fix 》
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》that in ourselves which separates us from the perfect vision of God.
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