The AP reported the findings on a new survey of 35,000 adults about their spiritual beliefs, saying that the results “can either be taken as a positive sign of growing religious tolerance, or disturbing evidence that Americans dismiss or don’t know fundamental teachings of their own faiths.
Among the more startling numbers in the survey, conducted last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: 57 percent of evangelical church attenders said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life, in conflict with traditional evangelical teaching.
In all, 70 percent of Americans with a religious affiliation shared that view, and 68 percent said there is more than one true way to interpret the teachings of their own religion.
“The survey shows religion in America is, indeed, 3,000 miles wide and only three inches deep,” said D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist of religion.
“There’s a growing pluralistic impulse toward tolerance and that is having theological consequences.”
The results of this survey are by no means a surprise, but they are in direct opposition to the word of God. Jesus said, “I am THE WAY,” not one way. However do not be mistaken, this is not an emerging trend; the desire to conform God to our standards, rather than to submit to His, was first introduced in Genesis. You can clean this up in anyway you choose — call it seeker sensitive, call it Emergent, call it whatever you need to convince yourself that’s it’s okay, but the Bible clearly calls the desire to create “God” according to your own beliefs and wishes sin.
HT: AP
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