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A Blunder about the Bible


Last year we celebrated the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. Unfortunately, while it's still selling like hotcakes, reading and studying the Bible went out of vogue sometime in the 20th century, and it shows. In an opinion piece for Fox News, Eric Metaxas pokes a bit of fun at the media for citing the wrong author of a famous passage.

There is a remedy for ignorance that we might want to promote in our schools, so that future journalists and writers won't make similar gaffes. Find out more at the Biblical Literacy Project.

Comments:

I believe that was said by or about Flip Wilson where he played a judge on his variety show.
Kevin, Writing, too.
Lewis was right!
I had a conversation with someone just the other day-- a Japanese scientist, who has been a Christian just two years-- and I made the point that we can legitimately request that people who come at us with trivial accusations have the decency to interact with this book as adults, rather than snarky adolescents.

There is another significant loss derived (I think) from biblical illiteracy, and that is the woeful weakness of public speaking, including politicians. When people's thoughts and speech-patterns were infused with Scripture, then the Hebrew parallelism came much more naturally, leading to speeches that were significantly more engaging.
Misquotations galore
Whether intentional or not, too often some people find it just as advantageous to misquote the Bible for their own agendas (re:Richard Dawkins) as to give it accurately. Perhaps C. S. Lewis was right;"If people can't understand books written for adults, then they shouldn't comment on them."
Great article, but what Sammy Davis Jr. said was, "Here come da judge."