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Survey Finds Most American Christians Are Actually Heretics
The Federalist ^ | OCTOBER 10, 2016 | G. Shane Morris

Posted on 10/18/2016 3:08:25 PM PDT by Brookhaven

Evangelicals Didn’t Even Study for This Test

...this year, LifeWay used more stringent criteria for evangelical faith, as defined by some group called the National Association of Evangelicals. Only participants who called the Bible their highest authority, said personal evangelism is important, and indicated that trusting in Jesus’ death on the cross is the only way of salvation, were labeled “evangelical.” They totaled 586 survey-takers.

Everyone expected them to perform better than most Americans. No one expected them to perform worse. Seven in ten evangelicals—more than the population at large—said that Jesus was the first being God created. Fifty-six percent agreed that “the Holy Spirit is a divine force but not a personal being.” They also saw a huge increase in evangelicals (28 percent, up from 9 percent) who indicated that the Third Person of the Trinity is not equal with God the Father or Jesus, a direct contradiction of orthodox Christianity.

As before, it’s really the contradictory answers, not the outright heresies, that should most concern us. By definition, the evangelicals in this survey believed that “only those who trust in Jesus Christ alone as their Savior receive God’s free gift of eternal salvation.” Yet nearly half agreed that “God accepts the worship of all religions including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.”

Former Newsday religion reporter Kenneth Briggs recently told Religion News Service that the faith he finds in “mega-type churches” is a “Bible-less,” “alternative version of Christianity.” Scripture, he says, has become “a museum exhibit, hallowed as a treasure but enigmatic and untouched.”

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TOPICS: General Discusssion; Theology
KEYWORDS: christianity; christians; discipleship; doctrine; evangelicals
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To: Rashputin
Take it up with boatbums.

No.

The fight is with YOU!

301 posted on 10/23/2016 12:17:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot

You’ve posted a lot of nice pictures of molehills.

When can I expect to see the mountains?


302 posted on 10/23/2016 12:19:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot
On?

In??

I sure wish those KJV ‘translators’ had been consistent!!

http://biblehub.com/greek/epi_1909.htm

303 posted on 10/23/2016 12:22:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot
Today, we have "christian pastors" in churches who, promote witchcraft, sodomy, New age, sexual immorality, and a whole host of other worldly practices, and their congregations have no problem with it.

Aren't these the same problems found in churches that the angel told John to write to??

304 posted on 10/23/2016 12:26:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot
Question:

Does the KJV that you are using right now have the Apocrypha in it?

305 posted on 10/23/2016 12:28:04 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rashputin

You two go at it while I pop up a fresh batch...


306 posted on 10/23/2016 12:29:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gideon7
All translations will by necessity have slight changes in meaning.

Even the KJV???


Ya happy now; Gideon?

307 posted on 10/23/2016 12:33:40 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gideon7

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There is no language older than Hebrew.

Hebrew is the language of creation.

The prophets bear this out completely.
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308 posted on 10/23/2016 12:40:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Elsie

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>> “KJV translators ADDED to the written word.” <<

True, and mostly what they added is either completely unnecessary, or completely nonsense, as in the epistle to the Colossians where they added “is of” between body and Christ, which completely destroyed the meaning of the verse.


309 posted on 10/23/2016 12:44:27 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: WhatNot
Can you provide one verse to back up your claim.

How about two?

 

 

Genesis 1:1  King James Version (KJV)

 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

http://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm

8064 [e]
haš·šā·ma·yim
הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם
the heavens
Noun

 

Genesis 2:1  King James Version (KJV)

  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

http://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/2-1.htm

8064 [e]
haš·šā·ma·yim
הַשָּׁמַ֥יִם
the heavens
Noun

 

 

Looks like your KJV goes off of the rails REALLY soon; doesn't it!!!

310 posted on 10/23/2016 12:46:34 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

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Caught you on a bad hair day?
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311 posted on 10/23/2016 12:46:35 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Rashputin
The Septuagint has more books than the KJV.

And it is written in GREEK!!!


Therefore, either the Holy Spirit wasn't protecting the Word of God when He allowed those books to be TRANSLATED!!


Next comes: The Holy Spirit wasn't protecting the Word of God when He allowed those books to be HAND COPIED incorrectly thru the ages!!!

312 posted on 10/23/2016 12:51:23 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot
I would highly suggest that you stop all your reply's to me, because this is all you will see in the future.

Oooooh!

We have a prognosticator in our midst!

I would highly suggest that you take out your perfect KJV of the bible and read Acts chapter fifteen. If your church is doing any more (or less) than what is contained in that perfectly preserved letter, y'all might have some 'splainin' to do; Lucy.

313 posted on 10/23/2016 12:56:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhatNot
The fool has said in his heart; the is NO correct translation; anywhere on Earth; than the KJV!!

(The one he is able to read anyway...)




314 posted on 10/23/2016 1:02:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: editor-surveyor
True, and mostly what they added is either completely unnecessary, or completely nonsense, as in the epistle to the Colossians where they added “is of” between body and Christ, which completely destroyed the meaning of the verse.

Well, you made me have to dig out what you are say here.


Colossians 2:17                     Context


14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Now I am left wondering...

Just what you consider to be the MEANING of the verse?

315 posted on 10/23/2016 1:11:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: editor-surveyor

It’s a GOOD hair day; though not much of it.

If you’ve noticed; I’ve not posted much in the last week.

Passing a kidney stone took up a couple of agonizing days and then right behind that came a sinus infection that laid me low.

I just had my first real meal, in a long time, about 3 hours ago.


316 posted on 10/23/2016 1:15:46 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
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317 posted on 10/23/2016 2:22:58 PM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: Elsie
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318 posted on 10/23/2016 2:25:22 PM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: WhatNot

THANK YOU!!


319 posted on 10/23/2016 2:27:09 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Elsie
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320 posted on 10/23/2016 2:27:16 PM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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