Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and feel good messages? 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?

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? 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. 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'. In reality, the more relevant we become to this world, the less relevant we're to this world. 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. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love people this is what we'll do. I have since put together a Biblical timeline and explained more visually the time period of people and occasions.Īlas, 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. Moses came about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. 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. A Biblical Timeline Chart Gives A Graphic Representation To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Facts

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