Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Space travel is relatively new. It had never been done in ancient history. These words are not about scientific invention, it is about human nature.

Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

This is about personal behavior. The sins of the past are the same today as they have always been. The penalties are also the same.

The bible is the greatest teacher of mistakes and the consequences for mistakes. We can learn from them but in order to have this wisdom we would have to read and believe the bible.

The saddest comment I ever heard came from my child; “I need to make my own mistakes.”

That is also a sad truth.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Romans 3:20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

God’s law, not man’s.

Repent

Below are articles from the following dictionary: King James Dictionary

Repent: To Change One’s Mind & Purpose; Regret.

All I knew when I repented of the life I had lived was regret. Changing my mind and adopting a new attitude came later.

Last came a change in purpose.

The secondary definition of repent is to “Turn Again”.

The process of repentance is a continual turning again, over and over again.

1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

I am a sinner saved by grace. While I do not return to those old disgusting sins of my past, sin is still present and something I have to deal with over and over again. “Turn Again”

We have a bad habit of thinking that just because we are not the old disgusting sinner from our past and are changed that these “new sins” are not disgusting. We are comparing ourselves with ourselves and not to our Thrice Holy God.

2 Corinthians 10:12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

Comparing myself against what I was is that same mistake.