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

by brotherdan 236 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  sabastious

  When it comes down to it we all pretend to be experts in things that it is impossible to completely know.

  When it all comes down to it each and every person on this planet is an expert on their own perception of reality. That's why many can sound like they want to come across as a secular expert, on some subject, when they are actually just trying to express their passion in the subject.

  All I see when sparks fly on this forum is the thirst for knowledge and undestanding. How could we ever get enough?

  The extreme passion we have for our passions is a blessing and a curse for the human race.

  -Sab
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  OnTheWayOut

  When it comes down to it we all pretend to be experts in things that it is impossible to completely know.

  I love "fundy" cop-outs.

  I'll give you some more ammunition for your beliefs. As long as we cannot all get in a time machine and go all the way back to where the primordial soup became life or else when God formed life in the garden, we cannot completely know.

  As long as that problem (above) exists, we can come up with outlandish theories in support of the Bible's flood, beginnings of life, the exodus, etc. etc. Meanwhile, we can reject all the fossil evidence of evolution and man being around longer than the Bible says. We can reject any DNA/genetic theories.

  We can also defend the approval of slavery, genocide, rape, womanizing, etc. etc. and say that just like Mankind doesn't really understand the true story of those fossils possibly being planted by Satan or just being freaks of imperfect nature after the sin and their age totally miscalculated, that we also don't understand God's purpose in approving slavery, genocide, rape, womanizing, etc. etc.

  We can assume the Bible is right because it is the Bible. We can assume that anything that contradicts it is in error because it is not the Bible. Who cares that not even a majority of Mankind has come to even attempt to accept the Bible? God doesn't need all those heathens anyway.
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  leavingwt

  brotherdan: Regarding the Flood, you may enjoy the post below at Free Minds.

  http://www.freeminds.org/blogs/nils-jansma/noahs-flood-%E2%80%93-earthwide-or-local-or-both.html
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  designs

  brotherdan- Actually a large sepment of Judaism believe that a person claiming to be the Messiah lived in the first half of the first century, they just don't buy the premise he was pushing.
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  ProdigalSon

  There is a vast gulf between the actual message of Jesus and the New Testament version.
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  StoneWall

  brotherdan,

  from reading your responses it seems your really big hang up is the bible.

  I had similar issues a few years back because I was raised to believe everything that's in the bible is true or God's word.

  It was all I ever knew.

  From my youth up I had a profound respect,admiration and longing to read in it.

  Heck I was one of those that never had to be "encouraged" to read it because usually I already was.

  Then as I grew older and really researched and studied it, I started noticing gaps or "holes" in it.

  This only made me want to study it even harder because I wanted to find something in it to fill in the holes.

  I always felt like the "Bible" was airtight,watertight more so than even the best built ship.

  Then the questions just wouldn't go away.

  If Jesus was perfect and the son of God, why didn't he write any of the bible? Who would've been in a better position than him to accurately portray what God wanted to be written down?

  And yet we find out not one word of all that is claimed as scripture in the bible was attributed to Jesus own hand.

  It was always so and so wrote that Jesus said this or he said that. And then ask yourself why was the gospels written so much later after Jesus death? When someone tells you something today that is over say two paragraphs long, how much of it do you think you would remember in 30 years to write down verbatim?

  Only after I was able to come to grips with the thought that the reason I felt the way I did about the bible was because of how I was raised to feel about it, did my mind start opening up to all the other possibilities.

  If you or I had been born in China,India, Iraq,Iran, or any other of various countries around the world, the odds are high that we wouldn't have been raised with such an elevated view of the bible as God's word.

  One day you too may have such an eureka moment or epiphany.

  Don't rush it and enjoy your journey along the way. You may discover more about yourself than you've ever realized.
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  AGuest

  May you all have peace! Fundies give great credence to what is written in the Bible; indeed, will fight to the death (some actually; some symbolically) as to its inerrancy. Unfortunately, they don't pay a great deal of attention to what it says IN IT, including that it is indeed errant (which is why my Lord included the "scribes" - those who copied the scriptures - in his chastising "woes". He called them "hypocrites", too... and for good reason). Fundies don't get this, though... or "see" what the Bible itself says as to this. Some would call this... "blind".

  Among others, JWs are fundies; however, they're actually in the front of the pack, right now...

  Again, peace to you all!

  A slave of Christ,

  SA
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  cofty

  AGuest - How do you know that Jesus rebuked the scribes?
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  cyberjesus

  long island no ice.... where can i find it on the bible?
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  doofdaddy

  "Out of the heart's abundance, the mouth speak"s. You have identified yourself as a fundamentalist. Just read your own posts to get an idea but methinks you are using these subjects to prosetylise, so the question is not honest.