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planning ahead. We have choices every day to make history happen or to do nothing
and let other people's choices happen to us. Someone once said that the
only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. History does
repeat itself if we don't learn from it, but God is alive! He doesn't have to do the
same old things over and over and neither do we.
HIS STORY OF THE WORLD
is an overview of world history for children. It's not trying to prove
anything, just tell a story. You are encouraged to research any part of the story
and the Internet is a good place to start.
As you read this book, I hope you see that people
in the days of Noah were not much different from people today, and people in China are a
lot like people in America or Africa. We all love, hate, laugh, cry, eat, sleep, live, and
die pretty much the same, and we all have our stories.
There are almost as many stories about the
beginning as there are people groups in the world. His Story of the World will
consider only two: "The Story of Evolution" and "The Story of
Creation."
Most stories about the beginning have their
roots in one of these ideas: either God made everything with an awesome purpose in mind,
or everything just happened for no reason at all.
Since there were no written languages in the
beginning, and neither story can be proven by science, it's all a matter of faith.
We choose what we believe, whether we know it or not, and what we believe affects the way
we live, now and forever, amen.
 
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