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Eternal Information – Part 10 – Supernatural Information Part 3 Anchored by Truth from Crystal Sea Books - a 30 minute show exploring the grand Biblical saga of creation, fall, and redempti
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Episode 202 – Eternal Information – Part 10 – Supernatural Information Part 3
Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God.
Script:
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram ...
Genesis, chapter 14, verse 18, New International Version
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VK: Hello! I’m Victoria K. Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. We’re so happy you’re able to join us here today on Anchored by Truth. For several episodes now we have been working on a series we call “Eternal Information.” We’ve covered a lot of ground so far in this series. If you have missed some of the earlier episodes we encourage you to go to our website crystalseabooks.com where you can hear them. Today, in the studio today we have RD Fierro. RD is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books. RD, what is the big idea that we have wanted to get across during this series. In other words, why spend so much time on a show devoted to the Bible to talk about information?
RD: Well, before we get into our discussion I would also like to welcome everyone to today’s episode. At Anchored by Truth we have one central focus – to help people discover or rediscover a basic truth: the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. That truth is unfortunately disappearing in contemporary America and it’s having a devastating impact on our culture. Every other year since 2014 Ligonier Ministries in conjunction with Life Way Research has conducted a survey to explore what Americans think about God and the Bible. Their most recent survey and the results have, sadly, shown the continuation of some alarming trends – especially as it pertains to how Americans view the Bible.
VK: And anyone who wants to see the results for themselves can view them at “thestateoftheology.com.” [THE STATE OF THEOLOGY dot com]
RD: Yes. There is a lot of valuable information that comes out of the survey but one item that particularly caught my attention and is directly pertinent to what we do on Anchored by Truth was the result of this question. The researchers asked people whether they agreed or disagreed with this statement: “The Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but it not literally true.”
VK: In other words, the researchers were asking people whether they believed the Bible was true. That’s really important to note. They weren’t asking whether people BELIEVED in the Bible. They were asking people whether they thought the Bible was true. This goes directly to the whole reason we do Anchored by Truth. You have often said that the church in the west made a disastrous turn years ago when Christians began insisting that we had a right to our beliefs but we stopped insisting that the Christian faith was true.
RD: Yes. And the survey results are indicative of the consequences of the western church receding from an insistence that the Bible is true and teaches truth. The percentage of U.S. adults agreeing with the statement “The Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true” went from 41 percent who agreed with it in 2014 to 53 percent in 2022. So, the percentage of U.S. adults who accept the Bible as being literally true declined by 12 percent in 8 years. Perhaps even more alarming is that the percentage of adults who would be classified as evangelical and who agreed with the statement rose from 17 percent to 26 percent – a 9 percent increase.
VK: And evangelicals, of course, are the group where you might expect that only 1 or 2 percent would agree with a statement that denies the truth of
Episode 202 – Eternal Information – Part 10 – Supernatural Information Part 3
Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God.
Script:
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram ...
Genesis, chapter 14, verse 18, New International Version
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VK: Hello! I’m Victoria K. Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. We’re so happy you’re able to join us here today on Anchored by Truth. For several episodes now we have been working on a series we call “Eternal Information.” We’ve covered a lot of ground so far in this series. If you have missed some of the earlier episodes we encourage you to go to our website crystalseabooks.com where you can hear them. Today, in the studio today we have RD Fierro. RD is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books. RD, what is the big idea that we have wanted to get across during this series. In other words, why spend so much time on a show devoted to the Bible to talk about information?
RD: Well, before we get into our discussion I would also like to welcome everyone to today’s episode. At Anchored by Truth we have one central focus – to help people discover or rediscover a basic truth: the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. That truth is unfortunately disappearing in contemporary America and it’s having a devastating impact on our culture. Every other year since 2014 Ligonier Ministries in conjunction with Life Way Research has conducted a survey to explore what Americans think about God and the Bible. Their most recent survey and the results have, sadly, shown the continuation of some alarming trends – especially as it pertains to how Americans view the Bible.
VK: And anyone who wants to see the results for themselves can view them at “thestateoftheology.com.” [THE STATE OF THEOLOGY dot com]
RD: Yes. There is a lot of valuable information that comes out of the survey but one item that particularly caught my attention and is directly pertinent to what we do on Anchored by Truth was the result of this question. The researchers asked people whether they agreed or disagreed with this statement: “The Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but it not literally true.”
VK: In other words, the researchers were asking people whether they believed the Bible was true. That’s really important to note. They weren’t asking whether people BELIEVED in the Bible. They were asking people whether they thought the Bible was true. This goes directly to the whole reason we do Anchored by Truth. You have often said that the church in the west made a disastrous turn years ago when Christians began insisting that we had a right to our beliefs but we stopped insisting that the Christian faith was true.
RD: Yes. And the survey results are indicative of the consequences of the western church receding from an insistence that the Bible is true and teaches truth. The percentage of U.S. adults agreeing with the statement “The Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true” went from 41 percent who agreed with it in 2014 to 53 percent in 2022. So, the percentage of U.S. adults who accept the Bible as being literally true declined by 12 percent in 8 years. Perhaps even more alarming is that the percentage of adults who would be classified as evangelical and who agreed with the statement rose from 17 percent to 26 percent – a 9 percent increase.
VK: And evangelicals, of course, are the group where you might expect that only 1 or 2 percent would agree with a statement that denies the truth of
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