Chillin' and Learnin'

Go to Amazon.com to check out "The Killing of History"

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I'm chillin' in the lounge of Dixon Hall at The Master's College, currently listening to some Johnny Williams music (see above), and studying for my history class (see top). This ("The Killing of History") is a very fascinating read as far as history books are concerned. I can totally relate to Keith Windschuttle's thesis that social theorists and literary critics are running amuck and making a sham out of the sciences, history included. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social theorists claimed that recorded history is nothing more than the skewed bragging of the victor and that past events cannot be discerned reliably, if it can be at all. We cannot verify the past was as it was when we read about it today. The repercussions of this body of ideas are especially staggering to the Christian. The social theorists and literary critics that Windschuttle takes to task in his criticism assert, among other things, that the Holy Bible is nothing more than mere literature. It is a very enthralling piece of historical fiction, a collection of myths that are to be enjoyed but not believed. It is a most foundational issue of faith that when the Bible speaks about people and events, it is all true. An equally important issue is that Jesus is sovereign over history, that history is progressing towards the revelation of Jesus in His second coming, and that "when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons." (Galatians 4:4-5). Jesus was born, entering into history to save us from our transgressions by fulfilling the condemning demands of the Law, the Ten Commandments given from God (Yahweh) to Moses, which is another event that the Bible presents as pure, unadulterated, history. If these events in the Bible are mythical and/or fabricated, then our faith and hope are in vain (1 Corinthians 15:16-19). Sooner or later, we realize that there is a root of evil that runs deep inside us. There is a three letter name for this internal evil - it is called sin. After this, we must make a choice: we can deny that sin is in us and wind up even more confused as to why we still hurt and hinder and hate and commit more subtle acts of wrong, or we can embrace the hope of redemption that only Jesus provides. Like the Bible says, the choice is ours right now (John 5:24, Acts 4:12, Romans 5:1-2).