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Originally Posted by Og  Thats neat that you think that. I suppose you advocate a literal interpretation of everything in the bible including a young earth creation stance in order to be christian? |
Oh really ? I had no idea that saying that deying central claims of Christianity precludes being a Christian had this particular implication. I'm still baffled by your suggestion.
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Originally Posted by Og And no one else can be christian unless they take such a literalist interpretation? |
Let's have a look at this "interpretation". Someone can be an atheist and say : "
I don't believe in God, but I've read the New Testament and you know what, I actually like some teachings of Jesus Christ. It doesn't matter he didn't exist, it has no bearing on his claims"
Who do we have here then ? We have a Christian atheist. So protestants are christians, catholics are christians and even atheists can be christians.
Isn't that cute ?
You deny the core ideas of Christianity. Whatever differentiates for example catholics and protestants that is not denial of core ideas of Christianity as religion.
One of consequences of streching definition of any term to the point that it becomes flexible as a bubble gum is that it starts to mean almost everything so in fact it means nothing