Christian beliefs vary greatly:

This essay describes how adults' beliefs differ among various Christian countries, including the Philippines, United States, European countries and Russia. Included also is the non-Christian country of Israel as a comparison. Israel is composed primarily of secularists, although their society is governed largely by very conservative Jewish faith groups.

Two international surveys were conducted during 1991 and 1993 by the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). This is currently located at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.

A comparison beteeen the ISSP survey and common Gallup polls on religion is instructive. The ISSP seeks information on the level of strong beliefs in God and other religious topics. When the Gallup Poll conducts a poll on belief in God, they seem almost to design a question to obscure the results. They ask for belief in "God or a universal spirit." Like the ISSP survey, Gallup does not differentiate between belief in monotheistic God as defined in Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, and other religions, and the creator God in Deism who has since disappeared, polytheistic pantheons of deities, the Goddess and God of Wicca, etc. Futher, Gallup does not differentiate between any of these deities and some vague notion of a supernatural entity who is perhaps impersonal.

In 1991, subjects were asked to agree or disagree with each of the following seven statements: