Biblical Illiteracy in U.S. at Crisis Point, Says Bible Expert

Chirstian Post U.S. ^ | June 16, 2014 | Lillian Kwon

[upbeat5]

For the past 15 years that Kenneth Berding has been teaching the New Testament, he admits that his students have always had little knowledge about the Bible. But today, he says, biblical illiteracy has reached a crisis point.

"All the research indicates that biblical literacy in America is at an all-time low," Berding, professor of New Testament at Biola's Talbot School of Theology, told The Christian Post. "My own experience teaching a class of new college freshman every year for the past 15 years suggests to me that although students 15 years ago knew little about the Bible upon entering my classes, today's students on average know even less about the Bible."

[.45 Long Colt]

That ignorance often extends all the way into the pulpit.

[vpintheak]

I agree and fall short myself. However, I think that I understand clear Biblical Truths on certain things.

[Alex Murphy]

"All the research indicates that biblical literacy in America is at an all-time low," Berding, professor of New Testament at Biola's Talbot School of Theology, told The Christian Post. "My own experience teaching a class of new college freshman every year for the past 15 years suggests to me that although students 15 years ago knew little about the Bible upon entering my classes, today's students on average know even less about the Bible."

PFL

[re_nortex]

When all is said and done, the only really worthwhile reading material are the Holy Bible and the US Constitution. The Holy Bible is, of course, the Inerrant Word of God serving as the instruction manual for life. The US Constitution, was also Divinely Inspired and is likewise the instruction manual for an entire country. I might also add the McGuffey Readers to that list but, in actuality, God's Word and those of the Founding Fathers comprise the totality of everything genuinely worth knowing.

[CrazyIvan]

With the self professed exception of Hillary Clinton.

[afsnco]

And it’s because the culture is constantly telling them that the Bible lies about everything. In reality, the depraved filth the culture substitutes in the Bible’s place are the lies.

[mulligan]

Illiteracy of the Bible is only one of many ‘books’ our people know little of. Thus the mess we are in.

[Scrambler Bob]

I will agree.

[Alex Murphy]

When all is said and done, the only really worthwhile reading material are the Holy Bible and the US Constitution. The Holy Bible is, of course, the Inerrant Word of God serving as the instruction manual for life. The US Constitution, was also Divinely Inspired and is likewise the instruction manual for an entire country.

Inasmuch as I like the U.S.Constitution, we'll have to agree to disagree on this point.

[re_nortex]

Inasmuch as I like the U.S.Constitution, we'll have to agree to disagree on this point [of it being Divinely Inspired].

When people asked Alexander Hamilton about the Constitution, he said: "For my part, I sincerely esteem it a system which, without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests."

That quote, and several others like it, can be found in the scholarly article, WAS THE CONSTITUTION DIVINELY INSPIRED?.

[DariusBane]

“When all is said and done, the only really worthwhile reading material are the Holy Bible and the US Constitution. The Holy Bible is, of course, the Inerrant Word of God serving as the instruction manual for life. The US Constitution, was also Divinely Inspired and is likewise the instruction manual for an entire country. I might also add the McGuffey Readers to that list but, in actuality, God’s Word and those of the Founding Fathers comprise the totality of everything genuinely worth knowing. “

I sure hope my doctor read Gray’s Anatomy. I hope the engineer for my house did the readings on materials strength. I hope the guy who programmed Free Republic read up on the programming languages.

[fortheDeclaration]

Gee, with all the modern updated versions, how can this be?

[Carthego delenda est]

“Gee, with all the modern updated versions, how can this be?”

Some translations get close to blasphemous...

“Ebonibible - Genesis Chapter 1

[1] In da beginnin’ Big Daddy created da heaven an’ da earth.

[2] And da earth wuz widdout form, an’ void; an’ darkness wuz upon da face o’ da deep. And da Spirit o’ Big Daddy groved upon da face o’ da waters.

[3] And Big Daddy enunciated, Let dere be light y’all: an’ dere wuz light.

[4] And Big Daddy seen da light, dat it wuz fine ass: an’ Big Daddy divided da light from da darkness.

[5] And Big Daddy called da light Day, an’ da darkness Night. And da evenin’ an’ da mornin’ wuz da first day.

[6] And Big Daddy articulated, Hey beotch, let dere be uh firmament in da midst o’ da waters, an’ let it divide da waters from da other waters.”

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What the Atheists heard:

Fairy Tale Illiteracy in U.S. at Crisis Point, Says Grimm Expert

[onedoug]

Though it’s difficult to believe that God didn’t have a hand in the enterprise.

[Alex Murphy]

Though it’s difficult to believe that God didn’t have a hand in the enterprise.

Agreed.

[Salvation]

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” ~St. Jerome

[Zionist Conspirator]

The US Constitution, was also Divinely Inspired

?

[fishtank]

Proud to be illiterate.