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I believe in Christs birth,death and resurrection.
I believe that the entire Bible,is the inspired word of God.
I do not believe that Jesus is a rehashing of Tammuz,or baal and the sungods.
I see nothing wrong with honoring Jesus on Christmas and Easter.
I believe that hell was created for the devil and his angels and my fervent hope is that all should come to repentance and be saved.
I believe that Christ alone has the power to save us from our sins.
Gap theory? Never heard of it before.My Bible says that the earth was formless and void.How long it had been that way I dont know.But the rest of creation took 6 days.Since God calls the evening and the morning a day,,Im comfortable that He meant a literal 24 hour day.
I dont believe that Mary is a co-redeemer with Christ,or that we should pray to Mary or the saints,or even light candles to them.
However she is blessed among all women for being chosen to carry Christ in her womb.I dont believe that she remained a virgin afterwards.My bible says that Joseph knew her not untill after Christ was born.That to me implies that they had normal marital relations after Christ was born.
I think its disgusting that the RCC allowed gay pedophile priests to abuse little boys,covered up for them,protected them and moved them from parish to parish.However protestant churchs have also had thier share of scandals.We should remember that “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”
Regarding women in the church.
I believe that God uses both men and women to further His kingdom.Mary Magdeline imho where she was told by Christ to tell the disciples that “He was Risen”was the first use of preaching the gospel.Esther was used by God to save the entire jewish race.Many times God appointed women as Judges and Prophetesses to rule over Isreal.In Jesus list of ancestors are several women mentioned,one of whom was a prostitute that saved the Isreali spies.
Im sure that both sides will disagree with me over some of these statemants,but I stand by them.

My apologies -- my previous post was directed at mm

to your point which is specifically related to this thread I believe that God uses both men and women to further His kingdom.Mary Magdeline imho where she was told by Christ to tell the disciples that “He was Risen”was the first use of preaching the gospel.Esther was used by God to save the entire jewish race.Many times God appointed women as Judges and Prophetesses to rule over Isreal.In Jesus list of ancestors are several women mentioned,one of whom was a prostitute that saved the Isreali spies.

God does use both men and women

Women's role is as important as men's -- our argument is that it is different. It is not lesser, but it IS different.

A woman preacher, yes, a woman administrator yes, a woman councillor, scholar, doctor of the church yes. But a priestess, no. Not because of some "defect" in woman, rather for the same reason there are no male mothers, it is a different role