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A Biblical Timeline Offers A Graphical Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Realities

In our Sunday Bible group years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for over 15 years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will really pick up the error in this assertion. Moses came about 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then compiled a Biblical chronological chart and shown more visually the chronology of individuals and occasions.

Regrettably, a numerous preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, superficial, flimsy, shallow messages and their members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we are nice and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we are to the world.

Some years ago, I was teaching on the burial, life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been a minister for 40 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 humbly asked him if I was teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he replied"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?

How can he study and preach the Bible clearly without being familiar with a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to figure out these things and be in a position to understand their Bible properly, if they are not told?

Why is it that we dwell on our favorite themes and sugar coated messages?

We teach on a text from Lamentations and a story about Noah and a topic from the book of Joel and then the obedience of Gideon or the fleece of Gideon - bits from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously leaning toward Liberal doctrine, when if we were to be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so bound to do the same again.

Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the aspects of God's Word and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of their lives, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to live by.

It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline also.

For added information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and read up on the Bible study resource.

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