won't) read the Bible. His best hermeneutical efforts are wasted on an assemblage of ears that hear only.
Certainly, many believers are handicapped by a government education that made them "functional" instead of readers. Others aren't concerned with the entirety of God's Word; they are pacified with a few "promises" that cater to personal desires. Still others are simply lazy; they would rather leave serious Bible study to a Nicolaitane clergy and settle for a lukewarm spiritual pablum at regular feedings.
The whelming tide of illiteracy signals a relapse to the Dark Ages and a return of barbarism. The Psalmist asked, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" The answer can only be to restore the foundations! And the first stone to be laid must be God's Word, the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. In this age of irresponsibility, don't blame the politicians, the humanists, or even the devil for the decline of Western civilization. The fault lies with individual Christians that profess a book they don't read, families that prefer television and games over substantive reading, and churches that proselyte Biblically illiterate believers.

TILL WE ALL COME IN THE UNITYof the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.
Ephesians 4:13-14, KJV

ONEOFTHEGREATDANGERSof this generation is that we live in a world of relativity, where truth has no standard and where orthodoxy is relegated to irrelevance. Our culture has no respect for the Truth nor for any truth, for that matter, except the swaying of our