Can’t help but wonder how they decide who is an “evangelical”?
If you don’t believe in the divinity of Christ can you say you’re a Christian? Can you be an evangelical if you aren’t a Christian?
The survey itself says this:
Evangelicals were defined by LifeWay Research as people who strongly agreed with the following four statements:
The Bible is the highest authority for what I believe.
It is very important for me personally to encourage non-Christians to trust Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Jesus Christ’s death on the cross is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of my sin.
Only those who trust in Jesus Christ alone as their Savior receive God’s free gift of eternal salvation.
To my mind, someone who affirms strongly the above propositions but who then does not accept the divinity of Jesus is, to say the least, one very confused "Christian."
As pointed out by some posting on this thread not just reading it, John 1defeines Who Jesus -The Word made flesh Who dwelt among us, named God With Us by Old Testament prophets- is.
ONLY The Righteous God could make the perfect righteous sacrifice to atone for fallen man's sin nature. ONLY God can convey His Righteousness to a sinner, to cleanse his soul/spirit. If someone claims to be a Christian but does not believe The Word, they are not what they are claiming to be. We are seeing more and more of 'them' in these last days. They will soon witness the great departure of those who believe God and have been redeemed by the Perfect Righteousness stamped upon their spirit by the only One Who can do it.