What Do Evangelicals In The USA Believe?

The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of R.C. Sproul’s classic book The Holiness of God. Dr. Sproul wrote this work out of a desire that all people would know what Scripture teaches about who God truly is in His greatness, majesty, and holiness. The responses of evangelicals in the 2025 Ligonier State of Theology survey reveal that the true character of God as displayed in Scripture is either not being taught in many evangelical churches or not understood by individual evangelicals. For example, the survey shows that many evangelicals hold theologically erroneous beliefs about the nature of God and the sinfulness of man—two critically important areas of doctrine that lay the foundation for all other theological beliefs. Specifically, 64% of evangelicals believe that “Everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God,” and 53% affirm that “Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.”

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