1. There are many paths to the same
truth, so it does not matter what religion you are.
2. Truth is all relative. Every group
sharing a culture has a socially constructed truth, which is true to members
of the group.
3. There is no supernatural--only the
natural that we don�t know and understand yet.
4. If there is a heaven, all �good�
people are going there. Nobody goes to hell (if there is a hell), unless they
are just too mean to tolerate goodness.
5. Whether there is a heaven or hell
doesn�t matter. The only thing that matters is this life.
You are no more a Fundamentalist
than our Friends the LDS are Christians!
Why such a schism on TT?
J. Gresham Machen "the root
of the movement (liberalism) is one; the many varieties of modern liberal
religion are rooted in naturalism--that is, in the
denial of any entrance of the creative power of God (as
distinguished from the ordinary course of nature) in connection with the
origin of Christianity...our principle concern...is to show that the liberal
attempt at reconciling Christianity with modern science has really
relinquished everything distinctive of Christianity, so that what remains is
in essentials only that same indefinite type of religious aspiration which was
in the world before Christianity came upon the scene. In trying to remove from
Christianity everything that could possibly be objected to in the name of
science, in trying to bribe off the enemy by those concessions which the enemy
most desires, the apologist has really abandoned what he started out to
defend...The plain fact is that liberalism,
whether it be true of false, is no mere 'heresy'--no mere divergence at
isolated points from Christian teaching. On the contrary it proceeds from a
totally different root, and it constitutes, in essentials a unitary
system of its own...It differs from Christianity in its view of God, of man,
of the seat of authority and the way of
salvation...Christianity is being attacked from within
by a movement which is anti-Christian to the core."
Evangelicalism was the next attempt at
Liberalism
Here is a good definition of Fundamentalist; from a
Fundamentalist: "Historic fundamentalism is the literal
interpretation of all the affirmations and attitudes of the Bible and the
militant exposure of all non-biblical affirmations and attitudes" (Dollar, A
History of Fundamentalism in America, 1973).
World Congress of Fundamentalists "Fundamentalism is
militant orthodoxy set on fire with soulwinning zeal."
"The five fundamentals have only to do with the
Presbyterian aspect of the struggle with modernism. ... The bulk of
Fundamentalism, especially the Baptists of every stripe who composed
the majority by far, never accepted the five fundamentals alone. The World's
Christian Fundamentals Association, founded in 1919, had at least a dozen main
doctrines highlighted. The same was true of the Fundamental Baptist
Fellowship, which originated in 1920. A true Fundamentalist would under no
circumstances restrict his doctrinal position to five fundamentals. Even Dr.
Carl F.H. Henry, a New Evangelical theologian,
listed at least several dozen doctrines essential to the Faith. The only
advantage of reducing the Faith down to five is to make possible a wider
inclusion of religionists, who might be way off in heresy on other specific
doctrines. It is much easier to have large numbers of adherents with the
lowest common denominator in doctrine" G. Archer Weniger, quoted in
Calvary Contender, April 15, 1994
