Bible Illiteracy

Most Christians don't know a whole lot about the content in their Bibles. It is sad that atheists and agnotics know more about the Bible than the average Christian and this illiteracy can be solved by just picking up your Bible and reading it. One of the reasons that Mormon's and Jehovah's Witnesses are so successful in reaching and converting Christians is that they know their material and most believers in Christ can't adequately defend their faith.

I'm sure the idea of reading the whole Bible can be daunting but the Holy Spirit will guide and show you many wonderful things. Contrary to what most believe, the Bible isn't thousands of unrelated stories, and it isn't necessary to have commentaries when God is there and merely waiting for you to open His book and learn more about Him. The Bible is a love story of God's pursuit to get us back and bring you and I into an eternal relationship with Him. It’s starts with creation unraveled and ends with creation restored. The story of the bible is not primarily about all the things we must do to be good and moral people but what God has done to bring us back to Himself. Jesus didn’t come to the earth to make bad people better but to make dead people alive.

"There is a lot of talk today in 'church' circles about how little people know about the Bible....Biblical illiteracy is not a new trend. It has been around a long time. The underlying cause is explained by the Apostle Paul (Romans 1:18-32)....It seems almost impossible to have an accurate concept of God apart from the knowledge of certain foundational biblical stories.

The biblically illiterate need to begin with an understanding of who God is, and where they are in relationship to their Creator-Owner -- truths set forth in the pages of the Old Testament. They need to know these things before we can expect an accurate response to what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross."

--Paul Humphreys, GoodSeed Gleanings, No. 6, Sept. 2000