Biblical Illiteracy

“BIBLICAL ILLITERACY”

Consider these results from various surveys...

   a. Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels

   b. Many professing Christians cannot identify more than two or three

      of the disciples

   c. 60 percent of Americans can't name even five of the Ten

      Commandments

   d. 82 percent of Americans believe "God helps those who help

      themselves" is a Bible verse

   e. 12 percent of adults believe that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife

   f. A survey of graduating high school seniors revealed that over 50

      percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife

   g. A considerable number of respondents to one poll indicated that

      the Sermon on the Mount was preached by Billy Graham

   -- "Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate." - George Barna