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Fundamentals
Defined
The definition of
fundamental in one dictionary is this: "One of the minimum constituents
without which a thing or a system would not be what it is". And that is
what we are dealing with here. In other words, a fundamental of the faith is
a facet of belief "without which" Christianity ceases to be uniquely what it
is.
Fundamentalist = One who is
committed to the fundamentals of Christianity. [ This definition refers to the true definition, not the present
day NEW AGE so-called fundamentalists, Dispensatiionalist, who are total
apostates. So much so, few even know what a Dispensationalist is,
nor much of anything about salvation, except to play church. And the
so-called Emerging church is so satanic, they reject everything even
relating to what is fundamental Christianity. ]
The Primary Fundamentals of Historic Christian Salvation are
THREE.
First. The
Scriptures. They believe in the verbal (each word) and
plenary (fully complete), literal (God said what He meant and meant what He
said) meaning of the original scriptures (allowing figures of speech and
idioms), that only by Holy Spirit revealed scripture can we comprehend
doctrinal (teachings) Truth, and that Biblical faith through which we
are being saved can exist only in regard to the Truth as found in the
original Greek scriptures and as revealed by the indwelling Holy Spirit,
the Mind of Christ, in only those born-from-above. All the
teachings (doctrines) of the Perfect scriptures (original Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek) are absolute Truth. This means
all doctrines (teachings) are held
as valid and truthful, each and every one to be held
inviolate. And if any teaching of doctrine
could possibly result in a person's loss of salvation, that doctrine is
apostate by definition. See the Statement
of Beliefs. "About This Site," in Table of Contents, for further
details on these necessary understandings about
scriptures.
We must embrace the Truth Of God just as we
must equally reject error and heresy. Belief in anything that is
not the Truth of God is death itself; one cannot breathe in a vacuum or
have one's thirst quenched by 'springs without water' ( 2 Peter 2:17). Genuine
believers (born-again) may have mixed error with the Truth by which they
are saved, but the error contributes nothing to the vitality of their faith,
only weakens it.2
It must be clearly understood that ALL
false teachers and false theologies support their false lying doctrines
(teachings) by simply redefining the plain and
child-simple words of all scriptures to make their teachings sound
rational. And what plain scriptures they cannot redefine, they will
forcibly and violently deny, even in the face of
overwhelming number of scriptures saying the opposite. This is
illustrated in denying the necessary commitment to the Lordship of Christ in
salvation, or in denying that all men (saved or lost) are
judged to Heaven or hell ONLY according to their works (deeds),
whether God-good Holy Spirit directed or self-directed. See explanation
in The Final
Eternal Judgment of All Men, The Single
Basis.
This is an obvious
characteristic of all false teachers of the scriptures. The pure
words (one meaning per word) of the entire scriptures (NT Greek nouns
and verbs and as much as possible all others) must be used. This cannot
be used by them, nor even need be, but their only recourse in any Bible
teaching is --to redefine or deny, doing all of this with
deductive thinking (see Hermeneutics and Appendix E in"Our Creator God" book in OnePathPublishing.com. ). And if the demons influencing people cannot
redefine the Pure Words of God, then they will forcefully and
scornfully deny their meaning. The pure words of
scriptures define themselves, and make all these false
teachers liars. Our Lord said, "The
Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day"
(John 12:48). See Hermeneutics for complete
exhaustive details to interpret scriptures. See also Appendix
E and G in "Our Creator God," book in OnePathPublishing.com.
All false teachers excuse their giving many different
definitions to any single word by the universal teaching today in
all Bible Schools and Seminaries that, "the meaning of any single word
in scripture is defined by its context in the sentence in which it is
used with the surrounding sentences of context." This gives
many and even desparate definitions of the same word used throughout
scriptures. Of course, this allows all
their own preferences to interpret first the surrounding
context, then infer the meaning of the single word to fit their imagined and
preferred context. As actual true illustrations, this means that
one Greek word was given 47 different English meanings in the NT, and
one English word was translated for 46 different Greek words
in Matthew alone. This is insanity on the face of it.
"The words of the Lord are
pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for
ever" (Ps 12:6-7). Even
a little child learns that the meaning of each word makes the meaning of the
sentence. That the sentence and context of a sentence is what
defines a single word's meaning is insanity and incomprehensible
to any little child. "Except ye be converted, and become "in
the same manner as" little children, ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven" (Matt 18:3). No sane coherent person can accept
these false means of translations or interpretations taught in all
Bible Schools and Seminaries (Cemeteries, no man comes out alive). It is
no wonder that every Denomination and cult can uses the Bible to
justify whatever their teachings are. Simply redefine or deny.
