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Dear Al


I keep being criticised by non-Christian people for my faith. They say I am a
fundamentalist. It does not sound like compliment. How should I react to this?

 

Eva

 

Dear Eva

 

You are right, often evangelical Christians are called fundamentalist and it is not intended
as a compliment.

 

The word 'fundamentalist' is hard to tie down. It probably has its roots as far as
evangelicals are concerned in the USA. In the early and mid twentieth century
conservative Protestant evangelicals in N. America were called 'fundamentalists'.
Conservative Christians themselves possibly coined the title. Certainly, a series of twelve
books were published called 'The Fundamentals' which claimed to teach the
'fundamentals' of conservative Protestant belief. The name 'fundamentalist' was given to
(and taken by) anyone who believed that the Bible was the inspired (came from God) and
inerrant (contained no mistakes) Word of God. Fundamentalists believed the Bible came
directly from God. They also believed that all attempts to apply C20 tools of biblical
criticism were wrong. This was perhaps the main tenet

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