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Less than 10% of Americans who call themselves Christian possesses a Biblical worldview.

Which means:

More than 90% of Americans who call themselves Christian do not possess a Biblical worldview.

2/3 of Born Again Christians assert that there are no absolute moral truths.
What does that mean? Sin really doesn’t exist.
Ergo – Redemption was not really necessary
Ergo – Christ died for nothing
Begs the question – Why the need to be Born Again?

4 out of 10 say they are “absolutely committed to the faith”.

44% of churched youths agree with this statement: “Humans are capable of grasping the meaning of truth”.

85% of churched youth agree with this statement: “What is right for a person in a certain situation may not be right for another person in the same situation”.
(Relativism and situational ethics)

62% of churched youth agree that: “Nothing can be known for certain except that which is experienced in your life”.

Why I believe the Bible and have a Biblical worldview:

“I choose to believe the Bible because it’s a reliable collection of historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses that report supernatural events that took place in fulfillment of specific prophecies and claim that their origins are divine rather than human in origin.” Dr. Voddie Baucham

The two predominate American worldviews at-a-glance:

Christian Theism
View of God - Theistic (God Exists), Necessary Creator & Sustainer of the Universe.

Secular Humanism
View of God - Atheistic (God does not exist in the theistic sense), May have a non-theistic god or ‘higher power’

Christian Theism
View of Man - Created in God’s image and place in a position of dominion over the rest of the earth and its creatures.

Secular Humanism
View of Man - Evolution – Random Processes, single cell organism run a muck.

Christian Theism
View of Truth - Absolute, truth is for all people for all time.

Secular Humanism
View of Truth - Relativism, what may be right for me may not be right for you. Extended implications are for the cultural and for different eras of time.

Christian Theism
View of Knowledge - Knowledge is gained through general and special revelation from God. General as it applies to creation and all the sciences, special as it applies to Biblical revelation of the nature of God. General is subordinate to Special.

Secular Humanism
View of Knowledge - Naturalistic Materialism – Only through scientific exploration. Nature is a closed system. Thus those that have a non-theistic view of a god, have a god that resides inside of this natural closed system.

Christian Theism
View of Ethics - Absolute

Secular Humanism
View of Ethics - Cultural and Negotiable