ONE IMPORTANT REASON WHY HISTORY MATTERS

This website is dedicated to the proposition that history matters.  I am a Christian, because God is real.  He is not myth.  He is a historical person, not only as His incarnation as Jesus Christ, but also as Yahweh of the Old Testament.  Dr. Mark Roberts, a Presbyterian scholar and minister, sums this up well in one of his excellent essays:

>>... "How can we know anything about the real Jesus?"

>>I want to conclude with a word about why all of this matters. If we were Gnostics, we wouldn't give two cents for history. What matters to the Gnostic is spiritual revelation and insight. That's it. But Judaism and Christianity are rooted, not merely in ideas or subjective experiences, but in God's action within history. I'm not talking about raw history, of course, but historical events interpreted in light of God's revelation. It's a brute fact that "Christ died." But when St. Paul says that "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures " (1 Cor 15:3), he is now interpreting an event from a divine point of view. Yet, even though the interpretation matters profoundly, so does the basic event. Thus knowing something about the real Jesus makes a real difference, not only for serious historians, but also for serious Christians. <<  [My boldface.]

Precisely.