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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:42 AM Original message |
Can anyone point me to some protestant denominations that don't believe the Bible literally? |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Methodists nt |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. Lutherans. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. YMMV. Avoid the Missouri and Wisconsin synods |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 11:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. It's kind of confusing here in Canada... |
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Still Blue in PDX (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-28-10 10:30 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. Missouri Synod is very conservative in the US. nt |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. Pastafarians |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
4. Episcopal. -- but like anything else |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. Unitarian Universalists, United Church of Christ, Recronstuctionist Judaism, Deists. n/t |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. Presbyterians, Quakers, Episcopalians, Lutherans |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 02:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. I know both Presbyterians and Methodists who take the Bible literally. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 02:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Well, I did say there was wide variation |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 08:56 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. When you say... |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:32 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. There is wide interpretation |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 11:38 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Interesting. Thanks for the reply. nt |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well, every Christian sect believes at least *parts* of the bible are literal. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. +1 |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
8. I know you said Protestant but I just wanted to add that Catholics certainly don't. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Thanks--I didn't know that. I haven't been around Catholics much. nt |
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VAliberal (250 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. The Roman Catholic Church |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 06:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Are you indeed a Presbyterian minister? |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Sometimes it seems that Catholics wish the Bible went away altogether. n/t |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
9. It is an incomplete fairy story |
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safeinOhio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
10. I don't think any of them do. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
13. Well... |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
30. Do you mean Congregationalist or UCC? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Very few Episcopalians believe in Biblical literalism |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
18. Episcopal church |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
20. Are you looking for a Christian denomination which denies the resurrection of Christ? |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
21. Amazingly enough, many Baptists don't believe in a literal Bible... |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 11:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Yep... |
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BrianDude (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
24. Liberal Catholic Church |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-28-10 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
31. High Episcopal. |
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