3/5/2023 0 Comments I am jesus christ meme![]() It would have been interesting to see whether results changed significantly if the statement had been phrased positively, e.g., “Jesus was fully God and fully man.” At a glance, high percentages of this same sample still affirmed other theologically conservative statements about the Trinity, the authority of Scripture, justification by grace through faith, and even eternal conscious torment (64% “strongly” affirm, even more signaled some level of affirmation). ![]() And besides this, Steve also noted that the “created being” statement was dropped in as a “negative” after a string of statements where checking “agree” meant you were agreeing with something orthodox. So, people should keep all this in mind before they panic. He then further added the filter for education level, and lo and behold, even the one white guy who didn’t have a high school diploma (a millennial) gave an orthodox response! The results were overwhelmingly orthodox. For fun, Steve decided to see what would happen if he filtered just for white men with “evangelical beliefs” in the “created being” statement response data. For example, a higher relative percentage of black evangelicals affirmed that Jesus was created, whereas this was affirmed by a lower relative percentage of Asian evangelicals (granted, there were only 53 Asian-Americans in the sample, but it was a marked difference-where 70% of all the evangelicals were either in agreement or unsure, only 57% of the Asian-Americans fell in this zone).īut perhaps the biggest caveat I would issue about all of this data was also independently picked up by Steve Wedgeworth on Twitter: that when you filter for “evangelical belief” versus “evangelical affiliation,” all of this shifts dramatically. Filtering by ethnicity can bring out interesting results too. It’s fun, and a little addictive! You can learn all kinds of interesting and amusing things-for example, that Gen X had the highest concentration of affirmative answers to the “Jesus was a created being” statement, or that Gen Z and millennials were more insistent on the importance of attending a local church than boomers or older. ![]() I may have stayed up a little too late doing this the other night. You could spend hours playing with the breakdown tool and seeing how the numbers subtly shift with different combinations of denominational affiliation, age, ethnicity, and education. Many articles could be written about these results. Specifically, heads turned at the startlingly high percentage of people who appeared to affirm Christological heresy: 43% “strongly or somewhat” agreeing that “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God,” and 61% “strongly or somewhat” agreeing that “Jesus was the first and greatest being created by God.” Meanwhile, results were markedly more conservative on questions around abortion and sexual ethics, of all kinds, with resounding majorities affirming that abortion, homosexuality, and premarital sex are sinful.
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