However you ignore writings by men like Paul. Paul said they were
Christian.
The city of God is not of walls and stone, but of people unified in true
accurate knowledge despite obediently spredding thruout the earth.
The theory being, that although God proves that collectively the bad
flock
together and thus the good who flock together will keep the bad out from
amongst them,
it counteracts the ecological fact that man like animals cannot crowd a
place on
earth to the point of pollution. Further, it is easier to kill out bad
individuals amongst you
like a virus (at risk of the virus killing the body) than it is to be
two definate
separate bodies at war and attack. Thus the christian city actually is
one of individuals who
dwell spred thru out the earth as alien residents, and yet their truth
is what makes them at one,
and keeping in touch to maintain that truth. Thus it says by Paul that
Abram saw this
city way into the future, from afar off, he trusted his son would become
a nation of truth about
our origin, despite he would never see it unless those dead are all
brought back to life into that christian city. Yes, he knew that his
next life would be christian, following the christ messiah
he expected to come once his descendents grew large enough to learn more
about God,
or produce the one man who would, Jesus. Thus your responce is one of a
person with
no religious faith in what our reality might be as fact. Don't
misunderstand as if to think
that these pre-Moslem men or pre-Christian men were taught the beliefs
of Jesus or Mohammed before hand. What it means is they had the
foundation of knowledge, a puzzle
that would someday be put together by the main prophet who would make a
successful foundation for the whole city. If Jesus is the stone and no
temple of people not city of people are buiilt upon him, then there will
never be a city. We must be like him, to be like God.
He is only the first stone, there is nothing without him... but with
ONLY him, earth is nothing too.
Jesus is successful only if he successfully makes all to be like him.