![]() We could also call that having a Christian worldview of history, which is recognizing God’s hand in all history and interpreting it through a biblical lens. But I propose that to make them better, we push these classrooms together to make one large learning center! Move the classrooms side by side knock down the wall that divides them and display all the posters, all the maps, and all the costumes in one place! For those that hold to the Bible as God’s inspired Word, Bible history and ancient world history should be one overlapping subject in one classroom-never to be divided. And, if it was a classroom for children, there was hopefully a costume of Cleopatra for the girls to try on and a Spartan helmet for the boys. In the public school history class, that most of us attended, there was probably a colorful poster of King Tut’s golden funeral mask on the wall, which shows up almost everywhere in world history! Also on the wall was a set of maps that included the Battle of Marathon and Alexander the Great’s extensive empire. ![]() There was also a map on the wall of the “Divided Kingdoms of Israel” or “Jerusalem at the Time of Christ.” And, if it was a fun classroom, there was a costume of Esther for the girls to try on and a costume of Moses for the boys. It was a common experience that looked something like this: In the Sunday school classroom, there was probably a poster of Noah on the wall with dozens of paired-off animals leaving the ark under a beautiful rainbow. Today let’s talk about 5 reasons why you would benefit from combining bible history and ancient history. Can you see them? It’s hard not to because most of us grew up with a great wall separating sacred and secular history. For Bible, we see kids in a Sunday school class at church for a course in ancient world history, we see them in a traditional classroom on a secular campus. ![]() When most of us think about teaching students Bible history and ancient history, we picture them in two different classrooms. ![]()
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