Are you a fundamentalist Christian? Not sure? Check out this top ten signs of a fundamentalist Christian which I received in my email just today.
10 – You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 – You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 – You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 – Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed to Allah, but you don’t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in “Joshua” including women, children, and trees!
6 – You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 – You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 – You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects – will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most “tolerant” and “loving.”
3 – While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in “tongues” may be all the evidence you need to “prove” Christianity.
2 – You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 – You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history – but still call yourself a Christian.
So, are you a fundamentalist Christian?
July 31st, 2009 at 10:53 am
I am a fundamentalist Christian, but not in regard to each of the ten points listed. In my view, the Bible is the inerrant divinely inspired Word of God. However, it is not a book of science, and the Genesis story of creation should be taken in an allegorical sense. Scientific evidence to indicate an evolutionary process resulted in the creation of man cannot be denied. The truth that God is the Creator, and Jesus is both God and man, gave His life as a sacrifice for the sins of man, and arose from death, is something that remains essential to my faith.
The conflict between faith and science is something that has been a concern to me for many years. It is for people who reject the Christian faith as a myth, at least in part, because of the insistence upon a literal interpretation of the Genesis story that I have felt concern. The question of answer to prayer was raised. I have experienced an answer to my prayer in regard to enlightenment regarding Scripture to prove its inerrancy, so that someone who does not believe might be convinced of the truth found in the Bible.
Gematria is the use of the numerical value of words in Hebrew and Greek, the languages of the Old and New Testaments respectively. Both languages use letters of the alphabet for numbers, and so each letter has a specific numerical value. Through guidance of the Holy Spirit I have been led to absolute proof using the numerical value of words regarding everything the Bible says concerning Jesus.
I was also guided to use gematria to discover the correct way to interpret the origin of man which confirms what the Bible says, but also what is known through science.
Remarkably, even though I was not searching for the answer, the proper interpretation of the end time prophecy of Daniel was revealed to me. This may sound as if it arises from a delusional person, but I would suggest that if anyone is interested, a summary of four books which I have written in the past year and a half since the revelation came to me, can be seen @ http://www.thepurelanguageofgod.com
Through the use of the numerical value of words I have found approx. 1500 gematria correlations which confirm the truth of Scripture and confirm the revelation which I have received.