The UK Bible Students Website History Corner
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According to the account in the film incorrect by the way besides the two brothers, there was only mother and father, the admonition always struck me as unnecessary. Only four people on the entire planet and Cain is worried about being overheard!
The present generation of Britons have honed their impressions of the Bible and Christianity largely under the influence of the visual media. Year on year, British culture loses its honoured connection with the real, majestic story of the Bible.
I don’t mean Bible stories,
the tales told only to children. True and useful they may be, but they are
often simplified to make an elementary point. The Bible is for adults, too. But
the proliferation of secular ideas tends to undermine practical Christian ideals
and portrays a view of religion and religious people as silly and unworthy
of respect. Time was in this land when a working knowledge of the Bible was the
ordinary inheritance of the citizen, and the precepts and principles of the
Scriptures informed behaviour and the social consensus. We are all the poorer
for the change. (AP)
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