Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

According to a new survey conducted by Glu and the Barna Group, Americans are reading their Bibles

more. As a recent article in the Christian Post summarized, quote, approximately 50% of

self-identified Christians report reading the Bible

weekly, the highest level of Bible reading among Christians in more than a decade, end quote.

And the trend is especially pronounced among millennial and Gen Z men, and it represents a 12%

rebound from the lowest point of Bible reading in 2024.

This is good news.

However, according to the very same study, only 36% of Americans believe that the Bible's

100% accurate.

That's a number significantly down from 2000 when it was 43%.

In fact, and I quote from the article, just 44% of self-identified Christians

strongly affirmed the accuracy of the Bible. That is not good news. On a radio broadcast back in

1952, the eminent theologian Carl F.H. Henry commented on a poll from his day that found 99%

of Americans believed in God.

With a justified cynicism, however, he said this.

The vast majority of Americans today may believe in a ghost god, a phantom god, a god who

makes very little difference in the great decisions of life and even less in the cares of

everyday existence.

Well, his concern proved correct.

It was years later in their book, Soul Searching,

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