Featured Fundamentalists abstaining from the appearance of evil?

How do we, as believers, react when our faith is falsely attacked?

Do you acquiesce to the false charges and say nothing, or do we do all we can to counter those false charges?

I, for one, will not idly stand by while my faith is attacked from either without (allowing the media to do our thinking for us) or from within (allowing legalism and false doctrine to masquerade as truth). That is what the true fundamentalists should have been preaching, teaching, and writing against since the 1940s. Had they been faithful we would not find ourselves in this quandary today.

But we let the left leaning compromised "leadership" define the issues and were too "spiritual" to contend (fight) for the faith once delivered.

Do I have a strong affinity to my IFB background? You bet I do! The true IFBs. Not the fake IFBxers I have been doing battle against for decades, but the true IFBers. The fundamental IFBers.

Just do a Search for IFBx under my user name and you will see I have always defended the true IFBs in the face of the Xer nonsense.

 

Except I believe the idea of a "catholic" or "universal" church is nonsense, so your example fails on that point.

I believe the church is a local, organized, assembly, of baptized believers. The "all of the redeemed" group is the Family of God or the Kingdom of God, but never "the church" (universal).

 

Yes, I know. Most on here believe in the oxymoronic unassembled assembly.

 

Me too, but I think it is due to my advanced age.

 

I do as well. But at the same time I (as Southern Baptist) can't read J.R. Graves or R.B.C. Howell and pretend they are referring to the RCC. The word as they used has lost its significance.

My point stands. You understand what was being said by "catholic". Many today don't, any more than they understand what may be the meaning of "fundamental".

I don't think you will "get" the point. As a Texan you are by definition a fundamentalist, or so I've been told - Texans will exercise their fundamental right to fundamentally shoot in one of those fundamental areas of the body, if provoked the right way.

 

Yet, many who call themselves "Christians" are not truly born again - think Mormors, ect.

Going back to the OP - how about this week - talk to five people you know -(outside of church) and ask them their definition of a fundamentalist?

 

Why? Do we let the world define other theological terms?

 

No, we dont, but we need to make sure they understand what we are saying.

 

I agree. We need to tell them the fundamentals of the Christian faith are:

1. The Deity of Christ.
2. The Virgin Birth.
3. The Blood Atonement.
4. The Bodily Resurrection.
5. The inerrancy of scripture.

 

Depends on interpertution.!!!
do you use musical instruments in your church - some would say that is a man-made doctrine.....

Does your pastor request people to stand up when reading the scripture text and/or responsive reading?

lots of examples that could come under that thinking.