[drstevej]

***For example, you might affirm the "Apostles Creed." However, you give yourself appropriate leeway in interpreting that creed to your situation.***

Sounds like liberal "living creed" babble to me. If anyone can read whatever they want into the articles, they say NOTHING AT ALL. NO wonder the Methodist Church is so riddled with heresy.

Xzins, I don't see how you can handle it.

***Take "from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead." You interpret that premillennially, and other interpret it amillennially.***

This article was not intended to distinguish between pre and a mils, it was written to affirm a final judgment of living and dead people.

***One is a denominational statement. The other is a personal confession. ***

A denominational statement that isn't a personal confession is a museum piece, nothing more. It is a deception implying to others a group's beliefs when no one has to subscribe to it as it was intended and everyone can make ist say any thing they please.

I grew up Methodist, my parents are still methodist. Heck I even spent a semester at Candler School of Apostasy. Honestly, you guys ought to leave and turn out the lights.

[xzins]

You point me to a church that has a confession of faith that agrees in all points with what I believe, and I'll be glad to go join it.

I'm looking for those churches that are closest to what I understand to be true.

I guess I could start my own denomination....like the world needs another one!

"From thence...judge...living and dead." It is the only eschatological statement in the creed. All eschatology must align with it. But, it doesn't specifically define all of eschatology.