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It only takes a minute to create your own Bible Gateway free personal account and you’ll immediately upgrade your Bible Gateway experience. #CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE NEVER READ A BOOK EXCEPT THE BIBLE HOW TO#For church leaders, youth workers, parents, grandparent to be paying attention to what’s being taught out there and proactively show how to respond to these difficult and disturbing sounding things in the Bible. I believe addressing this is an urgent matter. ![]() #CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE NEVER READ A BOOK EXCEPT THE BIBLE FULL#Now I know the Bible doesn’t do those things, but I can understand why people think it does who often haven’t been taught the full Bible storyline and Bible study methods. What once seen as the “good book” is now even being seen as an “evil book” which allegedly advocates misogyny, slavery, violence, and is non-inclusive causing shame and even hate. So, it’s not about style or relevance of their church with this generation, it’s about what they’re seeing in the Bible. Most of the stories I hear of those leaving faith are coming from very contemporary churches with great music and felt-need preaching and parking lots all figured out. Those aren’t the issues anymore, as most churches have caught up to these things culturally. The music was backwards, the preaching was dull, or the church building felt like grandma’s house (as I heard one person say). In the past, the complaints about church and Christianity generally were about relevance and style. But the good news is that there are responses to these understandable tough questions about the Bible and this is what I address in the book.ĭoesn’t every generation have issues with the Christian faith?ĭan Kimball: Yes, and we always will have generational style differences. So, it’s a very real thing happening all around us today when you start paying attention. With the rising amount of deconstruction of faith stories also being told, they often include mention of these very difficult parts of the Bible as part of the reasons for it happening. There’s an intense amount of effort being made to bring attention to these difficult and disturbing sounding passages through clever graphical memes online, web sites, YouTube, and there’s a massive amount of talking about them on TikTok. The Bible is more and more being accused of being anti-women, anti-science, pro-violence, pro-slavery, exclusive and divisive when these types of Bible verses are being pointed out. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission… If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.” - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 “Women should remain silent in the churches. Do not spare them put to death men and women, children and infants…” - 1 Samuel 15:2-3 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: “…go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[ all that belongs to them. “Slaves, obey your earthly masters.” - Ephesians 6:5 They likely know the stories about Daniel in the Lion’s Den or David and Goliath or Jesus’s teaching from the Sermon on the Mount.īut when the whole Bible is read, the claim is that many become atheists or agnostics when they see the not-so-nice-sounding Bible verses like: Most Christians have been taught the nice sounding Bible verses about God’s love for us and the command to love others. Sadly, there are an increasing amount of stories of this exact thing happening. ![]() The thinking is that when they do read it all, they’ll see disturbing things they didn’t know was in there and leave the faith. How can reading the Bible lead some people to become atheists?ĭan Kimball: If you pay attention, you’re increasingly hearing the phrase “the fastest way for a Christian to become an atheist is to read their Bible.” That’s due to the fairly correct assumption that most Christians have not read or know their whole Bible too well. How should we make sense of these difficult passages?īible Gateway interviewed Dan Kimball ( about his book, How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture (Zondervan, 2021). While the Bible has for centuries been called “The Good Book”-a moral and religious text that guides us into a relationship with God and shows us the right way to live-it nonetheless contains elements that can be considered disturbing and alarming. ![]()
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