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Originally Posted by FireFly
Not sure what that has to do with what I wrote about. If you had the hours it would take me to explain my beliefs, you'd know that they're quite nailed down.
Do you think fundamentalists outnumber 'liberal Christians' or is that just the perception due to how loud and ignorant they are?
This 'panel'... how many peopel were on it? It seems to me that if it's a panel, it's probably a rather small sampling of people which would not be an accurate representation of the Christian population as a whole.
But then I've never claimed to be your average 'liberal Christian'. Maybe I should get a whole new category?
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In post #196 you responded to my quote...
Originally Posted by
Cheese 
of course many of todays "Liberal Christians" have changed the dogma to suit their own standards vs what is actually written in the tomes that they supposedly espouse.
You said...
This I have a problem with... language evolves as does knowledge. For God to use modern day terms when speaking with the Jews 2000+ years ago, no one would have understood what he was saying. Instead he used words that had meaning then and have meaning now. The jist of it is the same, the specifics change. Why weren't dinosaurs in the Bible? (As an example...) Well, they'd never seen dinosaur bones. Why confuse them?
Is it changing the dogma, or is it using the things we now KNOW (that'd be where science comes in!) that we didn't know before to help explain what is written? You've apparently already decided it's changing the dogma, but perhaps that's too narrow a view of the Word.
Hence my comment regarding Liberal Christianity. I know you support Christianity, I understand where you come from and I dont hold it against you. I do think you are what can be termed in todays vernacular...a "Liberal Christian". Not?