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To completely understand this question, I had to look up the definition of origin, which is "the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived." Now, there are two City's that Saint Augustine talks about, the City of God and earthly cities. The City of God has a guiding power that leads the city, God. A major quote that really showed me what the origin of the City of God is is "God has founded that City for eternity" (City of God, XI.1). This quote really showed me that the City of God was founded on the concept of eternity, or never ending, with God. The other city that Saint Augustine spoke about was earthly cities and a major quote that showed me what this city was built on was "The citizens of the earthly city prefer their own gods to the founder of this Holy City" (City of God, XI.1) At first, I like to think that I do not worship other gods, like the sun god, or the water god, but then when I really think about it, there are many times when I fall into the trap of treating a lot of things in my life as a god, like technology, food, or relationships. …show more content…
There are a few ways to distinguish these two cities, and a major way in paragraph four when Saint Augustine says "The creation of the world; not outside of time, yet not the result of any change in God's design (City of God, 4). There are many other things written from Augustine, but nothing quite hits it like this paragraph because it shows that they are not even on the same playing field. Earthly cities are help by captive by time, but the City of God has no regulation with time, it does not play by those rules. The City of God is pure, and the earthly cities are broken, therefore, earthly cities are wicked and the City of God simply ranks above everyone in earthly
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