It is draining me emotionally. I come back home and sleep a lot. sometimes, I am hardly hanging in there. I am looking for another job, but scared to make a change. Feast of Trumpets is coming up. Meanwhile we're praying for you. Biblical Illiteracy Is At Astonishingly High Levels In The Church, New Study Reveals: Is the exodus from Egypt a New Testament or Old Testament event? What about the crossing of the Jordan, the healing of a man born blind, a miraculous escape from prison, or the healing of Naaman’s leprosy? It’s hard to believe, but according to a new study, 1 in 10 “American Protestant Churchgoers” (11%) can’t answer those sorts of questions. The survey asked this question, “Of all the stories found in the Old Testament of the Bible, which one is your favorite?” (As a side note, I don’t believe we should use stories when talking about the Bible as story means “fairytale; not true” in our culture today. So I’ll use “biblical accounts” throughout this blog). Of those surveyed, 11% answered with an account from the New Testament, not the Old. Another 10% either couldn’t identify a single account from the Old Testament or had no favorite passage. Biblical illiteracy is rampant. Interestingly—and not surprisingly given our research—the second-most-popular account is Noah and the ark (marginally surpassed by the Exodus and Moses), and when combined, 32% of favorite accounts were from Genesis. The study asked respondents about the story of Romulus and Remus. Now note that I said story this time. And that’s because this is a mythological account from the ancient Romans to explain how Rome and the Roman civilization were founded—by twin brothers, fathered by the god Mars and cared for briefly by a wolf and a woodpecker. One brother later kills the other, among other atrocities. It’s certainly not real history and is nowhere found or mentioned in the Bible. So what did survey respondents say when they were asked about the story of Romulus and Remus? Only 39% recognized this story is not part of the Bible. Only 4 in 10 churchgoers! The others believed it was in the Bible but that they “couldn’t tell any of it” (33%).... Biblical illiteracy is at astonishingly high levels in the church. So many Christians don’t know their Bibles because they aren’t reading them, and they aren’t receiving biblical teaching from all of God’s Word in their churches. They know a few fuzzy basics and that’s about it.... And yet Christians are apathetic, their Bibles are dusty, and their children are left to glean their worldview from the culture with a moral lesson thrown in during Sunday school each week. It’s a far cry from the commands throughout Scripture that God’s Word be constantly on our lips and in our hearts and minds. I live not too far away from Stanford University in California. The main street that passes by it in Palo Alto is called El Camino. There is a stretch of that road right near Stanford where RVs and Vans are parked along the sidewalk. Everyone knows that people permanently live in them. 
