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In America, very often the word 'biblical' is used to signal some kinds of familiar social convention are to be imposed onto the scripture in that church, sadly. To use scripture to broadly support conservative politics (even the wrong parts) for example (which is exactly as wrong as using scripture to broadly support all of liberal politics, or any other kind of worldly stuff).Normally, it means someone who is guided by the Bible rather than social convention,
I integrate "Bible believing" into a phrase I like to use to indicate what I believe constitutes a true Christian.
I believe that someone who is a "Born-again, Bible-believing, fundamental Christian" would have a solid understanding of The Word, and who doesn't stray from the important doctrines to chase down heretical rabbit holes, who doesn't try to jackhammer Scripture in order to make room for scientific "truths" or changing worldly cultural norms.
In my view, all three characteristics are important, the lack of any one of which shows up in the strange doctrinal views that we see so often here on CF.
BTW, please don't lock in on the term "fundamental" and castigate me for saying it. I'm not using it in terms of legalistic, fundamentalist, almost-cult-like religions. I mean it merely as a foundational type of belief in God's word. If I could think of a different, less triggering word for it I would use that instead.
Tragically, many churches claiming to be 'biblical' preach some of Christ says, and they leave out other things Christ says....
Guess whether that will be ok on the day of judgement for those that intentionally avoided parts of what He said, by aware intention. We can learn from His words that no, that won't be ok.
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