HISTORY: How should Christians view History?

As a person with a history minor and being a Patriot of my beloved America's history, I often look for what Christians have done in history. Recently it has occurred to me how we should not be afraid of history. There is no historical fact or discovery that has or will ever discount God. When I grasped this concept ever further it came to me how we need to embrace this. We may be living in one of the most anti-Christian era's in recent history but the past can never change. Even if God is erased from the current public eye, as long as accurate history is taught and written about then the great Christians of the past who made their zeal for Christ known publicly cannot be denied.

This is where our first hurdle comes into focus. For those of us who have taken history classes we know how each historian has a biased (for good or for evil) and often attempt to rewrite history, we call this historical revisionism. It is not new, it is Satan's oldest trick in the book. Remember what the serpent said to Eve in the Garden? "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" Satan was attempting to rewrite history, to retell the rules God has laid down in a different way.

What does this mean for the Christian now? Firstly, this means that we need Christian historians who will make sure the great cloud of witnesses for Christ who have gone before us are not forgotten. That their stories and impact on secular and church history not go untold. Here is an example in American History of what I am talking about. The Puritans who came over on the Mayflower and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony had deeply Biblical convictions. So much so that when writing the Mayflower Compact they cited the reason for settling America was to advance the Christian religion in the new world and see it grow. Currently there are versions of this document in school text books that purposefully cut that part out, calling in unnecessary to the story. What is that? That is the purposeful attack on historical Christianity by contemporary atheists and secularists.

Secondly, this means that Christians now need to make their faith known in the public sphere. So that they can affect what is going on now but also that they will be recorded in history as among the Christians who dramatically improved his country for the better.

The atheist must fear history because it is His Story, the Christian only has to tell the Truth with nothing to fear.