Less Than a Third of Americans Say Bible Is The Actual Word of God That Should Be Taken Literally

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“The trends noted in this article are not surprising given the increasing secular nature of society, the ungodly education kids are receiving in schools and the watered down Gospel being preached in a lot of compromised churches.”  Admin

According to the findings of a Gallup poll released on Wednesday, 28 percent of Americans believe that the Bible was “the actual word of God” and that it should be “taken literally, word for word.” Forty percent of Americans agreed with that statement in 1979 — a record high — though the number has since declined every year with the exception of 2012.

Nearly 50 percent of Americans agree that the Bible is the “inspired word of God” and that not all of its content should be taken literally. The 47 percent of respondents who believe this perspective is 2 percent higher than when Gallup began asking the question in 1976, and five points short of the 52 percent who agreed with it in 2003.

Those who claimed that the Bible is an “ancient book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man” reached its record high this year with 21 percent. In 1976, only 13 percent of Americans agreed with the statement.

Gallup’s study also sought to clarify what it identified as “two ongoing debates in Christian theology.”

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