Biblical History. Introduction.

People who read the Bible are sure to read the books as stories and to experience the Bible as a history book. A history book that tells its readers what God did with people and for people in the past and what He intends to do in the future.

The Bible is a history book
God's plan of salvation develops through mankind's history. It consists of events and developments that follow each other in the course of time. The Bible tells us very acuurately how one event led to another event and one development caused another one.

The Chronology of the Hebrew Scripturess
The history that the Bible tells us is a consistent story with a clear line in it. Ii is also a story with a clear beginning and a clear end. The story begins with God's creation of the earth and Adam and Eve with a clear aim: making the earth a paradise populated by perfect people who are perfectly happy.

The Bible has an internal chronology that places all Biblical events and stories exactly in the right time-order and in that way makes the Bible a readable and understandable whole.