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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

You are locked into the belief that because some Christian churches believe X then they all do.

You can find a spiritual home that doesn't believe in X.

At some point you may decide you don't want or need a spiritual home and that is fine, but having a place to go where you don't feel unwelcomed might be a nice thing right now for you.

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Also i always had a problem with Christianity because it basically says that if you dont believe in God you go to an eternal punishment. Even if gay and transgender arent sins, i still go to hell along with my non-christian friends if i dont accept christ.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

They do believe what they believe.

I was responding to this btw:

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Also i always had a problem with Christianity because it basically says that if you dont believe in God you go to an eternal punishment. Even if gay and transgender arent sins, i still go to hell along with my non-christian friends if i dont accept christ.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

Read and answered.

Btw: you may find both Calton Pearson and Rob Bell interesting.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

I am guessing you grew up in either a very conservative Protestant church or perhaps Catholic?

You also seem to think that what you are looking for is either outrageous or unreasonable.
It is neither.

Here is a section of blogs by "progressive Christians".
http://www.patheos.com/Blogs.html#PROGRESSIVECHRISTIAN

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

To the OP,

Most religions believe they are the only ones getting into heaven. I find it amusing.

I am a Christian. I believe in God and Jesus. I DO NOT believe in hell and tthe Bible is not a strong basis for my faith as I find many contradictions I disagree with. Neither of those things affect my faith.

Faith and religion are vastly different things. Sometimes they can co-exist for a person, sometimes they don't.

I think dc's church could very much feed me spiritually, but I know of none like that in my area.

For the record, Jews believe in God, but not that Jesus was the son of God. Jehovah Witnesses as well, and JW are very into science.

Its not difficult to see a "marriage" between science and faith. For most though seperating faitth from rreligion is very difficult.

Not that it matters, butt I believe God made us all and He must have thought you to be very strong and special (like ll of us really) to have decided you have the strength and grace to handle the life he gave you.