2006-09-09 23:52:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians are two different groups--like Republicans and Democrats. The evangelicals stress the "good word" (message) and telling other people about it. The fundamentalists stress the bible as the literal truth (and written by god). Evangelicals aren't so radical as they'll allow that there may be metaphors and similes in the bible, while the fundies think that everything is true as said, even though it went through a thousand translations and changes and editing at the hands of power-hungry priests.
2006-09-10 00:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by Pandak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
80 years ago the term fundamentalist was coined and 50 years ago it was well respected. For the most part it simply meant one who accepted the Bible in its fundamental meaning, in other words a literalists. I still personally remain a literalists or a Biblicists and the term fundamental Christian does not offend me. However the term has changed meaning today incorporating the idea of extremism and that has been even more degraded with the introduction of Muslim militancy which is also called fundamentalism. Terms change meaning very fast in our society and always seem to need to be upgraded. Just the term Christian today has so many branches of meaning that when someone is called a Christian, I have no idea what they mean anymore.
2006-09-10 07:05:45 · answer #2 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between fundamentalist and evangelical christians. That is why.
2006-09-10 10:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could guess that if they believe the Trinity the word Christian is enough. too many ppl nitpick everything to death..
2006-09-10 06:55:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