Publius

Welcome to forum Lom I’ll try to be as kind as I can. First of all, I had to suppress a laugh when I read this sniped quote from your post. It seems to me that if this is what your pastor really said (or implied) then he needs to go back and reread his traditional biblical history. St. Luke was a convert well after Jesus’ death and resurrection. Luke was a companion of Paul and wrote his gospel based on accounts told to him by followers of Jesus, not from firsthand knowledge. Now while I know that the bases of your question is not effected by this information, its little biblical inaccuracies like this that really drive me nuts. (For a full account of the traditional biblical history of Luke see here: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09420a.htm)

Now as for your underlying question, I have two possible answers. One, if I am guessing as to what the most significant historical event is that effects my life today, I would have to say that it was my own birth. Without that, well ... And this event will only be closely followed by my own death (hopefully many years to come).

Taking a larger world view of event, however, I would say that the most significant event in human history (anything pre-human is right out so far as I’m concerned) was probably Abraham. From Abraham we have end up with the 3 of the world’s major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Muslim). Again, taking a global view, I would have to argue that Abraham’s legacy has had a much large effect on world politics for a much longer period of time (about double) then that of Jesus. (Now I would also concede that a Christian would likely view Jesus as the most important event, but for which there would be no hope of salvation, but just to play devil’s advocate (no pun intended) I would have to argue that Adam and Eve’s first sin was actually a larger event but for which there would have been no need for Jesus.)