Why People Doubt God
69 OUT OF 100 PROTESTANT MINISTERS DENY THERE IS A HELL, 41 ARE IN DOUBT ABOUT HEAVEN, AND 39 THINK THERE WILL BE NO JUDGMENT DAY.
Existence of hell as a real place was denied today by 69 of each 100 Protestant Ministers in answer to Northwestern University School of Education questionnaire that disclosed many modifications in religious beliefs.
That "there is no devil" was the assertion of 54 percent of the clergymen. A majority of the pastors were opposed to having children taught that so-call God-sent punishments, such as earthquakes, fire and floods were punishments for sin.
Eighty percent voted against teaching that hell is a place of burning.
Of the 500 ministers who answered the questionnaire, only 48 percent said they would teach the junior high school pupils that judgment day is really coming. Thirty-nine percent said it would not come to pass.
The existence of heaven was doubted by 41 percent who recommended that it be eliminated from church instructions. Sixty percent believed in angels.
All were virtually unanimous in their belief that "God still runs the world." On the question of a future life, 92 percent recommended teaching that those who die go right on living.
Nineteen percent held that God keeps a record of the individual's bad deeds in a book. While 74 percent supported the deity of Jesus Christ, 26 percent were in opposition.
As I was studying God's blessed Word and feeling His sacred nearness to me, my heart was called to look at the lost and dying people of the land, and I said, "Why, Lord? Why is the creation so blind when God's Word is so sweet to our souls and teaches such a pure and holy life?" Then again I said, "Why, O Lord?"
Then I saw the above statements in the newspaper concerning the 500 ministers who had met and decided for those modifications of Christian living, and I understood. Then I said, "Then, Lord, people as a whole do not rise above their leaders." So let us take warning and choose God and His Word for our leader.
Your saved brother in defense of the gospel, -Sam Barton.
When we consider the above statements made by so many ministers that fill the pulpits of our land, it is not surprising that Christendom in general is in such an ungodly condition. Thousands of ministers that fill the pulpits teach that we cannot expect to live free from sin in this life. Such teaching is anti-Christ doctrine and denies the power in the atoning blood of Christ to save one and keep him free from sin. God says in His Word, "That we should be holy and without blame before him in love." Eph. 1:4.
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