I don't believe that I'm making blanket statements.
Stop any Christian on the street and ask her what Christians believe, and she is most likely to list many doctrinal points I omitted, and may or may not get around to adding anything that I listed above.
For example, that average Christian would start with doctrinal points such as: Jesus is Lord; God is a Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion in accordance with the scriptures; the Bible is the word of God; and so on.
I do not believe any of those things. I also know, from direct experience, that the average Christian will insist that I am not a Christian. She is likely to say that Quakers aren't, either.
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Stop any Christian on the street and ask her what Christians believe, and she is most likely to list many doctrinal points I omitted, and may or may not get around to adding anything that I listed above.
For example, that average Christian would start with doctrinal points such as: Jesus is Lord; God is a Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion in accordance with the scriptures; the Bible is the word of God; and so on.
I do not believe any of those things. I also know, from direct experience, that the average Christian will insist that I am not a Christian. She is likely to say that Quakers aren't, either.