What beliefs would we consider reasonable for a self proclaimed Christian to hold?

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After reading this thread it is most obvious that the atheist here have no idea what Christianity means. It's surprising how little the ones who claim they were Christians and then left the faith actually know or remember. This is why I've always challenged them to prove their claim and I will always maintain that challenge. You all do not have nor get the right to rewrite the Christian faith and whether you want to believe it or not God will never allow such a rewriting of His loving plan for mankind. It really is to bad you have glued those blinders over your eyes, it will be truly sad if you miss out on Paradise.

GC

Christians believe what  they want to believe generally.
But in the US for some reason, christianity has become a mixture of hateful bigoted ideologies that seek to oppress and impose. They seem to be getting more extreme and anti-intellectual by the day.
Rather strange, as the typical british Christians are rather nicer.

 Sorry for the delay in answering I've been busy the last few days. You only look at the Christian groups you want to believe are the mainstream Christians and they are not. The Christian faith in this country is finding a renewing among the younger generation. You might find a survey that says different but then most of those are planned to question the people they want to make the survey say what they want. I see what's taking place with the younger generation and I have great hopes for it as a Christian generation that's going to do allow God to great things through them. Will the numbers of Christians grow because of this new generation of Christians, probably not, however they will be stronger and more dedicated to their beliefs, they will make a difference and it will be in a peaceful manner. You can ignore them and just accept what you want to see, but that will not change the fact God is using a new generation to bring the message of Christ to the nation and world.

GC

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After reading this thread it is most obvious that the atheist here have no idea what Christianity means. It's surprising how little the ones who claim they were Christians and then left the faith actually know or remember. This is why I've always challenged them to prove their claim and I will always maintain that challenge. You all do not have nor get the right to rewrite the Christian faith and whether you want to believe it or not God will never allow such a rewriting of His loving plan for mankind. It really is to bad you have glued those blinders over your eyes, it will be truly sad if you miss out on Paradise.

GC

Guilty.  I don't understand what makes aomwone a christian, or for that matter what a JW, a Unitarian, a mormon, Pentecostal, a Quaker, a Catholic and a baptist have in common.  Some relation to the bible seems involved though some place even more emphasis on other books and there is little agreement on how to read it.  For that matter I remain confused regarding what a "god" even means, but I'm pretty sure it means different things to different denominations, and even different things to people within the same denomination.  

I really think it is you who have the blinders on GC, otherwise you'd see that the bowl of cherries you've put together and call your Christianity is pretty different from what others have gathered.  If were less myopic you'd realize it really is you who have the blinders on.

Read what I said to downbeatplumb, it's true and since you have no idea what Christianity or the denominations within the church are then you should have no opinion on this matter, that is an informed opinion. Those that are uninformed mean nothing and are guess work at best. Hint, almost all denominations believe nearly the same things, what we differ in has little to nothing to do with salvation, there are a few outliers that believe some strange things and those few border on being cults. By the way the first three denominations you mentioned are cults and are not of the Christian faith, that should tell you something about yourself.

GC