this is a review of a speech given by Stephen prothero
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different knowledge in the areas of the country, on the religious texts of the
world, at Boston University, many students could not name the first book of the
Pentateuch and did not know the first book of the new testament, and that they
could not name man of what the bible was talking about, like Adam and eve, and
what happened in genesis 3 with the fall of man. not only did he see this with the protestants
but all so with the roman catholic ones as well with them not being able to
name the 7 Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance or Reconciliation, Anointing
of the Sick, Holy Orders, Marriage. The
thing is that any catholic should be able to name them, and he also say that
the Jewish students did not know that genesis was the start of the Torah. With
this we see that one, the church is not doing their job, and two that the
parents were not doing their job in teaching the word of God in the home.
The numbers that he had found were
very scary. in the fact in 1967, there was a study that was done, on if
Americans knew the ten commandments, and it should that the answers were yes
and no. and in different finds he found that many did not know that Christ was
the one that gave the sermon on the mound, they had thought it was Billy
graham, and many also thought that and Sodom and Gomorrah were a happily
married. But in fact they were cities that were destroyed by God in genesis. He
also found that many roman Catholics could not tell what the Eucharist was and
if it was the real body and blood of Christ, or if it was the imaged of the
body and blood of Christ. The thing that I found the sadist was that many Protestants
could not name that Dr. Martin Luther was the one that on 31 October 1517, gave
the church in Wittenberg, that he was the one that started the grate movement
that was keep going by mean like John Calvin and many others.
In the history part he talks about,
how Americans forgot about Religion, not because of the two court cases in the
sperm court. But in fact with the ones that were Religious. This he said was
because, how we learned to read was from the bible, because we would read the
bible and learn to read it with the bible, thus being the bible was the book
used to teach people how to read. We see this because now we use many other
books to teach this. In this he brings up the pertain movement, and how they
were more focused on the head and the heart. But we then move on to a movement
that was more about the felling of man and just the loving of God was more than
enough and that we did not need to know what the bible teachers and this is
because the one that lead this movement was a man by the name of Charles finny,
and he was the one that said that it was all in the heart and that was because
what he was teaching was that man was not sinful but they were perfect, we also
see that with in the talks about the history of the land that we live we see
that there was a big fight about slavery and in this they could go to the bible
and point out what they said about in the bible, and we see that like, with the
year of jubilee in the bible, we here did not have that, and the year of
jubilee was that after seven years all the slaves were set free and also anyone
who owed anyone money was forgiven of the money that was to be paid. So we see
that with this we have something’s that we now cannot sit and talk about
because, we don’t know the bible and what it says about many things.
With
the end of the video, he gives his input on what we can do to fix this. and I
would say that it is good, and he brings up a point that why should we know
what the others teach in their books. Well the thing is there is a reason and I
think that my idea of why is the same but also very different then his. He is
saying that we should because then it would help us know what others thing and I
would say this is true but also, we need to know what the other texts say,
because we need to be able as Christians or anyone be able to defined what we
hold to. Also that we need to know what it is that they do and what they teach,
so that we can point out were they are wrong and also that the students can
know what the fails are in the other places. But that might sound like it goes agents
the courts but if we teach it as how he says we should then my second point
will work out its self. So we have the fact being no matter what we as a whole
do not know anything or nothing about what it is that the country was to be
made on. From the bible we have what we got now. That we have only from about
the second grate awaking; have gone away from the teaching of the world texts. That
is because of the second grate awaking.
He brings up talking to others,
about what we hold to and that is a good idea, but as he puts out they might
not know that what they in fact talk about. He brings up Matthew, and genesis
being a short cliff note read. But I would say that Matthew would not be a good
one because it is from the synoptic, I would say that we would be better off
reading all three synoptic gospels plus john. By this we can, get the whole
work of the gospels.
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