What have we learned in 2,066 years ?

Common Sense Commentary: "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

 "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero said it to the Roman Senate in 55 BC

So what have we learned in 2,066 years ?

Apparently, Nothing ...judgeing by the present state of our country.

We have begun to do the exact things which destroyed the Roman Empire and is destroying the American Empire 2,066 years later. So what have we learned ?

The Writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constituted one of the most famous bodies of historical and philosophical work in all of Classical Antiquity. Cicero, a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist, lived from 106 to 43 BC. He was a Roman Senator and Roman Consul (chief-magistrate).

Less than 100 years later, after Cicero, Jesus had lived his life, taught the truth, died and arose from the dead. He had saved and called out the Apostle Paul to preach this gospel and the truths of God. During that 100 years, Paul, inspired of God, prophecied to young Timothy about "perilous times" that would be in the "last days".  Paul described a broad spectrum of the types of people who would live in these times;   The people who would face those "perilous times in the last days".  The Apostle described these very days in which we are now living and then concludes that THIS generation will be, "Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."..... Read his prophetic words slowly and thoughtfully ....

"This know .... that IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof  .... Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."  2Timothy 3:1-7.

Pass it on. RB