{"id":1909,"date":"2009-03-13T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/13\/this-christian-worldview-survey-indicates-christians-do-not-even-believe-christian-essentials.html"},"modified":"2017-03-12T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:48:03","slug":"this-christian-worldview-survey-indicates-christians-do-not-even-believe-christian-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/this-christian-worldview-survey-indicates-christians-do-not-even-believe-christian-essentials.html","title":{"rendered":"This Christian worldview survey indicates &#8220;Christians&#8221; do not even believe Christian essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often people ask how many Americans will be taken when the Rapture occurs. If this Christian wordview survey is any indication of true believers in America it is not as many as most think.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A biblical worldview, as defined by the Barna study, is believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is completely 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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what does this survey really tell us? <strong>It indicates that only one in 200 young people believe in the essentials of the faith. Less than one in ten adults believe in the essentials<\/strong>.<strong> Less than one out of five that claim to be born again Christians believe in the essentials of the faith. Even one half of the &#8220;born again Christians&#8221; think they can earn their way into heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What can we deduct from this? The main thing I can deduct is that <strong>most<\/strong> who claim to be &#8220;Christians&#8221; are Christians in name only, they are not really Christians at all. <strong>The survey also makes it clear that America and Christians have totally lost the next generation thanks to public school and media indoctrination and parents and churches not teaching their children in the way they should go.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I also find it ironic that most Americans consider themselves to be Christian and say they know the contents of the Bible but the survey claims that less than one out of ten Americans demonstrate such knowledge through their actions. <strong>I would go even further and say most of those who claim they know the Bible are liars. They do not know the Bible<\/strong>. Anyone who knows the Bible and attends church Bible studies knows that most who consider themselves Christians haven&#8217;t a clue about the contents of the Bible. But most &#8220;Christians&#8221; do not even attend Bible studies and in more and more churches any meaningful teaching is not taught from the pulpits either. Christianity in general is biblically illiterate and that is why they do not have a Christian worldview. Therefore, not understanding the fundamental truths of Christian belief they also cannot be true Christians.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/survey-less-than-1-percent-of-young-adults-hold-biblical-worldview-37415\/\">Survey: Less Than 1 Percent of Young Adults Hold Biblical Worldview| Christianpost.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Less than one percent of the youngest adult generation in America has a biblical worldview, found a new study examining the changes in worldview among Christians and the overall U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>The Mosaic generation, those between the ages of 18 and 23, \u201crarely\u201d have a biblical worldview as defined by The Barna Group. The research data found that less than one-half of one percent of Mosaics have a biblical worldview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A biblical worldview, as defined by the Barna study, is believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is completely 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.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/survey-less-than-1-percent-of-young-adults-hold-biblical-worldview-37415\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research shows that only nine percent of all American adults have a biblical worldview, which although significantly higher than that of the Mosaic generation is still a small proportion of the total population.<\/p>\n<p>Among \u201cborn again Christians,\u201d the study found that they are twice as likely as the average adult to have a biblical worldview. However, that still amounted to no more than about one out of five (19 percent) born again Christians, a small minority, the study pointed out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/survey-less-than-1-percent-of-young-adults-hold-biblical-worldview-37415\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often people ask how many Americans will be taken when the Rapture occurs. If this Christian wordview survey is any indication of true believers in America it is not as many as most think. &#8220;A biblical worldview, as defined by the Barna study, is believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is completely accurate [&hellip;]<\/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":[46,3,98,45,326],"tags":[148,342,167,51,344,150,54],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-post-modern","category-the-church","category-total-nonsense","tag-america","tag-apostasy","tag-food-for-thought","tag-postmodern","tag-rapture","tag-teaching","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-uN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","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=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}