What's Your BIBLE IQ? - Richard H Sedliacik - January 1985

Richard H Sedliacik

What is the Bible? Why was it written? And to whom? Why do so few really understand the Bible? Read this eye-opening article for the surprising answers! You would be shocked to know the "Bible IQ" of most professing Christians. A survey conducted by a Bible society found that 98 percent of all American homes contain at least one Bible. Yet, another survey showed that the vast majority of those who claim to be Christians are "Bible illiterates"! Biblical ignorance is considered "respectable" today. "It is one of the curious phenomena of modern times," comments J.B. Phillips in The Young Church in Action, "that it is considered perfectly respectable to be abysmally ignorant of the Christian faith. "Paradoxically, men and women who would be deeply ashamed of having their ignorance exposed in matters of poetry, music, or painting, for example, are not in the least perturbed to be found ignorant of the New Testament" (page 6). And so the Bible has become little more than an obsolete book in which millions claim to believe, but very few actually read, study or understand! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library