To believe fundamental Christianity means to accept fundamental tenets of Christianity. To believe fundamentalism means to embrace a sect of Christianity which hammers on the fundamentals. What if that "ism" sect said that only the KJV was inspired, or that believers need to sell all, forsake possessions, and live in communes like the early believers did, or that anyone who did not speak in tongues and heal the sick were not living in the same faith as the early believers? I could go on and on. The problem with believing in any "ism" is that if error creeps into the "ism" sect at all, it infects the whole group. So I prefer the concept of believing in fundamental Christianity but not believing in fundamentalism.
David Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Deegan To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: Williams on Creationism Then maybe you can flesh it out for the rest of us. I am sure Lance can not/will not I am sure we can see the difference, but just what are the symptoms of that particular ISM? David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lance wrote: > Fundamental Christianity is [fine]... > FundamentalISM ought not be > believed by anyone. FWIW: I can appreciate this distinction Lance makes. David Miller ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
