Posted on 06/05/2014 8:57:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Twenty-eight percent of Americans believe the Bible is the actual word of God and that it should be taken literally. This is somewhat below the 38% to 40% seen in the late 1970s, and near the all-time low of 27% reached in 2001 and 2009. But about half of Americans continue to say the Bible is the inspired word of God, not to be taken literally -- meaning a combined 75% believe the Bible is in some way connected to God. About one in five Americans view the Bible in purely secular terms -- as ancient fables, legends, history, and precepts written by man -- which is up from 13% in 1976.
The latest results are from Gallup's 2014 update of its annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 8-11.
Fittingly, overall acceptance of the Bible as being divinely written or inspired closely approximates the proportion of Americans identifying themselves as Christian: 76% in Gallup's 2013 religion aggregate. Meanwhile, the 21% viewing the Bible in secular terms nearly matches the combined 22% who identify with another religion or no religion.
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How does the result of Gallup’s survey square with this result of their other survey:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3162732/posts
Gallup Poll: Strong Majority Now Believe Gays Should Be Allowed to Adopt Kids
EXCERPT:
“A strong majority, 63 percent, of Americans now say that same-sex couples should have a legal right to adopt a child.”
I still can't wash out of my mind that story of the Dyke Preacher who said God destroyed Sodom because they weren't showing proper hospitality to strangers, not because they intended to rape the holy men in Lot's house.
Yeah, and you can tell by the way they vote.
It’s amazing how these stats correlate to how stupid Americans are.
Maybe, but they just don’t feel inclined to obey His Word - hence, the mess we’re in.
Do not worry. I just heard on ABC News Radio that unemployment is the lowest it has been in four years.
So, doing the simple math that common core can no longer teach, every month, new applications for unemployment benefits is about double the “jobs created”.
My people perish for lack of knowledge.
"Still" - like they're actively looking for a cure.
Ezekiel 16:49
“‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
And...
"Jude 1:7
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire."
It's not an either/or situation: they are both true. There are sins which often go together: idolatry, luxury, usury, sodomy.
One of the first things I remember learning in Sunday School was a statement, “God said it, I believe it and that settles it”. Nothing has changed for me.
Hallmarks of leftism usually include arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they do not help the poor and needy, beyond throwing somebody else's money at them. Think Michael Moore as their poster boy.
The use of the word “Still” in the headline is very telling.
Yes it is
The problem with the poll is that it is contradicted by the election results that has put the anti god people in power.
1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
RE: The problem with the poll is that it is contradicted by the election results that has put the anti god people in power.
Well, as is apparent from many FReepers who tell us they STAYED HOME in 2012 because Romney was not a good alternative, we can’t tell how many good people there are who would have made the difference.
About half, huh?
...while fewer believers know much about the Bible, one-third of Americans continue to believe that it is literally true, something organizers of the Synod on the Word of God called a dangerous form of fundamentalism that is “winning more and more adherents…even among Catholics.” Such literalism, the synod’s preparatory document said, “demands an unshakable adherence to rigid doctrinal points of view and imposes, as the only source of teaching for Christian life and salvation, a reading of the Bible which rejects all questioning and any kind of critical research”....
-- from the thread A Literate Church: The state of Catholic Bible study todayWhile Catholics believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is true, one cannot take individual biblical quotes or passages and say each one is literally true, Pope Benedict XVI said....The commission of biblical scholars, an advisory body to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, met at the Vatican May 2-6 to continue discussions about “Inspiration and Truth in the Bible”....In his message, the Pope said clearer explanations about the Catholic position on the divine inspiration and truth of the Bible were important because some people seem to treat the Scriptures simply as literature, while others believe that each line was dictated by the Holy Spirit and is literally true. Neither position is Catholic, the Pope said.
-- from the thread How to Read the Bible as a Catholic
The word that stands out to me is “still”,
admitting there is an ongoing agenda, which the title writer supports, to undermine that belief.
Well, as is apparent from many FReepers who tell us they STAYED HOME in 2012 because Romney was not a good alternative, we can’t tell how many good people there are who would have made the difference.
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