Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Luke 18:8
"Only 6 percent of Americans possess a Biblical worldview, according to a new survey.
Approximately one-fifth of those who attend evangelical Protestant churches espouse a Biblical worldview, as do one-sixth of those who attend charismatic or Pentecostal churches (16%), the survey found. The numbers were much lower for those among mainline Protestant churches, 8 percent, and Catholics, 1 percent.
What are known as "notional" Christians — Americans who identify as Christian but do not profess to know Christ personally as Savior — comprise 54 percent of the U.S. population. Very few of them, just one-tenth of 1 percent, hold a Biblical worldview.
*The societal shift toward non-Christian worldviews like postmodernism,
Marxism,
secular humanism, and
modern mysticism
is most clearly reflected in values, the report continues.
The worldview survey was conducted in January among 2,000 U.S. adults via 1,000 telephone interviews and the results of another
Possessing a Biblical worldview is more common among people with some college education (7%) than among those who never attended college (1%).
People from households earning less than $60,000 are less likely than those from households earning more than that amount to have a Biblical worldview (5% versus 8%), and whites are slightly more likely than non-whites to have such a worldview (7% versus 4%, respectively).
The study also showed that the younger a person was, the less likely they are to possess a Biblical worldview: 9% of Americans 50 or older have a Biblical worldview, compared to just 5% of those in their thirties and forties, and a mere 2% of those 18 to 29 years old.
There are geographic differences of note, as well.
Only 4% of adults in the Northeastern and Western states have a Biblical worldview compared to twice as many who live in the Midwest and South (8%).
Of the five most highly populated states in the U.S. only residents of Texas (9%) exceeded the national average, while the incidence of a Biblical worldview in the other four large states was below average (4% among residents of California and New York, and just 3% among those residing in Florida and Pennsylvania).
While there are many influences that affect the worldview people embrace,
*dominant influences are
family,
media messages,
public policy,
schooling, and
peer influence." CP