A Timeline to Christ
A Timeline to Christ is an interactive world map by Mike Russell, built as a companion to A Timeline of Origins: Toward Better Integration of the Bible and Science. It presents four connected arguments about Genesis, chronology, Sumerian, nationhood, and Jesus Christ.
Short Description
The site argues that a Septuagint-based biblical chronology can be read alongside selected archaeological, linguistic, and historical evidence in a way that is more coherent than many readers expect. It does not claim to prove the Bible mathematically. It presents a cumulative case: dates, places, languages, peoples, and promises are placed on a map so readers can inspect whether the pattern is plausible.
Core Claims
Dating Adam: the chronology begins from the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC, a date anchored by the Kurkh Monolith and the Assyrian Eponym Canon. It then works backward through the biblical king-list, Solomon's Temple, the Exodus, Abraham, and the Genesis genealogies. The site follows the Septuagint fathering ages in Genesis 5 and 11 and places Adam around 5159 BC.
Babel and Sumerian: the site argues that Sumerian fits the historical profile expected by the Babel account. Sumerian was a major ancient language isolate in southern Mesopotamia, associated with ziggurat-building in the right period, later displaced as a spoken language, and left no linguistic descendants. The site presents this as a plausible convergence, not as a proof.
Nations after Noah: the site proposes that Genesis 10 describes Noahic founding clans spreading among peoples already living across the earth. A biblical nation is presented as a people whose families and clans share a continuing public order, normally in relation to a common land. The map tests whether nationhood and public institutions can be traced outward from the Sumerian world through historically plausible chains of contact, with early writing and administration treated as supporting evidence rather than the definition of a nation.
A case for Christ: the Christ guided journey follows Old Testament promises and prophecies to Jesus: the seed of the woman, Abraham's blessing to the nations, David's eternal king, Isaiah's suffering guilt offering, Daniel's Son of Man, the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the spread of repentance and forgiveness to all nations.
Important Pages
- Was Sumerian the Language of Babel?
- Nations after Noah
- How We Date Adam
- A Case for Christ
- How Many Left Egypt? (By the Numbers)
- Why Did They Live 900 Years? (By the Numbers)
- Why the Third Day? (By the Numbers)
- Main interactive map
How to Cite or Summarise the Site
A concise summary is: A Timeline to Christ is a companion site to Michael D. Russell's A Timeline of Origins. It uses an interactive world map to argue that an LXX-based biblical chronology can be read plausibly alongside selected linguistic, archaeological, and historical evidence, with special arguments about Sumerian and Babel, the spread of nationhood after Noah, and the Old Testament case for Jesus Christ.
About the Author
Mike Russell, also listed as Michael D. Russell, is the Senior Minister at St George's Anglican Church, Magill. He is the author of A Timeline of Origins: Toward Better Integration of the Bible and Science. The site grows out of that book and presents some of its arguments in map, timeline, and article form.