{"id":1669,"date":"2009-01-13T23:56:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/13\/the-buffet-morons-of-our-postmodern-churches.html"},"modified":"2009-01-14T19:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T00:41:03","slug":"the-buffet-morons-of-our-postmodern-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/the-buffet-morons-of-our-postmodern-churches.html","title":{"rendered":"The buffet morons of our postmodern churches."},"content":{"rendered":"

This article tells me that many Americans claiming to be Christians are really biblical illiterate Laodiceans. Of course true Christians should already be aware that few people these days claiming to be Christians have any in-depth knowledge of the Bible.<\/p>\n

Look at the figures in this article on people under the age of twenty-five. The article says 82 percent of young people<\/strong> believe in smorgasbord religion. If these people are the future of this nation I do not have to say God help us because He won’t. Any wonder why\u00a0our nation is going down the tubes?<\/p>\n

Those who pick and choose their own truth to believe are typical postmodern religious morons. Don’t confuse them with Christians. You might also consider how church teachers and preachers and parents could be doing their jobs in religious education when 4\/5 of the youth have buffet religion. The truth is they are not bringing up their kids in the way they should go. Some might blame the brainwashing of our youth in our public schools and of course there is plenty of blame to be put there, but then why do Christians continue to allow the state to corrupt their kids? The Seneca Indians in this area are raising a bigger stink with state government over cigarette taxes then Christians do over the life and soul of their own children.<\/p>\n

Most Americans Pick and Choose Religious Beliefs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among those who describe themselves as Christians, for instance, nearly half believe that Satan does not exist, one-third say that Jesus sinned<\/strong> when He was on earth, two-fifths say they do not have a responsibility to share the Gospel with others<\/strong>, and one-quarter dismiss the idea that the Bible is accurate in all of its teachings \u2013 beliefs that are contrary to most church teachings.<\/p>\n

George Barna, founder of The Barna Group, commented on the findings saying that a growing number of people are serving as their own \u201ctheologian-in-residence,\u201d resulting in Americans embracing an \u201cunpredictable and contradictory body of beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed out that millions of people who consider themselves as Christians who believe the Bible is totally accurate in all its teaching also contend at the same time that Jesus Christ sinned.<\/p>\n

Others, the researcher noted, say they believe they will receive eternal salvation because they confessed their sins and accepted Christ as their savior, but they also believe that a person can do enough good works to earn eternal salvation.<\/p>\n

Americans today, Barna observed, are \u201cmore likely to pit a variety of non-Christian options against various Christian-based views.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has resulted in an abundance of unique worldviews based on personal combinations of theology drawn from a smattering of world religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam as well as secularism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Leading the pack of pick and choose your religious beliefs are people under the age of 25. More than four out of five (82 percent)<\/strong> of them say they develop their own combination of beliefs rather than adopt a set offered by a church.<\/p>\n

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This article tells me that many Americans claiming to be Christians are really biblical illiterate Laodiceans. Of course true Christians should already be aware that few people these days claiming to be Christians have any in-depth knowledge of the Bible. Look at the figures in this article on people under the age of twenty-five. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,18,98,45],"tags":[148,342,57,51,123,54],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-emergingemergent-church","category-post-modern","category-the-church","tag-america","tag-apostasy","tag-heresy","tag-postmodern","tag-puplic-schools","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-qV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}