Ronald Reagan famously said, "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
And I would say that, unfortunately, American Christianity suffers from both troubles: ignorance and wrong belief.
Both, in the end, amount to unbelief.
Off the top of my head, here are a few important things I would guess most American Christians are ignorant of:
- The scope of the gospel
- The historical context of various books of the Bible
- The cultural contexts of the original audiences
- The metanarrative of the Bible
- Church history
- The major themes of the Bible
And a few of the things, in my opinion, which many American Christians "know that isn't so":
- Hell as eternal conscious torment
- Calvinism and all its distinctives regarding predestination, election, sovereignty, and etc.
- Penal substitutionary atonement
- Faith as mental assent to propositional truth
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