Points for a clever post.When it come to reiligion the one group who are always attacked are the fundamentalists "yes some fundamentalists may have done this or that but lets not judge everyone by that" Doesent that say something like "my religions great unless you fundamentally believe in it.
Lets contrast this with other ideas are you afraid of someone who is fundamentally polite? Can the police become a problem if they fundamentally believe in following the law? Would you support firemen who believe in a moderate approach to putting out fires?
When people attack their own fundamentalist they may as well be saying "my beliefs are good but they are fundamentally wrong".
In short its ok to beilieve but lets not believe too much.
More of an extremism problem than a fundamentalism problem, although the two correlate quite often.
Can you describe the difference between the two?
I'm a fundamentalist Christian. I see no problem with it :shrug: People misjudge the Bible and don't know the image of God because they want to dishonestly contort my faith into something violent and sexist.
You are not a fundamentalist Christian. You are an apologetic who has a semi literal interpretation. I can't imagine you run down to Walmart and kill all those who don't observe the Sabbath by working that day. I also don't imagine you avoid wearing clothes of more than one type of thread or stone adulterers.
The death penalties and laws in the Old Testament were part of the Constitution of Israel. The law has been done away with and has been replaced by the new covenant. The Law merited that adulterers be put to death, but Jesus said not to accuse nor condemn and that we have all sinned and should repent so we may live. Some things in the Bible are literal, and some are illustrative. The Bible doesn't ban jewelry or tattoos. It said for women not to wear jewelry with the believe that it was vain (as in that culture it was. Everyone was poorer and adorning oneself with jewelry was vain). They weren't to get tattoos because back then tattoos were ritualistic of pagan worship. Somethings are literal, and some things one is supposed to grab a concept from.
I'm a fundamentalist Christian. I see no problem with it :shrug: People misjudge the Bible and don't know the image of God because they want to dishonestly contort my faith into something violent and sexist.
"I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the LORD Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.
14 Like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,
each will return to his own people,
each will flee to his native land.
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives ravished." - Isaiah 13:13-16
"As I listened, he said to the others, "Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. 6 Slaughter old men, young men and maidens, women and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple." - Ezekiel 9:5-6
"At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well." - Exodus 12:29
I think this misses a crucial point. Fundamentalists almost always re-interpret certain aspects of a religious belief, often to fit their own views of how a particular faith should work. Either that or they focus rather myopically on a certain aspect of their faith to the degree that others are ignored.When it come to reiligion the one group who are always attacked are the fundamentalists "yes some fundamentalists may have done this or that but lets not judge everyone by that" Doesent that say something like "my religions great unless you fundamentally believe in it.
Lets contrast this with other ideas are you afraid of someone who is fundamentally polite? Can the police become a problem if they fundamentally believe in following the law? Would you support firemen who believe in a moderate approach to putting out fires?
When people attack their own fundamentalist they may as well be saying "my beliefs are good but they are fundamentally wrong".
In short its ok to beilieve but lets not believe too much.
I'm a fundamentalist Christian. I see no problem with it :shrug: People misjudge the Bible and don't know the image of God because they want to dishonestly contort my faith into something violent and sexist.
Can the police become a problem if they fundamentally believe in following the law?
When it come to reiligion the one group who are always attacked are the fundamentalists "yes some fundamentalists may have done this or that but lets not judge everyone by that" Doesent that say something like "my religions great unless you fundamentally believe in it.
Lets contrast this with other ideas are you afraid of someone who is fundamentally polite? Can the police become a problem if they fundamentally believe in following the law? Would you support firemen who believe in a moderate approach to putting out fires?
When people attack their own fundamentalist they may as well be saying "my beliefs are good but they are fundamentally wrong".
In short its ok to beilieve but lets not believe too much.
I feel the same way. I have no problems with Christians, but I do get irked at the ones who add stuff to it somewhat arbitrarily.
Fundamentalism had multiple roots in British and American theology of the 19th century[7]. One root was Dispensationalism, a rediscovery of early Christian premillenialism in the 1830s in England as an outgrowth of applying the historical-grammatical method of hermeneutics to all of the Bible. It was a millenarian theory that divided all of time into different stages, called "dispensations," which were seen as stages of God's revelation. The world in this theory is on the verge of the last stage in which Christ would return. An important sign is the rebirth of Israel, support for which is the centerpiece of Fundamentalist foreign policy.
A second stream came from Princeton Theology in the mid-19th century, which developed the doctrine of inerrancy in response to higher criticism of the Bible[8][9].
A third strand—and the name itself—came from a 12-volume study The Fundamentals, published 1910-1915[10]. Sponsors subsidize the distribution of over three million individual volumes were distributed free to clergy, laymen and libraries. This version[11]. stressed several core beliefs, including:
The inerrancy of the Bible
The literal nature of the Biblical accounts, especially regarding Christ's miracles, and the Creation account in Genesis.
The Virgin Birth of Christ
The bodily resurrection of Christ
The substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross
I feel the same way. I have no problems with Christians, but I do get irked at the ones who add stuff to it somewhat arbitrarily.
Points for a clever post.
In a sense, you are right. Fundamentally, Judaism, Christianity and Islam all promote killing infidels. Christians and Muslims promote converting non-believers (Jews don't). And the Old Testament promotes slavery, rape, murder and child-murder. But Christianity and Judaism have become modernized, Islam--in the Middle-east--has not.
Although this is a problem, it's the "radicals" and "militants" that cause the real issues. It's the abortion-clinic bombers and homeland jihads that raise eye-brows. "Fundamentally" believing in God and the 10 Commandments isn't a bad thing. It's all the BS in scripture, that contradict the image of a loving God, that is fundamentally a problem.
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Goshin is right on the money with this definition of fundamentalist Christianity.The inerrancy of the Bible
The literal nature of the Biblical accounts, especially regarding Christ's miracles, and the Creation account in Genesis.
The Virgin Birth of Christ
The bodily resurrection of Christ
The substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross
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