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Originally Posted by OnTheFritz
I'm curious how many of you made an abrupt or drastic change to arrive at your current belief system.
For instance, I'm not talking about transitioning from non-believer to believer, but rather going from liberal to conservative or vica versa. If you did make a change from one extreme to the other, what was the reason? Was there some revelation or key event that led you in that new direction, or did it happen gradually?
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I was born and raised a PK in the UPC.
I consider myself more a moderate than liberal, though the UPC would consider me liberal. I believe the same message: One God and what most here would call 3-stepper salvation. I don't believe salvation ends at receiving the HG or being baptized in Jesus Name ... it's a journey that will end only when we get to Heaven. I don't believe outward standards are as important as what's inside the heart and soul of each individual. I wear shorts, my wife wears pants during the week and trims her hair.
The change from my very conservative upraising to being a moderate has been slow and deliberate, with a lot of study, prayer and conversations with ministers, family and friends.
The quickest transformation was with organizations. I've grown frustrated and have left the UPC for a church that is independent and not beholden to any one organization; rather, we fellowship with all oneness churches. I find organizations to be outdated and not needed in this day and age. Too full of politics, corruption, pride and cumbersome.
It's best to have church decisions left to the church, not to some group of individuals hundreds of miles away who have no clue as to what we need or want to do.
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