Posted on 08/22/2021 10:12:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
More than 60% of born again Christians in America between the ages of 18 and 39 believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation and over 30% say they either believe that Jesus sinned just like other people when He lived on Earth or aren’t sure, according to a new study.
There’s a “striking decline” in evangelical religious beliefs and practices over the last 10 years, as the number of self-proclaimed believers to hold these beliefs has increased by nearly 25%, says Probe Ministries in a statement announcing the results of its Religious Views & Practices Survey.
The study, which interviewed 3,100 Americans ages 18 to 55 in 2020 and looked at various other previous studies, saw a drop in “basic biblical worldview” — God’s attributes, the accuracy of the Bible, salvation and Jesus being sinless — from 47% in 2010 to 25% in 2020 among born again Christians.
The drop in the “expanded biblical worldview” — beliefs about Satan and morals being objective — went from 32% in 2010 to 16% in 2020.
“So, the percentage of Born Again Christians with a biblical worldview (of either type) has been cut in half over the last decade,” says the study, which compared the 18–29 age group from 2010 with the same age group 10 years later, now 30–39. “This result is a startling degradation in worldview beliefs of Born Again Christians over just 10 years.”
This means, even born-again Christians “can have a false view of Jesus Christ and embrace a pluralistic worldview,” Kerby Anderson, president of Probe Ministries, said. “Pastors and church leaders just can’t assume any longer that the members of their church or Christian organization have a biblical worldview.”
There’s an even greater drop off among the general population, the study found. For the basic biblical worldview, there’s a drop off from 13% to 6%. For the expanded biblical worldview, the decline is from 9% to just over 3%.
Anderson attributed the change to the continual and growing influence of media.
“These disturbing trends are, yes, due to pastors not consistently teaching biblical theory. But they can also be attributed to young Christians who are not paying attention, who are focused — nearly exclusively, it seems — on their phones, social media and other content they deem more compelling,” he said.
The study suggests, Anderson said, that “we have to continue to explain the cost of salvation ... that there is no way to salvation, other than through the sacrificial and atoning death of a sinless Christ. That no one can come to the Father except through the Son, but also that anyone may come through Him.”
An article about the study’s findings on the Probe Ministries website notes that in the Roman Empire in AD 60, biblical worldview Christians accounted for less than 1% of the population. “Three hundred years later, virtually the entire empire was at least nominally Christian.”
“If we will commit ourselves to ‘proclaiming the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light,’ God will bring revival to our land,” it adds.
Allah is Satan and Muhammed is his messenger.
More than 60% of born again Christians in America between the ages of 18 and 39 believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation and over 30% say they either believe that Jesus sinned just like other people when He lived on Earth or aren’t sure, according to a new study.
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If so, they are not Christians. Plain and simple. End of discussion.
They never did care much for Jesus.
I’m sure the Pope would disagree. Right?
More than 60% of born again Christians in America between the ages of 18 and 39 believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation
I guess the planes&pathways to heaven won’t be too crowded but the buses will be full of folk, it seems. What a relief.. and a tragedy.
I find that many people I know under 40 have been scared off from embracing Christianity by what they have heard in. their schools. All of that negative propaganda has an effect over time.
K thru 12 are their formative years.
Not all, thank goodness, and usually not completely, but that wary suspicion of all things exclusively Christian is their first default position.
I’ll pray for them.
“ More than 60% of born again Christians in America between the ages of 18 and 39 believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation and over 30% say they either believe that Jesus sinned just like other people when He lived on Earth or aren’t sure, according to a new study.”
If they believe that, it’s unlikely they are born again.
60% of adults under 40 in this survey are wrong. If they persist in their incorrect thinking, when they eventually die...and some of their numbers die every day...their soul’s ultimate destination is to spend eternity in hell, a place exceedingly unpleasant, terrifying and painful, eternally separated from the presence of God.
If this is truly the belief of 60% of the younger “born agains”, it suggests that too many were held under the water way too long.
But seriously, this points to a tremendous failure of catechesis.
The question was about “ways to God” or “a valid path to God.” Whether that’s the same as a way or path to salvation isn’t immediately obvious.
I mentioned to a 36 year old coworker that YMCA stands for Young Mens Christian Association. She was stunned,
had never thought about it before.
She replied: “I didn’t know that! Now I’m not sure if I want to kerp sending my son there to play basketball.”
And they and America are suffering for their foolishness.
I have a catholic depiction of hell in my profile page. I’m. Not catho,catholic,, but the fella that wrote it studied the issue, and what he wrote is absolutely frightening. It’s unimagi able to me that folks would gamble that there isn’t a hell when the consequences for being wrong are so severe. There is no downside to accepting Christ, but plenty for rejecting him.
Yup, narrow is the way, and few who will follow it
Public schooled kids graduated from liberal seminaries and “in service” by left stream denominations teach this
They’re not born again
According to John the Evangelist, it was Jesus.
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