Simply put, we're Christians who have gone back to the fundamentals of the faith, stripping away everything but the bare essentials in an effort to ensure that we're worshiping God as faithfully as possible. The traits I'll list below are common to all Fundamentalists, including me unless otherwise noted.
We believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures in their original autographs, the literal nature of the Biblical accounts, especially regarding Christ's miracles but also including other aspects such as the Genesis creation account.
We believe in the virgin birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ as well as his physical return and ministry to the Apostles after His resurrection.
We believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross and that even now He is acting as our intercessor to the Father on our behalf.
We believe that we were ordered to occupy until Christ returned, indicating that Christ was to physically return to rule and reign over us during the Millennial reign. In this respect, we hold that the physical Millennial Reign of Christ has not begun in earnest yet and we are still awaiting that event.
Finally, while we may disagree about the timing of the Rapture, or Harpazo, we all expect it to happen at some point prior to the official beginning to the Millennial Reign. I, personally, hold a Pre-Tribulation view point but can see where Mid-Trib and Post-Trib believers take their views from.
Does that give you more of an idea of the kind of person you're dealing with now?
Yer hijackin’ the thread. This thread is all about the pointlessness of life, the depression of existance, and the desirous outcome that humanity is purged from our galaxy.
But you have also described the Seventh Day Adventists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Oneness Pentecostals etc.
I don't see anything in your categorization on whether Jesus is God, a man who became God or was never man. You see the difficulties?
But the core of the problem is that you say you are fed up with people mischaracterizing "fundamentalists" -- I haven't
And I am fed up of people mischaracterizing my faith.