There's no doubt that Americans consider themselves religious, with various surveys showing that as many as 95 percent say they believe in God or another higher power.
Americans are not only overwhelmingly religious 92% say they believe in God and 63% believe that the Bible is the word of God but they also believe that religiousness is a sign of good character.
They believe in using their God-given talent to inspire the next generation to reach a little higher and work a little harder.
Darrell Bock, a New Testament scholar at Dallas Theological Seminary, says some Pentecostals hold to their convictions in the face of opposition because they believe they are in tune with the will of God.
Besides learning that they are somehow lacking in empathy or goodness or the ability to heal, little guidance is being provided to those who among them have decided that they cannot believe in a sometimes violent and irascible God or who in fact have found their faith in God in question as a result of this tragedy.
They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
This impulse dating as far back as the first hoe has been considered beneficial, Watson argues, because people have assumed that altering the shape of nature does not have real consequences, or because they have measured those consequences only in relation to how they affect humanity, or because they believe that they have a God-given right to do what they wish with plants and animals.
He warns that America and Europe are the new Babylons because they believe in every religion, when the Bible clearly says that God wants Pentecostal Christianity alone.
They are in some respects like "insane" criminals who believe that God or the devil told them to do it.
Whether or not you believe in God, religions accomplish something miraculous: They turn large numbers of people who are not kin into a group that is able to work together, trust each other, and help each other.
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