I never said that, come on my 12 neighbor can spin better than that. I said it ain't a true IFBC if it accepts Calvinism. BigMackExactly what "Fundamentals" do these "true" Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches uphold, BigMack?
- Could it be, perhaps, "The Five Fundamentals" which were propounded by the 1910 General Assembly of the (then still Calvinistic) Presbyterian Church? (the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, His substitutional atonement, Christ's bodily resurrection, and the authenticity of miracles)
- The theology of the twelve-volume paperback series "The Fundamentals" published 1910-1915 at a personal cost of $300,000 by Calvinist Presbyterian brothers Lyman and Milton Stewart?
- The theology which was originally known as "The Princeton Theology" for years before it eventually became known as "Fundamentalism" in 1920-22, and which was most ably defended by Calvinist Presbyterian Prof. J. Gresham Machen, aka "Dr. Fundamentalist" to his peers and enemies?
If not for Calvinists, the IFBC's would just be IBC's -- like the Root Beer, except without the Root. For it was exactly the Calvinists who propounded, codified, financed, and published "The Fundamentals" which launched the Fundamentalist movement in the first place!!
And then, as is usual throughout the history of Protestantism -- along prance some johnny-come-lately Arminians who hitch a ride after the hard intellectual and financial ground-work has been done by Calvinist Presbyterians and Baptists, only to then call their Calvinist Forefathers the "heretics" whilst claiming for themselves the credit for what their Calvinist Forefathers hath wrought!!
- Q: How does one locate an Arminian Baptist bearing Good Fruit?
- A: Just wait behind the Calvinist Baptist orchard after cover of darkness, and you'll usually find one sneaking out with a basket-full just after midnight.