Israeli Belief in God Diminishes with Age!
March 30, 2008
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I believe you will find the international poll results quite interesting which were obtained from a study on religion conducted on a worldwide basis. The poll article, from YNet News, follows our heading.
Exodus 20:3 – Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Matthew 22:35-37 – Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, [36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law? [37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Galatians 3:24-26 – Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
[25] But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. [26] For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Israel is one of the few countries in the world that shows a hardening of the heart in unbelief when one examines the population’s belief from the young to the old.
Proverbs 1:24-27 – Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; [25] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: [26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; [27] When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs 29:1 – He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Hebrews 3:8-12 – Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: [9] When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. [10] Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. [11] So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) [12] Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
II Corinthians 3:13-17 – And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: [14] But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
[15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
[16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. [17] Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Israel rejected that liberty hundreds of years ago on the cross of Christ, but He will return at his Second Advent, when we see the kings of the earth gather to make war against him and his remnant of Israel in the Negev Wilderness at Armageddon.
Matthew 23:37-39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Revelation 19:19 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Psalm 2:2-9 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. [5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
his sore displeasure.
[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
[7] I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. [8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts
of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Revelation 19:20,21 – And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Begin YNet News Article
Poll reveals Israelis believe in angels,
ghosts
Global adherence to religion measured by international poll.
Poll director: Only in Israel religious belief lessens with age.
Eldad Beck
March 29, 2008
A poll studying religion on an international level unearthed some interesting numbers regarding Israeli belief in religion and God. 38% of the population was found to believe in a higher power, 16% asserted a belief in ghosts and spirits, and 45% were found to believe in angels.
The poll was conducted by the German Bertelsmann Foundation. It determines that the population calling itself ‘extremely religious’ in Israel is composed mostly of young people, between the ages of 18-29.
According to the poll, 39% of the citizens of Israel between the ages of 18-29 view themselves as being ‘extremely religious’, while 47% of those belonging to this age group have a ‘religious outlook’, and only 13% are not religious at all.
The percentages displaying religious affiliation drop as the age rises. Of the Israeli citizens between the ages of 30-39, 35% deem themselves ‘extremely religious’, and among those aged 50-59 only 26% answer to this term.
According to Dr. Martin Jaeger who directed the survey, where religion is concerned Israel diverges from the norm. In the other 18 countries in which the poll was conducted, religious affiliation was shown to rise with age.
“Only in Israel, the younger you are the more conservative you are. Since the age group in question is the largest existing in the country, it would be interesting to see if Israel becomes more religious in the next few years,” Jaeger remarked
Regarding the Israeli population’s belief in a higher power, the poll determined that 28% of the general population feels shame towards God, while 34% do not. 47% relate to God, while 23% do not relate to Him at all. 17% of Israelis feel anger towards God, while 64% do not feel any anger towards Him.
God makes 52% of the general population happy, and gives 58% hope. Perhaps this is the reason that 57% of Israelis do not believe that the end of the world is imminent.
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