A new study has found that nearly half of evangelicals believe God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Ligonier’s 2025 State of Theology survey, released on Friday, questioned 3,001 Americans, including 637 evangelicals. The survey explores how people today view key doctrines of the Christian faith in order to “diagnose prominent errors” and “prescribe the cure.”
Leaders from Ligonier, a discipleship ministry founded by Reformed theologian R.C. Sproul in 1971, said the findings reveal “instability” in modern evangelicalism, which is increasing because some churches are prioritising “unity” over “sound doctrine.”
“The responses of evangelicals in the 2025 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,” researchers wrote.
What most surprised researchers was the question, “Is God’s Love Unconditional?” Ninety-four per cent of evangelicals agreed with this statement, compared to just 83 per cent of the wider U.S. adult population.
“While there is a genuine sense in which God loves all people whom He has created, Scripture also clearly shows that He extends a special love to His elect, those whom He has called to Himself in salvation and has made His children through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ,” the researchers said.
While half of the evangelicals surveyed believe that God accepts the worship of all religions, 41 per cent agreed that God chose the people He would save before He created the world — a doctrine known as predestination. A further 14 per cent said they were unsure.
Among all respondents, including non-evangelicals, only 27 per cent said God chose the people He would save before He created the world.
One area on which most evangelicals agree is marriage. Nearly all those surveyed affirmed that God designed marriage to be between one man and one woman, compared with 65 per cent of the overall group. About half of all respondents said sex outside a traditional marriage is a sin, and nearly half agreed that abortion is a sin.
Researchers concluded that evangelical churches and individuals lack a firm grasp of the essential Christian faith revealed in Scripture. The solution, according to ministry leaders, is to appoint more “biblically qualified” pastors who can lead God’s people in worship and provide “the accurate exposition of God’s Word on a regular basis.”