Why I Left Fundamentalism
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Submitted by Jonnie on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Why I Left Fundamentalism
I am one of the few people who was indoctrinated into Fundamentalist Christianity, served over twenty years and quit flat out. Most people who go this far are afraid to quit even though they have serious doubts and frustrations.
When I say indoctrinated I mean to include the experiences of being saved, spirit filled, and serving the "Lord". I had my first baptism as a child in a baptismal at the front of a small Christian Church behind our house in Ohio.
At this point I knew little more than the children's stories studied during Sunday school but these positive thoughts towards the story of Jesus apparently stayed with me for many years. I went through the breaking out stage and left the church in my teens to claim non-belief as a young adult. In my early twenties I experienced the birth of my first child, a perfect daughter and had no explanation for her similarity to me and her state of perfection. I was in love with my wife and engaged in a career that took me far from home at the same time. On Sundays we attended a Lutheran Church and the young preacher challenged me with the claims of the bible that we were God's creation and therefore his property. I gave this theory considerable thought.
Moving to North Carolina from the Northern U.S. we became exposed to a type of Christianity I had never known, Fundamentalism. This is the practice of accepting the Bible as the word of God, meaning it was inerrant. The common belief of Fundamentalist Christians is Evangelistic that is the seeking of unconverted people for the salvation experience and indoctrination into this type of belief. So as they say, I "got saved". I was baptized again because the first time I had little knowledge of what it meant.
This was in a missionary church and there was Bible teaching and Bible preaching to usher the new convert into a proper life style. First you learn to deal with sin, a long list of human failures according to...
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