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    I think it'd be interesting if some of you guys would just list a bullet style survey of what you more or less believe on particular objects, follow as you see fit.

    Religion: Protestant-Christian
    Denomination: None
    Soteriology: Calvinism
    End times: Pretrib
    Millennial Times: More or less premillennial.
    Covenantal Theology: New Covenant
    Marriage: Complimentarianism
    Baptism: Credobaptist
    Communion: Christ is active and present within the believer, not the room or objects being consumed.
    Hell: Eternal and endless, while living
    Mary: Lost her virginity and bore two sons, both of whom wrote a book of the Bible. Not divine, nothing significant beyond being the mother of Christ, but no particular significance to even come along with that. Wretched sinner like myself.
    Creation: Young Earth Creationist
    Charismatic beliefs: Continuationalist (more or less)
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Hypostatic Union (hopefully you all agree with this)
    After Christ's death: He proceeded into paradise. Not hell or hades. And rose on the third day from death.
    Bible: 100% Infallible and inerrant
    Biblical Canon: 66 books, no Apocryphal
    Trinity: Trinitarian (If you don't believe in the trinity, you are a Modalist and would get along well with The Shack.)
    Interpretation methods: Sola Scriptura
    Salvation: Sola fide, sola gratia, & solus Christus.

    That's all I can think of, just thought it'd be fun to see what people say.
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    Religion: Protestant/Adventist
    Denomination: Seventh Day Adventist
    End times: There is no tribulation
    Covenantal Theology: New Testament and Old Testament
    Baptism: Adult baptism
    Hell: is simply death.
    Mary: A Bible person who gave birth to Jesus.
    Creation: Young Earth Creationist
    After Christ's death: He proceeded into heaven.
    Bible: 100% infallible and inerrant
    Biblical Canon: 66 books
    Trinity: They are three separate but all the same.
    Interpretation methods: I don't necessary believe in Sola Scriptura.
    "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." C.S. Lewis
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    Religion: Christian
    Denomination: N/A
    Soteriology: N/A
    End times: N/A
    Millennial Times: N/A
    Covenantal Theology: N/A
    Marriage: N/A
    Baptism: Are clothed with Christ in it, necessary act
    Communion: N/A
    Hell: Temporary, punishment for wicked
    Mary: Blessed among women, mother of Christ
    Creation: N/A
    Charismatic beliefs: N/A
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Both God and man
    After Christ's death: Resurrected 3rd day, ascended unto heaven soon after
    Bible: Message of God
    Biblical Canon: Unsure
    Trinity: 3 entities, 1 deity.
    Interpretation methods: N/A
    Salvation: Mercy of God.
    Today, God, give me the ability to love as you do, and the grace I need to continue on with you.

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    Religion: Historical Christian - Catholic
    Rite: Roman
    Soteriology: Catholic
    End times: Orthodox Preterism
    Millennial Times: Amillennial
    Covenantal Theology: Omega Point cosmology
    Marriage: Complimentarianism
    Baptism: Any mode, infant, blood, desire.
    Communion: Transubstantiation
    Hell: the state of eternal separation from God
    Mary: Co-Redemptrix, Theotokos, Ever-Virgin, Immaculate Conception, Assumed, Queen of Heaven, Panagia, Ark of the Covenant, New Eve, Exterminatrix of Heresy, κεχαριτωμένη, Mother of the Church, The Woman of the Apocalypse, Holy Mary, Blessed among Women
    Creation: Theistic Evolutionist
    Charismatic beliefs: Catholic
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Diophysitism
    After Christ's death: "[Was] buried, descended into Hell; on the third day He rose again."
    Bible: Cannot be infallible because that can only apply to teaching institutions/persons; inerrant, the inspired word of God.
    Biblical Canon: 73 books, as defined for the first time by the Church in 393 at the Synod of Hippo
    Trinity: Trinitarian
    Interpretation methods: I read and interpret within the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
    Salvation: Catholic; free will, justification/sanctification through the Sacraments of the Church; purgatory if necessary
    Ecclesiology: Bishop of Rome (the Pope) is infallible under certain conditions to uphold the unity of the Church; communion with the Church is defined by communion with the Bishop of Rome; Apostolic Succession; Church magisterium is infallible; Church Militant (here on earth), Church Suffering (in purgatory), and Church Triumphant (in Heaven); Scripture is part of the deposit of faith that the Church protects, teaches, explains, and defends

    Notes on Mary: I DO NOT WORSHIP MARY. If you do not understand a title, look it up; none of those equivocate Mary with Christ or in any way say she is divine.

