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Originally Posted by asaris
If I'm being careful, I tend to like to use 'Christian' to mean 'someone who believes in the Apostle's Creed'.
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The same thought occurred to me earlier in this thread, but I avoided posting it because I don't know enough about Greek Orthodox, Coptic Christians, and the like. Do they also use the Creed?
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Originally Posted by asaris
It probably doesn't require you believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven or that non-Christians are going to hell. It doesn't require a belief in hell, or any belief in the afterlife in the conventional sense.
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Interesting interpretation. So what would be the motivation for converting in the first place, then? And how to convince other people that they should sign up for the precepts espoused by the Creed? If Jesus isn't the only way to heaven, and if hell doesn't exist, then why take Christianity more seriously than any other belief system on offer?