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View Poll Results: TEs - what denomination do you come from? | |
Catholic
|    | 1 | 3.13% | |
Anglican/Episcopalian/Church of England
|    | 5 | 15.63% | |
Lutheran
|    | 6 | 18.75% | |
Reformed
|    | 1 | 3.13% | |
Presbyterian
|    | 3 | 9.38% | |
Methodist
|    | 3 | 9.38% | |
Baptist
|    | 1 | 3.13% | |
Pentecostal/charismatic
|    | 2 | 6.25% | |
Independent or home church
|    | 3 | 9.38% | |
Other - please specify in a post
|    | 9 | 28.13% |  | | 
3rd July 2006, 10:56 AM
|  | a very cranky octogenarian at heart 32 
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3rd July 2006, 11:57 AM
|  | Not just any Willtor... The Mighty Willtor 28 
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Reps: 5,323,787,526,265,381 (power: 5,323,787,526,276) | | | I was raised in the American Baptist Church. There are a number of reasons I don't consider myself a Baptist, anymore, though none of them have anything to do with evolution. My mom is still a Baptist and if she's not a TE, now, she's certainly not condemning it. I was, however, taught YEC in Church and nursery school (I went to a Christian nursery school).
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3rd July 2006, 07:38 PM
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3rd July 2006, 08:00 PM
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Reps: 143,754,221,687 (power: 143,754,234) | | Originally Posted by steen So are Christian schools mainly for the purpose of "protecting" kids agains science and similar?
In my experience that's more the purpose of home-schooling.
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3rd July 2006, 10:06 PM
|  | The Great Pumpkin
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Reps: 554 (power: 0) | | | I voted independent bacause I consider myself non-denominational, but I attend the church of Christ which some consider a denomination. | 
31st May 2007, 10:29 AM
|  | Veteran 43  | | Join Date: 21st February 2007 Location: Way out in left field
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I am a member of the "church of Christ", a non-denominational denomination  . I was thinking it was interesting that this ministry - Does God Exist? by John Clayton - is theistic evolutionary-based and quite popular among various CofC's. Origins theory is not typically taught, and I've never seen it used as a test for one's salvation.
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31st May 2007, 12:54 PM
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Reps: 2,809,172,953,281 (power: 2,809,172,971) | | | You might like to edit the link. I got a "file not found" tring to use it. Works ok if you take out the christianforums url.
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31st May 2007, 02:20 PM
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Reps: 18,319,582,901,996 (power: 18,319,582,906) | | Originally Posted by gluadys You might like to edit the link. I got a "file not found" tring to use it. Works ok if you take out the christianforums url.
Now how did THAT happen?
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1st June 2007, 12:35 AM
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Reps: 344,362 (power: 350) | | | I've been a Methodist all of my life. The age of the earth has never been a major issue, and I can't recall that the question has ever been raised at the church I attend. That's what I like about Methodism, we focus on the essentials (The centrality of Christ and forgiveness through his death on the cross) while leaving the non-essentials up to personal study, which echoes the words of both St. Augustine and the Moravians:
In essentials, unity, in non-essentials, liberty, in all things charity.
In fact, the High School astronomy/physics teacher I had in high school is a member of my church. He's retired now, but that astronomy class is one of my all time favorites, both from high school and college combined.
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1st June 2007, 01:23 AM
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Reps: 2,809,172,953,281 (power: 2,809,172,971) | | | I see on reviewing the poll that I put down Presbyterian, and that is now out-of-date.
I was actually raised in the United Church of Canada (a union of Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Evangelical Brethren) but became Presbyterian when we moved to a community where the Presbyterian congregation was friendlier. I joined the Evangelical Baptists for a short time when I married, but was appalled when I discovered they promoted creationism. (That's where I first discovered it--it was never an issue in the United or Presbyterian churches). My husband followed me back into the Presbyterian fold, where I stayed until my recent move to Toronto. In my neighbourhood I found the Anglican congregation to be the friendliest and liveliest and to have the most active outreach, so I am now Anglican.
Except for leaving the Evangelical Baptists, doctrine has never been a factor in my denomination-switching. If my husband had been Convention Baptist instead of Evangelical Baptist, I would probably still be Baptist.
I have always been active in ecumenical ministries and consider myself more an ecumenist than having ties to any denomination.
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