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[__ Science __ ] Study: Only 37% of American Pastors Have a Biblical Worldview

Note that Ken Ham's language of "the authority of God's Word" and "a biblical worldview" should be taken with several grains of salt. Of course the term "worldview" never appears in the Bible.

For example, "43% [have a biblical worldview] when it comes to matters of sin, salvation, and one's relationship with God." What constitutes a biblical worldview here? Calvinism? How broad is it really? Is semi-Pelagianism considered be excluded from a "biblical worldview"? How rigid of an interpretation was used in this survey?

Definitely be skeptical.
hawkman said:
1 . Definition of a Biblical Worldview ? I have not seen a consensus on this so far . :shrug
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Good question. Apparently "54 worldview-related questions" were asked.
hawkman said:
2. Why would a Biblical Worldview be a bad thing ? It does sound like a good thing :chin:neutral:study
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Which is why Ken Ham is so distressed over this study. He wants it to be 100%.
 
hawkman said:
1 . Definition of a Biblical Worldview ? I have not seen a consensus on this so far . :shrug
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Not likely to find consensus but a good place to start would be acceptance of the Nicene Creed.

hawkman said:
It would be nice to see the 54 questions . I have looked for them .

Arizona Christian University survey results
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Looks like you have to pay for it, but based on the reviews, it not only looks like it doesn't reveal much, it could be fairly problematic in its methodology:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Wor...x=american+worldview+inventory,aps,101&sr=8-1
 
Barbarian said:
Pretty much the definition of a Christian.

Barna, BTW, is a pretty astute pollster. He has an ideological POV, but he's no charlatan.
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Yes, that I know, which is why it is concerning he may have used poor methodology in this instance. If it was free, I would take a look.
 
Barbarian said:
That is, only 37% of pastors have a Ken Ham worldview. Which is reassuring.


See above. Only 37% of them have a Bible-despising, anti-Biblical worldview.
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Oh? Is Ken Ham now also one of those Bible-despising Darwinists who demonstrate their hatred against God's Word by shamelessly contradicting it in their denial that God, in six days, created the heaven and the earth, and all the animals after their kinds, and man?
 
i know my church has recited both the apostles creed and the nicean i cant recall but both are in the wcf. the hymnalls have them.
 
That is, only 37% of pastors have a Ken Ham worldview. Which is reassuring.


See above. Only 37% of them have a Bible-despising, anti-Biblical worldview.

Paul E. Michael said:
Oh? Is Ken Ham now also one of those Bible-despising Darwinists
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Bible-despising creationist, who demonstrates his hatred against God's word by adding to it and subtracting from it to fit his own wishes. Ham claims to believe that God created living things according to their kind, but he doesn't approve of the way God says He did it.
 
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