There is a story about a New England teacher who quizzed a group of college-bound high-school juniors and seniors on the Bible. The quiz preceded a \u201cBible as Literature\u201d class he planned to teach at Newton High School in Massachusetts, generally considered one of the better public schools in the nation. Among the most unusual answers from his students were: \u201cSodom and Gomorrah were lovers\u201d and \u201cJezebel was Ahab\u2019s donkey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other students thought that the four horsemen appeared \u201con the Acropolis,\u201d that the New Testament Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, \u201cLuther,\u201d and John, that Eve was created \u201cfrom an apple,\u201d and that Jesus was \u201cbaptized by Moses.\u201d The answer that took the misinformation prize was given by a fellow who was academically in the top 5 percent of the graduating class. The question: \u201cWhat was Golgotha?\u201d The answer: \u201cGolgotha was the name of the giant who slew the apostle David.\u201d62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a story about a New England teacher who quizzed a group of college-bound high-school juniors and seniors on the Bible. The quiz preceded a \u201cBible as Literature\u201d class he planned to teach at Newton High School in Massachusetts, generally considered one of the better public schools in the nation. Among the most unusual … Continue reading “BIBLE, KNOWLEDGE OF”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}