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The Fundamentalist's Bible

In the early part of the twentieth century protestantism came up with a declaration of sorts, actually a twelve volume work titled The Fundamentals, the core of which was a statement of beliefs centering around five key positions that have since come to be considered the tenets of fundamentalism (the Christian variety, of course). These are: The inerrancy (and literal interpretation) and full authority of the Bible; The virgin birth and full divinity of Christ The bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead; Christ's atonement, through his sacrifice, for our sins; The second coming of Christ. I am not a fundamentalist Christian, merely a Christian. The five fundamentals have within them either non-rational ideas (point 1) or ideas that may be considered as problematic (points 3-5), agreed upon or not; and disagreement with these five points do not necessarily discard one's allegiance to Christ in the least. It can be debated whether point 2 belongs i