Back to your question Toe, I do not identify with any Christen sect, but I will share some of doctrinal beliefs. For me, it is all part of the journey, and my adherence to doctrines has changed over time.
I struggle with putting too much here, as I face my struggles with purity, puts me in a type of hypocrisy, posting about faith on a sex board. It is bizarre, as I have felt the liberty to this drifting in my life. It has exposes what I held as truth, and has allowed me to see new perspectives which I could have never understood any other way. It has led me to be way less judgmental, as I have learned, "who am I judge?".
Concerning the bible, I to hold to a verbal, plenary inspiration of scripture, in which the original documents are 100% inspired, yet no any actual originals exist, but copies.
I hold a Dispensationalist view of the Bible and its covenants. Again, there are many different dispensational views. To quickly summarize, it means that God has dealt differently with people over time, and the relationship in has varied, but God, himself has not varied.
Here is a link explaining a Dispensationalist view. In this link, it is being contrasted against Reformed Christian Doctrines (John Calvin influence).
http://www.xenos.org/essays/covdisp.htmTo this end, Christianity is a faith that can transcend different cultures, and will always be present despite pressure from atheists, and evolutionary teaching. Look at the various pressure Judea-Christianity has endured over time.
Toe, I commend for your research and understanding of various histories. I see there are many different threads of Christian history, and each side of different doctrinal debates can point to different early church fathers for support.
Toe, when I read many of your posts, I get a feeling you are an atheist, yet you say you hold to the Eastern Orthodox faith in another. In one post, you call God, a Santa in the sky. Please correct me if I am mistaken, but how can you be both? Perhaps it just complicated and I am missing a point, please explain.