What is the difference between a Fundamental and a Southern Baptist?

Answer 1

A fair amount, depending on who is in question. A Southern Baptist is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, an American denomination that formed around the time of the Civil War (they split from what was then called the Northern Baptist Convention, which are today called the American Baptist Churches.)

A fundamentalist is a person who puts a great deal of emphasis on the Fundamentals of the Christian faith. They are generally said to be 1) Inerrancy of the Scriptures, 2)The virgin birth and the deity of Jesus, 3)The doctrine of substitutionary atonement through God's grace and human faith, 4)The bodily resurrection of Jesus, and 5)The authenticity of Christ's miracles (or, alternatively, his premillennial second coming). Fundamentalists emerged on the American scene around the turn of the century (early 1900's), mostly in response to the perceived liberalization of Christianity in America. Fundamentalism is not a denomination, officially, though some denominations may be fundamentalist in character.

Today, there are some overlaps between these two groups. It should be noted that the fairly conservative leaning Southern Baptists were not always so conservative. It was not until the late 1970's that conservatives began to dominate the Southern Baptist leadership.

A prime example of a Southern Baptist that is not a fundamentalist is former President Jimmy Carter.

Answer 2

fundamentalist take the fun out of fundamental. They are soooo strict, that ultimately they end up being FORGIVEN hypocrites....Southern baptists drink and dance, just not together.

Answer 3

Nothing they are both a bunch of hypocrites

Answer 4

aren't they the same ?