Today we continue exploring the theme of the city.

Now in the Bible, the ideal location for human existence is not a city.

It's a garden.

And the introduction of the city in the Bible is actually a tragedy.

The city was the thing that is introduced as the sad result of humans exiled from Eden

and their violent nature, so you need walls now.

So you would think the story of the Bible is all about getting rid of our cities and

getting rid of the walls that protect us, but the story of the Bible ends in a new garden

city.

And in this new city, there are still walls there, although they're decommissioned and

made of jewels.

It's a strange detail.

Why have the walls at all, even in this new form?

The walls are kind of like the nail holes in Jesus' hand as it were.

There are signs of something that was terribly wrong.

There are scar left from what humans have done to each other, but God doesn't erase

them.

He incorporates them into and heals and transforms them into the resurrected world.

We want to build cities to protect ourselves, to deliver ourselves.

But cities weren't the first thing built to protect humans.

In today's episode, we'll look at the first thing built to protect Adam.

It's built by God when he splits Adam into and builds an Azer.

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