What is the difference between?

Question

A fundamentalist Christian and a Christian?

I don't believe in Religion of any kind but am a Christian.
What category do I fall into?

Cole you don't have to be religious to be a Christian.
I love God and have accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior.
That's all you need to do to be a Christian.

Religion is man made beliefs and tradition and has very little to do with God.
Religion will tell you what to do to be right with God and get to heaven.
But Jesus already did everything that's necessary for us so why would we need to do anything else?
People who are 'Religious' worship the religion to them God is only a small part of their beliefs.
But to those of us who worship God to us God is all that matters and nothing else.
All God wants us to do is love Him with all our heart and love one another too.
We don't need religion to do that.

Nosnod after your explanation I realize that I am a fundamentalist Christian because I am very Conservative and I take the Bible literally.
I even believe that when God said He created the Heavens and the Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th that it was exactly 6 days and not millions of years.
God lives outside of time but created time and was inside of it while creating everything.
So when He says 6 days that's exactly what He means.
Thanks Nosnod.

Answer 1

that would depend on who you ask. some people call any Christian a fundamentalist. the only way you will not be called a fundamentalist is if you say it is ok with God to be homosexual, it is ok with you that people spell Christian with an x, you are ok with taking prayer out of school, it is ok with you if fifth graders wear gay pride shirts to school but not ok with one wearing a shirt with a christian symbol on it, the list goes on and on.
if a person says that they are Christian but does not follow the laws set by God then they are not a fundamentalist
I have no religious affiliation, I am a Christian I try my utmost best to follow the teachings of Christ and at times I have been called a fundamentalist and I am ok with it because I have a fundamental belief in the Truth

Answer 2

A fundamentalist takes the bible literally, IE: Lots wife became a pillar of salt, an eye for an eye etc. A Christian is more like Jesus, open to being open. A true Christian knows Christ through the heart and not just the head, and recognizes that there are higher laws than those which are written.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are now about 38,000 different Christian groups, each believing slightly or much differently. Of all of those, maybe there are 10,000 or so "fundamentalist Christian" groups.

Most think that a fundamentalist Christian is one who believes literally all of the Bible; and that has been generally true with most of these 10,000 groups up to now. However there are ever more Spirit of Truth-loving "fundamentalists" who believe absolutely and totally in Jesus Christ now fully here in Spirit as He the Spirit of ALL Truth ! See and believe John 16:7-16 Fully True ! I am this; a Jesusonian fundamentalist; a Jesusonian Christian Truthist.
We followers in Jesus are personally God-conscious and freely choose to use hundreds of thousands of different names -- yet we all are in the Family of God in the Living Jesus' Brotherhood here. (by many names) Morally, we run from slightly liberal to ultra-social-paleo-conservative, as I am. So 98% here would falsely think that I am a "Bible-believing fundamentalist", which I am not. Being fully Spirit-led by Jesus Christ, I fully believe only in the best 2% or less of the Old Testament, and about 15% of the so-called (less-old) New Testament. We also have and believe in the current Epochal Revelation of Truth of neary 2100 pages.

Blaise Pascal, the science and philosophy and religion genius, in so-called "Pensees", well stated that small minds try to categorize humans in a few categories, the more wise and discerning minds have many thousands or more of categories. If you were both repletely wise and brilliant, you would see that the present 6.5 billion living human sons of God here must fit precisely into 6.5 billion different, unique categories. Grok ? (rhymes with hock; meaning here is a direct noetic, spiritual insight)

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Answer 5

Well, a fundamentalist Christian is still a Christian, they tend to focus alot on conservative values as well as trying to get as many people to accept Christ as possible.

Religion and faith is not really the same thing in my opinion, so its quite easy to be a Christian and not be religious. Being religious means you do all this stuff to either look good or to make yourself a better person, but in my opinion, only God can make me a better person. So I focus on doing what he wants me to do instead of following religion.

Answer 6

The difference is all about how the Bible is treated. You see, originally (around the 20th century) it was the belief that Christians had to adhere strictly to the translation of the Bible's doctrine and teaching. (but the whole Bible cannot be interpreted literally, some parts are written as a poem, we cannot ignore the different literary structures) It was believed that adhering stricly to this literal translation was "fundamental" to Christian life/teaching.

Hope that helps!

Answer 7

Sometimes I dont consider myself a Christian because of all of the stereotypes that fall into that category. I just say that I am a follower of Christ. It doesnt matter what sect you fall into as long as you have a relationship with Jesus

Answer 8

One takes the Bible as literal fact. And, as to this not believing inn religion but being a Christian, you are deluded not only in your "faith" but in your failure to understand what "religion" means.

Answer 9

First of all, if you're a Christian, you do believe in a religion; second, if you're a fundie, you'd know. There's still hope for you. (my opinion)

Answer 10

One is a total moron and the other is just a plain old moron.