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Shane Roach said:I find it interesting that I can be 89% Fundamentalist, and 69% classic liberal.
Just goes to show you how sometimes simple labels fail to tell the whole story. heh
arunma said:Perhaps you, like me, are a freethinking fundamentalist? You don't have to own a gun and vote Republican to believe that Jesus is the only means of salvation.
Shane Roach said:Hehe! I don't own a gun, but I am not a fan of gun control laws. I do tend to vote Republican, but it's certainly not because I am a fan of lazais faire capitalism.
Who knows. I think it boils down to the answer I gave concerning the fallability of the Bible. I do not believe it to be totally infallible, but when you compare its reliability to other documents or people's ideas about God, the fallible portions are vanishingly small. Still, the very idea that one could believe any part of the Bible is not 100% correct seems to be a core defining concept to be a full fledged fundamentalist.
Issues wise concerning all things religious, I can't think of a fundamentalist "cause" that I do not support, I just come by them without having to believe that every single word in the Bible has been passed down without error.
Cubanito said:Aaahhh, a physics major.... very suspicious, if nought else. You know we fundies are a bunch of know nothings!
Barth was a very good man, to my estimation. He was tossed out of Germany due to his opposition to Nazism, along with Bonhoeffer and a few others. His writings on the Epistle to the Romans was one of the documents that brought Liberal biblical criticism to a screaming halt. He was no fundamentalist, for sure, or even necessarily a conservative, but his work was (and is) very important. He firmly opposed their re-envisioning God based on their own reasoning. Consider yourself honored to be associated!tpony298 said:Oh my, I am not sure that is at all true about me...maybe I should look more into this...but then I have said in other forums..I embrace a lot of things from many denomation and reject a few also from many of them. hmmmmmMaybe I should sit down one day and evaluate just which doctrines are important to me.
Evangilism, is of course# 2 with me.. right after a personal relationship with God
hmmmm..now you have started me thinking...love, Pony
I would be more inclined to say that Catholics are dual-source, in that they believe in traditional church teachings about Scripture as much as they believe in Scripture itself. It is more an admission that the church is better equipped (both in authority and ability) to interpret Scripture than they are. I disagree with them, but I see their point.arunma said:I see what you mean. I think that when you say "fundamentalist," you're really talking about evangelical Christianity. Indeed, you don't need to be an evangelical to support most of our causes. For example, Roman Catholics agree with us about abortion, homosexuality, sexual ethics, and other such issues. Yet they hardly believe in the Bible at all (at least if you by church teaching; but there are many Catholics who still believe their Bibles).
I happen to believe that the Bible is infallible, so I guess that would make me a fundamentalist by the working definition on this forum. But since I, like Jesus and the Apostles, reject all forms of legalism, I probably wouldn't be a fundamentalist according to the popular definition that is accepted in the American media.
Only when you're preaching the 'dinosaurs on the arc' theory.
LoveJoy said:I would be more inclined to say that Catholics are dual-source, in that they believe in traditional church teachings about Scripture as much as they believe in Scripture itself. It is more an admission that the church is better equipped (both in authority and ability) to interpret Scripture than they are. I disagree with them, but I see their point.
LoveJoy said:Barth was a very good man, to my estimation. He was tossed out of Germany due to his opposition to Nazism, along with Bonhoeffer and a few others. His writings on the Epistle to the Romans was one of the documents that brought Liberal biblical criticism to a screaming halt. He was no fundamentalist, for sure, or even necessarily a conservative, but his work was (and is) very important. He firmly opposed their re-envisioning God based on their own reasoning. Consider yourself honored to be associated!
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