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Bible Timeline Cavins
Bible Timeline Cavins
A Biblical Timeline Chart Gives A Graphic Representation To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Facts
In a Bible class some years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually pick up the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses came about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since put together a Biblical timeline and explained more visually the time period of people and occasions.
Alas, a many Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, shallow, flimsy, superficial sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love people this is what we'll do. Too bad it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Some time ago, I was teaching on the burial, death, resurrection and life of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he noted 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 in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued on to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to exploring Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he study and teach the Bible clearly without being aware of 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 able to understand their Bible effectively, if they are not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and feel good messages?
We instruct on a verse from Hosea and a narrative about Noah and a topic from the book of Timothy and then the example of Samuel or the faith of Noah - parts from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an obvious understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously edging toward Progressive doctrine, when if we could be coached the basics 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 complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to live by.
It is not hard to do, and it is not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the biblical study resource.
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