Sentences with phrase «biblically illiterate people»

Biblically illiterate people believe the bible is factual.

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Pastors and seminary professors today bemoan the fact that Christians are biblically illiterate, and they do everything they can to teach people more about the Bible.

People are biblically illiterate which is why they listen to the hear - say of others instead of doing the work to find it themselves.

So the accusation of being «biblically illiterate» is often nothing more than a way to ignore or write off those people with whom you disagree so that you don't have to consider their arguments or seek to understand their position.

Both of these pastors, I think, would agree that people are more biblically illiterate than ever before.

Somewhere along the way they will likely make mention of the many Christians who do not condemn LGBTQ people, and rather than consider and respond to the arguments and beliefs of these other Christians, these pastors will just dismiss them with a wave of the hand and scornful comment about such views being «biblically illiterate.»

It all depends, really, on how a person defines «biblically illiterate,» and I am not convinced that the traditional definitions and tests we use to determine biblical literacy are all that correct.

The question I always ask when the issue of biblical illiteracy comes up is: why, after decades of people sitting through week after week, hour after hour of sermons allegedly done to educate Christians on scripture, do some make a case that there is a «crisis» of Christians being biblically illiterate.