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Chapter 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY
George Santayana: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
George Bernard Shaw: "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
George Wilhelm Hegel: "What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles."
Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
The above definition of history could accurately be applied to the way history is taught as a subject in schools and colleges. The history taught by academics is ‘mostly
false’ and focused on events that are ‘mostly unimportant’ that come about as result of the machinations of those in power at any given time. Such powers that be act to
serve only their own interests, never those of the masses. So superficial history primarily concerns itself with the exploits (usually murderous) of the rich and powerful
and from one generation to the next the script remains unchanged. The stories of emperors and popes and of kings and conquerors are mostly falsified accounts of the
conquests of megalomaniacal men and on the rare occasion a woman who through subterfuge and deception conquered nations and continents and the known world
and in the process killed millions of their own and tens of millions of their enemies. The only lesson such histories teach us is that mankind’s greed and drive for power
are so strong that in every generation and in every nation there will arise men and women who will stop at nothing to rise to the top even if it means treading down upon
all those who might stand in their way. This rise to the top invariably involves shedding of blood and mostly that of innocents but that is of no concern to the Alexanders
or the Caesars of yesteryear or of the present time. So academic history can be summed up as follows:
• Struggle for power; usually falsely categorized as a struggle between good and evil, between the good guys and the bad guys. In reality it is usually a struggle
between equally corrupt power hungry megalomaniacs who are hell bent on maintaining their hold on power or satiating their undying greed for more power at any cost.
• This struggle invariably ends in war in which copious amounts of blood are shed by the struggling parties.
• Struggle ends in temporary victory for one party until another party arises to challenge the ruling power.
• The masses are always under the boot of the rulers; when there is a struggle between two rulers it is the masses that become canon fodder. When there is
no struggle between rulers the rulers use their sheriffs to keep their own subject masses in servitude and hesitate not to spill the blood of their own. To stay in power the
rulers as a rule have to shed blood whether that of their ‘enemies’ or their own kin. Historically speaking rulers have shed more blood of their own subjects than they
have of their so-called enemies.
• Historically the privileged few of the ruling class have exploited their own subjects to keep themselves enriched and have used the very same
masses they exploit to defend or enlarge their territories.
• All one can learn from such histories is that history will repeat itself and warfare and bloodshed will continue apace until man finally blows the planet to kingdom
come.
Pearl S. Buck: "One faces the future with one's past."
David C. McCullough: "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
However there is a real history not taught in schools or churches without the knowledge of which we can never know our past, of facts that have eternal consequences
such as WHO WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHY ARE WE HERE? Without this knowledge it is not possible to understand the present and it is impossible to
accurately plan for the future. Real history of the past is only found in one book in this world and that is The Bible. This history is confirmed by cultural evidence such as
that provided by mythology of various cultures and also scientific evidence as provided by geology and archaeology. To gain an understanding of our place in the
Cosmos and the Earth we first must gain an understanding of the Creator of the Cosmos and of the Earth.
Jesus said ‘I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.’ Beginning with Genesis and ending with the book of Revelation the Bible spans a time frame that
actually transcends time itself; it begins before ‘The Beginning’ and ends in eternity where there is no ending. It explains how God created everything, not in some
mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus kind of way that no one can understand yet is expected to believe much as so-called ‘science’ tries to explain creation with the ‘Big Bang
Theory’ that is more mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus than it is science. No the Bible explains creation in a logical, reasonable and one may say scientific manner that
does not stretch credulity; granted it is still a matter of faith since none of us were there to see it but it is reasonable and logical more than any other explanation for our
existence. It is more logical and reasonable than the ‘THEORY’ of evolution, the ‘Ancient Astronaut’ hypotheses or the Annunaki / Space brother theories of Zechariah
Sitchin and others. As this ancient timeless tale progresses through the pages of this book it will become apparent to the readers that though the so-called church has
done an admirable job in trying to convince their flocks that God is a mystery that is impossible to understand The Book itself tells us otherwise. I John 5:20 And we
know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his
Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. If Jesus Christ came to give us an understanding of God then God should no longer be a mystery for us; or
at least he has pulled back the curtain enough for us to see that there is a solution to the mystery even if the full picture is not yet apparent to us. The study of history
then must begin with God and the question we need to ask is who is God? I will rephrase this question and ask ourselves, what is God?
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