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A Bible History Timeline Offers A Graphical Representation To Aid And Help Bible Events And Realities

In our Bible group some years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will actually notice the error in this statement. Moses lived about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then compiled a Bible timeline and explained graphically the chronology of people and occasions.

Unfortunately, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, shallow, superficial, light weight sermons and their Church members barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we are nice and loving to all. Truly, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we are to our world.

Years ago, I was preaching on the burial, life, resurrection and death of Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he mentioned 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 had been saying anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he answered"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 teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament discuss?

How could he study and teach 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 able to interpret their Bible well, if they're not told?

Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite topics and sugar coated messages?

We instruct on a text from Judges and a narrative about Jacob and a topical from the book of Romans and then the obedience of John the Baptist or the strength of Samson - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in a visible understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously edging toward Liberal theology, but if we could be taught the basics of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to repeat it.

Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry 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 how to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.

It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can employ a Bible Timeline too.

For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the scriptural study resource.

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