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Bible Timeline Answers In Genesis
Bible Timeline Answers In Genesis
A Biblical Timeline Presents A Graphical Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Realities
In a Bible study some years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for many years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually pick up the error in this statement. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since made up a Bible chronological banner and explained graphically the time period of men and women and occasions.
Unfortunately, a numerous Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, shallow, superficial, flimsy sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we are positive and loving to all. Truly, the more like our world, the less relevant we are to our world.
Years ago, I was speaking on the life, resurrection, burial and death of Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been in the ministry for forty years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he said 1Ti 1:4'Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.' I quietly asked him if I was teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he said"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. So, how can a forty year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he understand and teach the Bible fully without being aware of a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to comprehend these things and be able to understand their Bible well, if they are not told?
Why is it that we dwell on our favorite themes and sugar coated sermons?
We preach on a verse from Song of Songs and a passage about Hezekiah and a topic from the book of Thessalonians and then the example of Jamws or the healings through Peter - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive theology, when if we were to be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as teachers and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a logical whole that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of their lives, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it is not boring if we are ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can make use of a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and see the scriptural study resource.
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