 Some people said, well, why don't I just try to understand our crisis in our own term? Why would I need the Bible to help me? It's only by looking at the past that you can get perspective on the present. When you live in the present, you are like a fish who takes water for granted. We so take the modern world for granted that we can't get perspective except by going to the past. When you look at the past, you can see they thought differently. And here's how they thought. And that helps me to check on some of my modern thought. That's a very useful tool.