Posted on 09/23/2005 6:07:36 PM PDT by sionnsar
Do we need to know what it says in the Bible? Are we somehow illiterate if we don't? Up until, say, 100 years ago, biblical literacy would have been practically mandatory. If you didn't know what "the powers that be" originally referred to, or where "the writing on the wall" was first seen, or what was meant by "the patience of Job," "Jacob's ladder" or "the salt of the earth"--if you didn't know what an exodus was or a genesis, a fatted or a golden calf--you would have been excluded from the culture. It might be said that a civilization consists, at its core, of these easily transmitted packages of implication. They are one of the mechanisms by which cultures can be both efficient and rich.
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Getting into the spirit of the article and cribbing from Acts 13:22, surely its author is a man after our own hearts? - G.
Well, someone who doesn't know these allusions ought to be hung higher than Haman.
"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." (St. Jerome)
He's wrong. It is disastrous. If people don't know what the bible says then people don't know what God wants and thinks. Period.
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