What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

by brotherdan 236 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  tec

  I go to work all day and you guys have an awesome conversation without me????

  I'd like to add, but PSac sums up the things that I feel for the most part, most especially the part where he is saying that he accepts everything (in the bible) that does not attribute a reprehensible act to God. I would add that I accept everything that 'jives' with what Christ said, taught, and did - that we know of. Since he did, said and taught more than just the few letters that we have, I would go further and say that I accept everything that 'jives' with love, justice, and/or mercy.

  I do the best I can with the love of and for Christ. I don't think I have to repeat that I fall short. That seems a given to me. But I would also prefer to listen to the Spirit, and let Him teach me or lead me into all truth. That might mean I need to exercise patience, and pray for more faith, but at least I will know then that what I have is Truth... and not just what I or others think is truth.

  My faith and my trust are in Christ. That is the bottom line, at least for me.

  Also just wanted to make one quick comment to Mad, and hope you don't take offense. You said, referring to God:

  I busted my ass for you for decades; you should know where I live.

  Did you really bust your ass for God? Or did you bust your ass for a group of men who told you to listen to them? (regardless that it is obvious that you thought you were busting your ass for God at the time)

  Tammy
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  tec

  oops... sorry... to answer the question:

  I guess I think a fundi is someone who thinks its their way or no way, biblically and religiously speaking.

  Tammy
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  SweetBabyCheezits

  C'mon in, Tammy, the party's just gettin' started!
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  tec

  (I had a cake/treat too, but I leaned down to get something with it in my hand, and my 8 month puppy sprang up like the great white shark he is, snatched it out of my hand and swallowed it whole. Doesn't even have the sense to look ashamed either)

  Tammy
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  sabastious

  Any reason why you ignored my eariler posts dan?

  -Sab
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  brotherdan

  Sorry Sab. Which ones?
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  cofty

  I think the "all or nothing" approach is one of the hallmarks of fundamentalism.

  I actually agree with Brotherdan that if there is no flood, or no Adam and Eve then the bible really doesn't make any sense. Its ok saying as Tammy and many liberal christians do that they just like the stuff about love and justice but does the bible leave you that option?

  Brotherdan, you remind me a lot of me during my evangelical decade. Its good you are reading things that may challenge your view but it doesn't sound as if you are reading them very objectively. For example if you can go on believeing in a global flood you are obvioulsy unaware of the weight of unassailable evidence against it.

  You may well find that your current position will become untenable for you eventually. When that happens will you follow it all the way to its logical conclusion as I did or will you find a middle ground?
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  tec

  But all indications show that Jesus took those stories as literal. He refered to them specifically. So if those stories were not true then Jesus was perpetuating a lie.

  Or the stories themselves are relayed in a manner that these people could comprehend... but these are simple terms for a truth, which might instead have been larger and more complex.

  I mean, if you don't believe in a literal six day creation... but that that story was a simple way of explaining the depth of creation/progression/evolution... then perhaps some of these others stories are as in depth as that, yet relayed in simpler terms.

  Am I making myself clear? Or is it too abstract?

  Tammy
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  brotherdan

  When that happens will you follow it all the way to its logical conclusion as I did or will you find a middle ground?

  Like I said before, I can't find a middle ground in this. I don't know if that's good or bad. But either God is in control of His own Word and what we have IS His Word...or it's not. There's no middle ground IMO.

  I REALLY try to read things objectively. I know I don't come across that way. But I HAVE had crisis's of faith. But I have also read compelling creationist arguments about the flood for example that seem reasonable to me. Do I have all the info? No. But it fits in with what I currently believe. And when I read the opposite side of things, I find myself disagreeing with much of it.

  Like I've said atheism makes absolutely NO sense to me. Intelligent design makes the most sense according to what I view as logic. If I accept intelligent design, then did that designer reveal Himself? I feel that He did. And there are many reasons for coming to that conclusion.
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  jwfacts

  believing only you have the truth.

  But if that makes you a fundamentalist then you have to include all Christians. But if that makes you a fundamentalist then you have to include all Christians.

  Not at all. Many Christians and Christian denominations are accepting of Christians in general, not just their own group, or just those that believe the same doctrine as themselves. Even more openminded are Anglicans, who now believe that all will receive a second chance in heaven, not just Christians.