http://www.scribd.com/doc/3712075/bible-timeline-chart

Try this

http://cornerchurch.org/files/Grow/bible_timeline.pdf

or this

I answered first Dragoness

You are quick

You're an over achiever

The bible covers the begining of time from the first man and woman to the death of Jesus.We can't say when it ends since the bible has already predicted the future and how the world will end.

As far as when it was written.I don't think anyone knows when the old testament was written but many believe it was around 1000 to 1500 BC.The new testament started to show up around 20 years after the death of Christ in various testaments written by various people.Not all the testaments made it into the bible.There were many that were not included and there is a book called "the lost books of the bible" published 1928 that has some interesting reads.

Thank you Mirror and all, the reason behind this question I thought was a rather simple one. Got into a discussion with a friend of mine, he is a firm believer of the bible and I am more leaning towards the scientific side, the side explained by science and events - neither one wrong. But as the bible was written - covering the life span and teachings of Jesus, was there someone, in some other part of the world doing the same? If so that's the person I am looking to research. Is it to be understood and not questioned that no one else existed? The whole world was barren save those mentioned in bible?

Will look at the links provided thanks - have been looking at some websites myself, but all they depict is a small part or mankind.

Guess I am just full of questions, thanks all.

The bible was only concerned with a very limited geographic region of the globe. Humanity spanned most of the globe, though. There were the Mayans, Aztecs, Europeans, Chinese and other Asians, India, early and maybe some early native Americans. This not an exhaustive list though. As far as anybody knows Jesus' disciples and the early christians were the only ones contributing to what would become the bible.

If one looks into the history of the Ancient Egyptians you will see similiaraties in the life of the Sun God Ra and of then later Jesus thousands of years later.

Jesus's life is in many ways a repeat of Ra's life and history.

Perhaps a creative writer wanted to use the moment to express a supernatural story that people once believed to be true. Perhaps he never expected that people would once again believe in it again.

It is a fabled fairytale story for many that seems to hit the top fiction bookshelves all the time.

The authors of Jesus's life could very well just be a fiction that was studied by scribes fascinated with older religions that where once practiced and are credited today as nothing more then a mythology.

Never did they believe that it would be a belief system that many would follow later on.

Then again the Jews that followed the old testament may have construed the whole story to ensure that their membership never dwindles from unpopularity.

Technically, I answered first Mirror.

oops

Here is my evidence Mirror. There is a begining and end to all things . This earth has a beginning and as science well proves someday it will end because the sun will die and life will cease. Since you are a science worshipper i surprise you dont know this.

Im not a science worshiper.


Every cause becomes an effect and every effect becomes a cause which in turn becomes another effect which in turn becomes another cause and so on into infinity.Therefore there can be no first cause and no last effect. Even if the sun "dies" and all life on earth was to perish, this universe will go on into infinity just as it always has.

just as i said before, i will say it again this world will someday end.

Perhaps.But not thru magic. Through natural proccess.The universe will go on forever.

LOL

The Hebrew myths and legends, of course, were compiled at different times but the earliest were between 950 and 800 B.C.E. There is a difference between the Hebrew account of how they came to settle south of Phoenicia and what Egyptian sources suggest. Either way they fount themselves migrating into the Nile Delta and according to the Bible the Egyptians enslaved them. The rest of the story comes from the Bible, including Moses and the Exodus. There have never been any other supporting evidence of these happenings found, so the Bible is often referred to in ‘historical’ aspects. Eventually the Hebrews settled in Palestine in the 13th century B.C.E.

As for the New Testament, since it’s all about Jesus, consider that history places his life (ca 5 B.C.E.-29 C.E.). It’s commonly held that the first writings developed in the 70 years after Jesus death. We know this because Clement of Rome referred to them about that time. Originally, not all the books were accepted for inclusion into the ‘New Testament’. There were a series of synods, (meetings of the church hierarchy) between 393 & 397 (C.E. or AD) when all 27 stories or books were agreed on for inclusion. However, the division of these into chapter and verse did not come along until the mid 1500’s. Between 100 C.E. and 1500, Christianity was a lump of clay, being molded by statesmen, emperors, and clergy seeking power.

As trade between civilizations grew, missionaries tagged along. If they came from an empire or state in which the ruling power accepted Christianity (as a means to merge the various beliefs of the empire, to facilitate an easier rule) the missionaries were accepted by other rulers as emissaries and several along the way utilized the more coherent religious doctrine of Christianity, either because it supported kingship or to facilitate with the merging of many belief systems of societies for an easier rule. As conquest continued and every larger realms were created, the religions all merged and the hierarchy of the Christian church became enmeshed in the political structures.

One of the reasons for the establishment of ‘universities’ or places of higher education was, specifically to teach the unconverted in a Christian atmosphere. Another reason was to educate only Christians to better fill the political positions within governments. So governments used the Christian religion to create a more cohesive population, supportive of their rulers and the church used governments to gain power and wealth.

And this is how it all began.

Wouldn't the Koran have some of that history too? I've heard that it mentions Jesus as being a good man.

Thanks all, I am looking guess for a way to make sense out of all this, as far as my conversation went one refuses to accept that dinosaurs once ruled the world and refutes evolution - another person, truly believes in the bible and only what is said/reflected in the bible, another person believes in otherwise, so as I find this all interesting - might as well learn something new from it.

This topic has now been going on for the last couple of days and must admit it gets mighty heated at times as people have a tendency to try and convince others they are right, but a learning experience nonetheless.

But...there is proof that dinosaurs existed.