Up until the Flood, as a matter of fact, you’re looking at Biblical genealogies of Adam and his descendants, one line descending from Seth and another, in a different color, from Cain. This timeline is necessarily abbreviated, giving about an inch-and-a-half of space per century. I have no problem with that, nor with the idea that an all-powerful God could create everything in the space of six days. (This assumes that the earth was created about that long ago. It summarizes about 6,000 years of history on an oversized poster. I was, early on, excited to get the Amazing Bible Timeline.
However, show me their entries on a timeline, and I have an instant visual understanding of who was a contemporary of whom, and what events might have been part of their back-fence gossip. You can tell me something and it’s “in one ear and out the other.” I often have no idea if two historical figures lived in the same era, even though their biographies contain dates and events. I love timelines, for a number of reasons.
