Record Low 6 Percent of Americans Adhere to a Biblical Worldview, New Study Shows

A new study shows that only six percent of Americans adhere to a biblical worldview.

The American Worldview Inventory 2020 survey is a premier study of an annual report conducted by veteran researcher George Barna of the newly launched Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (ACU).

“The survey asked 51 worldview questions that examined both what people believe and how they conduct their lives”, The Christian Post reports.

The survey found that approximately one-fifth of congregants in evangelical Protestant churches hold fast to a biblical worldview (21 percent), whereas only one-sixth of those who attend charismatic or Pentecostal churches (16 percent) adhere to a biblical worldview.

Additionally, the numbers throughout mainline Protestant churches (8 percent), and Catholics (1 percent) were even lower.

Defined in part by “their acceptance of scriptural exhortations regarding sin, grace, and salvation,” the survey found that born again Christians were three times more likely (19 percent) to have a biblical worldview than the average.

Nonetheless, the report asserts that this with less than one-fifth of born-again adults holding a biblical worldview, it suggests that there has been an “extensive decline of core Christian principles in America over the last several decades.”

Notional Christians, the largest segment of people who profess Christ but…