And they call this good exegesis (interpretation) of scripture.
And
of what value are all the different translations, except to make money off
of copy rights. All modern translations, which come from a
man invented Greek text of 1881, and even the KJV, from the original
Greek and Hebrew texts, all use the same insane rules of
translation. In other words, "God's Greek text given for the
Eternal NT is re-written according to man's traditions, according to the
worldly languages derived in the satan's kingdom. Making each word
conform to the meaning of worldly language nuances of the sentence of the
time. "The local sentence or context defines any word's meaning,
wherever it is used," they say. This type of "dynamic translation"
has been going on even for many centuries before the KJV
(1604-1611).
Satan is still at work, at the tree of
knowledge, originating all his lies from the words of our
Creator God by denying and redefining, just as in the Garden originally.
Redefinitions is the tall tail of the devil seen above the
high grass of their profuse false scholarly doctrines today. "Beware that
no man deceives you," our Lord repeatedly warned.
Second. Salvation. The scriptures insist that
conscious deliberate CONTINUOUS
Repentance and CONTINUOUS
believing (Committing) into the
Lordship of Jesus Christ as
No Beginning,
Immutable, Omniscent,
Omnipotent, Omnipresent,
Triune, and Creator God
Incarnate, virgin born
as God in sinless human flesh //
Crucified and Risen from the dead as
Only Saviour and Only
Mediator of man, and a CONTINUING Personal commitment to indwelling Faith of Christ Fellowship to our Heavenly Father are
necessary to personal salvation, ALL through the Work of the Holy Spirit on the earth enlightening all
mandkind, looking for His visible Second Coming in which all living and
dead believers shall be perfected in Heaven with new spiritual
bodies.
CRCL------------NBIOOOTCIVB //
CROSOM------------CPFFHoly
Spirit
Commands
to
man ----Lord Jesus
Himself // Christ's Provision---man's
appropriation
These details were
held to be orthodox beliefs for salvation for 1900 years by all orthodox
protestant believers whether Apostolic Elders of the early church or
the persecuted Anabaptist (not Baptists) saints for centuries since
Christ. They were the test of cults and errant doctrines for these 1900
years.
The Godhead has four primary Attributes, being Love,
Truth, Holiness, and Wisdom, together simultaneously governing all
God's actions and governing His six Characteristics as God (Spiritual,
Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Immutable, and Sovereign). These
Attributes distinguish Him from all imagined pagan gods who
demonstrate only characteristics governing their
behavior. Only by these Attributes can our Creator relate to man and
be understood by man. These monadic (one of a kind) Attributes
of God are not possessed by man, and only dimly apprehended by fallen
man. They are Attributes only possessed by God, and only
comprehended by his Spiritual Sons of God (His Heavenly Angels and
regenerated God-indwelt new-men).
It is by His Attributes,
revealed in His scriptures, that our Creator God has created man
to comprehend Him and make His salvation for mankind understood by man, and to
give choice to man, and to give His Holy Spirit means of convicting man of
righteousness, sin, and judgment to come. Without revealing these
Attributes by the scriptures and through the Holy Spirit to man,
by man's initial enlightened choice, Heaven or hell could not be
made Lovingly and impartially (Justly) provided to all lost
mankind.
God's Love cannot exist without Truth
and Holiness providing impartial righteousness (Justice)
simultaneously. Man's choice is thereby demanded by God's
Attributes, and to all spirit possessing creations (man and
Angels).
For complete
detailing of God's Attributes in relationship to right-of-choice given to
man, and only choice given to His Angels, and their implications,
see "Our Creator God," book and all 12 Chapters and Appendices in OnePathPublishing.com, for a very rounded education about God, and being a saint
(Holy one) of God in this evil
world.
Third.
Exclusive Truth. Must See
footnote.3 David W. Cloud, in a book on New
Evangelicalism says, anyone who is not truly militant in standing for all the
Truth of the scriptures regarding Christian conduct in militant separation and
criticism of error and sin has no title to Biblical Fundamentalism. One
historian of Fundamentalism says, "Historic Fundamentalism is the literal
interpretation of all the affirmations and attitudes of the Bible and the
militant exposure of all non-biblical affirmations and attitudes"
(Dollar, A History of Fundamentalism in America, 1973).
