The Lord has been kind to bless the attendance of our History of the World Mega-Conference. Students and families will be coming from across the nation and from overseas to enjoy diverse lectures covering more than 6,000 years of earth history. One of our speakers, Dr. Floyd Jones, will be addressing the controversial subject of earth chronology. Below are descriptions of his messages:

A Defense of Biblical Chronology

This could be called “Bible Chronology 101.” Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones shows that God’s Word reveals a seamless, gapless, continuous chronology that demands a young earth whose age is only about 6,000 years. Fully subscribing to the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words,” Dr. Jones presents a fast moving overview utilizing numerous captivating PowerPoint slides showing that chronology is the framework which allows us to make sense of history. Moreover, it is the science of dividing time into regular intervals and assigning dates to historic events in their proper order. Without it, we would find it impossible to understand the sequence of historical events, biblical or non-biblical. As chronology is the very foundation on which history rests and the skeletal framework giving it structure and shape, the events of history can only be meaningful and properly understood as long as they are kept in their proper time sequence. If the time sequence becomes altered, the interpretation of the events becomes distorted and no longer dependable. The basic unit of time in chronology is the year.

As historical events happened at precise moments of time, the chronologer must exert great care in not “creating” history while he is endeavoring to recover history. He must fit the events into their exact proper time sequence. Originally, biblical chronology studies were conducted by men committed to the position that sacred Writ was to be taken as an accurate, factual, and historical record containing its own chronological agenda. With the emergence of rationalism and the modern development of the theory of evolution, humanistic scholars began to challenge the chronological framework of the Bible. The result has been to separate history from Bible chronology. Eventually it was proclaimed by nearly all scholars, Christian as well as secular, that biblical chronology was generally unreliable. Yet without the framework and foundation of chronology, biblical history as well as true earth history lies in the ruins. The young earth world view is not only the true frame of reference, it is intellectually respectable. This is not merely a statement of faith—it is also mathematically demonstrable.

Problems in Biblical Chronology

Committed to belief in God’s Word as well as the Lord Jesus Christ first and foremost, with faith in mathematics a distant second, math major Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones demonstrates that, if properly constructed so as to contextually honor all pertinent Scripture, biblical chronology is the most powerful apologetic tool in the Christian arsenal. Unfortunately, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is woefully unaware of this truth. As the biblical text contains much information of chronological and mathematical nature, a careful and thorough investigation of this data accompanied by detailed charts should serve as a decisive test as to its reliability and trustworthiness. In this session, the student will get to see for himself some of the most intellectually bothersome, faith-crushing so-called biblical “errors” solved in an easily understandable presentation which utilizes many PowerPoint graphics. This is a really faith-building slide show, and enjoying yourself is permitted!