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[__ Science __ ] Survey: Fewer Americans Believe in God than Ever Before

My children are adults, and they seem to have weathered that rebellious phase rather well. I don't agree with all of them on every religious idea, but loving God and loving one's fellow humans is more important than being theologically correct, according to Jesus.
 
My children are adults, and they seem to have weathered that rebellious phase rather well. I don't agree with all of them on every religious idea, but loving God and loving one's fellow humans is more important than being theologically correct, according to Jesus.
"And the greatest of these is love". Glad your children made it to adulthood. Some are still in the struggle, my reply was for them. It is theologically correct to love fellow man as God has intended. I chose not to fancy myself in my reply . For many #the struggle is real. Just letting parents know, even greats like Samuel and Samson's parents were grieved by their children.
 
What I meant was that everything else was based on those two laws. If you have them right, then nothing else will matter in the end. All the law and the prophets depend on those two.

Theology will not save you. Loving God and loving your fellow man will save you.
 
Theology will not save you. Loving God and loving your fellow man will save you.
John 5:
The Witness of Scripture

39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me, 40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

Unless you possess Christ and love Him, the scriptures will not be alive to you. Theology without love, saves no man, that is right. But a right theology in love will.
 
For that matter, does it seem like we live in a country where 81% of the people actually believe in God?

If we were to define "believing in God" as "attempting to live my life as though God actually existed and pleasing him by living according to his precepts is the primary goal," I'd place the percentage at more like 8.1% based on my experience and observation.

More than the rise of the religious right, which does promote anti-intellectualism and conflates Christianity with right-wing nationalism and has been a negative influence, I would lay the blame mostly on the secularization of the educational system over the past 50 years. Because everyone passes through the educational system, this secularization has tentacles that now extend to every nook and cranny of society. When Marxists talk about the "long, slow march through the institutions," this is what they are talking about - and it's been brilliantly successful.

I had a debate with an English atheist who is now living in the U.S. and whose husband is a world-class COVID researcher. She explained that, at least as far as most of Europe is concerned, my perspective was completely out of date. Religion, she said, is a matter of complete indifference, not even on most peoples' radar screens. They don't "disbelieve" or "reject" religion - they no longer even believe it's worth thinking about, any more than the Easter Bunny is. We're 20 or so years behind, but that's the path I think were on.
My impression is the Europeans, at least English and Germany, people are just more honest. Being a Christian is definitely different but there aren’t many pseudo-believers. This means the Christians behave differently sometimes very differently. The Europeans talk about God but aren’t aggressively atheists as one finds in the US.

I don’t think the US is headed there. The culture is too superficially nice. “Unity” means we don’t say anyone is “wrong” but if someone disagrees with us, we feel free to call them “arrogant” all the while insisting unity is very important.
 
Theology without love, saves no man, that is right. But a right theology in love will.
Many people think that the parable of the Good Samaritan is about the need to be charitable. And to a degree it is. But the deep message is that one's theology is unimportant, if one has love for God and one's fellow man. Jesus even told his followers to emulate a heretic (which is what Jews thought of Samaritans) who cared for his fellow man, rather than a theologically-correct Levite, who did not.
 
Many people think that the parable of the Good Samaritan is about the need to be charitable. And to a degree it is. But the deep message is that one's theology is unimportant, if one has love for God and one's fellow man. Jesus even told his followers to emulate a heretic (which is what Jews thought of Samaritans) who cared for his fellow man, rather than a theologically-correct Levite, who did not.
Yeah well I'm not a Levite. I follow the order of Melchizedek. And at that time that narrative of the Samaritan took place, Christology was just being put down. Since He's God, I make it my goal to study up on Him because I love Him, but He has loved me first. If I was to just remain simple, say like some remote native who heard of Christ in passing and accepted, that would be fine to not study, say, because no type of Canon was available. Alas though, I have a calling on my life to address doctrines and also formulate new ones-a new song. I therefore, am called to study, that I may address every erroneous doctrine concerning Christ out there. Even putting in check the Levite. My Theology is love of God because it is only about truth. Thanks for sharing.
 
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