What do non-fundamentalist Christians actually believe?

[Chad32]

I can tell you what I used to believe. Yahweh and Jesus were completely separate people, and I liked Jesus more than Yahweh for pretty obvious reasons. Heaven was the place that good people went, and hell was the place that bad people went. I didn't have a concrete idea of what happened in hell, because our preacher rarely talked about it. I thought the idea of having a mansion in heaven was silly, but I wanted to be a good boy, and that's where good people went. I'd just talk it over with Jesus about the details.

I didn't really pray a whole lot, because I didn't hear an audible voice or anything. I wouldn't say I had a personal relationship with him, because I didn't know much about him. Nobody talked about little details that you find out about people you hang out with all the time.

I had heard the verse about Jesus being the only way to heaven, but I was encouraged to mainly do good deeds, and go to church regularly, and I'd get into heaven when the time came.

I also wasn't aware of other religions, and didn't know there were people who didn't think Jesus existed at all. I was quite sheltered.

I guess those are the main details, without getting into touchier subjects like homosexuality, abortion, and such.

Interesting stuff. You mention the term "preacher", may I ask which denomination this was?

Baptist. Though There was a Methodist church down the street I went to as well. I wasn't very aware of denominations back then either. You either were a christian, or you weren't.