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Of all the branches of Christianity, I am mostly fond of the Church of the Brethren, Friends General Conference, and the United Church of Christ. Christ taught a message which emphasized orthopraxy over orthodoxy, and He explicitly denied the claim made by some of the Jews that He was the incarnation of God (John 5:16-20).

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