(04-10-2019 07:13 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  That's a broad brush there isn't it? I attended Catholic schools and we read, dissected and re-read the NT all before the 8th grade. There was infinitely more focus on the NT than the OT.

Most only focus on the 4 Gospel and a few chapters of Acts. That is what most denominations teach on and avoid most of the NT books which are Epistles written directly to Gentiles and the churches teaching church doctrine.

The 4 Gospels are all about Jesus and the Jews, His message to them and the Kingdom He was offering them that they rejected.

The "church" and Christianity was not really born until after the 4 gospels in the book of Acts. And the Church did not transition from Jews to Gentiles until the midway point of Acts.

Romans, Ephesians, Galatians, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Colossians, Philippians, 1st and 2nd Timothy, 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, Titus, Philemon, these are the books written specifically to the Gentiles teaching Church doctrine. As Gentile believers living in the church age, those books are SPECIFICALLY written to us.

Yet these are the books many Catholic and Protestant denominations mostly avoid and rarely teach doctrine from. Most Christians today are biblically illiterate outside of the Gospels.