A new survey reveals a troubling reality for those who hold Scripture as the foundation of truth. Just 36% of Americans agree that “the Bible is totally accurate in all the principles it presents.” This leaves a vast majority viewing God’s Word through a lens of doubt, error, or outright dismissal, signaling a deeper erosion in the nation’s spiritual backbone.
The findings come from the American Bible Society’s State of the Bible 2025 report, which paints a picture of widespread skepticism. Nearly one in five respondents see the Bible as a tool “written to control and manipulate.” Another quarter dismiss it as “just another book.” Among non-Christians, distrust runs even higher, with 70% rejecting its accuracy outright. These numbers expose how far society has drifted from the days when biblical authority shaped laws, families, and communities.
Gallup polls show a steady slide: back in 1984, 40% of Americans took the Bible as the literal word of God, but by 2022, that figure had plummeted to 20%. More recent data from Lifeway Research in 2025 pegs it at a mere 14%. The pattern suggests something deliberate at work—decades of public education pushing Darwinian theories as unquestionable fact, Hollywood flooding screens with godless narratives, and tech giants censoring voices that defend traditional faith.
It’s no coincidence that as prayer vanished from schools and crosses from public squares, belief in Scripture’s reliability followed suit.
Whispers of a larger agenda linger here. Global elites and shadowy organizations have long sought to dismantle Biblical influence, viewing it as a barrier to their vision of a compliant, secular world order. From the United Nations’ promotion of “inclusive” ideologies that mock Genesis to the rise of AI-driven propaganda that questions divine inspiration, the assault on the Bible feels orchestrated. After all, a people unmoored from eternal truths become easier to sway with fleeting trends and government edicts.
Yet amid the gloom, pockets of resistance emerge. The same State of the Bible report notes a surge in Bible engagement among Millennials, defying expectations in a generation bombarded by woke indoctrination. Scripture-engaged individuals report lower stress, stronger purpose, and greater generosity—proof that God’s Word still transforms lives when embraced. For churches and families, this is a call to double down: teach the young, expose the deceptions, and reclaim the authority of the Bible before the lukewarm tide engulfs us all.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
This is one of those bogus questions. The Bible is inherent in its original manuscripts, but a good number of those who say the Bible isn’t totally accurate are Bible scholars who wholly believe the Bible is the trustworthy word of God.. There are, indeed some internal inconsistencies between books, but they are minor things, like a difference in number or spelling of names. So the knowledgable Bible scholar who holds the Bible as being inerrant will agree that it is not “totally accurate,” but totally inerrant in original manuscripts and 99.99% accurate. And to those who want to be honest, “99.99% is not “totally.”
If you believe that the Bible is totally accurate, then you have to accept ridiculous things like that Noah took two of every animal on the ark and fed them for a year, that people used to live for nine centuries, that snakes and donkeys talk, etc. To me, the sad thing is that 36% of Americans still believe such fairy tales.
You wrote: “If you believe that the Bible is totally accurate, …”
It is and I do.
“…then you have to accept ridiculous things like that Noah took two of every animal on the ark and fed them for a year, …”
Well, the Lord Jesus didn’t think it was ridiculous, so neither do I. (Mat 24:37-38; Luk 17:26-27)
And it wasn’t “two of every animal”.
Two points:
it was 2 of the UNCLEAN and 7 of the CLEAN. This was so they would have animals to eat as well as offer in sacrifice.
They only needed one of each KIND. Breeding over time would introduce the different types that we now see.
Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Gen_8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
“…that people used to live for nine centuries,…”
God’s renders a day like 1000 years.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
People lived just short of 1000 years…and will once again when He comes back and restores the Earth to its original state. This is in keeping with the admonition and promise from God that in the day they break His rule(s), aka as “sin”, they would die.
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
And finally, your comment re: “…that snakes and donkeys talk…”
The donkey spoke by the miracle from God to the (AHEM) ass that was riding her to get his attention.
The serpent spoke by a miracle from the evil one to deceive.
Your comment, if you will forgive me, is evidence the deception still exists. If we are deceived, we do not know we are.
The Scriptures are 100 percent accurate in their original. You will meet the Author in due time.
You are a loon. By the way can you heal a dying person or rise someone out of the grave? Can you handle poisonous snakes or drink poison? These things and more you should be able to do according to your savior. How many mountains have you moved lately?
If you say the bible is 100% accurate then you’re making the claim that it has lost zero correctness through every stage of re-translation. People often can’t copy a single page without making at least one mistake. You also have to claim that it hasn’t lost any of its context or meaning when going from ancient Hebrew to Greek, Latin, German, Old English, and now modern English. There’s just no way. Then you have believe the notion that the corrupt churches who claimed sole ownership of the texts didn’t alter them in any way to justify their teachings and hierarchy. Yes the Christian Bible contains many truths. However, I’d wager that many more truths have been deliberately removed or distorted over the last two thousand years.
The Bible is absolutely 100% accurate..but that is not to say that every word is to be taken literally. It is also not to say that every word of the Bible needs to be couched within a specific historical context. No, the Bible is a much,much more profound document than that.
Furthermore, if you don’t believe that Jesus Christ was with us in the flesh some 2,000 years ago, and that God has the power to make all come to pass as he wills, go away because you and nothing more than a blind man claiming that there is no light in this world.
It is only by being guided by the Holy Spirit that an accurate understanding of the Bible is possible. Yes, cupcake, if your understanding about what is written in the Bible is not a result of being guided by the Holy Spirit, please go back to playing Fort Nite.
We are in the End Times and the Great Tribulation is surely coming, though it may still be two decades away or so. Think that’s a long time? Look how fast the last 20 years flew by.
There is a series of articles called the Biblical Disclosings series. If you want to check out the real power of what is written in the Bible you should check it out. I forget who wrote it but I do remember that I saw it on Rense a while back. Rense keeps all articles it posts in a running yearly archive. Look for the MORE link at the bottom of his main page. You’ll find it if you want to find it, or if you are supposed to find it. It’s not for mental midgets so that eliminates at least 70% of you reading this, but for those of you that can critically think for more than five minutes you should check it out. One thing is true, you won’t say the Bible is of no value if you are able to catch a clue.
Hey Mick, you say the endtimes are near. You know Jesus said that exact same thing 2000 years ago and we are still freekin waiting. Only an idiot would believe half the crap in your precious book. Here’s one for you: Jesus said he would be in the grave three days and three nights. Friday afternoon to dawn on Sunday is nowhere near three days and three nights. Stupid people say Friday, Saturday and Sunday are three days but if you know your bible you would know that Genesis says that one day equals one period of darkness followed by one period of daylight. Learn to use what brain cells you have remaining.
You’re in good company. The Jews say the same thing.