David O. Beale,
in 1986, had written one of the most thorough histories of Fundamentalism from
a Fundamentalist perspective. He gives this definition: "The essence of
Fundamentalism ... is the unqualified acceptance of and obedience to the
Scriptures. ... The present study reveals that pre-1930 Fundamentalism was
nonconformist, while post-1930 Fundamentalism has been
separatist."4 This must be necessitated by the
prevalence of so many false doctrines in the 20th century.
John Ashbrook
has another one of the best books in print on the subject of New
Evangelicalism, says, "Fundamentalism is the militant belief and proclamation
of the basic doctrines of Christianity leading to a
Scriptural SEPARATION from those
who reject them."5
Contemporary True
Fundamentalism (not our New Age Fundamentalism) is defined by the doctrine and
practice of Biblical SEPARATION, separation from the evil secular and evil
religious world. [ Truth vs. Evil (lies)
] Any alternative must DENY an Exclusive
Absolute One Creator God with Exclusive Absolute One Truth. [ Truth
vs. Evil (lies) ] To ONLY Evangelicalism
is going out into the lost world to bring the
worldlings into the so-called church is praiseworthy! The
church is not of the world, and should not allow the world into its Fellowship
of SAINTS ONLY.. The true Assembly of
saints says there is only EXCLUSIVE Truth; there is no Truth in
the world of satan.
To bring
the world into the church in order to save them is a sign of total apostasy
from the True Assembly of True Saints and apostasy of their
doctrines!! Evangelism must only be accomplished by going out among
to society to save them, and after they are saved, then bring them
into the Assembly of saints (Holies). The world must either accept it or
reject it, their choice; but Truth of God is ONLY in
the universal Assembly of God, not in a Nicolaitan Denomination, not in
the world of satan. This totally denies modern-day inclusiveness of
"god is all, god in all, inclusiveness for all." No one can
say he is committed to Historical Biblical Christianity and accept anything of
today's Ecumenicals who say, "Human love, actual intolerance to absolute
Truth of God, and inclusiveness of all people is all that
matters."
The World Congress of Fundamentalists summarized their
definition in this way: "Fundamentalism is militant orthodoxy set on fire with
soul winning zeal."6 Anyone who is not truly militant
in standing for the Truth of God in all aspects has no title to Biblical
Fundamentalism or to being a True
Christian.
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These three fundamental
basics of salvation imply something very important. To have
a mandatory personal continuing faith fellowship-relationship as a bondslave to
our Lord Jesus (Rom 6:22), we will abide in His personal teachings
and in the Apostolic Foundation of teachings [not OT ordinances and statutes, (Eph 2:15; Col 2:14; Col 2:20; Heb 9:1; Heb 9:10 )] in His Eternal Word, upon which
our Lord establishes His Eternal Assembly of Saints in Heaven (Matt 16:16-19;
Rev 21:14).
Our Lord Jesus Christ instructed
the apostles to teach the believers "to observe ALL things whatsoever I
have commanded you" (Mat. 28:20). The Apostle Paul ordered Timothy to
keep the Apostolic commandments "without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing
of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Tim 1:10-11; 4:6; 4:16; 6:14; 2 Tim 4:2;
Titus 2:7, 10 ). There are no scriptures that say that some Apostolic
teachings are of more importance than others.
(1) There are some strange minds,
today, that think that the First Tenant about Absolute Scriptures of
Perfect Truth, somehow overlooks some teachings (doctrines) of that
Perfect scripture. Not true, just the opposite. Every doctrine is
important since detailed in these complete Perfect providentially preserved
original scriptures.
(2) Also, today, we must
be very precise in our understandings of meanings, because
historically and deceitfully, people have redefined and
denied the true historic gospel words of scripture to mean something
entirely different to support their self-deviant heretical and apostate
assertions. Calvinism and Dispensationalism and all cults are
examples. We all know that any error or deviation from our
Lord's eternal teachings and the Apostolic teachings in the entire New
Testament, the doctrine of Christ, are anathema, apostasy.
Whoever deviates is a heretic, self-deviants
within the details of practice or
explanation. Whoever departs is an apostate,
denying the Apostolic teachings concerning
the meanings of the necessities of salvation.
Apostate defines any teaching that could possibly prevent the
salvation of anyone. Both heretics and apostates are to be
avoided and turned from their ways, if possible.
