Tubby, I can think of 2 logical reasons for the study of history.
It gives continuity to our understanding of society and how we got where we are.
It gives a reason to avoid the bad circumstances of the past.
Because of that, it is wise to realize what went before does have an effect upon the here and now.
However, it is always said, what we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
I think it is because man is unchanging.
History does repeat.
We currently have a pharaoh and a Sodom situation.
Rob, I am very aware of the story of lot, besides the rampant homosexual population (because you live in a world heavily moderated by the influence of ancient Israel and Christianity- you fail to realize, in the old world there was only the penetrator and the penetrated when it came to sexuality, women, boys, children, temple prostitutes of both sexes was the norm.
Thus an entire city of homos was extreme, but not out of the realm of possibility.)
God also stated (in Isaiah I think) that the sin of Sodom was PRIDE, gluttony and unconcern for others.
Sodom apparently sat on a petroleum source (slime pits were there, are tar, which comes from oil) so again. a similarity exists between Sodom and America.
At some point Sodom hit God's Red Line and unlike the the AntiOchrist who's line disappears with time- God's line does not.
It gives continuity to our understanding of society and how we got where we are.
It gives a reason to avoid the bad circumstances of the past.
Because of that, it is wise to realize what went before does have an effect upon the here and now.
However, it is always said, what we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
I think it is because man is unchanging.
History does repeat.
We currently have a pharaoh and a Sodom situation.
Rob, I am very aware of the story of lot, besides the rampant homosexual population (because you live in a world heavily moderated by the influence of ancient Israel and Christianity- you fail to realize, in the old world there was only the penetrator and the penetrated when it came to sexuality, women, boys, children, temple prostitutes of both sexes was the norm.
Thus an entire city of homos was extreme, but not out of the realm of possibility.)
God also stated (in Isaiah I think) that the sin of Sodom was PRIDE, gluttony and unconcern for others.
Sodom apparently sat on a petroleum source (slime pits were there, are tar, which comes from oil) so again. a similarity exists between Sodom and America.
At some point Sodom hit God's Red Line and unlike the the AntiOchrist who's line disappears with time- God's line does not.
