Featured Are most fundamentalists on the road to apostasy?

I was in a KJVO Fundamentalist Baptist Church which taught this 50 years ago.

 

I don't think I've ever heard of this outfit. Seems this Foundations Bible College has roots in Pentecostalism? The "Remnant" idea is big in those sorts of churches.

 

Right. I found their doctrinal statements and they do leave room for the charismatic practices.

 

Thank you. Here is their statement of faith:

Doctrinal Statement | Foundations Bible College

 

Thank you.

The school's founder O. Talmadge Spence also wrote "A Pentecostal Speaks to Pentecostalists":

books.google.com/books?id=dLSItgAACAAJ

 

This is where I tripped up. What exactly does this sentence mean? is the "pattern" of glossolalia proper for today?

 

But back to the o/p - is Christendom generally falling into apostasy including those characterized by "fundamentalism"?

The scripture seems to indicate it.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away (ἡ ἀποστασία - the apostasy with the definite article) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

 

It seems that they view the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as a baptist would, and not as Pentacostal/Charasmatic does!

 

How does a baptist view the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

 

Huh?

 

Most/many Baptists do not use the terminology "the baptism of the Holy Spirit" for personal individual receiving of the Holy Spirit at regeneration.

I believe a moderately corresponding terminology would be "the infilling of the Holy Spirit" although it is somewhat removed from what I think caused your "Huh?"

 

I think there were plenty of antichrists plus dogs & pigs in the first century. Such warnings & prophecies are of course very relevant to Christians of all generation down the ages.

Paul in 2 Tim. 3 makes the same point -

1 But mark this: there will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God – 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.​

That last instruction is to Timothy himself. There are many such warnings in the letters.

The obvious danger for fundamentalists is complacency - we hold the truth, so the warnings don't apply to us. But do we have a zeal for the truth, for godly living, Gospel outreach, concern for the lost, etc.

And is our fundamentalist theology truly Biblical? In particular, there are many divergent views on this forum as to Biblical theology. I reject the idea of the reestablishment of the state of Israel as a physical nation in the land promised to Abraham. Such doctrines have no basis in the teaching of Jesus & his Apostles, so indicate apostasy. [Please don't argue the case on this thread - there are plenty of others!]

Other apostate doctrines may include infant baptism, a state church - which automatically includes the unconverted, modern prophets & apostles, priesthood of leaders, pop-style worship, decisionist evangelism, etc.

Whether we should argue most or many, I think the OP is right to express serious concern.