A friend of mine taught sections of the Bible in a Lit. course and always got complaints that Scripture was being included with works of fiction.
When I was in public school in Memphis, back in the 50s,
It was normal for each of us in home room to take turns reading a bible passage every morning.
How times have changed...for the worse, of course.
Today, i guess it would be a criminal offense.
“It’s time to encourage, perhaps even mandate, the teaching of the Bible in public schools”
Uh, no. Bad, bad idea. They will do it the same way they teach sex education, drawing from the deepest depths of depravity and calling it normal. Allow them to teach the Bible, and they will turn your children into atheists using scripture. If you want your children to know the lessons of scripture, teach them yourself. Hopefully by example.
But what the heck. Let's get on with life?;-)
Public schools don’t teach anything well. It’s probably best they leave the Bible alone
Seems the ultimate failure of parental responsibility to me.
Two words... home - school
My personal favorites in the Old Testament are:
1. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
It's nearly impossible to imagine the horror of a real life event such as happened to Joseph in Genesis getting sold as a slave by his own family. Then the prison languishing of the innocent man that happened later made the horror even worse. He was a guy betrayed at every opportunity he had to show good faith.
If these horrors hadn't been forced on him, especially the original betrayal by his brothers, the family would have eventually starved. It was the original Count of Monte Christo except Joseph never really tried to exact revenge.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
2. Best opportunity for a modern made-for-TV miniseries
See the OT Book of Tobit. Read the OT Book of Tobit.
3. Best chance for redemption, even for such as I who has lived a sometimes...often...shall we say, undisciplined life.
Stories too numerous to recont. I liked the NT stories of the prodigal son and the adultress the Democrats er, er, the proud city elders wanted stoned after they had their way with her.
...She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
To put it simply, the Bible is probably the single most influential book in Western culture. If you don’t understand it, your understanding of the culture in which you live is inadequate.
To put it simply, the Bible is probably the single most influential book in Western culture. If you don’t understand it, your understanding of the culture in which you live is inadequate.