"The percentage of Americans who hold a biblical worldview fell to 4 percent during the pandemic, while the percentage of self-identified Christians and born-again Christians who hold such a worldview also plummeted, according to a new poll.
The survey by researcher George Barna at the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University found that the fallout from the pandemic apparently altered the worldview of Americans, including people of faith. While 6 percent of Americans prior to the pandemic held a biblical worldview, only 4 percent do today. The research center labeled it a “seemingly small but noteworthy drop.”
“It appears that as people’s lives were substantially altered by the virus and government policies, Americans were not spending the extra time devoting energy to spiritual matters and worldview enhancement,” the Cultural Research Center said in an analysis.
Further, the percentage of self-identified Christians who hold a biblical worldview fell from 9 percent pre-pandemic to 6 percent post-pandemic. Among born-again Christians, it fell from 19 percent to 13 percent. The research center categorizes individuals as born again if they believe they will go to heaven after they die because they have accepted Jesus as their savior and confessed their sins.
The data is part of the 2023 American Worldview Inventory.
“When you put the data in perspective, the biblical worldview is shuffling toward the edge of the cliff,” Barna said. “As things stand today, biblical theism is much closer to extinction in America than it is to influencing the soul of the nation. The current incidence of adults with the biblical worldview is the lowest since I began measuring it in the early 1990s.”
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Is that the fault of the unsaved ones around us, or the fault of those of us claiming to be regenerate children of God. Does the lifestyle and walk of the self-proclaimed Christians today actually measure up to biblical standards? Is our worship observed as Jesus Christ and his apostles taught us? NOT EVEN CLOSE!
The survey by researcher George Barna at the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University found that the fallout from the pandemic apparently altered the worldview of Americans, including people of faith. While 6 percent of Americans prior to the pandemic held a biblical worldview, only 4 percent do today. The research center labeled it a “seemingly small but noteworthy drop.”
“It appears that as people’s lives were substantially altered by the virus and government policies, Americans were not spending the extra time devoting energy to spiritual matters and worldview enhancement,” the Cultural Research Center said in an analysis.
Further, the percentage of self-identified Christians who hold a biblical worldview fell from 9 percent pre-pandemic to 6 percent post-pandemic. Among born-again Christians, it fell from 19 percent to 13 percent. The research center categorizes individuals as born again if they believe they will go to heaven after they die because they have accepted Jesus as their savior and confessed their sins.
The data is part of the 2023 American Worldview Inventory.
“When you put the data in perspective, the biblical worldview is shuffling toward the edge of the cliff,” Barna said. “As things stand today, biblical theism is much closer to extinction in America than it is to influencing the soul of the nation. The current incidence of adults with the biblical worldview is the lowest since I began measuring it in the early 1990s.”
https://www.christianheadlines.com/...rldview-post-pandemic-it-altered-beliefs.html
Is that the fault of the unsaved ones around us, or the fault of those of us claiming to be regenerate children of God. Does the lifestyle and walk of the self-proclaimed Christians today actually measure up to biblical standards? Is our worship observed as Jesus Christ and his apostles taught us? NOT EVEN CLOSE!
