UPDATE: Several readers report in the comments that no matter how you answer you’ll get 100%. I can’t be arsed to check that, but it seems to be the case. This is DUPLICITY on the part of Christians. But why would they do it? And shame on me for not checking!
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This test from Women.com (click on the screenshot) is supposed to determine how good a Christian you are based on questions from the Old and New Testaments. Take it: there are 12 questions. 
And what do you know? I ACED IT, getting all the questions right! I am The Ultimate Christian, as evidenced by my results below. I am washed in the blood of the Lamb, guaranteed to sit at the right hand of God.
Now of course we know about the surveys showing that atheists and agnostics know more about the Bible than do Christians, but somebody apparently forgot that when they designed this test. Also, it wasn’t that long ago when I read the whole Bible from cover to cover. Am I allowed to tell believers that I’ve been pronounced the ultimate Christian?
Can you resist taking this test? Give your results in the comments.
Wait, how can we BOTH be the ULTIMATE Christian?
Let me just humbly insinuate myself into your little group to make us into a holy trinity because I, too, am an ultimate Christian according to this survey. I’m covered if Pascal ever offers up a wager to me.
100%, though I guessed on the ‘first Jesus miracle’ question.
Me too. Wild guess on the miracle.
But some of the questions are obvious because the alternatives are demonstrably silly. Mexico City? Really? If they’d included Nazareth I might have been in trouble.
cr
(Of course, ALL the ‘correct’ answers are wrong too in actuality since none of those events ever really happened…)
Ditto:
I amused myself by retaking the test a few times, with varying answers. It came back 100% every time, except once when I marked only one or two answers correctly.
I took the test. I’m an Ultimate Christian: my score was 100%! I’m so happy.
I too am an ultimate christian. I strangely feel like I’ve become a member of a cult.
Yes! Now you, too, can go around using phrases like, “Praise the lord,” and “I’ll be praying for you.” 🙂
How about “God told me to do it!”
😉
cr
Ditto
I got 100 also. But by their description, i cannot be the ultimate Christian.
“You know all of the conventions and traditions, and try your hardest to follow them all!”
I don’t ever try my hardest, “to follow them all”. In fact, i don’t think i follow any of them except maybe the golden rule…and even that has its bad days!
Me too. 😀 Although I had to guess the last one. Never heard of L… (Spoiler protected)
I got 100% too! Hmmm… this starting to smell. They don’t show the “correct” answers.
100%: I always suspected my talents were wasted…
100% for me too, but I had compulsory religious knowledge lessons at school in the UK. I’m impressed that PCC got 100% having grown up, nominally, jewish.
Actually, Jews are the other (non-atheist) group that scores highest on knowledge of the bible. At an American Atheist convention, some years ago, a woman dressed head to toe, only eyes visible, let me take her quiz. I was to guess whether each quote came from the “Old Testament”, New Testament, or Koran. I got all the answers right, and she was truly surprised. She asked my religious upbringing and background: Jewish.
I got 100% but sheesh, you think the questions would be trickier. Did give this atheist/humanist a challenge.
It’s all feel good fluff. No wonder folks are abandoning the church in droves.
Looks like that kewl test always gives 100 %.
I did this test yesterday and got the inevitable atheist score of 100%, so I’ve been an Ultimate Christian longer than you lot!
Even I got 100% on this so it must actually be for the simple Christian, not Ultimate.
This test is bogus.
Well I got 100%. Then tried with obviously false answers then got 100% again 😉
We’re all ultimate christians I guess.
Same here – I got five wrong on purpose. 100%!! There IS A GOD!
I purposely answered several questions incorrectly. It did not give me 100%. It said that I was rusty.
I don’t know if they have updated the engine or if you didn’t answer enough questions wrong. I intentionally answered every question wrong and it came back at the and and reported that “my knowledge is a bit rusty but it is the journey that is important”.
Me, too.
The same with me.
I got 100% even though I KNOW at least one answer was wrong, because I had reflexively clicked on a wrong answer. They’re using this and other test to gain some information about us.
