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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone seen this Kristof Easter interview in the New York Times? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/sunday/christian-easter-serene-jones.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

He interviews the dean of  Union Theological Seminary, who is a United Church of Christ minister and a former Yale professor who doesn’t believe in the virgin birth or the resurrection and isn’t sure about heaven.  Still, she considers herself a Christian.

What do you think?
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Just like you can be a Christian and not necessarily believe that the Earth has been created in 7 days. 
Why is it so important how Jesus was created or born or Mary ditto? The most important is the message of love. EVANGELIA.
Love one another. Who cares about the small stuff?[/quote]

Its one thing to believe that the earth wasn’t created in a literal 7 days, but it’s another to deny the virgin birth, resurrection, miracles, the reality of heaven and hell, eternal destiny of the soul, belief in Jesus Christ as means to salvation, all while being a CHRISTIAN minister.

To nonchristians Easter is just a symbol of love, rebirth, renewal, and that’s fine because they don’t believe in God or the Bible. So of course Easter is symbolic for them.

But for Christians it means a lot more. It means a LITERAL resurrection. It has to or Christians have no salvation. If Jesus didn’t literally conquer death and pay for our sins, all of Christianity is pointless. Evangelism is pointless. The Bible is pointless.  Being a Christian is pointless then. So there HAS to be a literal resurrection for a Christian, it shouldn’t be just “small stuff.”[/quote]

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