What are the root causes of anarchy since the beginning to time?
The Chicago Tribune news articles today are filled with various opinions as to the causes of the anarchy displayed yesterday in the Washington Capital.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate ancient wisdom verses to discern as we listen or read all the news commentaries and opinions in the coming weeks and months and finger pointing of blame at each other.
King Solomon
And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that it is also but a striving after wind. Ecclesiastes 1:17
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes1:9
What’s My Point?
The USA 243 years experiment in freedom has experienced madness and folly same as numerous Nations in past history
In other words, the madness and folly anarchy that occurred in the Capital is just another repeat performance by humans to believe we know better than past generations.
My point is to remind us that every generation will repeat madness and folly of previous generation for as long as we continue to ignore practicing and teaching our youth wisdom and love.
In My Opinion
The best two lessons from the past to discern and teach us how to avoid the anarchy of yesterday.
The first lesson is the story of King Solomon above Ecclesiastes verses who in his youth was granted wisdom and learned how the vanity of man would lead every new generation to repeated the same madness and folly of previous generations.
The second lesson is the story of Jesus Christ who taught us to love one another and allowed himself to become a human sacrifice to teach us to live our lives in discipleship will lead us to live in his Kingdom.
Sadly though, although the USA history began with Pilgrims hopes to live and plant roots according to their religious beliefs in freedom and religion, over time their hopes and beliefs have waned in the USA.
In other words, over time we have repeated and forgotten what King Solomon experienced when believed he was as wise as his Creator and knew better that the laws and experiences of past generations’
In my opinion, the root causes of the anarchy will be repeated in the USA unless we return to practicing and teaching our youth to understand and gain knowledge of lessons of wisdom and love learned in past generations.
If Interested
Read the two Source links below.
You Decide
Will we wise up in time or will the USA fail same as other Nations have in history?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Source Links
Knowing Anarchy
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Anarchy
Discipleship
Is self-help any help at all? ‹ Jesus Quotes and God Thoughts ‹ Reader — WordPress.com
Great post. Loved this: “The second lesson is the story of Jesus Christ who taught us to love one another and allowed himself to become a human sacrifice to teach us to live our lives in discipleship will lead us to live in his Kingdom.”
We have so many politicians professing to be Christians but exhibiting hate. We should demonstrate our love, even for our enemies, political or otherwise.
Romans 13:1–7 tells us that God designed government, and one of its primary functions is to avoid anarchy. Along with that divine authority comes the power to enforce the decided boundaries.
There were a few times in biblical history when anarchy was the order of the day, and “every man did what was right in his own eyes” (Deuteronomy 12:8; Judges 17:6; 21:25). It never ended well.
First came blatant idolatry, followed quickly by further lawlessness and the demolition of society. God had to rescue Israel from itself by sending a series of judges to keep the peace; later, He sent a succession of kings. When anarchy rules in a culture, that culture is easy prey for a more organized enemy to overthrow it.
Praying for us to follow the way of love set forth by Jesus.
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Michael,
Great comment, thank you.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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