Help Our Children Think Biblically About History
by Simon Turpin on February 19, 2016
As Christians, since we are a part of this world (i.e. we live in it) but are not of it (i.e. part of its values—John 17:6, 11–16), we are challenged on a daily basis with secular thinking. This is why Jesus asked that we be sanctified in the truth of Scripture (John 17:17).
The challenge of secular thinking, however, is not limited to adults but also applies to our children. One of the main ways our children are influenced by secular thinking today is through the media. Therefore, those of us who are parents need to realize that we have a responsibility to help our children to think biblically about the world in which they live (Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 6:4).
This is particularly relevant as this week the BBC children’s television channel CBeebies has dedicated the entire week to the idea of “prehistory.” The term prehistoric is sometimes used to describe the idea that dinosaurs lived a long time ago, before man. In other words, they existed before written history.
The Bible, however, tells us that history first began when it was recorded in Genesis 1:1; therefore, there is no such thing as prehistory. Although no humans were present at creation, God was, and He has revealed the truth of these events to us through Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16; seeExodus 20:11; 31:17–18; Jeremiah 32:17; Mark 10:6; Romans 5:12–14). There is no legitimate reason to limit facts of history to human witness when God was a witness to His own act of creation.
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