The Story of the Bible with Keys to 7 Deadly World Views

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The Story of the Bible

7 Deadly World Views by Steve Deace

In Christian Europe, the Enlightenment brings many changes, some aiding Christian churches and some giving rise to "free thinking" and atheism. Catholic Spain takes Christianity to the New World in the sixteenth century. In 1793, William Carey starts the modern missionary movement by going to pagan India.

Much is written about the decline of Christianity in the 1900s in Europe. The two World Wars disillusion many and cause loss of faith in spiritual things. A contrasting faith in government expects government to deliver on entitlements.

A non-hierarchical, protestant Christianity is popular in America but is opposed by modern atheists (Freedom from Religion Foundation). Opposition is also from politicians and the culture elite of the post-modernist persuasion, among whom the perfection of individuals is a premise.

Reading comprehension: college

A note about "Christian churches operate in many cities"

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/francisclooney/blog/pope-francis-gnosticism-inside-church

Pope Francis' Gnostics fall short on charity. They are "locked up...in an encyclopedia of abstractions." Intellectuals “think that their explanations can make the entirety of the faith and the Gospel perfectly comprehensible. They absolutize their own theories and force others to submit to their way of thinking.” It is “an obsession with doctrine that undercuts the power of God.” They "judge God to be absent from the lives of people with messy, imperfect lives." "Jesus was no harsher with the leaders of the Jewish people who opposed his teachings and works of compassion." "This is a heresy of those with power in the Church, hierarchs who yearn for a perfect, doctrinally pure Church that accommodates nothing of the lives of actual Catholics...'Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?' (Matthew 7.3)"

The Pope's words are easily applied to Protestants.

Reading comprehension: age 25

Reading Levels are estimates by John E. WWW.readingrockets.org: decoding, connections between what is read and what is already known, deep thinking.

The right-hand column is 8th-12th grade.