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To: SoFloFreeper; NYer; lightingguy
That "Bible" is so old-fashioned.

Sure is. Last week at our Sunday night Bible study, our teacher read part of an article that stated the following, -

10,000 clergy were asked via mail survey if they believed that "the Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God in faith, history, and secular matters?"

Out of the 7.5k+ that were returned, the results were as follows -

95% of Episcopalians, 87% of Methodists, 82% of Presbyterians, 77% of American Lutherans, and 67% of American Baptists said "No."

And that was back in 1987.

109 posted on 04/13/2005 9:26:34 AM PDT by agrace (All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: agrace

What kind of secular matters? They needed to be more specific.


111 posted on 04/13/2005 9:45:38 AM PDT by Styria
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To: agrace
95% of Episcopalians, 87% of Methodists, 82% of Presbyterians, 77% of American Lutherans, and 67% of American Baptists said "No."

The basic problem with these statistics are that they don't tell anything about who is being polled. While the American Baptists are a specific denomination (separate from the larger Southern Baptists), and the Episcopalians might be identified as a denomination, there is not a single "Presbyterian" denomination. There are at least a dozen, ranging from flaming liberals to ultra conservatives. Likewise, there are at least 3 major Lutheran bodies (none of which is "American Lutheran"), and even several Methodists. From the description, it is hard to tell if the survey actually supports what the numbers purport to say.

147 posted on 04/13/2005 3:34:43 PM PDT by PAR35
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