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I would guess that it's the "responsibility to share their religious beliefs" and/or the satan one that most of the people say no to.
 

No tricks. I just was surprised about the 5% so I wanted to see what people I know would say. Let's see there are 103,000 people in Ventura. So that means there would be only 5150 people with a Biblical World View in Ventura. Now, I know there are alot more than that sitting in churches on Sunday morning in this town. So what's up?
 

I just go to church for the kids.
 

There are a lot of people who go to church for the social life or because they have to (being involved on some kind of church committee, spouse makes him/her go,etc..). If you took those people out of the churches, then I bet the percentage would seem a little more accurate. I bet there's surprisingly a lot of churches that don't itself teach the Biblical World View.
 

I also read somewhere recently that a pretty big percentage of "Christians" believe that Jesus probably sinned now and then while He was on earth. YIKES!
 

ok...so have they read the Bible?
 

I still think that if you took out the two questions I mentioned, the response would be a lot closer to that 54%. Not that it would be accurate in terms of how people actually live, but just that I think most of them they would answer yes to the other six questions pretty easily since they don't involve (directly) personal responsibility or anything "weird" (like Satan).
 

yeah, i'm sure that's true. especially the "evil" thing. i also think that most people have abandoned the idea that absolute moral truth exists. it's pretty popular, even in Christian circles, to accept that moral truth is relative to a persons experience or circumstances. it's the old "every person doing what's seems right in his own eyes" thing, i think.
 

That one is a tough one, because I see a lot of people going overboard on both ends of that issue. On the one hand, as you say, there are some people who believe that there are no moral absolutes at all (or at least think that some things are relative which aren't), but then on the other hand there are probably just as many who take the "moral absolute" position and over apply it, crossing the bounds into what is really just their personal opinion or interpretation, and thinking that things which actually are relative (or at least open to interpretation) are not.

But if there weren't so many people going on either side of this problem the Christian bookstore industry probably wouldn't be as big as it is, so at least it's good for the economy...
 

ya. so then your down to the "the Bible is accurate in all of it's principles" one. to me, "pick your battles" means: is this a principle that is MANDATED in the Word of God, or is it something that we have guidelines given to us so that we can try to make good choices? but then, even the famous 10 are debatable among Christian circles. and people can take a scripture way out of context and make false laws, too.