What do non-fundamentalist Christians actually believe?

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Now I cite Bible scholars as the authority on the Bible all the time. What I find interesting here is that many members think they are all biased by their religious beliefs - which is true don't get me wrong, but did you know a large number of Christian scholars do not believe in a supernatural resurrection for example? They're still Christians, they still believe in Christianity, but they believe that Jesus either died and was buried never to return, or that if he did leave the tomb alive that he was laid there alive (which is well possible given our modern understanding of mortality). So there are actually Christians with views well outside of orthodoxy, and those who are top scholars.

I never knew this, thanks for that information. 

I suppose by definition one needs only to be a follower of Christ, whether or not they believe that he was resurrected, in the way that others follow Mohammed (PBUH) or The Bhuddas.

I didn't know it until recently either. Most Scholars, that are professionals, keep their beliefs to themselves. They aren't into proselytising or professing their faith. There are some exceptions of course, but most who do that fall into the category of apologetics. And that's where you see scholars that quite literally defy the evidence, and they're the ones that get used and quoted in Biblical commentaries for examples (where you will see such things as "many scholars do not feel this is historical, but those arguments are from people that deny the divinity/power of Jesus/god, etc"). What's really telling is when Evangelical scholars tell you that something is not right, one really great example is Dan Wallace who will maintain that the LXX, and therefore also the Matthean, translation/s of Isaiah 7:14 are wrong. You can't find a scholar more Evangelical or more Apologetic than him, and even he says that Matthew's translation of Is 7:14 is wrong!