Sign of the times…

How can approximately 6 out of 10 people in America profess to be “Christian” while only 2 out of 10 view the Holy Bible as the Word of God?

The end is not near? Really?

Woe to this lost and detestable people that have turned from the Lord, from His Word, from His statutes and precepts and instruction to their own ways which are the ways of the Evil One!

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 — English Standard Version

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:16-32 — English Standard Version

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Thursday, July 7th, 2022

More people than ever see Bible as ‘fables’ than the ‘actual word’ of God, U.S. poll finds

July 6, 2022

By Moira Ritter

Reprinted from The Charlotte Observer

People in the United States have an increasingly shifting outlook on the Bible, according to a new poll from Gallup.

Only 20% of people in the U.S. now say they view the Bible as the literal word of God — a record low — while a record-high of 29% of Americans agree the Bible is only a collection of “fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.” The number of Americans who take the Bible as God’s “actual word” has decreased from 24% since 2017 and is only half of what it was when that belief peaked in 1984, Gallup reported.

But 49% of respondents said the Bible is “inspired by God (but) not all to be taken literally.”

The new poll surveyed members of the United States adult population, including individuals who identify with religions other than Christianity and individuals who do not have any specific religious identity at all.

Among Christian adults surveyed, those who identify as Protestant, evangelical or born again were most likely to say the Bible is literally true. Belief in the Bible as literal was also highest among individuals who are more religious and those with less formal education.

A decreasing number of people in the U.S. — 44% — also reported saying that religion is “very important,” compared to 60% of respondents who said the same in 2002, according to Gallup.

The survey’s results follow similar trends showing a decrease in overall religiosity among adults in the U.S. A 2021 survey showed that millennials in the United States are far less likely to believe in God than older generations and instead are opting for beliefs outside of organized religion, such as horoscopes.

Another 2021 survey found that nearly three in 10 American adults see themselves as not identifying with a religion while the number of Americans identifying as Christian shrank.

“If the unaffiliated were a religion, they’d be the largest religious group in the United States,” Elizabeth Drescher, an adjunct professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University, told The Associated Press in December.