Bible Question:
Can't remember,help. Many names and events in old testment. How to remember them? Any pedigree software? |
Bible Answer: Dear ardmore, You received very good advice, I would add that the more times you read the passage, or the whole Bible, the better you will remember it. I would also add that if you start doing word studies with a concordance of names and events in the OT you will find that you start to remember them becuase you have studied them in depth. You could start by looking up the word Elisha in the concordance for instance and go to each place where his name appears and start reading before and after where his name appears. That will reteach you what his life was all about and familiarize you with the passage, the events, the other people and so on. Then in about two weeks go back and do the same word study over again, I guaruntee you will find out something new each time about the events, the people and so on. Here is another technique to try, stop highlighting your Bible for a while if you have been. Go looking up an event like Nehemia eating grass like an ox in the concordance firs, then the Bible. Trace what happened before and after for a few pages, then go look up another king who rebelled against God and another, until you have looked up 5 of them. Don't mark your Bible when you do this, try to commit the chapter numbers to memory, and close the Bible. Open the Bible back up and go find everything again without using the concordance at all to find anything, when you get stuck use the concordance one king at a time. Go do the same exact study the next day and the next, by the end of the week you will know by heart where these 5 rebellious kings are to be found without any trouble at all. I have done this with both the NT and the OT, for people, for events, for topics for everything it works... I have never marked my Bibles in 13 years of studying because I demand of myself that I will now where everything is one day, I practice and practice until I know where things are to be found. Bible study is not a piece of cake, it is hard work. Here is for you; II Timothy 2:15... God's day to you, Tamara |