HOW TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE
According to the Guinness World Records website, the best selling work of non-fiction of all time is the Bible. The Guinness folks report that, "Although it is impossible to obtain exact figures, there is little doubt that the Bible is the world's best-selling and most widely distributed book. A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion. By the end of 1995, combined global sales of Today's English Version (Good News) New Testament and Bible (copyright for which is held by the Bible Societies) exceeded 17.75 million copies, and the whole Bible had been translated into 349 languages; 2123 languages have at least one book of the Bible in that language." With such saturation, it seems reasonable to assume that society as a whole would have a pretty good general knowledge of the scriptures. The sad truth, however, is: they don't.