History, according to most theologians of the western world, is the unfolding of God’s purpose. And the stress that is placed upon the claimed historic value of their faith hinges upon a strategic rewrite of some unsettled conditions in one vicinity of the world in a narrow timeframe. This perspective that it is their belief system which has historic value is quite unlike older faith traditions that were more spiritually centered and which held that historical facts were of sparse value in terms of soul expansion. The difference in the two approaches rests in the fact that the “miracles” credited to the central character in Eastern and older Pagan belief systems were accepted as incidental signs which attested to his divine authority. Western religions, however, make the alleged “miracles” of the principal character the main essence of its alleged history. The supernatural elements packaged into the scriptural accounts of Jesus, for example, are supposed to be accepted as historical happenings. As summed up by an early Christian apologist, “If Christ be not risen from the dead, then is your faith vain.”
Genuine history always leaves tangible evidence behind that attests to particular persons and/or events. Simply claiming historicity of biblical narratives is not legitimate evidence of historic happenings. The time of the writing of various biblical accounts is of historical value, however, for the conditions of life in the region where the accounts were penned (not the setting of the story) colors the relationship to what is claimed as history. That consideration of real-time and place is steadfastly avoided in both the Hebrew and Christian traditions, and by extension Islam as well, unless it happens to play into some claim that they put forward.
God is presented in western faith systems as a being possessing an objective and permanent reality, a belief which for the faithful correlates as hard fact. And this has made for western world cultures in which believers struggle with subliminal resentment over miracle happenings in antiquity that are apparently no longer granted to mortals by heaven. Religious dogma does not allow sect members the luxury of logic, and as a result the devout (especially the fundamentalists) fail to see that miracles have been produced abundantly in modern times: we have received them through mankind’s pursuit of science and technology.
Ironically, Christianity more than any other religion has served as the seedbed for man’s scientific and technological experiments in seeking some command over nature. These pursuits for dominion over the physical world rest wholly on the Judaic/Christian scriptures that assert that man was meant to have rulership over earth life. Other faiths never presumed such a thing, insisting that one should live in harmony with all life expressions. But the holy word of God, as the western theologians chose to interpret it, subtly instilled a state of mind that lusted to impose transformational power over the physical world.
If history is the unfolding of God’s purpose, as the devout theologians declare, the progressive movement of history has indicated that science and technology are Heaven’s favored path into transformation through the determined closing down of finite limits.
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