I thought it was a big fish that got Jonah.
In the King James version, the Old Testament says it was a “great fish” and the New Testament says it was a whale. Or vice versa. I forgot which. It’s been a long time, and I don’t feel like looking it up.
According to the lyrics of “Accentuate the Positive” it was Jonah and the Whale.
Johnny Mercer said it; I believe it; that settles it.
But according to “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” it was both:
“Oh, Jonah he lived in the whale.
Oh, Jonah he lived in the whale.
For he made his home in
That fish’s abdomen,
Oh, Jonah he lived in the whale.”
I just went though and purposely picked ALL the wrong answers. It did not give me a score instead saying my knowledge is “rusty” and to enjoy the journey ahead. Ha ha!
Me too.
Ditto.
I picked all but two wrong and got the same “rusty” answer.
I deliberately flunked the test & got:
“Your Knowledge is Rusty Um… the important thing is that Christianity is about the journey, and you’ve got quite a journey ahead of you.
RETAKE this quiz to get 100% or SHARE your score to see if your friends can do better!”
So I took the test again with all wrong answers & got the same result as above.
Ha! Thanks for sharing the atheist score. I also got all questions right, though I was brought up that way and the questions were dumb easy. I didn’t bother messing with it again in a deliberate way. Ha + yay!
If you tap the wrong answer nothing registers. So essentially, as far a I can tell, everyone ends up with a perfect score.
Noticed above comment so tried again and he’s right. I went from 100% to rusty.
Damn duplicitous Christians!
Why do you assume this test was the work of Christians? Couldn’t this be Medusa Redux?
Diabolus ex machina.
Ha!
There is actually a bit of catechism about some things having been created by the devil long before Jesus to discredit Christianity. Like other myths of virgin births.
Yeah, but if God knows everything she must have known that this would happen when she created the universe, so why try to lead us up the garden path? I’m even more confused now than I wuz before.
100% too, but it was a very easy test.
Apparently we are all ultimate Christians.
I’m as well a 100% good Christian! I guess you have to know your enemy to fight it. I went to Catholic school, but at age 10 someone gave me a book (in German) called Mecky in Schlaraffenland:
http://www.thienemann-esslinger.de/esslinger/buecher/buchdetailseite/mecki-im-schlaraffenland-isbn-978-3-480-22351-0/
and I wondered why God had not created such a world.
By the appearances of things, I am also an attractive white female Christian. I probably drive a late model SUV, and I spend way too much time on my hair an makeup.
100% Clearly this idiot has never heard of a “cultural Christian”. I would guess that Dawkins could get hundreds of these questions correct.
This quiz is so bogus – these questions are very basic. I’m an atheist and have never read the Bible (maybe a few verses here and there but less than 10% overall). I scored 100% and only sort of guessed on 2 questions.
I went back and picked all wrong answers and got a “your rusty” or something, not 100%. I think if you get 100% and retake then your result might be stored in cookies or internet cache. I clear my cookies and cache on every exit. Anyway, just a thought.
Aced it too! Too easy I think. Wonder if there’s a similar test for Muslims, or atheists.
The atheist test has only one question.
Jerry did a clickbait quiz on the internet, and what happened next shocked me!
I took it twice. Got 100 on my first go, then I took it again and purposely chose all wrong answers. My result: my knowledge is “rusty”.
Yes, if you carefully get every single answer wrong, then
“Your Knowledge is Rusty”
🙂
A complete set of basic knowledge is in me, I am the Ultimate.
Yet, I’m rusty.
But each time, I’m beautiful and blond. At least, I got that going for me.
I was given about 10 questions, deliberately answered them all wrong. Was told I’m ‘a bit rusty’ but wasn’t given a score.
I got them all correctly and wrote that on FB,adding that I am an atheist. How long before I get vilified?
Gee I got 100% too. It’s been 50 years since I looked at the danged thing. Our culture is swamped with that stuff.
Also an Ultimate Christian!
Well ,i took the test ,turns out my knowledge of the bible is rusty ,i could have sworn jesus was born in Mexico City .
