I agree. You seem to have missed what I was saying about it tho. Can't gage a group's full belief about a statement by what it says. One would assume that most adults generally believe the statement of their church or they would go elsewhere. Young people don't have as much choice in the matter.
Additionally, the survey polled individual Christians, not churches relative to their belief statement.
Right.
The survey notes the trend in differences in beliefs between the historic Christian faith and younger Christians (there is an earlier survey and Barna has related data going back decades).
I looked for an older study, but couldn't find it. Since the company was started in 1984, it's possible they have data going back a couple of decades, but we're not talking a lot of decades unless they used data gathered from others. "Historic" may be a reach, but there's no way to know based on the information we've been given.
The Barna survey,in January 2007, asked self-professed, "born again" Christians several basic/foundational questions relative to the historic Christian faith.
The answers to these questions revealed a trend away from the biblical, historic Christian faith. It is really that simple.
When the responders base their beliefs, lifestyle and worship practices on something other than Scripture, the resulting religion is something different than Christianity...Again, it is really that simple.