One favorite living room sport...
Illustration
One favorite living room sport is try and rearrange history. The name of the game is "What if?" What if John Doe had done this instead of what he did? One favorite Republican party tidbit is that if Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate for president, had not snubbed a campaigner from California, California would not have been lost to Hughes. Hughes would have been elected instead of Wilson, and some diehard Republicans argue we would have stayed out of World War I.
One could go on and on with stories of little incidents that could have changed the course of history. Then, of course, there are the history revisionists who uncover stories that alter the reporting of history and the manner in which we have interpreted past events. They may play down those incidents which we have tended to glorify and play up events which we may have thought were insignificant. However, God acts in history. What was unique about the faith of the Hebrew people was that they worshiped the God whom they knew had not abandoned them. The prophet believed implicitly that God revises history to suit his will.
--Huxhold
One could go on and on with stories of little incidents that could have changed the course of history. Then, of course, there are the history revisionists who uncover stories that alter the reporting of history and the manner in which we have interpreted past events. They may play down those incidents which we have tended to glorify and play up events which we may have thought were insignificant. However, God acts in history. What was unique about the faith of the Hebrew people was that they worshiped the God whom they knew had not abandoned them. The prophet believed implicitly that God revises history to suit his will.
--Huxhold
