Posted on 07/11/2008 3:44:21 AM PDT by Soliton
When we look at the numbers, we wonder where these people go to church. Though the survey included many others, here I will focus on the Evangelical (EV) and Mainline (ML) Protestant churches.
Absolutely Certain Belief in God: EV Protestants - 90 percent; ML Protestants - 73 percent.
Literal Interpretation of Scripture: EV Protestants - 59 percent; ML Protestants - 29 percent.
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Mainline churches have flatlined!
When churches become democracies they die
It looks like both have. If you don’t believe in the literal translation of the Bible, well forget it. You are done for. John 1:1.
I have posted this many times. Expositor Walter Scott interprets this scripture to mean that in the last age of the church, Jesus is NOT in the typical church. I am very opposed to abortion. But as a political issue of overturning or banning abortion, I tend to be very disinterested. For a abortion to have traction as a political issue, it needs to have traction as a spiritual issue. There are too many churches who may oppose abortion, but rarely if at all give this abomination the spotlight it deserves in regular and continued sermons. The outrage at the abomination of abortion rarely burns if all in our typical churches.
I am not a religious man anymore, but I am apalled at abortion on demand simply on justice grounds. Why don’t the churches excommunicate abortion proponents?
That is a very perceptive question. The MSM and liberals would brainwash us to believe that the state is vulnerable to an invasion by the "church". But in these last days it is the reverse that is true, the "typical" church is more about politics both petty and larger than it is a committment to those things spiritual that those who have eyes to see and ears to hear hold most dearly.
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