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Originally Posted by honeychile
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. . . It's gotten to the point with MOST Protestant churches that you need to work on a church to church basis. There are certain elements that most hold true (ie: the issues of transfiguation, Calvinism, etc). Most Baptist churches I've attended don't believe in either.
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The Gospels according to Mark, Matthew and Luke all include accounts of the transfiguration. (For the last 100 - 150 years at least, Biblical scholarship has recognized that Mark, Matthew and Luke have very close literary resemblances. Probably the dominant -- but not the only -- scholarly view nowadays is that Matthew and Luke each used Mark as a source, sometimes word for word, sometimes with a few changes.) See for example the relevant texts (in English translation) at
http://www.rockhay.org/sermons/texts...figuration.htm
Exactly how a church would interpret / teach about the transfiguration story/stories probably does vary. Some might say "literally true," others, "highly symbolic of ___ (something)_____; probably never really happened ."
Not to mention what individual Christians might believe about it.
I'm surprised that the Baptist churches you've attended don't "believe in" it (in some fashion) but that probably says more about my unfamiliarity with Baptist theology than it does about the actual theology or Biblical interpretation.