More than half of self-identified evangelical Christians believe there is more than one path to salvation, according to a poll released Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. More than 35,000 Americans were surveyed.
Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, said he was unsettled by the results, which go against evangelical teaching.
“That shows the contradiction with the New Testament, where Jesus is saying, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” he said. “ 'Nobody gets to the Father but through Me.’”
Daly said he believes the culture will suffer when Christians abandon their foundational beliefs.
“Those are the very core things that hold us together as a community of believers,” he said. “It’s indicative of where we’re at in the modern age.”
Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, said Christians may be reinventing their beliefs.
“Americans seem to be fashioning their own beliefs on many of these things," he said, "because it doesn’t seem to correspond to the official teachings that they’re getting from their own church.”
