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John P. Willis

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Politics:	Leftist (AnCom)
Religion:	Militantly Atheist
Occupation:	Software Engineer
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Distinctive	Position
Religion	Christianity
Denomination	N/A
Soteriology (Salvation) - Theory of Atonement	Moral Transformation/Moral Influence (sympathetic to Christus Victor); a bit Socinian. Universalist.
Hamartiology (Sin)	Somewhere between Pelagian and Socinian
Christology - Divinity of Christ	Insufficient evidence to prove/disprove; has little bearing on the practice of Christianity
Hermeneutics - How the bible is read	Christ-centric; i.e., everything read through the lens of Jesus' words
Pneumatology - The Holy Spirit	The indwelling of the Holy Spirit has often been described in more mundane terms as human conscience.
Historicity of Jesus	I believe in the historical Jesus, but again, this has little bearing on the practice of my faith
Lapsarianism	Infralapsarian or Supralapsarian... the fact that anyone would debate this irrelevant, legalist minutiae when there is actual ministry to be done boggles my mind. But, I consider the idea of "double" predestination to be anathema anyway, so I'd say both views are based on a severe misreading of the text.
Eschatology	Revelation was talking about Nero and the great tribulation in the first century A.D., not prophesying about armageddon. These debates are more irrelevant, legalist minutiae.
Omniscience	Again, roughly Socinian. I subscribe to libertarian free will. Not compatibilist free will, which is roughly as logical as asserting that the glass is simultaneously full and empty. Compatibilism is nonsense.

More to come...

Religious Affiliation

Episcopalian, St. James, (Baptized)
Roman Catholic, Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, (Various times)
Presbyterian Church in America, University Presbyterian Church, (1988-1999)
Evangelical Free Church in America, First Evangelical Free Church, (1999-2001)
Shinto (2001)
Reform Judaism, Temple Beth-El (2002-2004)
Evangelical Free Church in America (2004)
ULC (Ordained 17 November 2013)

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