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    Religion: Christianity
    Denomination: Southern Baptist (Protestant)
    Soteriology: 50-50 Calvinist/Arminian
    End times: PreTribulational rapture (I would be happy to provide reasons for this)
    Millennial Times: PreMillenial
    Covenantal Theology: New Covenant
    Marriage: Complimentarianism
    Baptism: Credobaptist
    Communion: Is a symbol of Christ's death for us. (memorialism)
    Hell: Eternal and endless, while living
    Mary: Lost her virginity and bore two sons, both of whom wrote a book of the Bible. Not divine, nothing significant beyond being the mother of Christ, but no particular significance to even come along with that. Wretched sinner like myself.
    Creation: Young Earth Creationist (the earth is about 15,000 years old)
    Charismatic beliefs: Continuationalist
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Hypostatic Union
    After Christ's death: Idk
    Bible: 100% Infallible and inerrant in the original autographs. Today, about one percent of the whole Bible has textual errors.
    Biblical Canon: 66 books of the Protestant Bible
    Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; all Three separate, yet all Three are One.
    Interpretation methods: Sola Scriptura
    Salvation: Sola fide, sola gratia, & solus Christus.
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    Religion: Christian
    Denomination: in the valley (or is it a mountain) that lies between eastern orthodoxy and reformed christianity. And walking slowly towards the orthodox side it would appear/
    Soteriology: Calvinism
    End times: Its gonna happen sometime somehow...
    Millennial Times: pfft
    Covenantal Theology: ...
    Marriage: Complimentarianism
    Baptism: adult baptism is good kinda torn about infant baptism though... leaning more to a yes however
    Communion: Its a mystery. But I accept someway somehow it is the body and blood of christ
    Hell: don't have anything Firm to say about this... mostly just speculation
    Mary: the blessed among women, Theotokos who remained a virgin to her dying day. (for further expansion check aquinas' post)
    Creation: Theistic Evolutionist
    Charismatic beliefs: yeah they're about today but the real cases are the ones you'll never hear about.
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Diophysitism
    After Christ's death: rose and ascended into heaven.
    Bible: Truth, and authoritive in matters of theology. It is however not the only authority and needs to be understood not just through the understanding of one man but alongside the teachings of the church.
    Biblical Canon: I include the apocrypha but as seperate from the OT and NT. They were written differently for a completly different purpose.
    Interpretation methods: I use several principles by which I try to ensure that I am reading it correctly. I also learn what other christians (both alive and dead) think to assist in the process.
    Salvation: Is the process (not a one time moment) by which we are moved from the dominion of darkness to the glory of god. This starts with election and ends with glorification
    Ecclesiology: Preferably bishops and then priests. With all the bishops being equal.

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    Religion: Christian- Roman Catholic
    Rite: Latin (Roman) rite
    Soteriology: Catholic
    End times: no rapture, Christ's kingdom reestablished on earth and so those "left behind" are left so as to go back into His kingdom with Him
    Millennial Times: I don't know what you mean.
    Covenantal Theology: ditto
    Marriage: Complimentarianism
    Baptism: Trinitarian, infant
    Communion: Transubstantiation- The Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus
    Hell: eternal separation from God with no hope of relief
    Mary: Conceived immaculately, Mother of God, Ever- Virgin, was assumed bodily into heaven. May or may not have actually died. Is fully human and is not worshipped, but can and should be prayed to for intercession with her Son.
    Creation: Intelligent Design, 7 biblical "days" are metaphors for longer periods of time.
    Charismatic beliefs: Again, I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not really into the speaking in tongues stuff, if that's what you mean. I believe there certainly are gifts of the Holy Spirit and one of them is tongues, but I bellieve tongues refers to everyone no matter the language understanding someone speaking; I don't think it means gibberish.
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Hypostatic Union
    After Christ's death: He descended into hell, and on the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures. Nicene Creed.
    Bible: inerrant, a source of religious truth along with Church Tradition
    Biblical Canon: 73 Books; the same Septuagint Old Testament used before the Council of Javneh in 90 AD
    Trinity: Trinitarian
    Interpretation methods: The Catholic Church
    Salvation: Catholic, saved by grace, justified by faith and works, Sacraments, Purgatory before Heaven sometimes, repentance

