{"id":33398,"date":"2022-09-10T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/illustration-biblical-illiteracy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:47:21","slug":"illustration-biblical-illiteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/illustration-biblical-illiteracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration: Biblical Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot quite half of the public can identify the names of the first four books of the New Testament, known as the Gospels. A large share believes that john the Baptist was one of Jesus\u2019 apostles. Almost half contend that one of the Bible\u2019s teachings is that God helps those who help themselves. . . . Only a minority are able to name the first five books of the Bible. Three-quarters of all adults incorectly believe the Bible is available in all of the world\u2019s languages. Millions of Americans believe that Joan of Arc was Noah\u2019s wife and one out of seven believes Sodom and Gomorrah were married.\u201d <em>(George Barna, America at the Crossroads)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>View more sermon illustrations for inspiration for your next message.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/sermon-illustrations\/illustration-biblical-illiteracy\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot quite half of the public can identify the names of the first four books of the New Testament, known as the Gospels. A large share believes that john the Baptist was one of Jesus\u2019 apostles. Almost half contend that one of the Bible\u2019s teachings is that God helps those who help themselves. . . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/illustration-biblical-illiteracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illustration: Biblical Illiteracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33398","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=33398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}