Posted on 05/20/2017 10:17:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A new Gallup poll shows that only 24% of Americans believe the Bible is the “literal word” of God, which is a decline from the 1970s, but the survey also shows that the number of Americans who think the Bible is the “inspired word” of God, 47%, has stayed pretty steady over the last 40 years.
In addition, an overwhelming majority of Americans, 71%, believe the Bible is a holy document, inspired by God or containing God’s own words.
“Fewer than one in four Americans (24%) now believe the Bible is ‘the actual word of God, and is to be taken literally, word for word,’ similar to the 26% who view it as ‘a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man,’” reported Gallup on May 15.
“This is the first time in Gallup’s four-decade trend that biblical literalism has not surpassed biblical skepticism,” said the survey firm. “Meanwhile, about half of Americans — a proportion largely unchanged over the years — fall in the middle, saying the Bible is the inspired word of God but that not all of it should be taken literally.” …
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Narrow is the path.
Yes it is Luke.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Gallup - old world order that lost it’s power. We can have no faith in them such as we have no faith in the main stream media.
And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:
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of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed;[a]
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed;
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of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed;
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of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed;
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of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
>containing God’s own words.
That would require some serious evidence.
I believe that all of the Bible was given to men by inspiration of God. Exactly how it was given (dreams, visions, dictation), I don’t know. I accept that most of it is literal, but not all. Some of its books are history, some are laws, some are prophecies, some are wisdom, some are poetry, some appear to be symbolic rather than literal. Those collected writings of approximately 40 men over 1,500 years have a united theme that convinces me of a higher Authorship.
Good, not very Christian of me, but hey.. If I have to deal with all these crazies down here then what good is Salvation.
Nose to the grindstone.
Take it from me.
God is truth and love.
Treat your neighbour as yourself want to be treated.
Add John 3.16
All the rest if fluff.
Whatever is symbolic is still explained within its pages.
No, none of the rest of it is fluff.
28%, 24% - pretty much the same.
Overall this is a canard having to do with “literal” which can mean different things to different people.
“That would require some serious evidence.”
Such as?
God inspired men to write the Biblical stories.
The Koran was dictated by God.
Not the same thing.
so the question is prhased in order for the god haters to bash Christians.
William Shakespeare wrote one of the psalms. And the King James Bible was a government publication. The Geneva Bible refered to the various kings in the Old Testament as Tyrants. It was the Geneva Bible which traveled on the Mayflower to the New World. Much of the U.S. Constitution is based on the premise that the Kings of the old world were tyrants and the new nation did not want a return to the days of tyranny. In other words limit the power of the Federal Government.
You’d think Gallup would give up after being exposed by the last election. But they always double down on lies.
The people that believe in Allah believes the Qur'an is the literal word of Allah. Which means those words can not have any meaning but one.
The men who wrote the books of the Bible (apart from the Ten Commandments, which were written personally with God’s finger) were inspired by the Holy Spirit, which is God. So yes, God wrote it through them and it is His literal word.
It’s not relevant what Muslims think the Koran is. That book is lies and the Bible is truth.
I agree with others that it depends on what you consider “literal”. I believe that it is all inspired by God. And it was obviously very sacred - with every “jot and tittle” reproduced perfectly. Literal to me makes me think of Joseph Smith looking into his hat and reciting, word by word, his “scriptures”.
I like the previous poster pointing out that the 10 Commandments were the literal words. And I suppose we can count the words of Jesus as the literal words of God. BUT - even then, Jesus spoke so much in parables and stuff that even His words can’t be taken literally.
Oh crap - it was you that mentioned the Ten Commandments! I’m guessing that there are other quotes from God as well. “Tell them ‘I AM’ has sent you”. Etc.
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