AFN reported previously on a new study that came out of the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University. According to pollster George Barna and his 2026 American Worldview Inventory, only 57% of Americans believe humans are God's creation, made in His image, fallen and in need of redemption — despite 70% of them saying they're Christians.
Barna tells “At The Core” on American Family Radio (AFR) that it's because many of the 70% have a non-biblical worldview.
“If and when somebody actually opens up the Bible and begins to read it, they read it through their lens, they interpret it through the way that they view the world,” Barna said. “That's why worldview is so critical.”
Barna stressed that is why it’s important to teach children because, as he says, “any person’s worldview is developed by the age of 13, and then they carry that with them for the rest of their life.” That person, he said, will then filter everything he hears and is taught according to that worldview.
Alex McFarland of Truth for a New Generation tells AFR’s “Today's Issues” that many Americans who think they are Christians actually have what he calls a "syncretic" faith, or a blending of beliefs from different faiths.
“People are, like, ‘spiritual,’ but they just don't know the Bible, and it's imperative. We've got to get back to this thing called discipleship,” McFarland says.
The only way to correct a faulty worldview, McFarland says, is by paying attention to the Word of God.
“Here is what is imperative, urgent, critical, a top-drawer need to get back to what the Bible says. When we deviate from what Scripture says, very quickly we're on sinking sand,” McFarland states.
McFarland says even if people do have a biblical worldview, many Christians ignore the hard parts of the Bible.
“Is the Word of God the authority that it needs to be in our life?” McFarland asks.
