Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayna; Wikipedia) (emphasis mine)
The ultimate fear is death.(I Cor. 15:26) It lives as a specter constantly abiding on the periphery of consciousness. Most of the driving force of human life is testing that fear. Each time one looks death in the face and is victorious builds a confidence that death can be defeated. “The wages of sin is death!” It is the common denominator or life; without God there is no positive remedy for it.
God in the act of creation displayed His perfect love for his creation. ([He] saw…and behold…it was very good. Genesis 1: 31) He created the last [mankind] to be the first in and over the earth and have dominion over the entirety of it.
“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.” (1 John 4: 17-19)
God sent his Son to experience death to provide the only remedy to escape it. “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? (Hebrews 2: 3-4)
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” (vs 14-15)
Thus the answer to your dilemma; “This historical perspective is being lost because we are living in a “relative” world that only sees things relative to the current instance of observation.” This is not by chance but design. For two hundred and sixty one years approximately the dreaded Illuminati (See Adam Weishaupt; www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=41) has been working to destroy the entire concept of God, and therefore need for such concepts as reconciliation, redemption or salvation.
There has been a concerted effort to revise history to eliminate Christianity. Weishaupt was not the first but he was able to corrupt the theology of the “German Schools of Theology” and send out from them his chosen ones and place them in seminaries all over the world including the United States of America. Union Theological Seminary chief among them.
The work of Henry Hodgkin and F. Seigmund Schultze founders of International Fellowship of Reconciliation through Dr. Harry F. Ward reached there and was perpetuated throughout the Denominal structure of mainline American churches. They were able to place many converts to “illumination” in pulpits all over the USA during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Red Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the Boston Conference was among them.
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