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According to a Survey by Barna Less Americans Are Embracing a Traditional View of God and Bible Reading Is Less Popular

Barna Survey
  • The 2007 study showed 66 percent of Americans believe that God is best described as the all-powerful, all-knowing perfect Creator of the universe who rules the world today.
  • The proportion is down from 71 percent a year ago and represents the lowest percentage in more than 20 years of similar surveys.
  • Thirty-seven percent strongly disagree that Jesus sinned.  
    • Twenty-four percent strongly reject the idea that Satan is not a real spiritual being.  
    • Twenty-nine percent hav greater reluctance to explain their faith to other people.  
    • Twenty-seven percent have a willingness to reject good works as a means to personal salvation.
  • The proportion of American adults who believe that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches remains unchanged at 45 percent.
  • Engagement in spiritual activities has largely remained the same compared to 2006.
    • Such activities include prayer with 83 percent saying they prayed in the last week
    • attending a church service (43 percent)
    • personally explaining their faith to someone else in the past year with the hope that the person would accept Jesus Christ (61 percent)
    • participating in small group (20 percent).
  • The survey revealed 22 percent of American adults had volunteered free time to help a church and 23 percent, some other type of non-profit.
  • Forty-one percent said they read the Bible outside of church worship services in a typical week. Bible readership rose to its highest level since the 1980s with 47 percent in 2007.

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Date: 5/22/2007 12:00:00 AM
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