Comments on: Fundamentalism and Its Critics

By: Carol Lawson

Carol Lawson — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:07:24 +0000

Fred, thanks so much for your reply.

Over my forty years of being a Christian Scripture has become Jesus and is the Word of God. Jesus is the Word made flesh to me. He is alive to me through His Word. Words. He reveals Himself to me through His Word; Words. The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God and makes Jesus real to me inside myself. And He is alive in countless other ways to me.

I know God is not limited in the ways He speaks to people. All have opportunities to know Him. There are many who may never see a Bible and sadly many are blind. Some, with the opportunity, may never read Scripture anyway.

Need is basically the same for a part of suffering? If so, are you saying we are running from our pain? I’m a slow learner but would like to understand your message on needs.

By: fwschmidt

fwschmidt — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:22:34 +0000

Two thoughts…one, the Bible (as important as it is) is not a substitute for God. Fundamentalism trades dependence upon a relationship with the living God for dependence upon a body of convictions that make faith in God possible. The irony, then, about fundamentalism is that it is finally really afraid to trust God. Two, fundamentalisms of the left and right do not make basic assumptions about Scripture AS SCRIPTURE. Fundamentalisms typically rest on certain assumptions ABOUT Scripture, which is not the same thing. There I think that the misunderstanding may lie a bit in the way the word “fundamental” is being used.

By: Carol Lawson

Carol Lawson — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:44:01 +0000

Fred, I certainly agree that fundamentals – right or left – up or to the side, etc. get too fringed out because the only One that deserves our all is Jesus. But isn’t our belief in God’s Word our fundamental basis for all of lilfe? If so, doesn’t it influence our thinking and belief patterns in all ways?

Carol Lawson