Politics

Anne Miller of AOL News wrote a story on Wednesday about a conservative that says the Bible is too liberal.  At least the newer translations are.

Attorney and teacher Andy Schlafly, in response to what he has called “liberal,” “offensive” and “incorrect” translations, formed the Conservative Bible Project, a Wiki software-based site devoted to “clean(ing) up” the Bible.

While Schlafly has his critics, he has denounced their criticisms, calling them “liberals who are unhappy that their game is up.”

Am I alone in thinking how stupid this is?

This is part 3 in a series on biblical illiteracy and its effects on America and within the Church.

For being dead in my trespasses, I knew quite a bit about the church. For about ten years, I grew up in a local church and participated in the various activities they had for kids. I was in Sunday school, I was a shepherd in a Christmas pageant, I could even repeat to you the Apostle’s Creed (We believe in one God, the Father…). But if you were to ask me about God Himself or about Jesus, I could tell you very little. I knew church. I didn’t know the gospel.

Part of that may have been that I was just a kid and I did not think in theological terms. But my experience in the church is like so many in our so-called Christian nation. We go to church, we learn the basics about how to do good and we come out of it Christianized non-Christians. And this leads to the main modern effect of biblical illiteracy: a Christ-less Christian nation.

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