Posted on 09/30/2020 10:35:57 AM PDT by Maudeen
New research from George Barna indicates that the percentage of Americans who hold a biblical worldview has declined yet again. Despite this decline, the outcome of the upcoming presidential election could very well be decided by evangelical Christians' level of participation.
FRC's new Senior Research Fellow for Christian Ethics and Biblical Worldview, George Barna, found in his most recent study from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University that only six percent of Americans hold a biblical worldview (i.e., a view of the world that is informed by Scripture).
According to Barna, a worldview is the "filter through which you look at all experiences and information and decide how you're going to respond." Because worldview consists of a person's most fundamental assumptions and beliefs about truth, it is central to how humans experience the world and interact with one another in society.
As Barna explained, "People do what they believe." The same holds true for how we engage politically.
For example, someone whose worldview believes humanity was created by intelligent design will think about questions related to life and human dignity very differently than someone who believes human beings are the result of random chance or natural selection.
Christians, whose worldview is shaped by Scripture, believe all people -- born and unborn -- are made in God's image and have inherent value and dignity. Therefore, many Christians advocate for pro-life policies in the public square.
This connection between worldview and politics is underscored in Barna's recent study. As he noted, "The 2020 election is not about personalities, parties or even politics. It's an election to determine the dominant worldview in America." Americans with a biblical worldview are currently in the minority, according to Barna's findings.
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I always wonder when it comes to all these calls who the hell are these people actually palling? I have never ever gotten a palling call on my entire life and hardly anybody even has a home phone anymore so just wondering
No surprise there. Jesus Himself gave us a peek at what we’re seeing now.
Luke 18:8b “...However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
New Living Translation.
It bothers me a bit that as these individuals publish these sad statistics, they seem to be crowing about it, as though it indicated a victory on their part. Well, yeah, maybe...if sliding into an eternal lake of fire can be considered a victory.
Well you have to admit even without polling we can see we are on a steep downward slide in America. There is no getting it back IMHO. The “last days” are here and we just need to be ready for Christ’s return the date of which ONLY the Father knows. Besides no one knows when his or her last breath on earth will be.
This is not surprising in the least bit.
Luke 18:8
“Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?””
If He doesn’t come soon, there probably won’t be any left.
You’ve gotta wonder what it will be like after a year or more of churches being forcibly closed by tyrants?
That is one thing that disturbs me about a lot of Millenials.
If something comes to them through their phones they’ll accept it as truth, investing very little critical thought or judgment into it. The mere fact that it comes via technology seems to provide credibility.
The crooked dishonest media has taken that ball and run with it.
Yes. The churches themselves have much to answer for. It’s more convenient to just blame the loss of members on “Satan” or other hidden causes, than the failure of churches to provide real solutions to people. And the denial of scriptures by the Churches in pursuit of political relevance only accelerates the losses.
Want to crash your particular sect? Endorse gay marriage. Change the 10 Commandments to the 10 Suggestions. Collapse is guaranteed.
I am Catholic, and our biggest problem is that we have a Pope who wants to change our Church from being a Christian faith into being his own personal Left-wing political party.
Maybe when churches start being churches and not large social houses with expensive schools to make profit and preachers no longer drive better cars and live in bigger houses than their parishioners, maybe, just maybe, the words of the church might ring true to people and give them something to believe in.
“hardly anybody even has a home phone”
They have your cellphone number,
Even Protestants can see what a disaster this Pope has been for the Catholics. His abandonment of Chinese Catholics and pandering to Xi are, well, I can’t think of a word to describe it except Satanic.
Scary, isn’t it?
Are scriptures wrong because certain definitions and nomenclatures we’re not developed back when these oratories were recorded? A lot of confusion exist because ancient manuscripts expresses might express a thousand years whent denoting an eon or epoch... in those days Infinity was not a term that was used to indicate millions and billions. What was on hand to work with?, descriptors such as days, or perhaps a thousand yeard.
Oral history is being waived away because those that were presenting history were not using 21st century terminology to discuss or to tell of events that occurred before the biblical history was committed to writing.
A case in point was Galileo who was almost executed because he discovered that planets rotate around the sun and not the Earth. That was heresy, that was high treason, blasphemy punishable by Death.
When Christianity’s largest denomination takes a dive it’s a very bad thing for ALL churches.
What exacerbates the worldview problem in our churches is all the false systems of prophecy held by pastors. The kind of worldview people in the pew get from pretribism, preterism, and “kingdom now” postmillennialism (the “NAR” - New Apostolic Reformation charismatics) has hands down the worst kind of endtime worldview imaginable.
If it weren’t for these false systems of prophecy, anybody who believes their Bibles would see us now entering into the endtime.
Since 33AD everyone has thought they were in the endtimes. Probably since 2000bc. Probably since humans started 300k bc. We may be seeing the end of the USA now, but not humanity.
That and the entry of the ‘Smoke of Satan’ into the Church in the 60s and 70s.
Since 33AD everyone has thought they were in the endtimes.
May I ask, do you say this as a church-going devout believer in the Bible? If we knew our Bibles, we should know what Christ said in his olivet discourse.
He said in answer to his disciples question about what were the signs of his second coming, he said that false Christs that would arise, and there would be wars and rumors of wars, but “the end is not yet.” (Matt. 24:3-6)
These were but general signs that have been ongoing for hundreds of years now.
But then he began to give certain specific signs to look for, that would indeed be signs of the end. Chief of which “the abomination of desolation,” which requires a Jerusalem temple. But, since the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD, and a second diaspora (diaspora = the dispersal of Jews from Israel into the rest of the world), Jews were not in their land.
In comparative recent times, we have seen the return of Jews to Jerusalem their capital city. And they, as we speak, are very close to their goal of rebuilding their temple there.
Do you not see that the middle east is the world’s number one hotspot? In his olivet discourse, Christ prophesied that it would be center stage of endtime events.
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