A biblical worldview, as defined by the Barna study, is believing that:- absolute moral truth existsOnly if someone held all the above beliefs did the research consider the person as having a biblical worldview.
- the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches
- Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic
- a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or do good works
- Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth
- God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today
| "...These two world views [Christian theism vs naturalist, impersonal matter or energy shaped by impersonal chance] stand as totals in complete antithesis to each other in content and also in their natural results--including sociological and governmental results, and specifically including law. It is not that these two world views are different only in how they understand the nature of reality and existence. They also inevitably produce totally different results. The operative word here is inevitably. It is not just that they happen to produce different results, but it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring forth different results..." - Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto (1981), page 2. |
I don’t think these are particularly controversial points of Biblical doctrine: all orthodox Catholics would agree to them.
The fact that so few young people do merely indicates how badly catechesis has failed youth in the last 40 years or so.