Conclusion: any clod can be a perfect Christian.
No,no,no, Tulsa I think.
Well, a lapsed Christian should be able to answer most of these.
I took an optional Religion in Literature course in high school which read large sections of the Bible along with everything from Milton to Arthur C. Clarke. Anyone who got an A in this class would get most of these questions.
A genuine test would be of the kind conducted by BeliefNet that asked a lot about your personal beliefs. Everytime I’ve taken one of them, I’ve come out as Liberal Quaker. Although my high school had many Quakers, I’ve never been directly involved. (Secular) Buddhism, the principles of Unitarianism (although I have left the institution), are closer to what I think.
I scored 100%.
The good biblical knowledge I have just demonstrated is one reason why I am a staunch atheist.
I gave wrong answers throughout and was told I was ‘rusty’.
100% and then rusty. So deeply sad I wasted time and my life learning the right and wrong answers.
Ultimate Christian. But since it claimed to be a biblical test but included a question about Lent, I guess I’m an even better Christian than the setter.
Stuck at first question, couldn’t submit “none of the above”.
I too got 100% and am the ultimate Christian despite being brought up in an atheist household and being ignorant enough about Christianity that when I took English in university, had to buy a book about biblical allegory and allusions. I got the Classics ones immediately because of my own interests.
You cannot be the ultimate Christian. True Christians (TM) place the roll in the Over position.
God told me so.
cr
It was one of the original 10 Commandments but god whispered that part.
Me too!! A Bar Mitzvah boychick
I read somewhere that atheists on average are more knowledgeable about Christianity than Christians themselves.
Perhaps because atheists are on average more intelligent/educated and many had a religious upbringing anyway.
I have read that there are good data showing that the highest scorers on religious knowledge tests were Jews and atheists. So with two head starts …
Which is to say that atheists are leading the category of ‘people who have extensive knowledge which they know is false’.
😉
cr
Knowing is key.
I aced the test! (I’v been an atheist for about 25 years.)
‘Several readers report in the comments that no matter how you answer you’ll get 100%. I can’t be arsed to check that.’
I was told that my knowledge was rusty. So there are ways of not getting 100%.
HAHAHAHH! I love it! I too got 100%
The Wikipedian Oracle claims Julia Roberts was raised a Catholic but since 2010 is a practicing Hindu [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Roberts ].
Apparently the 100 % ultimate poster child for a True Christian.
100% score, 100% atheist, 0% trust in online quiz’s
The Julia Roberts data are amusing though
100%. Does this mean that I now have to start going to church?
The first image is Julia Roberts as she appeared in Steel Magnolias.
Wikipedia says this about Julia Roberts:
Roberts disclosed in a 2010 interview for Elle magazine that she believes in and practices Hinduism. Roberts is a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji). A picture of Neem Karoli Baba drew Roberts to Hinduism.
In September 2009, Swami Daram Dev of Ashram Hari Mandir in Pataudi, where Roberts was shooting Eat Pray Love, gave her children new names after Hindu gods: Laxmi for Hazel, Ganesh for Phinnaeus and Krishna Balram for Henry.
I am more ultimate that you other ultimates. I also was 100%.
Your Knowledge is Rusty. This is a way to fail this.
Oops! Bad proofreading. “There” not “this’ And forgot quote marks on the “Your knowledge is rusty”. Maybe moderator can fix that one and delete this one?
Actually, one of the questions has the wrong answer. Jesus was supposed to have been resurrected ON the third day not AFTER three days.
It’s obvious. Good Friday to Easter Sunday isn’t a period of 3 days.
I took the quiz before Jerry did, and got the same answer. Spoiler alert” I’m an Atheist and born a Jew. I’m seeing a pattern here.
A friend of mine once made a multiple choice bible quiz where all the answers were correct, even though the answers clearly contradicted each other. If I remember right there are four correct answers to “How many animals of each species went into the ark?”, something to do with clean and unclean beasts.
A lot of Facebook quizzes, especially the IQ tests, are like this. My inner conspiracy theorist wonders if they have some other dark purpose; e.g., is this how political strategists compile profiles on everyone?
