It's not WHAT you know...
...it's Who you know. Or so goes the old cliché. But as we like to say around here, just because it's a cliché doesn't mean it's not true. So keep it in mind if you decide to take the "Ultimate Bible Quiz."
When I saw Jim's post about the quiz, I couldn't resist taking it, albeit with some trepidation. Granted, forty years of regular attendance in a Baptist Sunday School (that includes time off for bad behavior through several years in college) and reading the Bible cover-to-cover in each of the last fifteen years should equip me to handle the kinds of trivia that one typically finds in these online quizzes, but I also frequently have trouble finding my car keys or remembering the name of a person I met five minutes earlier.
The real concern I have with a Bible quiz is that someone taking it might try to read more into the results than is warranted. The fact of the matter is that knowing the Bible inside and out doesn't make you a better person or even a better Christian, at least in the ways we humans define "better." Sure, God desires that we strive to know Him better in every way possible -- intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and even physically as we experience His sovereign power in the created world that surrounds us. And the Bible is a primo source of good information to help us achieve that knowledge. But we'll never know Him fully in this part of life, and He's fine with that as long as we have Him.
I got a good score on the quiz, one that pleased me intellectually. But every Christian is at a different place in his or her spiritual journey, and a score on this quiz is so irrelevant in every important respect as to make it laughable. In fact, the only quiz that counts is one that has only one question, and it's a "yes or no" question at that. If you really want to know where you stand with respect to the thing that God cares about most, this is the quiz to take: