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Statistics about the Bible

Statistics about the Bible. Chicago Tribune, reprinted in the Colorado Springs Gazette June 16, 2006. Twenty-five million copies of the Bible are sold annually in America

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Statistics about the Bible

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  1. Statistics about the Bible • Chicago Tribune, reprinted in the Colorado Springs Gazette June 16, 2006. • Twenty-five million copies of the Bible are sold annually in America • A Gallup Poll reveals that more than 75 percent of Americans say they believe the Bible is either the word of God or inspired by the word of God. • In 2006, religious books accounted for 6.4 percent of all book sales. • Americans spent $2.4 billion on Bibles and other religious books in 2006.

  2. BIBLICAL ILLITERACY

  3. Statistics of Biblical Illiteracy: • The Baptist Standard, December 4, 2000. • Fewer than half of Americans can name the first book of the Bible (Genesis). • Only one-third know who delivered the Sermon on the Mount (A considerable number named Billy Graham, not Jesus). • Cathy Lynn Grossman, “Americans get an ‘F’ in religion,” USA Today, 2007. • 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married.

  4. Statistics of Biblical Illiteracy: • 1997 Barna Research poll. • 12 percent of “Christians” think Noah's wife was Joan of Arc. • Eighty percent of “born-again Christians” believe it is the Bible that says "God helps them that help themselves." • Allie Martin, “Ten Commandments’ Survey of Americans,” October 12, 2007. • Even though 80 percent could name the ingredients of a Big Mac (McDonald’s), only 6 in 10 could name “Thou shalt not kill” as one of the Ten Commandments.

  5. Statistics of Biblical Illiteracy: • Gary M. Burge, “The Greatest Story Never Read,” Christianity Today. • One-third of the students tested could not put the following in sequential order: Abraham, the Old Testament prophets, the death of Christ, and Pentecost. • Half could not sequence the following: Moses in Egypt, Isaac’s birth, Saul’s death, and Judah’s exile. • One-third could not identify Matthew as an apostle from a list of New Testament names. • One-third could not identify which book of the Bible included Paul’s missionary travels. • Half did not know where to find the Passover story.

  6. Can You Answer These Questions? • Can you provide scriptural evidence for these elements that are necessary for Salvation: Hear, Believe, Repent, Confess, Baptism, A Faithful Life? • Could you defend One Way and One True Church? • Could you defend against progressive revelation?

  7. Why Biblical Literacy Matters • Men will be destroyed from a lack of knowledge • Hosea 4:1,6 • Ps. 119:105 • Ps. 119:165 • Men will be saved through Biblical knowledge • 2 Tim. 3:14-16

  8. Why Biblical Literacy Matters • The Church will be destroyed from a lack of knowledge • Hebrews 5:12 • 2 Pet. 3:1-3 • The Church will be saved through Biblical knowledge • Eph. 4:14

  9. Solutions to Biblical Illiteracy • Daily devotions and Bible readings: • Ps. 1:1-3 • Ps. 119:97-98 • Live it and teach it! • Preachers must heed the word and preach the word: • 1 Tim. 4:16 • 2 Tim. 4:1-5 • Parents must fulfill their God-given roles to train their children in the word: • Deut. 6:6-9 • Prov. 1:8 • Eph. 6:4

  10. BIBLICAL ILLITERACY

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