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What is a Christian fundamentalist?

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Shouldn't all Christians be fundamentalist?

These days the powers that be seem to be pretty good at redefining terms and words to advance their cause. This is how I see it.

There was an influx of liberalism being injected into the Christian churches at the turn of the century, that being the eighteen hundreds into the nineteen hundreds. So the dry theologians :cool: all got together and created a fundamental set of doctrines to protect against the false teachings that were encroaching. These were the fundamental set of doctrines that were considered essential doctrines. As we see today, they had good reason to be concerned.

I believe in the fundamental doctrines. I'm a Christian fundamentalist.

 
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Dave... said:
Shouldn't all Christians be fundamentalist?

These days the powers that be seem to be pretty good at redefining terms and words to advance their cause. This is how I see it.

There was an influx of liberalism being injected into the Christian churches at the turn of the century, that being the eighteen hundreds into the nineteen hundreds. So the dry theologians :cool: all got together and created a fundamental set of doctrines to protect against the false teachings that were encroaching. These were the fundamental set of doctrines that were considered essential doctrines. As we see today, they had good reason to be concerned.

I believe in the fundamental doctrines. I'm a Christian fundamentalist.

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Not everyone's use of the term, 'fundamentalist', has to do with the fundamentals, but rather, someone who insists on what they consider the fundamentals. For example, covenant theology was around long before dispensationalism, yet, in my experience, it is the dispensationalists that are often (and proudly, some times) referred to as fundamentalists.
 
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If a fundamentalist is someone who insists on strict adherence to what he regards as the foundational principles of a belief system and resists reinterpretation, accommodation, or revision in light of modern thought, culture, or scholarship, then I am a Christian fundamentalist.
 
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Mark Quayle said:
Not everyone's use of the term, 'fundamentalist', has to do with the fundamentals, but rather, someone who insists on what they consider the fundamentals. For example, covenant theology was around long before dispensationalism, yet, in my experience, it is the dispensationalists that are often (and proudly, some times) referred to as fundamentalists.
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Hey Mark.

That's just the history of it. That's where it came from.

The Media always portrays fundamentalism these days as being far right Christians. Apparently, less taxes, more personal responsibility, and smaller government, when taken to the extreme, is now considered terrorism, and called Christian fundamentalism. Kind of like a white guy with an opinion is called white supremacy. They can sure redefine words. That's Marxism.
 
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Dave... said:
Hey Mark.

That's just the history of it. That's where it came from.

The Media always portrays fundamentalism these days as being far right Christians. Apparently, less taxes, more personal responsibility, and smaller government, when taken to the extreme, is now considered terrorism, and called Christian fundamentalism. Kind of like a white guy with an opinion is called white supremacy. They can sure redefine words. That's Marxism.
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Yep, true that!
 
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The term fundamentalist in popular parlance derives from a series of books written for use in Churches in the first part of the 20th century. These were to counter the growing influence of Freud, Darwin, and Marx as well as the general growth in a secular view of Christianity coming out of colleges and even seminaries at the time.

Traditional Christianity seemed to be inconsistent with the modern trajectory of the world. Some churches abandoned tradition to embrace the new "science". Even today a good way to measure a church is to ask if they feel that evolution is right or wrong.
 
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DragonFox91 said:
I have often wondered the same thing OP.

Christianity is narrow.
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Hey Dragon.

I always said that we should not take lightly the redefining of words. It' very powerful. We see that today more than ever.

Narrow? How so?

Dave
 
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Becoming a Fundamentalist: An Interview with Randy White – Grace Evangelical Society

A link to Dr Randy White's book Why I am a Fundamentalist: and you should be too!
Amazon.com

Seems like there are quite a few Randy Whites, but this is the Randy White in the article.
https://dispensationalpublishing.com/about-us/dr-randy-white-founder-and-ceo/
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Well this is a blast from the past. Dr. Randy White was the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Katy, Texas where I attended for a few years. We talked many times and had a pastor Bible study that I attended often. Randy was always a fundamentalist in preaching style and practice but our church was part of the SBC and I knew that there were things that he disagreed with. So I guess he finally made the jump.
 
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