{"id":46611,"date":"2014-10-29T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_survey_finds_many_american_evangelicals_hold_unorthodox_views_on_major_d\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:05:00","slug":"ct_survey_finds_many_american_evangelicals_hold_unorthodox_views_on_major_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46611","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Survey finds many American evangelicals hold unorthodox views on major doctrines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.<\/p>\n<p>A survey released today by LifeWay Research for Ligonier Ministries \u201creveals a significant level of theological confusion,\u201d\u009d said Stephen Nichols, Ligonier\u2019s chief academic officer. Many evangelicals do not have orthodox views about either God or humans, especially on questions of salvation and the Holy Spirit, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals did score high on several points. Nearly all believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead (96%), and that salvation is found through Jesus alone (92%). Strong majorities said that God is sovereign over all people (89%) and that the Bible is the Word of God (88%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/october-web-only\/new-poll-finds-evangelicals-favorite-heresies.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church. A survey released today by LifeWay Research for Ligonier Ministries \u201creveals a significant level of theological confusion,\u201d\u009d said Stephen Nichols, Ligonier\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46611\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}