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World History Homework One – Joe B

World History Homework One – Joe B

(1) Knowing what happened before enables one to understand what is happening now and conjecture regarding what will happen in the future. If one does not know what happened, then he really does not know anything. Therefore, I hope to accomplish a better understanding of world history in order to better my understanding of the world as a whole.

(1) Knowing what happened before enables one to understand what is happening now and conjecture regarding what will happen in the future. If one does not know what happened, then he really does not know anything. Therefore, I hope to accomplish a better understanding of [[world]] [[history]] in order to better my understanding of the world as a whole.

(2) The one date that strikes me is the estimation listed for the creation of Adam and Eve. Though it is, perhaps, possible to have occurred then, it is not a necessary theological or historical point that it happened during that time period. This goes under the heading of the idea that the world was literally created 6000 years ago, whereas Christianity does not in fact require this impression to be accurate in order to retain legitimacy as a religion. Time is relative, as are the ways of expressing that time. Therefore it is not necessary that 6000 years is an essentially correct estimation. Moreover it is quite probable that, as has been the case on other subjects, our present understanding of matters is a tad lacking. Personally, I do not claim to know when these heretofore undocumented events occurred, but I still find the speculation thereof to be fascinating.  

(2) The one date that strikes me is the estimation listed for the creation of Adam and Eve. Though it is, perhaps, possible to have occurred then, it is not a necessary theological or historical point that it happened during that time period. This goes under the heading of the idea that the world was literally created 6000 years ago, whereas Christianity does not in fact require this impression to be accurate in order to retain legitimacy as a religion. Time is relative, as are the ways of expressing that time. Therefore it is not necessary that 6000 years is an essentially correct estimation. Moreover it is quite probable that, as has been the case on other subjects, our present understanding of matters is a tad lacking. Personally, I do not claim to know when these heretofore undocumented events occurred, but I still find the speculation thereof to be fascinating.