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Originally Posted by exlurker
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Originally Posted by honeychile
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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Gospels according to Mark, Matthew and Luke all include accounts of the transfiguration. . . .
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. |
When I read that, I wondered if she meant transubstantiation, not transfiguration.
Granted, I don't know of any Protestant churches that believe in transubstantiation (except for some Anglicans who might or not might consider themselves Protestant), but some other groups -- Lutherans, Presbyterians/Reformed and others -- hold views that to some Baptists I know look a lot like transubstantiation.