Remember: To compromise essential salvation
principles is evil. "Unity without verity [truth] is no better than
conspiracy."8 "Separation from evil is the necessary
first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle
of unity."9
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Summary Conclusions
These are the Three Tenants of Historic Christianity,
"without which" Fundamentalism, fundamental True Christianity, cannot
exist. These Three Tenants may and always have included many divergent
practices and beliefs as within Historic Fundamental Christianity.
At the same time, this means that any violation of these Three Tenants is a
departure or falling away, called: "Apostasy."
If any beliefs concerning one of these Three Tenants or
any one of the details within any one of the three fact statements of
necessary beliefs are changed IN ANY
WAY, the fundamentals are compromised and cannot
exist as Historic Christianity. Such a change places such a belief
system into the APOSTASY
of either being a cult (denying the Lordship of our Lord
in salvation) and/or Evangelical (denying Apostolic
doctrines concerning the fact statement necessities of
salvation, usually by deceitful redefinitions).
See footnote.10
This differentiation is so
profound that the reader is asked to seriously review these
tenants and to measure anyone's teachings accordingly. If
one does not do this in his personal discrimination between teachings today, by
definition, he is either just (1) lazy
ignorant of these facts (no excuse) or (2)
apostate.
APOSTASY,
All apostates are two
types: either Evangelical (who
denies by deceitful redefinition the Apostolic doctrines as fact
statements) or cultists (who denies Christ's
Lordship in salvation) like all the modern Laodicean Dispensational
"grace" regardless followers today, simply trusting in a
Savior-only concerning salvation. Where
does each of us stand? We must judge ourselves or be
judged.
CATEGORIES OF APOSTASIES TODAY
"EVANGELICAL" today is a catch-all term for
APOSTATE. And "evangelical"
encompasses all the four apostasies listed below.
Today many of the wide spread and well known
among the so-called Fundamentalists are actually not Christian at
all, but actually apostate Evangelicals (Calvinists, in
fact denying Apostolic doctrines as essential to salvation by their underlying
redefinitions of plain doctrinal words and/or Dispensational "grace"
regardless cultists denying Christ's Lordship as necessary for salvation, or
their many splinter groups as Baptists, "Word-of-faith," etc.).
These effectively deny in their definitions and practices all
three tenants of Fundamentalism, and are totally blind to it. There
is a big difference between these Evangelicals (deceitful redefinitions of
historic Apostolic doctrines) and the historic Fundamentals of
Christianity since Christ. FIRST
Calvinism was said by John Calvin himself to have been totally adopted only from
the writings of Augustine (400 AD), who formalized all the teachings and
practices of Roman Catholicism in entirety. Calvin said everything
he had written was first written by Augustine. The
written meaning of the teachings of necessities of
salvation of Historic Calvinism was written by John
Calvin, 1535, in his Institutes of Religion.
Calvinism is
very very very very heretical in explaining the How and Whys of salvation
(TULIP doctrines) and prophecy. It violates the three clear and
precise Tenants of Fundamentals given here. Roman Catholicism
and Calvinism was not acceptable to the Anabaptists (Apostolic
believers since Christ) or in Luther's or Calvin's time, nor can they
be to Apostolic believers today.
In reaction to
Calvinism, historic Arminianism (Jacob Arminius, 1560-1609, and John Wesley,
1703-1791, nearer to Apostolic teachings) does not violate these three
clear and precise Tenants of Fundamental doctrines. Must STUDY THIS footnote10
SECOND The changes in this country (USA) from previous
founding on Arminianism (Anabaptist Puritans in 1620) and later by
Calvinists (after 1695 in this country), has been changed since
1904 with the introduction of Dispensationalists
for the first time. Dispensationalism was first formalized by John Nelson
Darby in 1830 in England, taking the false teachings of Calvinism and
further departed from the Three Tenants of scriptural salvation
by even more obscene redefinitions. For salvation, for
instance, they deny the necessity of Christ's Lordship in their
living.
So, as a result with many other abominable
teachings, fully covered in this website, today all America
and the world is apostate. In this website any title of articles
labeled NEW AGE, is referring directly to these new Dispensational teachings
arising and fostered by Dallas Theological Seminary (actually Cemetery) in
Dallas, Texas, since its formal founding in 1924. Doctorate
graduates and a retired professor of 27 years of Dallas Theological
Cemetery have about year 2006 even gone so far as to denying that
believing in the deity of Christ or in His resurrection is necessary for
salvation. And the past president of Dallas, Chuck Swindoll, has
even said that contemplative spirituality (the Emergent church teaching of
Eastern meditative practices) is the best way of experiencing
God.
