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I took the time to go over your article. I want you to know how much I appreciate how you are trying to help others understand Jesus’ life and his death. For all your hard work I want to leave you with a gift to show my appreciation:
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/memorial/
Thank you for your kind words. Thank you for your “gift” but I already have plans to remember Jesus’ death and resurrection. I hope you enjoy your memorial.
Regards Differences in belief:
Not all churches consider belief in the resurrection essential. Nor do all insist on the virgin birth
These are not minor, to the majority of Christians.
Hi, were you commenting on something particular in this site? (Just trying to understand where you are coming from.)
There would be very few churches that don’t believe in the resurrection, though some would allow the resurrection to be “spiritual”, not bodily. Likewise I think most churches accept the virgin birth, though this wouldn’t be so important for some. So yes, there is some variability in belief here, as there is about many things. I don’t think christianity requires all believers to be totally conforming, though some churches seem to take that view.
UnkleE I always enjoy reading your well written and well thought out posts. I see the format of the blog has changed and I am thinking of doing something similar. Categorizing different articles or topics seems more helpful than just listing blogs in chronological order.
Do you have your earlier posts or have you completely redone the site?
Hi Joe, thanks for your kind words.
Yes, the format has changed, although I don’t think my categorisation of blogs has. I decided to go with a simpler format because half the people on the internet are now using mobile phones. I have also modified my other blog, and with that experience, I may revise this blog again.
But all the blog posts are still there. You can find them by going through the blog page in the top menu, which is chronological, or else using the tag cloud in the footer to find posts on a particular subject.
Of course I have also written a lot of pages, so the things I think are most important are listed under Pages in the top menu (plus Faith deconstruction, which I still have a lot to do).
I’m not sure that tells you what you want to know, but why don’t you email me (in About in the top menu) and we can discuss more, if that would help?