USA And The Gospel
Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI
Biblical Authority Ministries, December 8, 2025 (Donate)
The Protestant USA Has Been Inundated With All Other
Religions
This heading really speaks for itself. But let's unpack this a little more.
The United States, which was at one point one of the most Christian
nations on earth, has been inundated by all sorts of [false] religions—Hinduism,
Islam, Buddhism, sexual humanism, New Age, paganism, atheism, secular humanism
and the like. Sadly, the United States was even the source of some new false
religions like Scientology, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormonism.
The fact is that all religions are false except God’s, which is based on the 66 books of the Bible. God and His Word are the very foundation for the concepts of truth and falsity or right and wrong—God defines it. Even the concept of truth comes from the Bible’s foundation.
Like other places in the world, people in the United States can
be deceived to believe false religions. With religions like secularism and
atheism (i.e., no God, big bang, evolutionism, naturalism, materialism, etc.) being
freely taught in government schools, it’s easy to see how so many kids for
generations have been led into false beliefs.
Furthermore, when people are taught religions like atheism, which
are not defensible logically, they are easy targets for false religions to
swoop in and steal their minds like sea gulls on a buffet line on a beach.
And yet, Christianity continues to grow and is defensible against
all opposition. It is fastest growing religion on earth—particularly by
conversions (by the power of the Holy Spirit!). In fact, there are more
Christians alive today than there ever has been. Consider that we started with about
11 disciples (Judas hung himself and then his body was split open by rocks
below).
Even groups that disagree with biblical teachings like Jehovah’s
Witnesses (denial of Jesus deity), Mormons (polytheistic), and Muslims (denial
of Jesus resurrection), they all agree the Bible is true—of course, they want to
put their religious qualifications on it. Nevertheless, when tallied, this means
that more than half of the world’s population is connected to the belief that the Bible
is true.
In Hinduism, which is monistic (i.e., “all is one”), their supreme
“god” who manifests into 3 gods (Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma), and then millions
of gods, is Brahman. Interestingly, pondering the oneness of Brahman and Bramha and doing a little research, reveals that he married Sarasvati and had of course there is another woman convoluted in the lore,
Ghaggar.
One can’t help but see the how real people Abraham (Brahman/Brahma),
Sarah (Sarasvati) and Haggar (Ghaggar) were elevated to a god-like status in
this religion showing it is just a form of ancestor worship predicated on the
Bible’s truth about Abraham. Whether Hindus realize it or not, their religion took from a godly man in the Bible and then warped and paganized him into a monism religion. If
all is one then being logical and illogical are one and the same; therefore,
everything is meaningless in that religion—if they were consistent and if
they were not consistent!
On top of all these, Confucianism, Shinto, animism, Voodoo, witchcraft,
veganism, wicca, Taoism, agnosticism, spiritism, and so many more religions
have all made their way to the USA. The USA today is a melting pot of cultures…and
religions. Sadly, many want to mix religions together—this is called syncretism
or compromise.
I saw Catholicism in Peru mix (syncretize) with the local
pagan gods. In the USA, people from Peru look at us and wondered why some
Christian churches mix their Christianity with secular humanism (i.e., they add
big bang and millions of years and evolution instead of six-day creation). Other
churches mix a form of Christianity with sexual humanism (i.e., the sexual
immorality movement (SIM) with LGBT).
When churches do this, they mock God’s Word by denying its
clear teachings and accept tenets from false religions and elevate false beliefs
to supersede what God says. Sadly, there are many in the United States (and the
Western World) that need to get back to God’s Word from the first to the
last verse. God is ultimate truth and it is by His Word that we will be judged
on Judgment Day.
Of course, the Bible is true and the source of all truth that
God, who is the truth, revealed to us. God promised to preserve His Word and He
has done that—there are tens of thousands of manuscripts and fragments that
show what we read today is the same that they read 2000 years ago.
The Bible’s Vital Teaching
So, what does the Bible teach? Let’s start with the good
news, then let’s discuss the bad news, and then the Good
News—yes, we capped it for a reason.
