The entire world is a test that was set up to prove to proud humanity that it would flunk.
The bible itself points out that it is folly to sit in nostalgia about the good old days. And it’s for an excellent reason that it does. The reason we got through them as well as we did wasn’t because the days were good, but because God was good.
An objective accounting would show that we’ve shed some old sins and embraced some new sins.
We need to look beyond this mortal coil rather than moan and groan about why it can’t be as good as it had been. If we merely want to be good men and women, a decent society, we’ve wanted too little. We need to be what, in our mortal view, would be mind boggling outstanding. And this is where the ministration of a Savior makes all the difference in forever.
Your answer concerns me. I’m not sure why. Maybe it is the premise that things were not better, once, for surely they were.
Once, we did not embrace Bruce Jenner as ‘stunning and brave’.
Once, we did not try to introduce men into little girl’s showers.
Once, we did not persecute Christians for acting, in business, on their beliefs.
If you do not see the present times as more corrupt than times when we grew up, I cannot help you.
But then again, once, we were a more Christian nation.