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<p style="text-align: left">Well, I guess since you clicked on this, you must have read the title. Welcome. I appreciate you taking the few minutes of your day to peruse yet another blog. Much thanks. ;)</p>
With any good introduction comes the awkward part of the relationship. You don't know what to ask, you don't know the past, and you don't want to look like an ass. Well, very much understood. I'll start off with saying some things about myself and hope that my quirks and beliefs don't shipwreck our already tumultuous relationship.

Hmmmm.

I will confess that I am nervous. But here it goes:

I'm a Christian.

*crickets*

Oh, right. Of course, of course.

I'm a Christian, specifically with the loose distinction of American Protestant. When pressed by both my conservative and liberal friends, both will say that I am either liberal or conservative. I confess this confuses me. Please don't think of me as uninterested in choosing a label, but forgive me for being hesitant to claim such a label without clarification.

Yes, I am a Christian and that entails that I think Jesus is God and all of that. I hold to the inerrancy of Scripture, but I would maintain an openness to allowing for various kinds of interpretations to have their say within the kingdom.

To this end, I am a non-dogmatic theistic evolutionist. I believe that God is triune, and that Christ was resurrected. Of course, this doesn't get into atonement theory (yet) but just to keep my evangelical cards, I offer this statement.

I believe that Jesus provides the only method of salvation, therefore I would be an exclusivist. However, I do not think Jesus is restricted to working through other people's religions to bring them to Himself. So I would further clarify that I am a flexible exclusivist and not a restrictivist, though I am not in agreement with inclusivism.

I affirm the classical view of the atonement, namely Christus Victor and it's older model, Ransom Theory. I do not deny substitutionary atonement, and think wi

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