RE: Please describe what you think would make the ideal Christian?
February 19, 2014 at 12:51 pm
(February 19, 2014 at 12:49 pm)rasetsu Wrote: The question was what is ideal, not what is realistic.Fair point. My ideal Christian would be an ex-Christian.
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