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6 Christian Beliefs That Aren’t in the Bible (But Everyone Pretends They Are)

6 Christian Beliefs That Aren’t in the Bible (But Everyone Pretends They Are)

Think everything your church teaches is straight from the Bible? Well, half of it was made up centuries later by people in robes with control issues.

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Tanner the Humanist
May 05, 2025
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Let’s get one thing straight before we begin: a lot of what passes as “Christian teaching” today has little to no basis in the actual Bible. Over the centuries, church leaders added, tweaked, or just flat-out invented doctrines to fit their agendas—political, theological, or just good ol’ crowd control. So, if you…

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