Click here (huffpost) to learn about a new survey showing that, when it comes to the Bible, Americans don't always put their reading glasses where their mouths are...
What to make of this disconnect??
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Anonymous
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This is funny. I often hear people preach or even say "well the Bible says" in a sentence, and a lot of the time it is fairly inaccurate. I am one of the people who own a Bible but don't read it, except for in class. People own them for a sense of security or for when they actually need them but never actually read them. I really like the example the article uses with obese people knowing their fat but not dieting, people realize what the Bible has to offer but they don't read it. The Bible is intimidating in a sense that it is quite lengthy with a bunch of pages and in a hard to understand language (KJV). Although, new versions of the Bible are coming out that are easier for the masses to understand, we are at risk of changing meanings with all these translations.
It's interesting how many people preach about how America is going down hill and by turning to Jesus everything will be okay... When some of these very same people don't even know what they're talking about.... I see this all the time in everyday life and on the internet.
I think I understand why a lot of people don't read it. It's hard to read, it takes time and it takes thought. Plus, if they run across a point in the Bible that contradicts what they THINK the Bible SHOULD say, what then? So, if people just know the parts that prove their point- why should they read the whole Bible?
Some excellent insights, Taylor & Timi. Many folks hold up the Bible as the infallible and unalterable word of God... but some of those same folks, I dare say, exercise selective-amnesia (if they ever bothered to learn it in the first place) when God's word doesn't quite match their own!
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This is funny. I often hear people preach or even say "well the Bible says" in a sentence, and a lot of the time it is fairly inaccurate. I am one of the people who own a Bible but don't read it, except for in class. People own them for a sense of security or for when they actually need them but never actually read them. I really like the example the article uses with obese people knowing their fat but not dieting, people realize what the Bible has to offer but they don't read it. The Bible is intimidating in a sense that it is quite lengthy with a bunch of pages and in a hard to understand language (KJV). Although, new versions of the Bible are coming out that are easier for the masses to understand, we are at risk of changing meanings with all these translations.
^^^^ Taylor E.
It's interesting how many people preach about how America is going down hill and by turning to Jesus everything will be okay... When some of these very same people don't even know what they're talking about.... I see this all the time in everyday life and on the internet.
I think I understand why a lot of people don't read it. It's hard to read, it takes time and it takes thought. Plus, if they run across a point in the Bible that contradicts what they THINK the Bible SHOULD say, what then? So, if people just know the parts that prove their point- why should they read the whole Bible?
Some excellent insights, Taylor & Timi. Many folks hold up the Bible as the infallible and unalterable word of God... but some of those same folks, I dare say, exercise selective-amnesia (if they ever bothered to learn it in the first place) when God's word doesn't quite match their own!
pdk
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