Very interesting link:
I am an evangelical who is deeply disturbed by these findings. And I don’t doubt the accuracy.
We have a tremendous opportunity to pray for an Awakening and to teach our brothers and sisters in Christ truth.
Both are needed.
78% of Christians confused Jesus with a creation? Yikes.
All sin separates us from God.
The Holy Spirit is not a person.
Wish they would of included a question as to how many of respondents actually read the Bible everyday and pray. People including myself (as an early Christian) went to church a couple of times a week, but didn’t have a daily intake of God’s Word. I can see how personal opinions and not actual Scripture proof could work there way into people answers to these questions. IMHO daily Scripture reading and prayer is essential for every Christian.
If you don’t study your Bible you won’t know what to believe.
Act 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
It sounds like they used a pretty loose definition for who they label as "Evangelical". I presume they would also categorize some Christians this way even if they don't specifically identify as that (i.e., Evangelical Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, etc.).
Well personally -
I have issues with most so called “churches”. They almost always end up focusing on the internal politics or some level of minutiae rather than the Gospel. So I’m a Bible reader (listener on my 1hr daily transit) and not a church goer.
The Trinity has always confused me since I was a Kid. I understand the idea and theory, but I struggle with the whole 3 separate = 1 idea. Especially when some verses seem to indicate strongly that the Son is subservient to the Father. I accept it on faith and faith alone - because otherwise it makes my head hurt.
Ping
Sin is a state of being: the wages of sin is death. We all inherited sin and death.
Infants are sinners; infants are mortal. It has nothing to do with a specific, sinful deed.
I have taught God has two questions for each person he creates.
1) Do you want me and my gift of salvation?
2) How much of me do you want? (There is no limit in this relationship on God’s part.)
I always keep in mind how much mammon is worshiped in the church and remember Jesus’ prophecy in Matt 25. The judgment of Christians is not how much faith we have, how much we prayed or read the bible, or how many we witnessed Christ too. We are judged on what we did or did not do for the least of these...the hungry, sick, imprisoned, the stranger and the naked...the poor among us. There will be no excuses to save the goats and the church has lots of goats, just like the rich religious man and Lazarus at his gate...his religion didn’t save because God didn’t own his heart.
A lot of heresies in that article. I wasn’t aware of so many fallings away from the truth of the Bible. (The unchanged Bible, that is.)
‘A majority of US adults (58%) said that worshiping alone or with one’s family is a valid replacement for regularly attending church. Only 30 percent disagree.’
Count me in that majority!
I have a lot of trouble with flawed church doctrine. Somewhere up the scholarly food chain something went wrong in doctrine, particularly tainting by leftists.