According to a survey conducted last year by the American Bible Society, the majority of Americans expressed a desire to read their Bibles more frequently. However, many cited lack of time as the main reason for being unable to do so.
Even more concerning is that only 6% of professing Christians hold a biblical worldview, with the overwhelming majority (96%) choosing to believe what they want about life, as the survey explained.
“We often don’t realize how much our culture influences us. The truth of the Bible goes against the world we live in. To adopt a different perspective based on Scripture, we must study the Bible and receive a transformed mind.”
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Studying the Bible involves more than spending twenty minutes reading it once or twice a week; many people are satisfied with only knowing a few Bible passages.
According to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, six in ten so-called Christians believe in at least one of four evil New Age themes outlined in the study. These themes include believing in psychics, believing in reincarnation, and believing in astrology.
In a 2022 YouGov poll, 87% of Americans believe in some form of new-age spiritualism. The poll found that 55% believe in karma, 41% believe in hypnosis, and 29% believe in the “law of attraction,” also known as “manifesting.”
Many who claim to follow Jesus express beliefs that contradict Christianity due to a lack of understanding of the Bible and its core beliefs. It is crucial for individuals to make an effort to comprehend the teachings of Jesus and the Scriptures upon accepting the faith rather than embracing it without a thorough knowledge of the Bible.
Failure to understand Scripture and the principles of the Christian faith often leads to those claiming to follow Jesus holding beliefs contrary to Christianity. While many come to faith without a deep knowledge of the Bible, it is imperative that upon salvation, they prioritize understanding the Scripture and the teachings of Jesus. This should be taught in every church from every pulpit.
Believers who have accepted Jesus as their savior must dedicate themselves to studying the entirety of Scripture and allowing God’s words to transform them.
Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
2 Timothy 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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