The first Spiritualist principle is belief in "The Fatherhood of God", which I agree sounds VERY Christian!gncxx said:Interesting, but do they believe in the Christian style of God or do they have their own version?
I expect,though,that thinking spiritualists have their own private interpretations of what "God" means.
I myself hold some vague notion of an impersonal power source, that can be tapped into for good or evil depending on the particular human's inclinations!
I no longer belive in "Mr God, the Magician" who could put everything right if he wished to, but chooses not to!
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Old Time Radio - I'm surprised you include Quakers in your list of denominations. I went to the Quaker meetings for a year or so after I'd come to the difficult decision to leave the mainstream Christian church.
As far as I am aware, there's no necessity for Quakers to "hold the doctrine of salvation". This is partly what drew me to them!
I find the idea of Jesus being a physical sacrifice for sins, totally disgusting and barbaric.I understand why it was the reasoning of the disciples, to account for the need for Jesus' death -this was the theology and practice of the times they were living in. But surely we in the twenty first century don't have to hang on to it!
As I've said in another thread, I didn't stick with the Quakers because I'm knocking on a bit in years, and I found it dreadfully hard to keep awake in a warm room on a Sunday morning!
I wish Decipheringscars would rejoin this thread -I tried to send him/her a pm, but was told he/she didn't exist!