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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: Their intent is most certainly acceptable and highly commendable to the fundamentalist Christian. What a 'fundamentalist' really is: "The word fundamentalism has to do with a distinctively Christian belief system, the formal definition of which issued from the Niagara Bible Conference of 1895 and consisted of fourteen articles of faith, the first five of these being commonly spoken of as the Five Fundamentals: the divine inspiration of the scriptures and their inerrancy in the original texts; the virgin birth and divinity of Christ; the substitutionary atonement of Christ's death on the cross; the bodily resurrection of Christ from the dead; and the imminence of the Second Advent. These articles of faith were fixed upon by Protestant theologians of significant scholarly accomplishments, and they were intended, not to restore Christianity to its primitive, or fundamental, state, but to shape it to check the apostasy that had advanced with the advance of the nineteenth century."Excerpt from an essay by Patrick Meehan Denoting the fundamentalist as intolerant, narrow-minded, ignorant - applications nurtured and advanced in academies and newsrooms, is as erroneous as is the belief that the RCC doctrine of the immaculate conception refers to the conception of Christ. The determination that public schools should NOT teach religion of any kind, is a thoughtful conclusion and should be endorsed by every truly fundamentalist Christian. Children should be taught religion in their home, where content and intensity are the parents responsibility - or - by choice, no religion at all. Christianity is accepted by choice, the right to choose is a divine gift, and the right to mess with that choice is not a right.
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: What you are disputing is origin, not evolution. God's word can most certainly be disputed and should be and must be."Come let us reason together" - he invites any and all. Reason is the catalyst, never ever emotion. The world and all that is in it, is a gift to be explored, to know. I'm fond of jigsaw puzzles, putting the pieces in their proper place until it is a picture - it is our duty to do so with what is beneath, and above, and all around. Joy!
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: Your definition of Christian is establishing your limits and making them his. 'Come let us reason together' - you may be a very bad boy, but I can make it alright........is your limit. But - 'come let us reason together' is an invitation with infinite possibilities as are God's possibilities infinite. The rest of your post also establishes your limits as a Christian, for it 'did not slip the surly bonds of earth to fly where never lark or even eagle flew'.
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: This is what it means to you - you need to say that. The concept 'Christian' is a highly personal one - a one on one with Christ to work out the meaning on an individual base, not a collective. That is why the definitions vary among those who ascribe to Christ. There is NO pat answer. You took umbrage with the term 'disputed'. Why do you come here? To debate? Is another application for dispute, which is not always negative.Good luck to you.
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: ROFL
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: But, not only is there no consensus among all who call themselves "Americans" as to what the basics are, there isn't even agreement over how to uniformly interpret the constitution, etc.It seems no one can figure out that what Christian is, is as defineable as what American is, or Koranist, or - or - or.......
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
I would ask if citizenship is enough to make an American.
I would ask that you look at a fractured country, and I would ask that you look at fractured Christianity to deliberate either definition. I believe you know that citizenship is NOT enough.
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: Sure you can.That's the fun of it.
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: I can think of myself as Hottentot never ever having been to Hottentotia.
quote: What is that news you have? Thank you!
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: I like your definition of that definition.
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DorfMan Member (Idle past 6112 days) Posts: 282 From: New York Joined: |
quote: Didn't you just love the tenor of this statement? (Tenor, the melodic line usually forming the cantus firmus in medieval music) Sweet, eh?
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