Cities

Kansas City, Columbia, and St Louis ─ 2016¹

Essentially every major city in America has a different "soul" from the less populous areas surrounding it. Forget the 2016 Red State - Blue State maps. 

There are only “Blue Cities” floating in a “political sea of red” as far as the eye can see! 

This elicits the question ─ do cities make people liberal, or do people make cities liberal? 

The world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished." Scripture does not record a single "city" of that antediluvian world, but that it was "one global city of iniquity"!

Thereafter, God said unto Noah and his sons, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth," but "contrary" to God's command, "as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. ... And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be 'scattered' abroad upon the face of the whole earth." (cf. Genesis 11:2-4). 

 On a plain in the land of Shinar Nimrod² a “mighty hunter” of men, and “the souls of men" compelled them to build Babel the very "first" city, and its tower, “whose top may reach unto heaven."

The question remains ─ do cities make people liberal, or do people make cities liberal, or does it make any difference?


 ¹By Ali Zifan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48101411

²"Nimrod as a mighty hunter founded a powerful kingdom; and the founding of this kingdom is shown by the verb וַתְּהִי with ו consec. to have been the consequence or result of his strength in hunting, so that the hunting was most intimately connected with the establishment of the kingdom. Hence, if the expression “a mighty hunter” relates primarily to hunting in the literal sense, we must add to the literal meaning the figurative signification of a “hunter of men” (“trapper of men by stratagem and force,” Herder); Nimrod the hunter became a tyrant, a powerful hunter of men. This course of life gave occasion to the proverb, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter against the Lord,” which immortalized not his skill in hunting beasts, but the success of his hunting of men in the establishment of an imperial kingdom by tyranny and power. But if this be the meaning of the proverb, יְהֹוָה לִפְנֵי “in the face of Jehovah” can only mean in defiance of Jehovah" (Keil and Delitzsch Commentaries, cf. Genesis 10:6-20).

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