The High Cost of Ignorance

Watching a well-known television news—commentary program recently, I was quite surprised at an exchange between the host and his guest. Although the host openly professes to be Christian and belongs to a major mainline denomination, he utterly rejected his guest’s reference to the Old Testament to support his point. "That’s all just allegorical," the host snorted. "It doesn’t mean anything for us today." When the guest then tried to quote from one of Paul’s epistles, the host interrupted again. "That’s not the gospel," he snapped.

How sad, I thought, that such a nationally known and respected figure can so casually dismiss the Old Testament—about three quarters of the entire Bible—as "just allegorical" and irrelevant and then turn around and dismiss more than half of what’s left over with "that’s not the gospel."

It’s this kind of thinking that prompted the theme of this issue—that the Bible is always relevant and a book for all mankind, for all ages.

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