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God in Christianity

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Please do not delete sourced text as you just did. The article is not about God in the Bible, it is about God in Christianity. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 12:13, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

'God in Christianity' means the concept of God in Christianity. The article has a scope far greater than just what the Bible says - a lot of people have written about God in Christianity since the Bible. And not all of those who consider themselves Christians have the same understanding of the Christian God. (Don't forget to sign your posts, although not edits in articles, with 4 tildes, ie ~~~~).Dougweller (talk) 15:35, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
If you don't think the article is correct, discuss it on the talk page. Don't just remove material you don't like. I thought you meant by 'God' what most Christians call 'God the Father'. Now I don't know what you mean but to be honest I don't want to discuss it, certainly on on my talk page or yours. Dougweller (talk) 16:48, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

July 2012

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  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to User talk:Dougweller, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:57, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

A summary of site guidelines and policies you may find useful

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Your edits to God in Christianity went very much against these guidelines and policies: they replaced with objective statements of what the most common doctrinal views are with your personal views. While you are free to believe whatever you want, this site is only going to describe what has been notable (which you and your beliefs are not) and well-documented. Since the majority of Christians throughout the world and history have used the doctrine of the Trinity to explain the Biblically undefined relationship between the transcendent Father, the personality of Jesus, and the immanent Holy Spirit, most of the article is going to be about the Trinity. Wikipedia is not concerned with what doctrine is true or false, but with simply documenting the beliefs of notable groups. As the majority of Christians historically accept the Trinity, to say that Christianity regards the Trinity as false is completely incorrect by Wikipedia's standards. A completely mistaken outsider interpretation of the Islamic interpretation of the Trinity is about as pointless as including a mistaken outsider interpretation of the Catholic interpretation of the Hindu Trimurti.

Simply put, your personal views do not matter and Wikipedia does not want them in the articles. If you cannot distinguish between objective summary of what others believe and expounding of what you personally believe, you should not edit articles relating to any belief.

Although not this user essay goes into more detail on how Christianity and Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy interact. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:14, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Reply