3 TYPES OF FUNDAMENTALISTS AND EVANGELICALS AFTER 1956
“…an evangelical is someone who likes Billy Graham;
a liberal is someone who thinks Billy Graham is a fundamentalist; and
a fundamentalist is someone who thinks Billy Graham is apostate.” 3 Types of Fundamaentalists
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[Ron Bean]However, most of the fundamentalists I know treated Graham like an apostate; thus the conclusion.
I think that fundamentalists really started considering Graham an apostate after his interview with Robert Schuller in which the following exchange took place.
[Interview]Schuller: “What, what I hear you saying that it’s possible for Jesus Christ to come into human hearts and soul and life, even if they’ve been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you’re saying?”
Graham: “Yes, it is, because I believe that. I’ve met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations, that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible, and never heard of Jesus, but they’ve believed in their hearts that there was a God, and they’ve tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding community in which they lived.”
You can certainly debate if he meant what he said here, or was taken out of context, or whatever, but there is at least reason behind some of the accusations.
Dave Barnhart
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