(Photo: Flickr / Hoyasmeg)A new thriller will focus on a Roman centurion's life following Christ's resurrection.
Posted on 04/14/2017 1:05:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One in four people who identify themselves as "Christians" in England say that they believe that the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ did not happen, according to a new poll.
(Photo: Flickr / Hoyasmeg)A new thriller will focus on a Roman centurion's life following Christ's resurrection.
ComRes conducted the survey of 2,010 British adults by telephone for 10 days at the beginning of February, asking them a series questions about their beliefs on the Bible and Easter. BBC local radio commissioned the survey for Palm Sunday, measuring the responses of the "General Public," "All Christians," and "Active Christians," which refers to Christians who attend religious services at least once per month.
When it comes to the specific event that Christians around the world will celebrate on Easter Sunday, Christ's resurrection, half of the general public replied they do not believe that it happened, as did a quarter of people who identified as Christians.
Seventeen percent of all respondents believed that the resurrection occurred exactly as it is described in the Bible, while 31 percent of Christian respondents and 57 percent of active Christians agreed. Nine percent of non-religious respondents said they believed in the resurrection and, 1 percent of whom said they believed the Bible version.
Exactly half of those surveyed did not believe in resurrection whatsoever.
"To ask an adult to believe in the resurrection the way they did when they were at Sunday school simply won't do and that's true of much of the key elements of the Christian faith," said Lorraine Cavanagh, the acting general secretary for Modern Church, which promotes a liberal Christian theology.
An "adult faith requires that it be constantly questioned, constantly re-interpreted," she said, highlighting the progression of science, and intellectual and philosophical thought.
Those polled were also asked whether or not they believed in some kind of life after death. Forty-six percent of said they did while another 46 percent said they did not. Options of life after death in the survey included reincarnation, Heaven, and Hell, and others like "we go to a parallel universe/the astral plane of existence."
More women than men were likely to believe in life after death, 56 to 36 percent, the survey found. Twenty percent of nonreligious people also said they believed in a form of life after death.
Yet about one third of Christians surveyed (31 percent) stated they did not believe in life after death at all, while approximately one fifth (21 percent) of non-Christians said they did.
Anglican Bishop of Manchester David Walker welcomed the survey, calling it "important" and that it proves "that many British people, despite not being regular churchgoers, hold core Christian beliefs."
"Alongside them it finds surprisingly high levels of religious belief among those who follow no specific religion, often erroneously referred to as secularists or atheists," he said.
Linda Woodhead, a Lancaster University professor at the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion said the survey "confirms that Britain is now split down the middle between those who call themselves Christian and those who say no religion."
"[B]ut this is not a simple division between religious and secular," she said.
Perhaps surprisingly, the poll also found that younger British Christians, ages 18 to 34, were more likely to attend church regularly than Christians between the ages of 45 and 64.
Then they aren’t Christians.
1 in 4 what?
Well...then 25% they polled aren’t Christians.
#fakeChristians
“. . .if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” (I Cor. 15:14)
How can they be? If you don’t believe in the resurrection then being a Christian is pointless.
I would like to ask the 25% on what authority do they call themselves Christians? They might as well be Unitarians.
If you toss in a UFO they will believe it.
"For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God".
"If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith."
Everyone has always known that dead people don't rise. There's nothing "modern" or "adult" about the notion. People put faith in something or they have no faith in anything. Paul knew this and yet he believed
So what can you say about so-called Christians who don't put their faith in God?
It’s simple: They are not Christians.
That headline is hideously inaccurate. If one does not believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ one has no right calling oneself a Christian. EVERY single Christian in the world believes in the resurrection. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. 100%!
How exactly can you be a Christian if you do not believe in Christ
Trust in the Ressurection is one of the key cornerstones of Christianity. If you dont believe in it, you cant be a Christian.
It's like their saying that they're Tories not because they have faith in Conservative programs and politicians but because they like and trust Labour even less (or vice versa).
The poll should break the numbers down according to how often the respondents go to church. They do have a group of "active Christians" 93% of whom believe in the resurrection.
The quarter of the people who call themselves Christians who don't believe in the resurrection may also be the same quarter of Christians who, according to the poll, believe in reincarnation.
A lot of people are just ‘cultural Christians’, which just means they haven’t yet converted to another religion.
Survey Finds One in Four Britons Who Claim to be Christian are Heretics
Corrected the title.
Yes. There are certain non-negotiable beliefs in order to be considered a Christian. The Resurrection of Christ is on the top of that list.
If you call yourself a Christian while not believing in the Resurrection it is the same as believing in the redistribution of wealth while calling yourself a conservative.
In other news one in four British vegetarians enjoy frequent steak dinners. I’d prefer not to discuss what one in four British virgins do.
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