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    Religion: Christian
    denomination: none
    Soteriology: thought this was about salvation not denomination
    End times: the universe ends in billions of years time and the material world ends leaving only gods kingdom
    millenial times: no thousand year reign
    Convental theology: new covenant I suppose
    Marriage: egalitarianism
    baptism: acceptance of Jesus Christ as the saviour baptised you in the holy spirit, no water needed
    Communion: useless (no offence meant)
    Divinity of Jesus: both man and god whilst on earth
    Hell: people forced to see and understand all things they have done that are wrong and how they hurt god in doing them. But I think in the end everyone gains some degree of salvation at the end times when they are judged.
    Mary: a good and godly women who bore Christ as a virgin and then had other sons with joseph.
    Creation: god creates everything in one instant, the big bang and planned for life and evolution to take place.
    Charismatic beliefs: I believe Christ performed miricales but ordinary people cannot perform miricles as it is not possible for us to be perfect like Christ.
    After christs death: died then waited on heaven to be risen on the third day.
    Bible: not inerrant and was written by people who inevitably make mistakes.
    Biblical cannon: new testament with main focus being on the synoptic gospels and thingslike the epistles
    to be seen as theological documents with ideas not god or christs ideas. Revelation not included and gospel of truth included.
    Trinity: trinitarian
    interpretation: I interpret what I read with the help of other people providing their views then decide. Or read up on what others such as Tolstoy or other notable Christians had to say on it.
    Salvation: through the grace of god

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    Religion: Protestant-Christian
    Denomination: Evangelical
    Soteriology: Calvinism
    End times: Pretrib
    Millennial Times: Premillennial.
    Covenantal Theology: New Covenant
    Marriage: Complimentarianism ftw,
    Baptism: Baby baptism is cute, that's it. I prefer baby dedications, where the parents commit to raising the child in a loving Christian home. Ultimately, baptism is up to the individual and their heart, as baptism is an outward sign of an inward commitment. Note: I'm talking about full immersion.
    Communion: Christ is active and present within the believer, not the room or objects being consumed.
    Hell: Eternal and endless, while living.
    Mary: Virgin birth of Christ, then lost her virginity and bore James and Jude, both of whom wrote a book of the Bible. Not divine, nothing significant beyond being the mother of Christ, but no particular significance to even come along with that. Wretched sinner like myself.
    Creation: Young Earth Creationist. The earth is roughly 10000 years old.
    Charismatic beliefs: I'm not so sure on this one.
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Hypostatic Union (hopefully you all agree with this). Christ was fully God and fully man, he did not lose divinity, but rather gained humanity.
    After Christ's death: He proceeded into paradise. Not hell or hades. And rose on the third day from death.
    Bible: 100% infallible and inerrant
    Biblical Canon: 66 books, no Apocryphal
    Trinity: God-head, three in one. All separate aspects of the same God.
    Interpretation methods: Sola Scriptura
    Salvation: Found in Christ alone.

    Edit: added note.

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    Religion: Protestant-Christian
    Denomination: At the moment A/G
    Soteriology: Calvinism
    End times: will come and they will go.
    Millennial Times: same as Danny.
    Covenantal Theology: New Covenant
    Marriage: Complimentarianism (And gay people should be able to marry too! :P )
    Baptism: people should be baptized when they can make the decision themselves. How it's done doesn't really matter.
    Communion: Christ is active and present within the believer, not the room or objects being consumed.
    Hell: Eternal and endless, while living
    Mary: don't really care past birthed the Lord. :P
    Creation: Creationist
    Charismatic beliefs: People can speak in tounges and prophecy, and whatnot. Idk of a word cramming these all into one.
    Divinity of Christ while Human: Hypostatic Union
    After Christ's death: Does it matter past rose again?
    Bible: 100% Infallible and inerrant (scribal errors throughout the years have happened though, but w/ bible study it doesn't affect the book)
    Biblical Canon: 66 books, no Apocryphal
    Trinity: The Shack. ROFL. Jk. I believe in 3 parts are 1 while still being seperate. Still dont know why the shack was so bad.
    Interpretation methods: bible study? <.< >.>
    Salvation: Believe in God? Personal savior? Live like it? You're good.
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