THIRD A fast diminishing
number today proudly profess to be "Independent Fundamentalists"
today. We call them New Age
Fundamentalists, who blindly (unwittingly) promote all the
extremely false salvation, hierarchy of clergy, and prophecy doctrines of the
Dispensationalists. But more than very strictly holding to all
Dispensational doctrines, their distinguishing practice is to separate
themselves from the modern liberalism of doctrines, worldliness, and
immorality in all the churches today. But this still makes them
Godless blinded apostates of Dispensationalism.
But all
Dispensationalists, along with the Calvinists, teach and act like the Pharisees
of Jesus day, denying that people are to be living according to the indwelling
Holy Spirit (faith) within them, who indwells them to lead, gift,
assure, teach, empower them to obedience to do His God-good works.
They teach that they are to live by their reading the dead
letter scriptures ONLY, and that in doing this one is being led by the
Holy Spirit. Their "believing" or "trusting" is all their own, and their
assurance is their own "believing." They are saving themselves like
the Pelagians or humanists they are. They are totally blind and
lost.
Sadly, they don't have a conscious clue to see that the
results of their great Dispensational redefinitions of righteousness and
Holiness today, have been the principal cause of all the
immorality and paganism in our societies today. Must STUDY footnote12 for
understanding.
FOURTH Lastly, and
most significantly, for the coming One World Marxist Socialist Government for
the soon apprearance of the antichrist in this progression of
apostasy, we have the so-called Emergent church,
with all its totally most devastating false and openly satanic
teachings.
This was started in the destruction of any
sanity in all churches by Rick Warren (wouldn't you guess)
in originating the Purpose Driven Church (1995), and now Rick
Warren (2000's), as the principal advocate, of the Emergent
church movement with more advanced open satanism. Chuck Swindoll,
past president of the Dispensationalist Dallas Theological Seminary,
"Cemetery," now advocates Yoga-like contemplative meditation as best
way to experience "god,'" along with a great host of other worldwide
totally Godless apostates. Essentially, this movement advocates "god
is all, god in all (man is god)" and eventually, "inclusiveness for all
(One World unity)," with most all mystical Eastern and Roman
Catholic practices.
This may be the last and total
needed preparation for the coming "'c'hristian worldview," to welcome the
coming antichrist. Already books are being written about the
"selection" process to "eliminate" (kill) any disagreeing people, of
another spirit, who would hinder this world wide movement to achieve
universal oneness of spirit with their "god."
OUR
AMERICA
Our country, founded upon the Historical Calvinism or
Arminianism from Europe, was started upon a solid and precise foundation of
saving Fundamental statements of Christianity, but not
precisely defining the meaning of their individual
teachings. The Calvinists doctrines redefined all the
PREVIOUS historic scriptural terms as understood by the Anabaptists
(rebaptizers) since Christ for the first 1500 years before
Calvinism. The Calvinist's written and spoken statements
deceitfully meant something else in their redefinitions.
So the
basic doctrinal statements themselves from the founding Arminians and
Calvinists seemed somewhat unified, so the United States of America was
established upon the doctrinal statements and teachings to which our
founders attributed all their governmental statutes to uphold. And
America has been greatly Blessed by God for 200 years in upholding and teaching
to our children these Christian statements of principles.
TODAY, we are
in the latter days, the foretold world wide apostasy, coming from the apostate
"grace" regardless teachings of Dispensationalism today, as built upon the
previous false Calvinist concepts. Our country now has (past
tense) denied all the governmental statutes instituted to uphold the
Biblical Apostolic teaching statements of our Creator
which allowed liberty and property rights to all, and is now very fast
heading toward Godless tyranny. The American citizenry has been
turned into pagans, who think they are Christians. America is no
longer "good." It is rapidly turning Marxist (satanist) Socialist, the
world center of immorality, and having the most churches.
Essentially,
our total world religious community, including America, is apostate
(year 2000), and our country's government has become totally
reprobate also. This is all foretold by prophecy, incidentally,
that Catholics and Lutherans and Calvinists and New Age Emergents
deny.
Anathema Maranatha, 1 Cor
16:22.
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