In a word, yes.
All of these “quiz” come-ons offer you a test to feel superior, then reward you with congratulations. You get 100% if you get *most* of the answers right, which is not at all the point.
Your personal information is collected, starting with your IP address. Your willingness to participate (aka gullibility) marks you as a target for “offers” (e.g., information and disinformation).
Isn’t is nice that we are what we know….
“How many days after his crucifixion did Jesus rise from the dead?”
I know the answer they want, but none of the available answers match the Biblical text. I wonder if they read it themselves.
I’m an atheist, and a fully paid up member of Humanists UK, but apparently I’m also 100% Christian. How did that happen!
I deliberately got everything wrong. It said:
“Um…the important thing is that Christianity is about the journey, and you’ve got quite a journey ahead of you.”
100%. I’m thinking they want you to post this to Facebook to promote ad revenues.
Yawn.., I got 100%. I’d bet, out of 10 strong believing Christians that I know, maybe 5 or 6 would get a 100% on this.
You are better for knowing the bible as a scientist because the ribosome is split off from atom, and so on, to make eve, and Isis. If you want to feel gnostic, let Harold Bloom read it for you.
In 2011, the atomic structure of the eukaryotic 80S ribosome from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was obtained by crystallography. The model reveals the architecture of eukaryote-specific elements and their interaction with the universally conserved core. At the same time, the complete model of a eukaryotic 40S ribosomal structure in Tetrahymena thermophila was published and described the structure of the 40S subunit, as well as much about the 40S subunit’s interaction with eIF1 during translation intimilarly, the eukaryotic 60S subunit structure was also determined from Tetrahymena thermophila in complex with eIF6.
Ribosomes are organelles that synthesize Proteins are needed for many cellular functions such as repairing damage or directing chemiree free rib floating.
Jesus was a metaphysician. He worked for Rome in my opinion. He also worked for Jews. He was like a bayman with two woodstoves old man. Peanut butter and jam.
Apparently you can fail. I went through and chose the bottom answer each time, and this was my result: “Your Knowledge is Rusty – Um…the important thing is that Christianity is about the journey, and you’ve got quite a journey ahead of you.”
On a second run-through I got 100%.
This proves that people are still following the norms and values of the faith, even if they ‘think’ they are not, things could have turned out differently had they been living under another faith culture and country.
I too got 100%, an Ultimate Christian with all the amenities pertaining thereunto, like life after death. So there. Just call me a back-slider.
100%
Really, doesn’t one just learn this stuff by growing up in the US? It’s hard to avoid most of this lore.
(I’m sure that’s true of other countries as well; ours is just a bit more Christianity-saturated I think.)
Richard Dawkins has noted that for a God-inspired book, the Bible has very little, if any at all, useful health advice, such as washing your hands before preparing meals.
Mark 9:14-29 has a young man with grand mal epilepsy since childhood, causing injury with his rolling into fires and bodies of water during the seizures, being ‘cured’ by Jesus casting out the spirit ‘causing’ the seizures.
And which was later misused by the Inquisition as a sign of congress with Satan, as an indication of being a witch, and justifying being burned at the stake.
How can anyone give any credence to anything in the Bible?
I answered them all wrong deliberately & got this message
Um…the important thing is that Christianity is about the journey, and you’ve got quite a journey ahead of you.
My knowledge is rusty, however I did give incorrect answers
Some years ago a gentle dispute occurred between two co worker (one Protestant, the other Catholic) about whether something (forget now) was in the Bible.
Who do you think they asked? The office atheist.
I don my posing pouch and goat mask, grasp a goblet of baby’s blood, and dive in there, regardless of the stench.
Deliberately answered everything as wrongly as I could, and got a “rusty”. And an itch in my posing pouch – a bit of fur coming off the goat mask, I think. I hope.
A hard, evangelizing atheist for 40 years and now I am the ultimate Christian.
Years ago I ran a D&D game where one of the points of satire was “Ultimate -” (after the professional wrestler “Ultimate Warrior). Guess I missed one!