Battles

  A Work of God Isaiah 60:21 All of your people will do what is right. They will receive the earth forever. They are the plant I have planted, the work of my own hands to show my greatness. Few years ago I was having a conversation with a friend about technology and we began to talk about what people from the past would think about all the things we use every day. My friend believed that people from the past would think some of the things we use are magic but I disagreed. As a historian I am familiar with the level of technical knowledge and general understanding of mechanical skill that existed in history. Some people would be amazed but most people would see a car or a plane or anything mechanical and know the basic ideas behind it. A person from the past might be surprised by the materials used or the tools that it takes to make things but there are people in every age that would grasp what was going on. The reason I talk about this is two fold. First is a deep realizat...