William Bell Riley wrote:
Is the King James version absolutely inerrant? On this point we are inclined to think that, even unto comparatively recent years, such a theory has been entertained. The result, of course, is to make a sort of fetish of the book. That is why, in many a family, it is kept on the center-table and seldom used. They do not want to soil its sacredness….

Or for that matter it is in an unreadable language of the Elizabethans. This is why Richard Dawkins isn't worried about placing the AV in British schools because they won't read it -- except for the dirty or comic passages.

If you have a pc computer you can either the e-Sword Bible program Downloads and you can put a couple of Bibles in parallel such as the AV the ESV (or perhaps the Amer. KJV -- I don't know if e-sword) has that to translate the AV into English.

Mike wrote:
In terms of focus lack, there isn't much difference between the mesmerizing tool and an unused coffee-table Bible. But biblegateway.com does save a lot of coffee-table space.

boring into their skull wrote:
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An iPad makes the Word a doorstop.
Clever atheists make mesmerizing tools to distract and disrupt even the adult Christian mind.

Neil wrote:
That Richard Dawkins is willing for schoolchildren to have Bibles shows how confident he is that they will learn nothing important from it.

A picture's better than a thousand words.
A moving picture's better than a thousand pictures.
An iPad makes the Word a doorstop.

thomas wrote:
Agreed; however, while a parent is trying to adhere to Deut 6:6-7, "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.", it certainly doesn't help when a godless education system diligently tries to kill their consciences and undermine God's word.
Christian parents who do homeschool their children still need to be diligent in teaching their children God's word. I feel for Christian parents who can't homeschool their children; they need our prayer. Christian parents who public school their children by choice; I do hope that they are diligent in retraining their children; they need our prayer too. They won't get a break from our God-hating public education system.

The unwillingness of churches to teach the full counsel of God these days is bad enough (I'm glad Voddie Baucham seems to be one exception), yet I hear Christians whine that public schools took away the Bible, as if what passed before as religious instruction was totally acceptable.

Neil wrote:
Major assumption: that these students have faith in the 1st place. Now if they do, then how can any fool of a schoolteacher take away what God has granted (Acts 11:18), unless it was never there to start with?

Covenantal Losses wrote:
Voddie Baucham, a prominent Reformed SBC pastor, SA preacher and homeschool advocate, has stated that because of family planning and the secular college influences, it takes two average faithful Christian families today to get one faithful child into the next generation tomorrow. He warns that 75% of baptized covenant children are falling into perdition. The SBC is in utter collapse. Dr. Baucham needs to be one of the next presidents for its very survival.

Russ wrote:
...public school students are having their faith undermined for at least 40 hours a week by godless teachers...

Russ wrote:
Good article, but I would also like to add that in addition to getting a bad education, public school students are having their faith undermined for at least 40 hours a week by godless teachers, godless kids, and a godless cirriculum. It's no wonder that we are losing 80 percent of kids from our churches as soon as they are old enough to decide for themselves.
We can't continue to fail our children by giving up our God given responsibility to make disciples of them. We simply can't delegate the raising of our children to a godless system.