The Problem Of Fundamentalism/Part 1 of 2

The Problem Of Fundamentalism

This 2-part video attempts to give a Christian response to the problem of fundamentalism in the world today. While the focus of this talk is on Christian Fundamentalism, several of the basic concepts can be applied to any form of fundamentalism.

I realize that not everyone will agree with what I'm saying here. I only ask that you watch both parts of the video before commenting on it--thanks.

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• Fundamentalism
• Christianity
• Religion
• Religious
• Bible
• CS
• Lewis

[aerycksmusic]

"Dear Doctor. I don't know what to do." "About what?" "My old fundamentalist friends keep telling me that if I don't return to church, I'm going to burn in the fires of hell" "Oh, that's easy" "How so?" "Ask them if they believe God can do miracles" "And?" "And if they say 'Yes', then tell them to give you a break and let God sort you out." "I did" "And?" "They sent the deacon, the elder and then the pastor" "And?" "I put a sign on the door nob 'Please do not disturb' " "Job Done"

[gmdinformation]

@aerycksmusic I don't know about that. If a deacon, an elder, and the pastor all come to your door at once you can bet it has something to do with the check you're about to write.

[gmdinformation]

@aerycksmusic I don't know about that. If a deacon, an elder, and the pastor all come to your door at once you can bet it has something to do with the check you're about to write.

[aerycksmusic]

I'm a hot blooded South African male and love to dance, do you think it has something to do with America's denial of it's tribal roots? (racism)

[gmdinformation]

@aerycksmusic I'm descended from a Hungarian hermit and a Scotch-Irish nun. If I dance I'm pretty sure I automatically break into flames. Either that or it rains chickens.

[aerycksmusic]

Have you ever read RT France's book 'Jesus and the Old Testament'?

[gmdinformation]

@aerycksmusic I just tried to browse it at Google books, but they only give you some of the pages from the book. It unfortunately only shows one or two sentences from page 87 where he was starting to talk about Isaiah 9: 6-7, so I don't know if he was trying to equate that with Christ or not. From what I could tell of the rest of the book, he seems mainly interested in refuted Jewish beliefs that the Messiah is still to come, so I doubt that it'll be anything new for me, but I could be wrong.

[aerycksmusic]

I'd be interested to read your comments at Larry Hurtado's recent blog post to Word Press - his url is ( larryhurtado wordpress ) and the article is titled Scriptures and Canon.

[aerycksmusic]

Have you read 'The Text of the New Testament - It's Transmission, Corruption and Restoration' (4th Edition) or 'The Canon of the New Testament - It's Origin, Development and Significance' by Prof. Bruce Metger? Can you read or have you studied New Testament Greek, the Targums, Hebrew with particular emphasis on the Old Testament?

[aerycksmusic]

@gmdinformation - The deacon got an audience and the elder read the sign but the pastor knocked the hardest cause he'd acquired a taste for new wine.

[aerycksmusic]

@gmdinformation - Typical fun-damn-mentalists! LOL!!!!