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I presume many of you are in the FFF Facebook group. While it?s mostly void of posts, I noted this week a familiar refrain repeated there. The poster stated that when he came to the FFF he was an old path?s IFB but what he learned here caused him to rethink his belief system and now he is a mainstream fundamentalist in his belief and practice, attending an SBC church, if I recall correctly. There are so many, dozens...hundreds (?)...who share that story.
My theory is that the nature of old line IFB fundamentalism existed and thrived in an echo chamber. They warned against reading or listening to the heretics outside the camp...(MacArthur and Swindoll were 2 such ?heretics?). The age of the internet did more to enlighten that group than anything else. Their leaders could no longer control the flow of information to the masses....and common sense and a Biblical hermeneutic destroyed many of their extra biblical fundamentals of the faith.
The no pants on women, exalt the man of god, KJVO, easy believe-ism...?pray this prayer if you don?t want to go to hell? soul winning and some other beliefs simply do not and cannot stand up under scrutiny. Twisted illustrates some of that here today...illustrating the vacuousness of some of those positions.
The variations of ?New? IFB?s are some of the responses to this ongoing dilemma.
Some, like Scowling Bob Gray, keep on keeping on with the old paths...even though it?s trod today by old men on walkers and canes.
Others, like Smiling Tom Brennan, held to the beliefs with a better disposition.
Stevie Anderson?s group on the right and Josh Teis? group on the left bookend the movement.
I?d like to have a civil discussion, if you?re interested. We have KJV1611, who I greatly respect and Twisted who I love to tweak, Prophet and a few other IFB?s still here. My interest lies in a group of Pastors I meet with regularly that includes a number of younger IFB men who struggle with the issue.
My theory is that the nature of old line IFB fundamentalism existed and thrived in an echo chamber. They warned against reading or listening to the heretics outside the camp...(MacArthur and Swindoll were 2 such ?heretics?). The age of the internet did more to enlighten that group than anything else. Their leaders could no longer control the flow of information to the masses....and common sense and a Biblical hermeneutic destroyed many of their extra biblical fundamentals of the faith.
The no pants on women, exalt the man of god, KJVO, easy believe-ism...?pray this prayer if you don?t want to go to hell? soul winning and some other beliefs simply do not and cannot stand up under scrutiny. Twisted illustrates some of that here today...illustrating the vacuousness of some of those positions.
The variations of ?New? IFB?s are some of the responses to this ongoing dilemma.
Some, like Scowling Bob Gray, keep on keeping on with the old paths...even though it?s trod today by old men on walkers and canes.
Others, like Smiling Tom Brennan, held to the beliefs with a better disposition.
Stevie Anderson?s group on the right and Josh Teis? group on the left bookend the movement.
I?d like to have a civil discussion, if you?re interested. We have KJV1611, who I greatly respect and Twisted who I love to tweak, Prophet and a few other IFB?s still here. My interest lies in a group of Pastors I meet with regularly that includes a number of younger IFB men who struggle with the issue.