Tim Tebow & Biblical Illiteracy

Tim Tebow, above, quarterback for the University of Florida Gators football team, played in the national championship game last week with eye-black on his face. The eye-black had "John" on one strip and "3:16" on another.

There, of course, is all manner of debate over this move from whether or not he should be proselytizing in a football game to 'whatever happened to the rainbow man?' I ran across this article today though that takes on a different controversy, biblical illiteracy.

Biblical Literacy Reaches New Low: Why "John 3:16" being the top Google search isn't something to celebrate.

It seems that the morning after the game, the number on search on Google was "John 3:16." What exactly does that mean for biblical literacy in the world?

The author says this:

So what does it mean? We've talked about biblical illiteracy before. Entire books have been written about it, all for the sake of new ministry methodology and even a new homiletic. But I suspect most methodologies and theories still had a working presupposition—whether they would admit or not—that there was a line of understanding and knowledge that most people had already crossed—one that thought, Well, they don't know the complexity of soteriology and ecclesiology and pneumatology, but they probably know Noah and Moses and of course, Jesus. And surely they at least know Genesis 1–3 and Psalm 23 and John 3:16. But the line has moved. Again. And that's something to consider on this Friday, January 9, 2009, the day John 3:16 was the top search item at 8:00am.