[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
You’re clueless Chris.[/quote]
I’m sure, this is the bane of arguing against fundi’s their theology changes as needs be, they have no stated creed. Why? Because they are their own Pope, they receive their own revelation from God himself.
Um, no. Not what I was talking about.
Here Karl Keating explains what I mean.
"The basic elements of fundamentalism were formulated almost exactly a century ago at the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, by Benjamin B. Warfield, Charles Hodge, and their associates.6 What they produced became known as Princeton theology, and it appealed to conservative Protestants who were concerned with the Social Gospel movement. Between 1909 and 1915 the brothers Milton and Lyman Stewart, whose wealth came from oil, underwrote The Fundamentals, a series of twelve paperback books. The preface to the volumes explained their purpose: â??In 1909 God moved two Christian laymen to set aside a large sum of money [$300,000] for issuing twelve volumes that would set forth the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and which were to be sent free to ministers of the gospel, missionaries, Sunday school superintendents, and others engaged in aggressive Christian work throughout the English-speaking world.â?? Three million copies were distributed. Each volume contained seven or eight essays. Aside from studies of strictly doctrinal matters, there were attacks on modern biblical criticism, critiques of scientific theories, personal testimonies, commentaries on missionary work and evangelization, and accounts of heresies. The last category included essays on â??Catholicism: Is It Christian?â?? and â??Rome, the Antagonist of the Nationâ??.7 There were sixty-four contributors, including scholars such as C. I. Scofield, compiler of the Scofield Reference Bible; â??W. J. Eerdman and his son, Charles; H. C. G. Motile, Anglican bishop of Durham; James M. Gray, dean of the Moody Bible Institute; and Warfield himself. They included Presbyterian ministers, Methodist evangelists, editors of religious periodicals, professors, even an Egyptologist.8 As Edward Dobson, an associate pastor at Jerry Falwellâ??s Thomas Road Baptist Church, put it, â??They were certainly not anti-intellectual, snakehandling, cultic, obscurantist fanatics.â??9 The fundamentals identified in the series have been tallied variously, some listing as many as fourteen points. Most commentators agree on at least these five: (1) the inspiration and infallibility of Scripture; (2) the deity of Christ, including his Virgin Birth; (3) tire substitutionary atonement of his death; (4) his literal resurrection from the dead; and (5) his literal return in the Second Coming. Dobson writes, â??Although some have expanded this list to include such issues as a literal heaven and hell, soulwinning, a personal Satan, and the local church, nevertheless the doctrinal character of fundamentalism still centers around the five fundamentals listed.â??
The books were noticed by many who were unsympathetic to the views expressed in them. On May 22, 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick, himself a theological liberal, preached on the subject â??Shall the Fundamentalists Win?â?? He used the title of the books to designate the people he was opposing, and the label stuck. He was not, though, the coiner of the word. That honor goes to Curtis Lee Law, who, in an editorial for the New York Watchman-Examiner of July 1, 1920, defined â??fundamentalistsâ?? as those â??who mean to do battle for the fundamentalsâ??.11"
I’ve been trying to, but when you won’t answer my questions…how am I supposed to know what you believe.
[quote]I will ignore your accusations of my ignorance of Catholicism for now. One thing, one place at time.
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Why? You haven’t proved that you aren’t since I can remember.
