Most christians don't know what's written in the Bible. That's a loaded statement.

Have heard more than one for-real Christian - who knows what's written upon those 1,200-some pages - say about coming across something he didn't know about.  After ten or so reads/reviews, and wondering, "How on earth did i miss that?"  It's one thing for a thirty year-old to make such an exclamation - but so another for a gray-head.  Another thirty years rolls by - along with a several more re-reads, and still wondering, "After all this time..."  A matter of just one iddy-bitty word, overlooked, through some 1/2 century's worth of reading at home, during sunday school, midweek study, and whenever among friends.  

Had assumed these oversights on my part, was just lack of brains, (didn't go to college) but when various preachers, who DID attend (and majored in math, or old languages, or whatever other hard stuff) are surprised at having overlooked a word, or a phrase...  Anyway, this time, another verse, (Deuteronomy 7:22) to back up something that's been brewing.  How does an area about the square milage of New Jersey..?  But that's for another post.

These days, wherever i hear, or read of, some Bible-basher going on about how most  Christians  don't know what's contained in the Bible, am not surprised to read basher's claims,  "I have read cover to cover [double-digit] amount of times."    (Can't help but to start humming, "things that make ya go, hhmm, hhmm, yeah, things that make ya go, hhmm...")  Then comes the predictable charge of genocide.

All those poor people, even gramdma - and her kitty cat, too.   Funny, how the same ones spouting the "Trust the science" mantra, are overlooking an area of science, called archeology.  Hundreds of tiny charred skeletons - how many additional hundreds, thousands, simply had melded into the (dry) dust - over these past thirty-some centuries?   Come to think of it, back then, was there more rainfall in the area?  Sort of getting off topic :/  

Moving right along, why is it, these Bible- mocking self-appointed experts aren't making any noise about the very clear warnings, God gave to the conquerors - of these baby-killing pagans?  Think it's in Exodus, where God warns the Hebrews that if they follow other gods, they will likewise end up "vomited out."  Not sure where that one is, but Deuteronomy 6:15 ends with, "destroy thee from off the face of the earth."  Sounds clear enough 😮

About willing to bet, these Bible-bashers are in fact, iq smart; they write long articles, quoting chapter and verse - probably drafted while on their 10 o'clock coffee breaks.  Articles designed to confuse, to intimidate.  Though don't  know for sure, but cannot help but to suspect, different versions are quoted throughout - here an NIV, there an ESV.  They're not the same; not even the New King James...  A time or two at the old church, where Pastor read from the NKJV, had followed along with the regular King James, yeah, the two versions didn't quite say the same.  As in a game of horse shoes, "almost" doesn't get it.

Anyway, aside of that rock concert, before the mountain, it was the belleyaching, along the way there.  Though, who wouldn't beef about having no water - yet, earlier, they'd been carping about the food, (which tasted "like wafers made with honey."  Exodus 16:31b)  Perhaps, they were also miffed about having to gather it early in the morning.  Did anyone else, besides me, miss the reality, of a 55 year old, with lower back issues, (from years of slavery?) had likely had not been able to gather as much as a 25 year old (with only the onset of back trouble - from enough years of brick-yard abuse)? Yet, what the elder was able to acquire, was enough.

Anyway, head-knowledge and heart knowledge, while both vital, aren't necessarily the same.  

"And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee."  Deuteronomy 7:22

"Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth."  Deuteronomy 6:14-15

"And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.  And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome : but the noise of them that sing do I hear."  Exodus 32:17-18 (yes 17-18 for both)

"And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.  And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating."  Exodus 16:17-18