Does it really surprise you that a larger number of people than that go to church? Would it surprise you that a number of “Christian Leaders” don’t hold a Biblical view even though they might deny it if asked straight about it.
How is it impacting our nation. At every level from the family, the churches and government. Issues such as integrity, accountability and dedication to the ideals of truth have slipped away and as a whole no longer exist except under the pressure of the “praise of men”. Barna writes it this way.
The firm’s studies have also pointed out that a person’s worldview is primarily shaped and is firmly in place by the time someone reaches the age of 13
That means the formative years are being dominated by anything but the truth. Here is an article that writes about Barna’s results that you might find interesting.
Barna Group asked Americans some pointed questions back in March to determine the worldview of Christians: Whether the world view is Biblical or Secular.As a base, Barna set the standards as this:
For the purposes of the survey, a “biblical worldview” was defined as believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic; a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or do good works; Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; and God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today. In the research, anyone who held all of those beliefs was said to have a biblical worldview.
These same questions were asked in 1995, 2000, and 2005. Astoundingly, only 9% of Americans have a Biblical Worldview. But the thing that makes me cry (I’m not talking crocodile tears here, either, I’m talking the nose-honking kind of sobbing) is that less than one out of five born again Christians have a Biblical worldview. Born again Christians were catagorized as those who believe that Jesus died on the cross for the sin of the world, rose again, they confessed their sins, accepted what He did for them and were going to Heaven when they died because of Jesus Christ.
These statistics have remained basically flat since 1995 with just a few percentage points fluctuation.
Only one in three American adults believe there is such a thing as absolute Truth, and only 46% of born again Christians believe in absolute moral truth.
via » Christians’ Worldview Has Changed – Blogger News Network.
