History: Will It Go Round in Circles?
Christians know that history is going somewhere, in The End. The Bible starts with the creation and ends with the Second Coming of Christ, and a new heaven and earth. The Nicene Creed, which most churches recite on a regular basis, states that Christ will come again “to judge both the living and the dead.” And that we “look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.” Maybe tomorrow, maybe millennia hence. But ultimately, salvation history is linear.