How well do you know the Bible?

[Finder]

Here is a quiz you may find interesting. It was posted in the AA forum as well.

http://ffrf.org/quiz/bquiz.php

[The Sushi Bandit]

1. Cant say I can quote anything from it cause..

it is not relevant any more.

it is archaic history, old tales, and messages to scare people into acceptance.

Oh yea, and the end of the world is coming soon too!

[Ezlivin]

2. 13 years after graduating seminary and I get a 30

After I left the church and the faith behind, I never, ever picked up another bible. Since it had been a colossal waste of my life to that point I didn't see any need to ever refer to that "holy" book ever again.

Still, it's amazing what crap still sticks to the inside of my brain.

And it's amazing that I ever gave any of it serious thought. Wow.

Edit: Chronological math correction

[Warpy]

3. After all these years, I scored 49

although at this late date, quite a few were wild guesses.

I used to know it quite well. I had to outquote Southern Baptists to stay alive.

Most of 'em had never actually read their babbles, so it wasn't all that hard.

[Ezlivin]

6. Southern Baptists!

Yep, I were one. Raised, saved and baptized in a small SBC church. I graduated Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1993 (the same year that Russell Dilday, the seminary president, was fired for being too "liberal"; the man who headed up the charge had to leave his church after it came out that he was having sex with 4 or 5 of his staff's wives). I went door-to-door to "witness", having my wife drag my wheelchair up the steps to some homes. In a word, I was intense (insane?).

Now that I'm on the "other" side, I'm astonished that I was capable of being so brainwashed.

It's good to have your mind back, isn't it?

[Warpy]

9. Then you know why this stomped off in disgust

Irish Catholic ("fallen away" is too mild) kid felt compelled to learn great amounts of nonsense from the KJV in self defense.

I'm just astounded that I remembered so much of the hooey.

[slackmaster]

4. 9 out of 50 right

But it says I'm probably better off that way.

:D

[Sammy Pepys]

5. 28 out of 50

Better than I thought.

[Goblinmonger]

7. 35

Those years at Catholic high school seminary served me well. Read the bible twice cover to cover. Once before I went to the seminary, once before my senior year as a promise to my spiritual advisor when we talked about me not continuing on to minor seminary. The second read through was the beginning of my journey to atheism.

[swimboy]

13. I got a 37.

Some were really tricky.


(That's a pretty nice stapler, you got there. :D )

[Goblinmonger]

17. I was specifically told

that I could keep my stapler.

Man, I love that movie. Gets better every time I watch it.

[cyborg_jim]

29. Same

If in doubt go for the most ludicrous answer!

[Parche]

8. bible

I dont read fantasy untrue books.................

[Der Blaue Engel]

10. 30 out of 50

I was forced to read the Bible a number of times as a child (and did it a few more times voluntarily), and even took a class in college on how the old testament treated women, which examined the text quite closely, so I thought I knew it better than that. (Those damn foreskins threw me. Must not have been paying attention when I read that part because I was focusing on David loving Jonathan with a love surpassing that of a man for a woman. :evilgrin:)

I also managed to read a couple of questions backward (d'oh!), and disagreed with a couple of the correct answers (because I'm a contrarian), but I guess it's time to brush up, because I like to be able to point out the absurd inconsistencies and the blatant misogyny, and to counter outright made-up "scripture" that christers like to spout.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. 25 out 50....most of the questions are from OT and I never cared for that.

[China_cat]

16. When it comes to the OT

if one of the answers involves killing, that's the right one. Unless they all involve killing...then pick the one that kills the most.

[trotsky]

12. 40

It pisses me off when some Christians suggest I just didn't read the bible enough.

[nickinSTL]

14. 25 out of 50...

and I'm not a Christian.

Never read it (read parts, when my parents were trying to get me to be Christian...which, fortunately, never lasted long).

[Jokerman]

15. 22!

Not bad for a life-long atheist who has never even been to church.

[Igel]

18. They need to read Grice.

His work has been superceded to a large extent, but it's best to start with simple stuff.

[FtWayneBlue]

19. Being raised JW,

I got a 35. What a waste of my life, learning all that crap!

However, it does help me to understand one reason why people are so f*cked up.

[TechBear_Seattle]

20. Too many trick questions to be meaningful

Such as #43, "Which word is in the Bible?" The one and only correct answer is NONE of them. After all, the Bible is written in Aramaic, Hebrew and Koine Greek. Every last English version is an imperfect and usually prejudiced translation.

[Random_Australian]

22. And I could have sworn that God just gave Satan permission to torment Job.

I could be wrong though. :shrug:

[NMMNG]

28. Quite true

Every last English version is an imperfect and usually prejudiced translation.


Yet there are many people willing to run the lives of and even harm others based on those imperfect and prejudiced translations.

[bloom]

30. That was one of the questions

that I had a sense that I could reason out. I knew that the concept of the trinity was not in there - nor Christmas, obviously - nor rapture, even though a lot of people like to think that it is.

But liberal - now that's a good Biblical word (even if it is a translation).

---Though that idea rather goes against what the quiz was trying to point out. The quiz did do a good job of showing how violent (and outrageous) some of the Bible is -as well as how misogynist.


I got a 24. I guessed a lot.

[Evoman]

21. 38

Not bad...some of them are tricky.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

23. Some of this strikes me as very silly indeed.

1,3,9,11,12,15,21,22,23,28,32,34,36,43 all strike me as being at best very dubious, and in most cases clearly deliberate misinterpretations.

People like this get atheists a bad name; there are more than enough good examples of problems with potentially-correct interpretations of the bible without resorting to deliberate obvious misinterpretations or oversimplification to the point of contradicting the actual meaning.

[bloom]

31. While there are some questions

which seem like they could have multiple answers - like

23. How does the biblical god treat haughty women?


Where I expect that there are other places in the Bible where "haughty women" are treated with different punishments. So that one answer would not cover it (I'm just guessing - I don't have any citations).... but maybe none of the quiz answers are actually in the Bible.


I think for the most part the quiz demonstrates pretty clearly some of the whacked out passages that most Christians either take for granted or ignore or whatever - until the thing in question is put out there - in a different context from what they are used to.

Like question #32

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)

I remember thinking about that passage - that if you really think about what it says - it's pretty weird - encouraging people to leave - to hate, even - all of their relatives. And I have a brother who took it seriously for a few years - and left the family. So I don't see it as a meaningless throw off line. I also don't think that it can metaphor-ed or explained away.

It's easy for people to say - that sensible people will only pay attention to the sensible parts and will ignore the ridiculous things. That seemed to be the expectation of Churches when I was growing up. How much better it would be to have a handbook that made sense. That didn't have a lot of crap that people worship as if it is word for word the word of "God".

[silverweb]

24. I scored a 30.

Of course, some of them were kind of tricky and on reading the correct answers, a couple of times I said, "I knew that!"

A fun quiz.

:D

[greendog]

25. 34

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

When in doubt, pick the most bizarre and immoral answer.

[LostInAnomie]

26. 31 not too shabby for a guy who hasn't been to church in 7 years...

... and didn't pay that close of attention when he was in there.

[NMMNG]

27. 34

30 - 39: Congratulations! Better informed than most Americans

[Chulanowa]

32. 49 out of 50

I missed the one about boiling a goat in hte milk of it's mother. Forgot that there are two sets of ten commandments for a minute :D

[Finder]

33. I got that one wrong too...n/t