{"id":2030,"date":"2009-04-16T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/16\/majority-of-christians-in-america-claim-that-the-holy-spirit-and-satan-are-symbols-and-not-living-entities.html"},"modified":"2017-03-12T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:48:21","slug":"majority-of-christians-in-america-claim-that-the-holy-spirit-and-satan-are-symbols-and-not-living-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/majority-of-christians-in-america-claim-that-the-holy-spirit-and-satan-are-symbols-and-not-living-entities.html","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Christians in America claim that the Holy Spirit and Satan are symbols and not living entities!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cannot make this stuff up. Can you believe this survey of Christians? It points out to me that most American “Christians” are not Christians at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You cannot even be a Christian without the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit so these people who call themselves Christians but deny the living entity of the Holy Spirit cannot be Christians. Likewise, you cannot believe the Bible and believe that Satan is not real. Furthermore, you cannot be a Christian if you believe that Jesus sinned. Therefore the only conclusion can be:<\/p>\n

At least sixty percent of “Christians” in America have no Holy Spirit and therefore could not be Christians
\nAt least sixty percent of “Christians” do not believe what the Bible teaches about Satan and therefore are total idiots or more likely not Christians
\nThirty-nine percent of “Christians” believe Jesus sinned or probably sinned that rules them out of the Christian faith<\/p>\n

Now lets talk about the illogical stupidity of those “Christians” who responded to this survey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They say the Holy Spirit and Satan are just symbols not living entities but the same people say they believe people can be under the influence of spiritual forces like demons or evil spirits?<\/p>\n

Half of those who agreed that the Holy Spirit is just a symbol believed that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches?? That can only\u00a0 mean one thing. A large percentage that claim they believe the Bible have never read or comprehended it. They are only repeating what some preacher told them.<\/p>\n

So is it any wonder that there are so many “Christian” heretics leading “Christians” in America when two-thirds of “Christians” in this survey make it clear that they are not Christian?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This survey just brings up a few reasons why many of those who call themselves “Christians” today are not Christian<\/strong>.<\/a> There are many other reasons that would eliminate many more. I doubt if much more than ten percent of those calling themselves “Christians” in America are really Christians. After the Rapture of the Church the removal of true Christians will hardly put a dent in the population of “Christians” in America.<\/p>\n

That is why I disagree with those who think the Rapture is the reason why America is not in Bible prophecy. America is\u00a0 in collapse right now because “Christians” in America are not Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most U.S. Christians don’t believe Satan, Holy Spirit exist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The majority of American Christians do not believe that Satan is a real being or that the Holy Spirit is a living entity, the latest Barna survey found.<\/p>\n

Nearly six out of ten Christians either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil,” the survey found.<\/p>\n

Forty percent strongly agreed with the statement while 19 percent of American Christians somewhat agreed.<\/p>\n

In contrast, about 35 percent of American Christians believe Satan is real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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interestingly, the majority of Christians believe a person can be under the influence of spiritual forces, such as demons or evil spirits, even though many of these same people believe Satan is merely a symbol of evil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Likewise, most Christians in the United States do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force. Fifty-eight percent strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Interestingly, about half (49 percent) of those who agreed that the Holy Spirit is only a symbol but not a living entity, agreed that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches. The Bible states that the Holy Spirit is God’s power or presence, not just symbolic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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More than one-fifth (22 percent) strongly agreed that Jesus Christ sinned when He lived on earth, with an additional 17 percent agreeing somewhat.<\/p>\n

Full Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I cannot make this stuff up. Can you believe this survey of Christians? It points out to me that most American “Christians” are not Christians at all. You cannot even be a Christian without the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit so these people who call themselves Christians but deny the living entity of 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":[46,3,98,45],"tags":[148,342,53,167,57,114,344],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-post-modern","category-the-church","tag-america","tag-apostasy","tag-bible-prophecy","tag-food-for-thought","tag-heresy","tag-logic","tag-rapture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-wK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}