is it impossible for the religious to learn from their own history??

Question

religions have deliberately ignored accountability scriptures and answers here show this. Accountability within the group is ordered not suggested yet you think God will do it so no need. Even if you keep your robes clean and are in authority but do not follow those orders or are a member of a flock that does not then your robes are not clean because you then become responsibe for the sins of the group.

So can Christians and Muslims learn from their history or not??

Mat. 18 and letters to TIM

Answer 1

No one is accountible for a group to which they do not belong. Groups are not connected through name alone. In order to share accountability with a group you must have an influence, which is formed through common social interaction, cultural identification, and contemporary chronology.

Ezekiel Chapter 18 clearly illustrates the wrath of God against the group accountability that you suggest, and also illustrates that the guilt of sin is not passed from one individual to another, or from one generation to another.

You misunderstand consequences and accountability in Scripture. Americans will suffer the consequences of our acts as a nation - not because we are held accountable for the sins of the nation, but because we cannot escape the consequences that the nation inherits.

As for history, it is only within the last few decades that the public school systems in the US and Europe have replaced sound education with socialist ideology, laying the groundwork for a complete misunderstanding of history. Religions are not to blame for political acts - that is socialist propaganda. Religion has only been an option for the last few centuries. Before the Enlightenment, religion was not a choice or a preference, it was inheritted and inescapable. Blaming religion for political events is like blaming shoes -

A guy the other day blamed Christianity for the Holocaust, even though the armies that opposed and overthrew the Nazi regime were more thoroughly Christian than the SS officers who ran the death camps, or the Thule Society rejects who directed the final solution. We might as well say that the Holocaust was perpetrated by people wearing shoes. How many wars have been raged by people wearing shoes? How many muders have been comitted by people wearing shoes?

In logical terminology, this is a fallacy known as an unrepresentative sample. Of course the majority of the world's atrocities have been comitted by people of faith - atheism is a recent philosophical development. Up until a few centuries ago it was impossible not to be a 'person of faith.'

Answer 2

This question can be applied to the whole human race, and if you do that then the problem of sin cannot be ignored. It's interesting that the ways man invents to deal with sin are the same things that man hates. There is only one perfect solution to sin. Jesus Christ came so that WHOSOEVER WILL will have repentance and be converted. It's an individual matter. It's not a religion.

Answer 3

Bloodiness in history is usually flaked off as "the past, and this is now, things have changed" and blah blah.

Answer 4

Well, they keep predicting the end of the world and it never comes and they never learn anything from that.

Answer 5

not impossible...if the plot of the history is not twisted and come from a reliable source...
but then come the problem about misinterpretation.

Answer 6

There is no indication that learning is possible.

Answer 7

the religious books are meant for the ppl to read it and understand things from that.most of it contains stories and wat to do when ,and we the ppl are supposed to read it and learn from it.

Answer 8

I'd say yes.

Answer 9

not impossible, but inprobable