Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs.

A fundamentalist is a person who believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture in a religion but according to 2 Peter 1:20 we should be "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."

It does not matter what individuals want to say or think the scriptures mean. It only matters what the author meant and God if the were inspired by God it is only God who knows what he meant. Anyone who is trying to impose his private interpretation upon others in the name of religion is playing God.

First, they are subverting the definition of religion which use to be the performance of a duty to God and their fellow man.

Secondly, once people define religion as what they think about God they can abandon the practice of pure religion as defined by James in favor of their theology which is merely a product of their imagination concerning what is good or evil through their ideology which becomes their personal product of pride and faith. People begin to worship their professed religious theology rather than God himself. It is their religious doctrines rather than the practice of pure religion which becomes an idol of worship and faith and their ministers, preachers, and pastors are paid well to tickle their ears and assure their ego.

Millions have died in defense of these religious ideologies and the denominations they create which often have little to do with the directives, teachings or doctrines of Jesus the Christ.

Some of the first Christian fundamentalist were men like Jerome, Ambrose and Augustine of Hippo who began to write in support of the church established by Constantine. These authors sowed the seeds of religious persecution for any who did not accept their interpretation of scripture.

Modern Christian fundamentalism has been defined by George Marsden in reaction to Modernist theology. The Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy was a major schism of the 1920s and '30s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States. At issue were disputes about the role of Christianity, the authority of Scripture, the death, Resurrection, and atoning sacrifice of Jesus. None of these schisms had to do with the directives of Jesus as the Christ but were merely a backlash resulting from debates over personal interpretation and the formation of ideologies, theologies and dictated church doctrines about God and Jesus.

But in truth Jesus did not start a new religion call Christianity. He was the Christ or the Mashiyach which we call the Messiah which means anointed which is what the word Christ means. It was a reference to the savior who would be both high priest and king and reform Israel back to what God intended from the beginning. Thousands of Jews accepted Christ as their king and looked to the apostles and the 120 in the upper room and eventually thousands of "called out" ministers to provide the services of the kingdom through what was eventually called the Church. Jesus had taken the kingdom from those who sat in the seat of Moses when they said they had "no king but Caesar" and appointed the kingdom to His little flock with the stipulation that they were not to exercise authority one over the other like the governments of other nations.

The term Fundamentalism was coined by supporters of five specific classic theological beliefs of modern Christianity which developed into a fundamentalist movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early 20th century but spread to conservatives among the Baptists and other denominations in defense of liberal theology.

By the 1940's proponents of Theological Liberalism were in control of all Mainline Protestant seminaries, publishing houses and denominational hierarchies in the United States. But the schism continued with their own seminaries and publishers until the 1970s, when conservative Christianity reemerged among the Baptist, Presbyterians and others.

These denominational debates continued to fuel and perpetuate that religion is merely what you think about God and not the fulfillment of your duty to God, Christ and your fellow man. Not only did these institutions of men fail to separate themselves from the world as Christ instructed they became more and more dependent upon the authoritarian power of that world to provide for the needy of society and feed their sheep.

The Modern Church continued their debates, dividing the people instead of "feeding His sheep", while the people became more entangled in the elements of the world through covetous practices allowed and even promoted by the false religion of the modern fundamental apostasy.

The debates continues, like they did in the time of the Pharisees and Sadducees who made the word of God to none effect with their Corban, while the Modern Christians again fails to keep the commandments, the modern Church fails to "feed His Sheep" and they both fail to attend to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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