Legacy
FIRMly FUNdamentalist
By Karl Priest March 16, 2009 (revised 1-17-15)
(This article is on line at http://www.regularfolksunited.com/index.php?tab=article_view&article_id=1252.)
I am happy to be a born agin Christian fundamentalist.
Just because some Muslims adhere to the fundamentals of their religion should not cause Christians to shy away from being identified as Christian fundamentalists. A Christian fundamentalist is to a Muslim fundamentalist as Christ is to anti-Christ.
When I was involved with baseball I worked hard at mastering the fundamentals of the game. No one, in any endeavor, can enjoy success without building upon the basic (fundamental) facts of the specific activity. As a math teacher I always endeavored to convey the basic (fundamental) facts and concepts to my students.
Unfortunately, the term “fundamentalism” has been distorted by levobortomites.*
Levobortomites have perverted the term “gay” (joyous, lively or bright, brilliant colors) as an attempt to hide the dark, degrading practice of sodomy. The “public” (actually “government”) school system is used to promote homosexuality under the guise of “anti-bullying”.
On another front, the reality of butchering babies is hidden behind the high sounding term “choice”.
Christians have altered some terms themselves. For example, sins are now commonly called “mistakes”.
Sadly, most Christian parents still allow their children into the sanctuaries of humanism to get educations. Many are deluded into thinking their children are “salt and light” when the children are actually “sacrificial lambs” to the ACLU and teacher unions..
Satan is the schemer behind the specious reasoning that people use to mask the truth. C. S. Lewis cleverly wrote in “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” (C. S. Lewis. Screwtape Letters. 1961), “And of course we have contrived that their very language should be all smudge and blur; what would be a bribe in someone else's profession is a tip or a present in theirs.”
Satan is a liar. (When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44). One of the biggest lies he tells is that evolution occurs when all observations throughout history are of everything devolving. Devolution is factual and excludes evolution.
The danger of deviating from, or abandoning, the truth will last until the very end. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (II Tim. 4:3-4)
A prime example of this is the widespread acceptance of evolutionism by many professing Christians. The term (which is a contradiction in terms) for those compromisers is “theistic evolutionists.” Evolutionism within the church has led to a watering down of many fundamental Christian concepts.
That is why we must have a take a firm stand on the fundamentals of our faith.
Modern Christian fundamentalism began in the late 1800s when compromisers embraced evolutionism which naturally lead to other biblical errors. According to Britannica.com the fundamentalist movement was an effort to keep “traditional Christian doctrines concerning biblical interpretation, the mission of Jesus Christ, and the role of the church in society (and affirm) a core of Christian beliefs that included the historical accuracy of the Bible, the imminent and physical Second Coming of Jesus Christ , and Christ’s Virgin Birth, Resurrection, and Atonement”.
A pivotal point in the movement was the publication of the 12 volume The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth published by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1910 to 1915.
There was no main leader in the fundamentalist movement so it was a work of the Holy Spirit in getting the Church back on course.
Being a fundamentalist is fun!
I can only imagine the wonderful fun of living in the Garden of Eden. But, because of Adam and Eve’s failure to follow God’s simple instructions they lost out on that fabulous enjoyment. Ever since then, God’s people have been plagued with the same problem. Paul warned the Corinthian Christians that he feared that “ lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (II Cor. 11:3) Corrupt minds do not know real joy.
One of the deepest thinkers of Christian apologetics, Francis Schaeffer, said that, “True spirituality covers all of reality. There are things the Bible tells us as absolutes which are sinful -- which do not conform to the character of God. But aside from these the Lordship of Christ covers all of life and all of life equally.” (A Christian Manifesto, Ch. 1)
Jesus said that He came so that we could have abundant life. (John 10:10b) He also said, “Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.” (Matt. 7:24) Therefore, the closer one lives one’s life to the fundamentals God has provided in the Bible, the steadier one stands and experiences more of the joy (real fun) God has available.
There is inexhaustible depth to God’s Word, but it must be approached by standing joyfully upon the solid, and easily understood, fundamentals.
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Note: Some folks have given up on using the term “fundamentalist” because of the negative aspect of Muslim fundamentalism. They may have a valid point considering how the word “gay” has been hopelessly perverted. Perhaps “Bible Believer” is a better term.
A Fundamental Christian is a Born Again Christian which is “defined as people who said they had made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that was still important in their life today and who also indicated they believed that when they die they will go to Heaven because they had confessed their sins and had accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.” (Barna Survey)
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*I coined this term a couple of years ago when I realized that the folks who opposed my attempts to get scientific facts, critical of evolutionism, taught in public schools were the same ones who were involved in other Loony Leftist shenanigans.
levobortomite (lev oh BOR' tow mite) noun. Anyone who believes and/or promotes left wing extremism, evolutionism, abortion, and/or anti-family activities such as sodomite marriage. These people are not limited to any particular political party.
Additionally, I have coined some apt acronyms.
AWAW Atheist Whackos at Work
ALE Aggressive Left-leaning Evolutionist
BS Bunk Speculation (What it takes to write an article or paper about evolution.)
EIEIO HOF Evolutionist Idiotic Egotistical Inane Oafish Hall of Fame
TE-PE What Hugh Ross believes is really a theistic evolutionism (TE) version of punctuated equilibrium (PE).
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