The Bible

A recent Time magazine cover story argues “Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public School.” The question in this article is asked, “Should the Holy Book be on the public school menu? Yes. It’s the bedrock of Western culture. And it’s constitutional — as long as we teach but don’t preach it.” As you know, Time and Newsweek are venerable vehicles for us to receive news from around the world, and for Time to put this article on the cover of their April 2, 2007 issue tells us its readers are in search of moral answers to the many dilemmas they face. No other book has the centuries-old impact on moral striving and living life as the Bible. Its origin and authorship, its antiquity, its wonderful preservation in the midst of the unparalleled and continuous opposition that sought to destroy it, as well as its diversity and teaching, make the Bible the most wonderful book in existence. It is a collection composed of 66 separate books, written by about 40 different writers living centuries apart, speaking different languages — subjects of different governments who were brought up under different civilizations. If you have a thorough understanding of the Bible, according to its own rules of interpretation, you will find its statements to be in harmony with each other.

Hollywood has produced countless movies associated with the Bible, such as “Cleopatra,” “Gladiator,” “Lionheart,” “300,” and “Kingdom of Heaven,” to name a few. Time describes the Bible as it relates to pop culture and its enhancement by such movies as “Babel,” “Superman,” “The Da Vinci Code,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Matrix,” etc. Do you agree with Time that the Bible should be part of the public school curriculum?

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