The “good news”
The good news is that God created everything perfect
and very good. He tells us this in Genesis 1:31 and Deuteronomy 32:4. This is
what was expected from a perfect God—a perfect world. There was no death or
bloodshed or diseases or natural disasters. There were no cancers or heart
attacks.
God is a God of life and the source or all life and all
things. So the world was full of life and there was no death. God created Adam and
Eve—the first two people and our direct ancestors. Your and my life came from
them.
God made them unique from animals, plants, angles, and
rocks. God made man in His eternal, ruling, intellectual, covenantal, image (Genesis 1:26-27). God
gave us something to rule over (dominion) and had a covenant with Adam (e.g., Hosea 6:7), and made us
in a way to have a covenant relationship with Him. Because we are made with a
non-physical eternal aspect (our soul/spirit), this means it will go on
forever.
The “bad news”
The bad news is that all people are sinners by nature
and by choice. Ever since Adam’s (and Eve’s) rebellion in Genesis 3—which was
basically high treason against God, mankind has inherited a sinful condition.
This also means we are separated from a close relationship with God through
spiritual death. We also have corruption and suffering to our bodies that will
lead to physical death.
God is perfectly holy and just, so every sin must be
punished. Scripture teaches that “the wages of sin is death,” meaning eternal
separation from God under His righteous judgment (i.e., eternal conscious punishment
in Hell). No human effort, good works, or religious acts can erase guilt or
earn forgiveness—thus, all these false religions that try to “earn” a form of
salvation are meaningless. Any war waged against an infinitely all-powerful God will easily lose.
Left to ourselves, we stand condemned, unable to meet God’s
perfect standard and wholly incapable of saving ourselves. The nature and
punishment for sin has to do with the nature of God and His infinite power. God
is infinite and eternal and so the just punishment from God would be an
infinite punishment that would go on for eternity.
Having God’s infinite wrath on us for eternity is not
something anyone would want for their sin! This is devastatingly bad news:
mankind is stuck in a hopeless situation without divine intervention.
The “Good News”
The Good News is that the triune God Himself provided
the solution in Jesus Christ. Out of love, God the Father sent His Son to take
on human flesh, live a sinless life, and willingly bear the penalty for sin on
the cross. Jesus willingly laid down His life (John 10:17) because He loved us
(John 3:16-18).
Jesus died as the perfect infinite substitute, fully
satisfying God’s infinite justice. His bodily resurrection on the third day proved
His victory over sin and death and confirms that His eternal sacrifice, which
was once for all, was accepted.
Salvation is a free gift of God’s grace and mercy, not
earned but received through repentance and faith in Christ alone. Those who
believe are forgiven and reconciled to God. We are seen as spotless and righteous
before God because Christ’s perfect righteousness was transferred or “imputed”
to us (Romans 4:23-5:1).
Christ took our sin, and covered its full cost on the Cross and with His bodily resurrection gifted believers an eternal life. We too will follow our Lord in bodily resurrection. This is the Good
News (also called the Gospel, which literally means, “good news”). We become new
creations (2 Corinthians 5:17) passing from death to life (1 John 3:14), adopted as God’s children (Ephesians 1:5), and gifted the Holy Spirit who lives in
us to walk in obedience and hope (Acts 2:38).
Regardless of what country you live—the USA or internationally—it is time for an important question: Have you received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior? It doesn’t matter how bad you’ve been and how far from God you were or what false religion you have been entertaining, it is only one step back to Him.
Bodie Hodge, Ken
Ham's son in law, has been an apologist since 1998 helping out in various
churches and running an apologetics website. He spent 21 years working at Answers
in Genesis as a speaker, writer, and researcher as well as a founding
news anchor for Answers News. He was also head of the Oversight
Council.
Bodie launched Biblical Authority Ministries in 2015 as a personal website and it was organized officially in 2025 as a 501(c)(3). He has spoken on multiple continents and hosts of US states in churches, colleges, and universities. He is married with four children.
