I am studing early American history. A lot of missionary work is involved with the Indians and as we Americans well now, a lot of people came here for religious freedom.
EXCELLENT IDEA! Michael Crichton, the science fiction writer, said:
"If you don't know history, you are like a leaf that does not realize it is part of a tree."
Here is my impersonation of the Modern American Christian:
"Hey, I have the Bible and the Holy Spirit, I don't need to know any church history.
We live in an anti-historical age.
As Christians we should have the OPPOSITE attitude!
The apostle Paul said concerning the Body of Christ and how we NEED each other:
"Does the hand say to the foot, I have no need of you?"
Of course the hand needs the foot, and we Christians NEED to know what our brothers and sisters thought and believed, and suffered for.
Time to ask some very important Questions!
What about that church you go to? Where did they get their beliefs? Did their ideas come from the pastor they had five years ago, or has your church always believed those things?
How did your denomination come into being?
Do you believe things about the Bible that the Early Christians did not?
Do you even know what the Early Christians believed?
I mean after all they had the same Bible you and I have.
Wouldn't it be important to know that what you believe is just the same as them? Wouldn't it be important to know if you believe something completely different that them?
One place to start would be Sir Frances Bacon, whom I believe may have know of the Americas long before Columbus discovered them. If I remember right this guy wanted to make the new land, New Atlantis. Funny that many of the founding fathers followed this doctrine(look it up it could make you sick), it looks to me as though when Benjamin Franklin told the lady that asked �sir what kind of government do we have?� was pure sarcasm when he replied �a republic if you can keep it� (quote butchered sry)
The Puritans seemed like a Godly group other that the burning of the so called witches.
Don�t miss the 1800" when most new American religions started each with their own bible!
I believe in 1932? the Federal Reserve was created, and 1945? The UN�s second attempt succeeded . What were their intentions and who was there sprit leader because that�s who�s running the world now and then.
When studying AH one should always keep in mind what President JFK said in one of his last speeches talking of trouble of �monolithic proportion�.
When studying true history a strong trust in Jesus Christ is essential.
We all know who rules the world; (Joh 8:44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And us? (Joh 15:19) If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Worry not! (1Jn 4:4) Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
(Heb 11:7) By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
(cool, Noah moved with the fear of God and became heir of Jesus Christ by faith. hehe brother Noah!)
They both took us off the Federal Reserve Bank and were going to have our own government print our own money.
(you probably knew that already)
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Speaking of history, I just read that John the Baptist disciples were at odds with Jesus' disciples even way after the resurrection!
Did you know that it was Calvin's followers and not Calvin that wrote the five points and it was Arminian's followers that wrote their 5 points in response to them?
