Posted on 08/27/2022 7:52:35 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
In 2021, the American Worldview Inventory released data analyzing the top 10 most prevalent "seductive unbiblical ideas" embraced by American adults. With contemporary culture becoming more secular, belief systems divergent from Scripture are not surprising.
What is surprising, however, is that even among adults who have a biblical worldview, 6% harbor many secular beliefs as part of their personal philosophy.
"According to researcher George Barna's methodology, someone must score 80% on beliefs and behaviors to be categorized as someone with a biblical worldview," the director of Center for Biblical Worldview, David Closson, told The Washington Stand. "However, the pervasiveness of some of these faulty beliefs means that there are some Christians with a biblical worldview who nonetheless hold a few beliefs that are contrary to the truth revealed in God's Word."
Closson emphasized that for Christians to counter "widespread" faulty beliefs they must know what the Bible says on these issues.
Here are the nation's 10 most prevalent "seductive unbiblical ideas" compared to what the Bible says:
"The spiritually inclusive idea that 'having faith matters more than what faith you have'"
(Excerpt) Read more at prophecynewswatch.com ...
Here’s the money quote
. “In my view, biblical illiteracy is not only rampant in the culture, but also in many churches.”
We’re living near the end of the last church age - the Laodicean Age where Jesus is outside the church knocking for them to let him in.
Around 1900, something happened that had not ever been seen since Noah’s flood - the world (apparently following the Laodicean Church), turned from trusting in God and said basically, “Thanks God, we’ll take it form here.”
What we see today is a product of this mass turning from trusting in God and the inevitable result of trusting in man which carries a curse (Jer. 17:5-8). The answer of course is to turn away from trusting in man and turn back to trusting in the Lord.
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Absolutely 100%
Jerry just remember. It’s not a lie if you believe it. Unfortunately that is where we are.
“Thanks God, we’ll take it form here.”
Your timetable is off. It started with the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Charles Darwin finished it all off when he plagiarized (from Alfred Wallace) and published his work on evolution which is now discarded, but, unfortunately, his conclusions and all the huge ramifications thereof were not discarded. That one work has caused hundreds of millions to reject God and Christianity.
OK. I’m sold! No more Karma for me!
Jesus is fully man because sin, while that inclination is present in human beings after the Fall, is not essentially part of human nature. Ask Adam.
Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe in karma. The Eastern notion of karma which says that actions in this life will be rewarded or punished in a future life is not grounded in biblical teaching.
I think most people don't believe this, they hope for Instant Karma.
Besides trolling for clicks and impressions revenue for that web site, is there a reason why you didn’t post the entire article here?
It appears that the OP decided to troll FReepers for clicks and impressions revenue.
Count me as a no vote on the karma.
If Karma was real, there wouldn’t be any Democrats in office.
A “lie” is a falsehood told with the intent to deceive.
If you believe it there is no intent to deceive and it is at worst a mistake, not a lie.
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
“... and I pushed him over. “
Good one!
Excellent proof of the non-existence of karma.
Okay, but wasn’t that karma? He could have been a 1912 guy but he chose the wrong path.
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