Those of you who aren’t Christians, I mean REAL Christians. Not that your whole family is Christian. Not that you were baptized as a Christian.
I mean a Christian who has repented of their sins, asked God for forgiveness, and have accepted the facts that Jesus Christ died for YOUR sins and rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.
If you haven’t done ALL of those things and claim to be a Christian, you are misguided and the bible likely makes no sense to you. It’s not supposed to.
So commenting on something (the bible) that you can’t possibly understand is .... well... foolishness. No offense intended.
1 Corinthians 2: (NIV)
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
Maybe A. Stanley has simply concluded that the Bible is too difficult a text for the American people to understand. So he is stressing only the essential part of death, burial, resurrection, and salvation.