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Bible Timeline Catholic
Bible Timeline Catholic
A Bible History Timeline Gives A Graphic Representation To Aid And Help Bible Characters And Events And Facts
In our Bible study years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually pick up the error in this assertion. Moses came about some 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then compiled a Bible chronological banner and shown visually the dating of people and occasions.
Unfortunately, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, light weight, flimsy, superficial messages and their congregation barely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we'll do. Too bad it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the life, burial, resurrection and death of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful 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 stated 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 on to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't referring to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he understand and teach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with 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 properly, if they are not told?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet subjects and sugar coated sermons?
We teach on a text from Revelation and a story about Luke and a theme from the book of Isaiah and then the obedience of Paul or the strength of Samson - parts from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in an apparent understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously edging toward Progressive thinking, when if we could be coached the basics of Church history, we then would not be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the aspects of God's Word and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It is not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can use a Bible Timeline as well.
For more info about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and check out the biblical study resource.
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