Fewer than a quarter of Christians in the UK possess enough knowledge of the Bible to be able to place key events in the order they appear, according to the results of a new survey by the Bible Society released this week.
The Christian evangelical organisation carried out a survey of regular churchgoers, which revealed that 76 percent of people were unable to put a series of ten popular Bible stories in the order that they appear in the Bible.
Events used in the survey included Noah’s Ark, Solomon’s building of the Temple and Jesus feeding the five thousand, among other similar incidents.
The survey was carried out by asking the questions in a quick-fire quiz style, and was designed to assess the common assumption that Christians possess an in-depth knowledge of the Bible.
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