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Survey: Few Americans have a biblical worldview
One News Now ^ | April 2, 2020 | Steve Jordahl

Posted on 04/03/2020 5:56:46 AM PDT by fwdude

A Christian apologist has a couple of suggestions for strengthening the number of Americans who believe, practice, and share the absolute truth of the Bible.

A recent survey of American religious life, conducted by pollster George Barna, shows that although seven out of ten Americans consider themselves to be Christian, just six percent actually possess a biblical worldview.

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1 posted on 04/03/2020 5:56:46 AM PDT by fwdude
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Most people probably think a Biblical worldview now means “be tolerant of everything”.


2 posted on 04/03/2020 5:58:26 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Yep. Christianity has become the servant to an agenda.


3 posted on 04/03/2020 5:59:42 AM PDT by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash)
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To: fwdude

If most churches would actually preach the Bible then perhaps more people would have a Biblical worldview - just sayin’


4 posted on 04/03/2020 6:00:53 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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“Barna’s definition of that worldview has nine components, including belief that absolute moral truth exists, that its source is the Bible, which is accurate in all of the truths it teaches, that everyone has a responsibility to share their faith with others, and that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful maker of the universe who still rules that creation today.”


5 posted on 04/03/2020 6:03:11 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: PeteePie
If most churches would actually preach the Bible then perhaps more people would have a Biblical worldview - just sayin’

People have a responsibility to read the BIBLE for themselves. Then they would be able to identify apostate teachings.

6 posted on 04/03/2020 6:05:09 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: fwdude

The people in the churches in the nineteen seventies largely did not have a biblical worldview.


7 posted on 04/03/2020 6:06:29 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: fwdude

I daresay we must have a God centered worldview before we can have a biblical centered worldview. Reality is defined by how all things relate to God, not how things are perceived by us. God is the subject and we are the object.


8 posted on 04/03/2020 6:14:01 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Sans-Culotte

It’s kinda like God just wants everyone to be happy so do whatever makes you happy. Wrong.


9 posted on 04/03/2020 6:15:19 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: Sans-Culotte

Romans 1:18-32 explains why they might.


10 posted on 04/03/2020 6:20:21 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: fwdude
“Yep. Christianity has become the servant to an agenda.”

And much of scripture warns us that this has been a threat from the beginning.

11 posted on 04/03/2020 6:21:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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The Catholic Church preaches the Bible every day and every Sunday. Same verses all around the world.

ManyCatholics fo not go to Mass. My friends do. people I grew up with, my family, no. They’re Catholic. They received the sacraments so they will be judged Catholic by God.

thees so much hatred for the Catholic Church No one hates it like Catholics who refuse to go to confession so they can go to mass and receive communion and live a life free of mortal sin.

Watch the hateful flames I get on this thread.

The Catholic Church proclaims -preaches- the Bible. People just need to go to church.


12 posted on 04/03/2020 6:26:59 AM PDT by stanne
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To: FewsOrange

1/ Absolute moral truth exists
2/ Its source is the Bible
3/ The Bible is accurate in all of the truths it teaches
4/ Everyone has a responsibility to share their faith
5/ God is the all-knowing, all-powerful maker of the universe
6/ He still rules that creation today
7/ ??
8/ ??
9/ ??

Anybody? Anybody?


13 posted on 04/03/2020 6:37:27 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: circlecity

“Yep. Christianity has become the servant to an agenda.”

Many if not most of the Catholics I grew up with, who hate the Church, are under the impression that Catholicism is a democracy. The ‘feel’ that God must bow to their beliefs, condoning their lives of perpetual mortal sin.

It’s not going to happen.


14 posted on 04/03/2020 6:40:13 AM PDT by stanne
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Yep. A man centered Woldview sees God as being here for us. A God centered worldview sees us as being here for him.


15 posted on 04/03/2020 6:42:43 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: fwdude
just six percent actually possess a biblical worldview.

Understanding the Times

16 posted on 04/03/2020 6:43:49 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: stanne

“Catholic” appears no where in Scripture. So, why do you defer to it so often as the ultimate qualifier?


17 posted on 04/03/2020 7:33:17 AM PDT by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash)
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Catholicism is tge universal Christian church which all other brzz as Che’s broke away from


18 posted on 04/03/2020 7:41:25 AM PDT by stanne
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English, please.


19 posted on 04/03/2020 7:49:40 AM PDT by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash)
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To: fwdude

That’s auto correct English.

It states that the Catholic Church is the universal Christian Church.


20 posted on 04/03/2020 7:54:15 AM PDT by stanne
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