Pew Research on religion in America

[Christ_empowered]

Check it out... http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

You can even click on your state for detailed stats on what's going on around you.

 

[JohnDB]

Numbers made me really sad.

I compared TN to WA....it was horrific.

There's some obvious contradictory numbers like when looking at Homosexual marriage but not too bad. Beliefs in Heaven and Hell never cease to amaze me.

Unique poll.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Check it out... http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

You can even click on your state for detailed stats on what's going on around you.

And all of these religious people will hear, "Be gone, I never knew you." Following Jesus has nothing to do with any religion, it does, however, have everything to do with having a personal, subservient, relationship with God/Jesus!

How do you know if you are saved, you ask? Do you ever even feel His presence?

 

[JohnDB]

And all of these religious people will hear, "Be gone, I never knew you." Following Jesus has nothing to do with any religion, it does, however, have everything to do with having a personal, subservient, relationship with God/Jesus!

How do you know if you are saved, you ask? Do you ever even feel His presence?

Did you check the number disparity between those who study regularly and the other questions?

 

[th1b.taylor]

Did you check the number disparity between those who study regularly and the other questions?

No, I was forever disappointed with the pew whales in my own Church so I know, they are massed together every Sunday Morning.

 

[Roro1972]

Numbers made me really sad.

I compared TN to WA....it was horrific.

There's some obvious contradictory numbers like when looking at Homosexual marriage but not too bad. Beliefs in Heaven and Hell never cease to amaze me.

Unique poll.

I looked at Tn also. In some charts it almost seems they were not talking to Christians. I dont see how a high percent of Christians can answer according to the charts. I was shocked. but it does help me understand why my landlord is so bad.

 

[JohnDB]

No, I was forever disappointed with the pew whales in my own Church so I know, they are massed together every Sunday Morning.

Right...

OK. So let's say that 22% of a state's population regularly attend group study, prayer and etc.
Then again discount the "Pew whales"
And the other tares in the field...and what is left can be said to belong to God.

A "netzer" or remnant or offshoot.

The path is narrow and FEW find it is what is true.

 

[Christ_empowered]

Somewhere else, I read that 9-10% of Americans have what the researchers called a Biblical Worldview. Basic stuff...exclusivity of Christ, existence of Satan, Heaven and Hell, that sort of thing. It got me to thinking...well, whats with all these people in church, then? Especially for me...I've lived in The Bible Belt my whole life. I think a lot of people just get raised in church, but they somehow do not come to believe upon Christ to be saved.

 

[Roro1972]

Somewhere else, I read that 9-10% of Americans have what the researchers called a Biblical Worldview. Basic stuff...exclusivity of Christ, existence of Satan, Heaven and Hell, that sort of thing. It got me to thinking...well, whats with all these people in church, then? Especially for me...I've lived in The Bible Belt my whole life. I think a lot of people just get raised in church, but they somehow do not come to believe upon Christ to be saved.

As they grow up they get more hours in school than church.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Right...

OK. So let's say that 22% of a state's population regularly attend group study, prayer and etc.
Then again discount the "Pew whales"
And the other tares in the field...and what is left can be said to belong to God.

A "netzer" or remnant or offshoot.

The path is narrow and FEW find it is what is true.

Yes, this premise is correct but the numbers are all way out of balance except we are discussing religion. And as most here have noticed, I hate religion, perhaps as much as Jesus/God does, I certainly try to reach that level of righteous hate for untruths.

Your number of 22% is better than eleven times or one thousand, one hundred percent to great a measure for believers. I was converted just weeks before my forty-fifth birthday and about five years before that the Barna Group surveyed the American Christian Church, cross denominational and the survey was double blind that the most honest answers possible would be attained.

That survey was conducted with the Pastor or Priest of each Church certifying that each person attended no less than three services a week so as to test only the Faithful, about ten to fifteen percent of the attending or the active members. The questions were all yes or no and covered only the basic tenants that all Christian Church Assemblies agree on.

Of that, let's stretch and say, fifteen percent of Americas ¿Christians? less than two percent of them believed the basic tenants of the Faith, things such as do you believe Jesus will rapture the Church and did Jesus pay for your sins on that cross?

That will work out to less than one in a hundred when that result is extrapolated out to include the entire American Christian Church, Better than 99 in 100 will not enter at the Narrow Gate. They are Pew Whales and are religious... they do not follow Jesus but they religiously attend Church.