Why the need for a bible of contemporary religious knowledge?
1. The clergy find it difficult to sermonize over passages of Scripture written in pre-technological civilizations and cultures.
2. Parishioners are dwindling, I believe of the difficulty for people in our generation to understand explanations and accounts of events occurring thousands of years ago. The rise of science is also part of this causal effect: people just can't understand the events as purported.
3. Nevertheless, there's a Christian message that has endured for these many centuries that the many witnesses will attest to.
Format of the book:
1. Present the means by which religious knowledge is ascertained today. In the church setting, the Eucharist or Mass is commonplace to provide the aura whereby the power of God is experienced by churchgoers. There are innumerable ways that God has communicated with man as reported by the Christian mystics.
1a. Means of getting in touch with "one's still small voice" in the Jewish tradition is also a vehicle to experience God. These personal experiences are detailed in William James' book, Varieties of the Religious Experience written a century ago.
2. Present topically an individual's account where God has provided direction and inspiration to achieve God's will in his or her own life. These will be edited to permit vocal reading of such accounts in church services--edited for literary and poetical purposes to maintain the solemnity during which these are read in Christian churches.
Withal, these passages of personal experience in which God has led mankind will attest to the continual testimony of religious faith in human existence.
3. A cross reference of items and persons will form the third portion of the opus.
additions: 12/ /19
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