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Nearly 40% of US Evangelicals believe God chose whom He would save before He created the world

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A new survey shows that 38% of American Evangelicals believe according to the “doctrine of election,” that God sovereignly chose those people whom He would save even before the creation of the world, Christian Headlines reports. The survey also found that 44% of Evangelicals were found not to believe this.

Conducted by Lifeway Research and Ligonier Ministries, the State of Theology Survey found that 38 percent of evangelicals agree that: “God chose the people he would save before he created the world.” The survey was carried out in March 2020 with 3002 respondents.

Commenting on the 44% of respondents who were found not to accept the doctrine of election, Ligonier Teaching Fellow Dr Stephen Nichols said that “sadly” many Evangelicals “stumble” over this teaching and “outright find it offensive.”
“They cannot envision a God who would violate their free will, and they cannot attribute to God this doctrine, which we would say is a biblical teaching, of divine election,” Nichols added.

Also known as the doctrine of predestination, this subject has been extensively debated in the Church. According to some believers, God sovereignly chooses whom he will save before a person is born into the world; others affirm God saves those who choose Him from their own free will.