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any happy fundamentalists left?

I don't know. but I'm one and I'm RIGHT.

 

You hit the nail on the head when you said it is hard to be very happy when you see what is going on in our country right now but because we know who controls our futures, we can have peace even in the midst of chaos. Our country has been ruined to a great extent by bad decisions that we will not be able to come back from in our lifetimes, but we that know the Lord can be at complete peace with whatever happens in this life.

 

Oh, they believe all that but nodak wasn't discussing their doctrine but their demeanor.

 

That's me.

However I am a mugwump.

HankD

 

TC,
You are a man after the heart of God. I am a Fundamental Christian of the Baptist Flavor living in SE Texas at the moment or until my LORD calls.

When I was a lost man, on stage, i was forever getting happy on the week ends but was perpetually without joy. When God spoke to me in Vietnam I was no longer an Atheist but Deists do not ever earn their way into Heaven. I walked without Joy for the next 23 years and a couple of months.

But when God broke my heart tear flowed I thought I might never dry but at that same moment I felt Joy and Peace with my God and I sold out. I turned down the free ride to Music City with two million to guarantee my ride to fame that came in the same week because I had found the single thing that made my life complete.

Am I a Fundamental Christian, well, I am neither of the two major branches of Baptist belief because both of them deny some part of the scriptures to arrive at their chosen doctrine.

For that reason, I, early on, became a devoted Biblicist, much the same as the man that baptized and married this old drunk, Richard Clarke of Mississippi. My position is there are no conflicting scriptures in the Bible but just as I read one poster since my return, without the guidence of the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost some prefer, the scriptures forever remain a mystery.

But I am a sold out Fundamental Baptist Christian and the only thing that mars my happiness, not my joy, is because it will soon be my time to go home and to report in and because I can no longer endure to teach or to sing hymns, I must teach from my VA purchased hospital bed.

Fundamental Christians have NO TRUCK with extremism but we do stand fast for our God.

 

I have found that many of the IFB stripe tend not to be joyful due to the extra Biblical laws they place in themselves, either through their preacher or man made traditions

 

From an article by Dr. David Prince of Lexington, Ky's Ashland Avenue Baptist Church (wellspring of the Trail of Blood booklet):

"If you cannot laugh at yourself, and laugh at yourself with others, you have a theological problem—you do not take God seriously enough. There is a reciprocal relationship between taking God seriously, and taking yourself less seriously."

http://www.davidprince.com/2016/01/07/why-a-high-view-of-god-should-lead-to-laughter/

 

Hmm, well, if you're happy and you know it....

 

Something to express irony in "happy" being a state of mind.

"I'm Happy" by Ivor Cutler

Note: I do not endorse the show, "The Old Guys."