Whats a fundamentalist Christian?

a person who believes the fundamental things from the christian Bible, like the Holy Trinity, jesus as God etc.. he was born of a virgin, he died and he raise from the dead, he will come again again according to the Holy Scriptures.

Fundamentalist Christianity, also known as Christian fundamentalism or fundamentalist evangelicalism is defined by its historian George M. Marsden as "militantly anti-modernist Protestant evangelicalism." Marsden explains that fundamentalists were evangelical Christians who in the twentieth century "militantly opposed both modernism in theology and the cultural changes that modernism endorsed. Militant opposition to modernism was what most clearly set off fundamentalism."

As an organized movement it began within Protestant churches—especially Baptist and Presbyterian—in the United States in the early 20th century. Many Evangelical Christians, especially Southern Baptists have adopted its fighting style and key theological elements such as Dispensationalism. It is a tendency found in numerous churches, but it is not an organized movement and has no national body or official statement.

Fundamentalism arose out of British and American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among evangelical Christians. The founders reacted against liberal theology, actively asserted that the following ideas were fundamental to the Christian faith: the inerrancy of the Bible, Sola Scriptura, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and the imminent personal return of Jesus Christ.

The term "fundamentalist" is controversial into the 21st century; it is often used to attack or ridicule adherents, although it was coined by movement leaders. Some who hold these beliefs reject the label of "fundamentalism", seeing it as too pejorative while to others it has become a banner of pride. Such Christians prefer to use the term fundamental as opposed to fundamentalist.

Someone who takes the teachings of the christian church as represented in the bible as fundamental fact, without any real research as to how true such teaching truly are.

This as opposed to people who see some of the stories as parables, or religious scholars who have done real research into such matters.

Take a Christian... Make them completely crazy...And there you go. Thats a fundie.

Not hate filled...the truth

usually more legalistic...im Methodist

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