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View Poll Results: Christians, have you done any of the following | |
Believed in creationism
|     | 162 | 65.06% | |
Read at least three books of the Bible
|    | 203 | 81.53% | |
Read the entire Bible
|    | 106 | 42.57% | |
Thought you wern't trying enough to witness the supernatural
|    | 69 | 27.71% | |
Gone to Christian Camps
|    | 117 | 46.99% | |
Given money to Christian organisations (eg church)
|    | 210 | 84.34% | |
Gone to a fundamentalist church >50 times
| | 101 | 40.56% | |
Gone to a conservative (eg Catholic) church >50 times
| | 89 | 35.74% | |
Gone to a liberal church >50 times
| | 58 | 23.29% |
9th June 2006, 05:34 PM
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Reps: 16 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by anawim Then you need to remove Catholic from the "eg.", because we believe the Bible to be innerant.
Um... not really. Some catholics may believe that, but that is not the official position of the Vatican is it? Lousy translators have said innerant rather than infallible, but on the whole Catholics are conservatives. |
10th June 2006, 01:21 PM
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Reps: 101 (power: 0) | | Interesting poll!
What's behind all this?
I'm curious ....  |
10th June 2006, 06:41 PM
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Reps: 9,223,372,051,715,188 (power: 9,223,372,051,741) | | Originally Posted by bluskies Interesting poll!
What's behind all this?
I'm curious ....
Your question was answered already:  Originally Posted by alancooney I'm comparing it to deconverted atheists to see the similarities and differences. Its too early to compare the results acurately, but Ill reveal them when we have enough votes. |
10th June 2006, 07:20 PM
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Reps: 152,317,091,320,809,376 (power: 152,317,091,320,823) | | | It’s sad, but I think I meet more atheist who has read the bible then Christians who have. |
10th June 2006, 07:22 PM
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Reps: 9,223,372,051,715,188 (power: 9,223,372,051,741) | | Originally Posted by moonkitty It’s sad, but I think I meet more atheist who has read the bible then Christians who have.
In my experience, The pendulum swings both ways. I've known a lot of atheists who mistakenly think themselves experts on Christianity, too. |
11th June 2006, 09:02 AM
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Reps: 16 (power: 0) | | | The other comment I can now safely make on the results is that thinking lack of communication with God is your fault makes you alot more likely to deconvert. |
11th June 2006, 09:12 AM
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Reps: 1,137,617 (power: 1,149) | | | I checked off everything but "believed in creationism" and "thought you weren't trying enough to witness the supernatural.
And here are the possible problems with my votes... I'm a TEer, which technically is still creationism of a sort, just not in the literal way it was described in the Bible.
And the second one I didn't check off... I'm honestly not sure what you mean by it. Want to clarify?
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11th June 2006, 09:14 AM
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Reps: 329,585 (power: 0) | | | I do attend a conservative church, but could not go to a Catholic church, so I couldn't answer that one.
Not all conservative churches are Catholic and most Catholic churches are, in fact, quite liberal. |
11th June 2006, 09:16 AM
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Reps: 329,585 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by DailyBlessings In my experience, The pendulum swings both ways. I've known a lot of atheists who mistakenly think themselves experts on Christianity, too.
GO to General Apologetics sometimes.
Nearly every atheist there will tell you, "Oh, I used to be a Christian but quit because I couldn't reconcile..."
...and then go on to name some goofy thing that Christianity never taught. |
14th June 2006, 11:59 AM
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Reps: 789,829,602,000,108 (power: 789,829,602,012) | | Originally Posted by alancooney Um... not really. Some catholics may believe that, but that is not the official position of the Vatican is it?
Yes it is. II. INSPIRATION AND TRUTH OF SACRED SCRIPTURE 105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."69
"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."70 106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."71 107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72 108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living".73 If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."74
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