Do You Believe Jesus Will Return to Earth One Day?

 

In a survey conducted April 11-17, 2022, the Pew Research Center asked, "Do you believe Jesus will return to Earth one day?"

I find the results from that one question to be...interesting.

55% of the Americans surveyed answered, "Yes," 25% answered "No," and 16% said, "I don't believe in Jesus" (which qualifies as a "no," but seems to be a significant distinction from that).

So...Jesus came out slightly ahead overall. That's nice.

What caught me off-guard were the figures for the people who identified themselves as Christians. With a high of 92% of Evangelicals and a low of 62% of Catholics, overall within the group of people who say they are Christians, only 75% said they believe that Jesus will return.

Chew on that a little bit. A full 25% of people who call themselves Christians don't believe the clear teaching of the Bible that "this same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11)

But that's not the worst of it.

2% of all Christians (3% of Catholics and those in mainline protestant denominations) answered "I don't believe in Jesus."

WHAT??!!?

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Truth is...I am perplexed and possibly apoplectic. But I am also saddened. What kind of pointless, self-deluding game is being played by "Christians" who don't believe in Jesus?