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  1. evangelist6589

    evangelist6589 Well-Known Member
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    I hold to the fundamentals of the faith and by the medias definition am a fundamentalist. However I do not primarily read from the KJV, sometimes drink alcohol, am big on the Way of the Master, dance sometimes, go to movie theaters, do not believe in tithing but rather free will giving, and do not believe that it is right to practice the doctrine of separation in regards to other evangelical brothers and so by this I am not a fundamentalist by that definition. So what truly makes one a fundamentalist? Holding to fundamental doctrines or pet peeves?

    Fundamentalists major on secondary issues when they should be majoring on the essentials of the faith.
     
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    You expect the unsaved to act any other way?
    Then the matters you listed in the OP are matters of cultural fundamentalism not theological.
     
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    You should define your terms. Fundamentalism, by definition, majors on the essentials of the faith. You just maybe disagree on what those essentials are. Secondary issues are not fundamental.
     
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    Concur.
    Though, this type of thinking is contrary to some.
     
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    Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

    We're in a culture war, and redefining words is a common tactic.
     
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    With this kind of broad brush insult (instead of "some fundamentalists"), how are you better than fundamentalists?

    (I might add that your absolute insistence on using the law in evangelism is majoring on the minors, but I won't. :D)
     
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    Wrong wrong. I am WOTM preferred not WOTM only.
     
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    I don't know when I was at BJU it seemed like they were the majority and not the minority.
     
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    My old church would separate from any church not a fundamentalist church and would only recommend fundamentalist churches and schools.
     
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    Trying to manage Fundamentalists is like trying to herd cats.
     
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    Fundamentalists would be ones who held to the essential/fundamentals of the Faith, but also were ones to seperate from others not of like faith, and tended to shun society, in like movies, alcohol etc!
     
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    What is a fundamentalist?

    An old man losing his mind who still likes to party.
     
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    That is the classic version of one!
     
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    Actually, [Edited] chase you. :Tongue
     
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    Ridiculous. I'm perfectly sane.:confused:

    Watch out for that [Edited]!!!:eek:
     
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    Good for them. It shows they really believe the Bible.
     
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    Excuse me?????? So you are saying that non IFB churches do not follow the Bible?
     
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    I could give several responses, but I'll leave it at:

    Anyone who would recommend churches and schools that have views outside of their views of the Bible doesn't really believe their views of the Bible, and therefor doesn't believe the Bible.
     
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