ARE YOU A "FUNDAMENTALIST"?

THE FIRST PICTURE SHOWS THE BOOKS MAILED TO EVERY PASTOR IN THE U.S. AN CANADA. THEY WERE CALLED THE FUNDAMENTALS. R.A.TORREY HELP EDIT THEM. THE OTHER PICTURES ARE OF THE OLD BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES AROUNG 1910. R.A. TORREY WAS HEAD OF THE SCHOOL AND THE 3000 AUDITORIUM WAS THE MEETING FOR TORREY'S CONGREGATION ON SUNDAY, "THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN DOOR." THE FUNDAMENTALS WERE WRITTEN IN A POPULAR WAY BY TOP SCHOLARS WHO HELD TO THE HISTORIC CHRISTIAN FAITH. MORE AND MORE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS IN THE NORTH DRIFTED AWAY FROM BELIEVING: THE BIBLE WAS INFALLIBLE, CHRIST WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN, DIED FOR OUR SINS, AND ROSE AGAIN, THE DEITY OF JESUS AND HIS SECOND COMING, SALVATION IS BY GRACE THRU FAITH. THE WORLD FUNDAMENTALIST ASSOCIATION WAS ORGANIZED BY TORREY AND OTHERS. SO THE WORD "FUNDAMENTALIST" CAME INTO USE. IT WAS USED TO MEAN THOSE WHO BELIEVED THE CARDINAL TRUTHES OF CHRISTIANITY. BEFORE LONG IT BECAME A DERISIVE TERM. WHAT REALLY DID IT IN WAS WHEN THE PRESS UNFAIRLY CALLED MUSLIM TERRORIST, "MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS." THE TERM "EVANGELICAL" CAME INTO VOGUE IN THE 1950'S. IT WAS THE TERM MOST EUROPEANS USED FOR PROTESTANT. HOWEVER, SOMETIMES IT HAS BEEN USED FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE KIND OF WEIRD! I USE THE TERM "BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIAN." THE BEST TERM IS WHEN PEOPLE SEE OUR LIVES AND LOVE AND SAY, "THAT'S A REAL CHRISTIAN"!