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Bible Timeline Dinosaurs
Bible Timeline Dinosaurs
A Bible Timeline Gives A Graphic Approach To Help Teach Bible Events And Characters And Realities
In our Bible study years ago, one person who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for many years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses came about about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since compiled a Bible timeline chart and shown in a more graphic way the dating of men and women and events.
Regrettably, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, flimsy, shallow, light weight messages and their members hardly grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. 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 people are falling through the cracks'for an absence 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 resurrection, death, burial and life of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a minister for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he referred to 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 answered"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to examining the Bible but to the false teaching and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a 40 year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he study and preach the Bible clearly without knowing about 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 well, if they're not informed?
Why do we dwell on our pet themes and feel good sermons?
We teach on a verse from Mark and a passage about Hezekiah and a topic from the book of Proverbs and then the example of Isaac or the miracles of Jesus - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an apparent understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive theology, but if we were to be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the aspects of God's Word and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to model 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 use a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and check out the biblical study tool.
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