1. Do You Think God Knows The
Best Way To Teach History? I think He does! I
know He does!!! Whatever God does is always based on His
infinite wisdom and understanding. If there was a better way to
teach history, God would have used it in His Word. The Bible is
really a history book about His people from Genesis to Revelation, from
the beginning to the end. It is history in chronology and context It is a history of the first man to the
last man. Why wouldn't we want to follow the example of the best
and most important history text ever written?
2. Do You Want Your Children To Remember
History? You really won't remember history if you don't learn it
it chronology & context! You may ask, why is that? Do you
really remember
anything about the history you were taught? Do you remember anything but
a few isolated
events floating out there in history somewhere, unrelated to each other? Can you see the flow of
history as we do when we look at God's word. If your like myself and almost
everyone I meet, you have to answer "no" to all these questions.
When God teaches us history from His Word, what a wonderful difference
we see. For example, when you think of David in the OT, you can hardly
think of him without thinking about all the other characters and events
in his life seen in the flow of biblical history. You naturally think of David the boy shepherd and his
brothers, David and Goliath, David and King Saul, David and Bathsheba,
David and his sons Absalom, Solomon, etc. That's because you
learned Biblical history as one flowing chronological event, not a series of
unrelated isolated events. History that is learned as one flowing
story is also much easier to remember. We tend to forget unrelated
facts, but a good interesting story almost no one forgets. So if
you want your children to remember history, they must learn it in it's
chronological context, as one big interesting story.
3. Do You Want Your Children To Understand
History? You can't answer the most important question
about any historical event and get anywhere close to the right answer
without understanding that historical event in it's chronological
context. "Why did this event take place?" is the most important question
to ask about an historical event. How do you know why something
took place if you have no idea of what happened in the previous days,
weeks, months, and even years? You can't! You can only guess
at the right answer! Yet we attempt to teach our children history
without any framework of chronology and context, exactly the same way
history was taught to us in the public or private school systems.
Then we wonder why our children don't understand history. Here's
the reason, it wasn't taught properly. Are we going to make the
same mistakes again or will we do it right this time?
MUST
READ HISTORY!
Parleys History Of The World - By Samuel Goodrich - Paperback
* Originally printed in 1858, updated
in 1881.
* World History written in brief
paragraphs and short chapters with ample questions at the bottom of each
page numbered to the paragraph that has the answer to that question.
* Presents World History in chronology
within continent - starting with Asia, then Africa, Europe, America, and
lastly Oceania.
* This history text was so important
it was memorized by a student - "It will be seen that a pupil may commit
the whole volume to memory during a winter's schooling; and if, in this
brief space, a clear outline of Universal History may be established in
the memory, it is obvious that the subject is worthy the attention of
every person interested in education."
* Written before the revisionists
re-wrote history to suite their own social, political and religionist
viewpoints.
* Takes a distinctively Christian
viewpoint of history - starting with a literal biblical view of
history as it starts in Genesis 1.
(NOTE: WARNING!
Much of what it recommended even in "Christian" home school circles is
said to be biblical, but upon closer examination, is really just the
opposite! Specifically, one of the most popular history books
frequently recommended by popular authors and curriculum publishers is
"A Child's History of the World" - By Hillyer. Hillyer is a
historian who presents the opening chapters of Genesis as a mythology.
Many claim that he is a theistic evolutionist and say that the book is
great, just skip the first three chapters and you'll be fine! But
lets think about the ramifications of mythologizing away the beginning
of mankind and viewing history from an evolutionary mindset. Here
are my concerns:
1. Genesis is the foundation of ALL
of history. How important is the foundation to anything built
today? For example can we say that a house built on a faulty
foundation is still a good sound house? Can we say that if we
start on the wrong premise we will end up with the right conclusion?
Can an author that views God's own claims to the beginning of history as
false still show us a reliable and truthful view of the rest of history?
Can you really trust someone that starts with an evolutionary worldview
to abandon that worldview later on through out the text?
2. To call Adam & Eve a myth is to
call God a liar (I John 5:10 "...the one who does not believe God has
made Him a liar...") & contradict the clear teachings of scripture.
Jesus, (Mt.19:4), Paul (I Cor.11:8f) and the other apostles viewed
Genesis as absolute essential truth upon which ALL of Christianity is
founded. If God is seen as an unreliable, non truthful source in
the book of Genesis, where else in this authors view of history will he
call God a liar? Can he really be trusted to give you a truthful
view of history that harmonizes with the scriptures wherever that may be
in time?
3. If we call Adam & Eve mythical,
where does history really start? Who were the first humans?
Who was the "one man" through whom sin entered the world that Paul
refers to in Rom.5:12? Who was this "first man, Adam" that Paul
said "became a living soul" in I Cor.15:45?
4. Can we really say all
this mythologizing of Genesis 1 is trivial, and irrelevant to the rest
of history? If it is irrelevant, why then do we get so upset when
other more modern historians re-write history to their viewpoint?
5.
Lastly, what if we eliminate the first three chapters of this book and
all the "really obvious" evolutionary views (as the newest printing of
this book has done)? Does that change anything? Does that
mean the rest of the book does not reflect the authors evolutionary
views and bias? Or does it mean that the authors real philosophy
and beliefs are still present throughout the book, but now more
disguised than before?
* In contrast, consider how Parley's
first chapter starts.
- "In this book I am going to tell my
readers the history of this world on which we live: God created it, and
placed human beings upon it, and how these multiplied and increased, and
covered the earth with many nations, and kingdoms and tribes."
- "The story of the Creation is very
beautifully told in the opening chapter of the Bible. In this
account we are told that, ages ago, God created the heavens and the
earth, and all things in them.
- "Having created the sea, and the
land, and the plants, and the animals, He at last completed His great
work by the creation of two human beings, called Adam and Eve.
These were superior to all other created beings: so God placed them in a
beautiful garden called Eden, and gave them dominion over the earth and
all the animals therein.
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