What's Your Understanding About the Dictum that History Repeats Itself?

Question

Jewish History has a way to repeat itself to explain the Jewish lack of faith. First, the Israelites were compelled to wander 40 years in the wilderness for their lack of faith. When they arrived in Canaan, they were warned not to fraternize with the Canaanites but take possession of the land. Even if the Canaanites were to stay, no mingling with them was to occur. They did just that at the expense of the whole nation. It was not at all to their advantage to embark upon whatsoever tolerant policy of coexistence with the natives. As a result, the Canaanites became a thorn on the Israelites' flesh, harassing them repeatedly, and causing them to deviate from true religion.

Don't you think History is right back? Today, the fruits of Jesus' efforts have produced a world religion by the name of Christianity and the Jews, save exceptions, deliberately deny themselves any part with it. They got expelled from the land, and with their return, the thorn is right back to harrass them. Agree?

Answer 1

I like what you are saying but here is the problem. First Jewish history... It wasn't written down until the Persians freed them around 400BCE. So the stories were written down hundreds of years after the events. We don't know if that is the reason they suffered. As for history repeating itself, yes it happens because people don't learn the mistakes of the past and fix them so they don't happened again.

Answer 2

The Israelites did suffer repeatedly the thorn in their flesh for coexisting and fraternizing with the Canaanites, but not for lack of faith. They disregarded the Word of God and disobeyed the order not to intermarry with them. (Deut.

7:2,3) Therefore, lack of faith is not the term here. Faith is the decision to believe in something, whose evidences one has quit searching for.

The thorn is indeed back to repeatedly harass our flesh, no doubt, but not because we deny any part in Christianity. In fact, to accept Christianity would be no different from fraternization with Canaanites. Besides, Jesus never had anything to do with Christianity. The Christian Church was built by Paul more than 30 years after Jesus' death.

Therefore, this world religion came about as a result of Paul's efforts, not Jesus'. What resulted from Jesus' efforts was the Sect of the Nazarenes, which ended at the joining hands of the Romans and Christianity.

By the way, I believe that's an offense to attribute Christianity

to Jesus. He would feel ashamed of what Christianity has done to his fellow Jews throughout its history. Jesus' job and achievement were in the sense of reviving Judaism. Paul, whom Christianity owes its existence to, had to apostatize from it. While in Jesus Judaism was made eternal, in Paul, it was preached against. (Mat. 5:17-19; Acts 21:20,21) That's what faith produces.

Answer 3

Not sure I get your point.

You seem to be saying that the Jews, by their intermingling with the Canaanites, lost their faith.

Now you seem to be saying that the Jews, by keeping separate from the Christians, are risking the loss of their faith.

So are the Jews supposed to avoid intermingling or not?

Sounds like a horribly constructed proof to prove that Jews should become Christian or suffer the consequences of having to put up with Muslims.

You also have your history wrong.  Christianity was in its infancy when the Jews were expelled from their land in the first century.