Suppose we from the very beginning check and find the real meaning of this word fundamental:

FUNDAMENTALISM:
1. An American Protestant movement which holds that belief in the literal interpretation of the Bible is essential to christian faith: distinguished from modernism.

WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY
of the American Language
Second College Edition:

FUNDAMENTALISM:
1.Religious beliefs based on a literal interpretation of everything in the Bible and regarded as fundamental to christian faith and morals.

2.The 20th-century movement amoung some American Protestants, Based on these beliefs. These christians are called fundamentalist.

MACMILLAN'S DICTIONARY:
Fundamental:
1. Belonging to the base or foundation; basal; essential:basal element;essential part,principle, or rule.

FUNDAMENTALISM
1.Religious belief or practice based on a strict essential,or tradional interpretation of the Bible
2.As opposing the results of the higher criticism;
3.Opposed to modernism.

I feel that the above tells us just what fundamental and fundamentalism really means, and that you should never hear them using the following in their studying:--I think--I believe--Opinions--Theory-- Out of context Verses--Parallel teachings:
When one uses the above in their teaching or writting they become known as Liberated Modernism. Suppose we find just what these words mean:

JUST WHAT IS LIBERATED MODERNISM
The meaning of these two words simply means the reverse of Fundamental. In other word we might very well find them using the very things you will not find the fundamentals using. The same as above: #1 Think--
#2 I Believe--
#3 Opinions--
#4 Theory--
#5 Out of Context Verses--
#6 Paralled Teaching.

I do not say that it would be a sin to use the above,However there would be a Great-Great danger of distorting the word of God.

There is quite a few questions that I hope I will never have to try to answer,and one of those questions is,Son with all the Bibles that I made sure that you had,I also was sure that you could read well enough to read and understand.Son with all that just why did you have to become a False Prophet.

I know a fellow that is always quoting scripture and really not sure that the Bible does in fact say it, He heared someone say it and took it for the truth and used it in his testamony. Everyone that knows the Bible very well,will know that it is not in the bible.

Then there is the ones with his opinions and the believers, Oh yes some really believes what they say is in the Bible,however if they would just check will very quick find that those things is not there.Things such as these are very dangereous territories:

Ofcourse we should not forget those that just has to use verses that are totally out of context,even if the end will justify the means; most likely one of those verses will ofcourse be destorted.

Then we find verses that seems to parallel to the subject at hand but a different subject but being used and these verses are out of context.

Now in no figment of our imagination can we claim to be a funndamentalist if we use the above five conditions or any part of them.

Not saying that is a sin to use them or any part of them.But I would say that there would be a great danger of destorting the word of God, if we are not very-very careful.

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