[SeekAndFind]

[SeekAndFind]

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.”

[Vigilanteman]

More likely:Three in Four in U.S. Still See their private interpretation of the Bible as Word of God.

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.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Yeah, and you can tell by the way they vote.

[Lake Living]

Maybe, but they just don’t feel inclined to obey His Word - hence, the mess we’re in.

[dead]

Gallup: Three in Four in U.S. Still See the Bible as Word of God

"Still" - like they're actively looking for a cure.

[Grams A]

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.

[Ge0ffrey]

The use of the word “Still” in the headline is very telling.

[ravenwolf]

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.

[Alex Murphy]

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.

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 today

While 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

[MrB]

The word that stands out to me is “still”,

admitting there is an ongoing agenda, which the title writer supports, to undermine that belief.

[Kandy Atz]

Its very interesting the way they phrased the questions to both create division and sow doubt, and then framed the story around their survey as news.

Its really not that complicated:

2 Timothy 3:15-17 (KJV)

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Guided by the Holy Spirit, a child can understand God's Word. Its only complicated to those who choose to make it that way.

Psalm 119:130 (KJV)

130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.