Conclusions

My , my, hey, hey, Christian history's here to stay. It's better to burn out than it is to rust,. My, my, hey hey. We have come along way and traveled the centuries in the time machine only to find ourselves at the beginning of a never ending journey. I hope this Magical Mystery Tour has left you a little better for having traveled with it. As I composed the pages I felt more like singing Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare, but in reality it has been a great learning process. The assignment was to create something that I could teach a class with, and I think this is where I would end up if I had to stand in front of a group and relate how I interpert history. Always within my own frame of reference and then expanded outward.

Everything is out there, and we can only take in so much in one lifetime. How many lifetimes do we get? Is it a heresy that I might conclude the Christian History site with the thought that we may, in fact reincarnate? Can reincarnation be a Christian concept? Well, if history really does repeat itself it may hold that it is because the same souls keep playing the parts.

We have gone from scientific discovery in BC, the birth of Christ, through medicine, education and church formation. There has been war, and for every war a cause and an effect. I can only conclude that the Holy Spirit does indeed reveal a little information at a time so that our linear minds may wrap it up snugly around our souls. In the past I may have been burned for voicing my opinion and many a soul was put to death or shunned for understanding something that was so foreign to others, that it was thought to be of the dark side of the force. I have quoted Esdras and looked at the works of many great minds. What taking the class and making this site has done is caused me to question and to wonder. I thank you for the opportunity to look back because in the looking back I always want to turn and look forward, and also to look around at just where I am. After all... "I think therefore I am." I am therefore I think, therefore I think I am.

I do believe in God and Jesus Christ as being one in the same, and I had to ask myself how to give the history of a being that knows not time? To God all is present and all exists. I toyed with the idea of just making on page that said "Jesus Lives" for that is all anyone might need to know about Christian history, as the rest is just details. Then reality struck and I realized that the project was about Christian history and that for sure was not always about being Christ, or Christlike for that matter. This was a human history project. I put a lot of what looks like secular material in this project, and that is because if I do not have the human framework and understanding of where were were intellectually and physically, I can not understand why we did what we did religiously.

I wonder if humanity will ever get it right. I wonder where we will go from here and what science will reveal to us tomorrow that will impact how we relate to the world as Christians. How long until our souls get it right? On that note, I conclude with a song.

Galileo
Words and music by Emily Saliers. From the album "Rites of Passage," Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. 1992

Galileo's head was on the block the crime was looking up the truth as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth then you had to bring up reincarnation over a couple of beers the other night now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another lifetime

how long till my soul gets it right can any human being ever reach that kind of light I call on the resting soul of Galileo king of night vision king of insight

I think about my fear of motion which I never could explain some other fool across the ocean years ago must have crashed his little airplane

how long till my soul gets it right can any human being ever reach that kind of light I call on the resting soul of Galileo king of night vision king of insight

I'm not making a joke you know me I take everything so seriously if we wait for the time till all souls get it right than at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me that's all I've got to say maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime now I've got to pay but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration to let the next life off the hook or she'll say look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book

how long till my soul gets it right can any human being ever reach that kind of light I call on the resting soul of Galileo king of night vision king of insight how long, how long, how long.

Jamie S. Samilio, MCMXCIX