How many people in this exclusively Christian group are atheists?
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A thought - you might want to define the word "Christian."
Faith Goudy, for example (woman in the video you recently posted), is not a Christian; she is Roman Catholic: which I'm sure you know is nothing more than a later form of the Baal Worship so hated by the God of Israel in The Old Testament.
Thus, their tall steeples, lush green groves, endless false idols, prayer to the host of heaven, etc...
2 Chronicles 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
And so on...
Fact is, anytime the words "Christian" and or "Christianity" are used by anyone; one should seek to find out what is actually being referred to.
I'm reminded of someone who once said to me they believed in Jesus.
A bit of prodding revealed they were referring to what turned out to be the Mormon version of "Jesus."
Muslims also will at times assert "we believe in your Jesus."
In fact, many who convert to Islam from a supposedly "former Christian" and or a supposedly "former Protestant" background, will turn out (when pressed further) having believed in works for salvation back when they were supposedly "Christian."
At least that is what I have often found during my own evangelism efforts among various Muslims, and others I personally know and or encounter.
And it is interesting what words reveal when carefully listened to.
About a month ago, a convert to Islam I was dealing with kept referring to "them" and or "they" while obviously "witnessing" to me of his "faith."
Turned out he had fallen for this strikingly beautiful Muslim female, but she had been so devout in her Islam that she had kept insisting she could not give him the time of day because he was not Muslim.
Note: the more devout Muslim men do not show pictures of their female family members to others, as they hold their mom, sisters and wife, are sacred. Even asking them how their mom is, is an issue.
Anyway, he converted. Eventually, they married, And so on.
Pressed further, it turned out he had been Roman Catholic prior to his conversion to Islam.
No real stretch there from one "works for salvation" to another.
No thanks.
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Best to check what any individual means by "Christian" "Christianity" "Jesus" "faith..."
The life we save may be their own...
Rom. 5:8
Acts 17:11,12
