Only 6% of Americans Hold a Biblical Worldview and Millennials are at Just 2%

America's claim to be a Christian nation is seriously undercut by a recent study by the Cultural Research Center in Arizona Christian University. While many will choose to label themselves Christian, only 6% of the general population holds a truly solid Biblical worldview, the study finds.

This percentage has not been great in recent decades, but it is down by half since the 12 percent registered in the mid-1990s.

The criteria used for the study includes believing that absolute moral truths exist and that such truth is defined by the Bible, as well as a firm belief in six specific religious views that:

• Jesus Christ lived a sinless life
• God is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator of the universe and He still rules it today
• Salvation is a gift from God and cannot be earned
• Satan is real
• A Christian has a responsibility to share their faith in Christ with other people
• The Bible is accurate in all of its teachings

These Christian truths have been under unrelenting assault for some 100 years. Godless humanism brought the theory of evolution into our original Bible schools, (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.) and the Biblical worldview was tossed out the window. False science and defective reason replaced the scriptures.

Even more disturbing is the fact that only 2 percent of the young people between the ages of 18 and 36, the so-called “millennials,” identify with this Biblical world view.

Attitudes were also part of the study, finding that the millennials were more likely to contemplate revenge for wrongs and were less enthusiastic about America. Their respect for others was more confined to their own group of like-minded individuals.

This study only adds to the general observation that our society is becoming increasingly uncivil. Respectful debate has deteriorated into shouting and even riots. Wicked attacks on someone else’s character are more commonplace.

Bible believers sometimes want to throw up their hands in despair. Does anyone want to hear the gospel? But there is something we can do. This is the time of year when we can easily get the gospel into many of the homes in our neighborhood.

Soul winners have discovered that Halloween is a wonderful opportunity. Little people come, plastic jack-o-lantern in hand, begging. Candy is their goal, but nobody turns down a colorful little comic booklet.

And no conscientious parent is going to let that message just stay in the hands of their youngsters. That way, the whole family ends up reading the gospel. For a least a moment, they are exposed to that other worldview than the one they have been taught in school or university.

For the price of a Starbucks latte, you can put one of these little paper preachers in several homes in your neighborhood this Halloween.

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