A new study 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 Friday, surveyed 3,0001 Americans, including 637 evangelicals. The survey reveals how people today view key doctrines of the Christian faith 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 survey findings reveal “instability” in modern evangelicalism that is increasing because some churches are prioritizing “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,” survey researchers wrote.
What was most surprising for researchers was the question, “Is God’s Love Unconditional?” - 94% of evangelicals agreed with this statement compared to just 83% of the U.S. adult population surveyed.
“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,” researchers said.
While half of the evangelicals surveyed believe that God accepts the worship of all religions, 41% agree that God chose the people He would save before He created the world, which is a doctrine called predestination. Another 14% said they were unsure.
Among all respondents, including non-evangelicals, only 27% said God chose the people He would save before He created the world.
One area on which most evangelicals agree is marriage. Nearly all evangelicals surveyed agreed that God designed marriage to be between one man and one woman, while only 65% of the entire group surveyed agreed with this. About half of all respondents said sex outside of 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 get more “biblically qualified” pastors who can lead God’s people in worship and “ the accurate exposition of God’s Word on a regular basis.”