Jeopardy Contestants... The Lord's Prayer... It Didn't Go Well (soul, hell, church)
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What conclusions did your poker buddy's come to on this very weird and disturbing assessment that just because the contestants didn't have biblical knowledge, that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. It just gets stupider and stupider.
I’m not sure why but this ^ reminded me of the two Christian guys who were engaged in a conversation about the Bible. One guy was dubious about the other’s knowledge of the Bible and so he asked the other guy if he knew the Lord’s Prayer.
“Of course I know the Lord’s Prayer”, was the reply.
Unconvinced, the first guy threw out a challenge to the other guy and said: “I bet you ten dollars that you can’t recite the Lord’s Prayer”.
And so, the second guy cleared his throat and began to recite: “As I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.”
The first guy was rather taken aback. He said: “Man, I honestly didn’t think that you knew the Lord’s Prayer,” as he took out his wallet and reluctantly handed the other guy a ten-dollar bill.
What this VIDEO CLIP is telling us is that some Jeopardy contestants are fairly ignorant of Bible tropes.
Now it may just be that people don't have the Lord's Prayer memorized specifically in KJV/Elizabethan English because they are increasingly dismissive of Christianity as relevant to their daily lives.
And THAT may just have something to do with the church failing in its declared mission to "reach" people.
So it says a great deal, I think, not about people in general, but about the church itself, its leadership, and what it chooses to teach.
I like that the answer was given to the contestants. The answer to the prayer is giving them their daily bread and the prayer is summed up in forgiveness or the lack there of.
It would have conveyed the wrong message if one of the contestants had chosen to answer the question and answered it wrong according to the rules of their game. If that had happened then hopefully the correct answer would have outweighed the loss in maximized gain outside of their game.
What do you think the Lord is telling the country in this?
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BTW, this isn't the first time I've yelled at the TV when Jeopardy contestants didn't know the answer to what I thought was a simple question.
If there is a message - these are supposed to be the educated people in society, and they don't know the basics of the basics about His Word.
To me it's another indicator of why this country is heading in the direction its heading. The majority ignore of people ignore Him - so He has removed Himself from our midst and allowed us on the road to self-destruction.
As far as Jeopardy itself - even the staff was embarrassed at the entire episode.
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