(April 3, 2015 at 12:03 am)robvalue Wrote: If I had to guess, I'd say the majority of christians have never sat down and actually read the bible as a story, start to finish. I think most of them have looked at snippets, almost all of which are the popular ones recommended to sound the best by their priests or whatever. So in their mind, there is a consistent narrative to some degree and they don't think about all the gaping plot holes.
There was a Christian apologist I used to like, James White, because of his work critiquing the Quran (and various debates he has had) and he has, in the past, said something very interesting on this topic. For a start, the Quran is way shorter than even the New Testament so it's not fair to say that the Quran is easier to memorize than the Bible. And secondly, he concedes that many people say they will read the Bible from the start to the end but they get to the chapters about Jewish law, such as Leviticus, and they become incredibly bored and their reading of the Bible stops there. That's not to say the Bible is a boring book. It's just that it contains loads of information that isn't relevant today.
