The man who
committed the atrocities on Friday, July 22,
2011 in Norway is being called a “Christian
fundamentalist,” and already, stories are
hitting the mainstream media telling the
world to look out for Christian
fundamentalists.
Frank
Schaeffer, son of theologian Francis
Schaeffer, has likened the Norway killer to
those who oppose abortion in his article on
Saturday titled ”Christian
Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing
Terror Attacks Like Norway’s in the US,”
saying ”the terror unleashed on Norway” is
“the sort of white, Christian, far right
terror America can expect more of.”
But is the
Norway killer a fundamentalist Christian
(someone who follows the fundamental
teachings of the Bible)? The answer to this
is a resounding no, for there are no
teachings in the Bible that would condone
these merciless acts of violence. The
killer of over 90 people in Norway cannot
claim the name of “Christian” regardless of
what he or the media say no more than Hitler
could legitimately claim to be one even
though he would sometimes refer
to himself as a conservative and a
Christian, the very thing the Norway killer
referred himself to on
his Facebook account.
We know that
many in the world will now blame “Christian
fundamentalism” on this act in Norway. In
time, and escalated because of these types
of violent acts driven by demonic forces,
Bible believing Christians will be told they
can no longer say Jesus Christ is the only
way to God. It will be a hate crime. As was
the case in the 911 terrorist attack in
2001, the Norway shootings will be used to
further the progress of a one-world unified
religion that will have no place for the
Bible-believing Christian.
In 2006, Rick
Warren helped set the tone for animosity and
marginalization against Bible-believing
Christians (Fundamentalists) when he
stated that fundamentalism will be “one of
the big enemies of the 21st century. . . .
Muslim fundamentalism, Christian
fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism,
secular fundamentalism – they’re all
motivated by fear. Fear of each other.’”1
Less than a year earlier, he defined what he
means by Christian fundamentalism when he
spoke at the Pew Forum on Religion and said:
"Today
there really aren’t that many
Fundamentalists left; I don’t know if
you know that or not, but they are such
a minority; there aren’t that many
Fundamentalists left in America … Now
the word ‘fundamentalist’ actually comes
from a document in the 1920s called the
Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it
is a very legalistic, narrow view of
Christianity."
Quote by Rick Warren, May 2005
The
fundamentals of the Christian faith include
things like the deity of Jesus Christ, the
blood atonement, and the inerrancy of
Scripture. It is a sad day when the world,
the media, and “America’s pastor” think
Christian fundamentalism is an enemy and a
threat in the way they mean. The Christian
fundamentals are the Gospel. One following
these fundamentals will care about the souls
of the unsaved that they might be saved
through faith in Jesus Christ.
"A true
Christian fundamentalist remembers the words
of Scripture: “[t]he Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward,
not willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance” (II Peter
3:9).2
In
truth, according to 1 John, love is meant
to be the motivating factor in sharing the
Gospel. Obviously, Anders Behring Breivik
did not have love or the salvation of the
people he killed in mind on Friday.
Many people,
when trying to discredit Christian
fundamentalists, refer to the Inquisitions;
but it was the Christian fundamentalists who
were being murdered during Inquisitions (by
the Catholic church) – not the other way
around. On Anders Behring Breivik’s blog,
according to one article, he stated:
“Today’s
Protestant church is a joke. . . . I am a
supporter of an indirect collective
conversion of the Protestant church back to
the Catholic.”1 So
like the ancient Inquisitioners, Anders
Behring Breivik, a fundamentalist of his own
making, is opposed to Christian
fundamentalists and certainly cannot be
labeled as one himself. The acts of violence
he committed are not that of a Christian
fundamentalist but rather that of
a religious tyrannist, which is the spirit
of antichrist.
"He that
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is
love. In this was manifested the love of
God toward us, because that God sent his
only begotten Son into the world, that
we might live through him. [the Gospel]
1 John 4:8-9
"Little
children, it is the last time: and as ye
have heard that antichrist shall come,
even now are there many antichrists;
whereby we know that it is the last
time." 1 John 2:18
“Norway Bombing: Attacker, Shooter Anders
Behring Breivik a Christian?”
By Jeff
Schapiro
The Christian Post
One person
with a belief is equal to the force of
100,000 who have only interests,” is the
only post on the Twitter account of Anders
Behring Breivik, the man who has been
arrested as the possible culprit of Friday’s
bombing in Oslo, Norway, and for opening
fire on a nearby
youth camp. The tweet was inspired by a
quote by the British philosopher John Stuart
Mill.
So far, 92
deaths have been reported, 85 of which were
from the youth camp rampage, but the total
number may increase as the day wears on. . .
.
OnlineSocialMedia.net reports that on
Breivik’s Facebook page he listed his
interests as body building, hunting,
freemasonry, stock analysis and the
Modern Warfare 2 video game. Breivik
said he had completed “3,000 hours of study
in micro and macro finance, religion,” and
describes himself as being both Christian
and conservative. . . .
Larry Keffer
of the Biblical Research Center and
Norwegian evangelist Petar Keseljevic spoke
to The Christian Post on Saturday about the
attacks and about Breivik. . . . Keffer
warns that people should not think that just
because Breivik says he is a Christian that
he actually is one.
“When I was
out in Norway,” he said, “the people there
thought they were Christian because they
were Norwegian.” Many people in the
so-called “Christian nation,” he says, claim
the faith but haven’t necessarily been
genuinely converted.
“A true
Christian would not go and … shoot people in
a camp or blow up buildings,” he said.
“That’s not what a Christian does. So just
because a man claims to be a Christian, or
even believes that he is a Christian, does
not necessarily make him so.”
“The Bible
says that ‘you know them by their fruit.’”
Click here to continue reading.
Note:
In another Christian Post article, it states
that Anders Behring Breivik said: “ Today’s
Protestant church is a joke. Priests in
jeans who march for Palestine and churches
that look like minimalist shopping centres.
I am a supporter of an indirect collective
conversion of the Protestant church back to
the Catholic.”1
Source article:
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2011/newsletter20110725.htm#abc2
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