Scenarios
- Who cares about old stuff
One-liners
- We all have something to be proud of, things we've learnt, good memories?
In-brief
The Bible is one of the ultimate historical documents, Christians are therefore studying and valuing history.
There is also a comment on it “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?"Job 8:8-10 The key to this is humility and wisdom not the over-confidence of youth, as Alexander Pope says:
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring, There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.Progressive philosophy seeks to assert that all before today was the history of oppressors and oppressed - the future utopia is equality and bliss. This is warned of in Huxley's Brave New World. In a world of engineered artificiality, our minds still seek for truth - what is going on and how did it happen? We have to know the past to make sense of the present and to have hope for the future. We need to be honest about mistakes and build on successes - only in this way can real progress be made, both in practical terms and in our heart's quest for sincerity, meaning and truth. A new system that has no record of honest success has to hide the successes of the past before it had control, and certainly the failures of its own past.
History also gives us a sense of perspective, that mankind is not 'evolving'. Although technological advances deliver better things, the human capacity for good or ill remains as it always was. So '...get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.'
Shield verses
- Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned, for we were born only yesterday and know nothing
Job 8:8 - Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
Prov 4:6
Digging deeper 
