Well this is certainly perplexing.
According to a CNS News report last Thursday, Belief in Bible Climbed as Employment Declined, Say Gallup and Labor Dept. Data
This May—three years after Bible belief hit its all-time low and skepticism its all-time high in Gallup polling, and with unemployment having climbed to 9.1 percent—a combined 79 percent of Americans told Gallup they believe the Bible was the actual or inspired word of God, while only 17 percent said it was a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.
I guess on the surface this uptick isn’t that puzzling, human nature being what it is. As they say “There are no atheists in foxholes”. When the good times are rolling we “roll” away from God. But when the bad times hit, we tend to “roll” back.
What’s perplexing is the disconnect. The survey results just beg so many questions. Here are a couple:
• Have Bible believers actually read the Book?
• Do we believe, but just choose to ignore God’s word (until we’re at death’s door)?
• If almost 80% of Americans actually believe in the Bible why are we losing the country?
• Do any of the believers live in Washington D.C.? 
(Sorry – a little levity.)
• Do we believe but just aren’t willing to live as if we do?
Praise God, a handful of early Christians, alight with the Holy Spirit, transformed not just Rome, but the entire world. And here we are 2000 years later, some 245 million U.S. believers (if the polling is even close), doing what?
If we really are still a fundamentally Christian nation, we need to start acting like it.
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Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ~ James 2:17
