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Betty Karlson

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12. Dogmatism and substantial uniformity are two different matters.
Sat May 7, 2016, 11:48 AM
May 2016

I would indeed argue that those who take the Bible diachronically are all Christians, even if their specific interpretations may be different at times.

But those who take the Bible as a recepy book full of context-less quotes (which is why the literal truth of individual verses may not be contested in their view) - indeed, those only call themselves Christians, but in their hearts lives a different faith.

I notice however, that there is some anger or pain behind your words. Whichever it is: please understand that I don't intend to bait you, only to respond to the content of your reply. The first reply I responded to expressed a hope that those who identify as Christians would see that evolution theories and Biblical truth are not mutually exclusive. I tried to assure him / her that many Christians indeed understand that. (Though not usually as violently, pendantically, and vociferously as those who oppose such notions.) Everything after that is a discussion about specific diacretic symbols I used.

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