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Author Topic:   Where Faith Comes From in the "moderate" Christian religions
Teapots&unicorns
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Message 1 of 3 (513092)
06-24-2009 8:42 PM


In a recent post I've thought about how "moderate" Christians come to their religion besides through the Bible (as to them it's not ALL literally true). If so, then on what do they base their beliefs? Any takers/thoughts?
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : To reset "signature" to smaller font size.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Added the "in the "moderate" Christian religions" part to the topic title. Also changed the "all" to "ALL.

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Message 2 of 3 (513108)
06-25-2009 2:19 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Teapots&unicorns
06-24-2009 8:42 PM


Some changes to message 1 done
See the "Edited by Adminnemooseus" note.
I wanted to more stress that this was NOT about the more extreme fundamentalist literal Bible Christianity.
Also, I have edited your "signature" at your profile, to make the text a finer print. That way your "signature" does not so dominate the content of your messages. I also strongly suggest that you not activate your "signature" for all your messages, especially if you are posting more than one or two messages per day. I find it annoying to get hammered by that much "signature" text in a lot of messages. And you don't want to annoy the Adminnemooseus.
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06-25-2009 2:20 AM


Thread copied to the Where Faith Comes From in the "moderate" Christian religions thread in the Faith and Belief forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.

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