Bible believer (also Bible-believer, Bible-believing Christian, Bible-believing Church) is a self-description by conservative Christians to differentiate their teachings from those who see tradition as a source of authority. The Apostolic Church is an example of such an organisation. The Apostolic Church is a Pentecostal denomination of Christianity. ...

In normal usage, "Bible believer" means an individual or organisation that believes the Christian Bible is true in some significant way. However, this combination of words is given a unique meaning in fundamentalist Protestant circles, where it is equated with the belief that the Christian Bible "contains no theological contradictions, historical discrepancies, or other such "errors",^[1] otherwise known as biblical inerrancy. In addition, it appears that an individual or church must subscribe to the doctrine of sola scriptura in order to come within the fundamentalist definition of the term.^[2] It is frequently placed in inverted comma's in neutral contexts or when used by those excluded by the narrower definition, to demonstrate that it is a claim rather than neutral description.^[3] Fundamentalist Protestant chuches often assume the neutrality of the term as they rarely define it and seem to implicitly claim that the only possible way to truly "believe" in the Bible is to adopt the fundamentalist approach.^[4] The Bible (From Greek βιβλια—biblia, meaning books, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) is the sacred scripture of Christianity. ... For other uses, see Truth (disambiguation). ... Fundamentalist Christianity, or Christian fundamentalism, is a movement that arose mainly within British and American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by conservative evangelical Christians, who, in a reaction to modernism, actively affirmed a fundamental set of Christian beliefs: the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Bible (From Greek βιβλια—biblia, meaning books, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) is the sacred scripture of Christianity. ... Biblical inerrancy is the doctrinal position [1] that in its original form, the Bible is without error; referring to the complete accuracy of Scripture, including the historical and scientific parts. ... Sola scriptura (Latin ablative, by scripture alone) is the assertion that the Bible as Gods written word is self-authenticating, clear (perspicuous) to the rational reader, its own interpreter (Scripture interprets Scripture), and sufficient of itself to be the only source of Christian doctrine. ...

References

Literature

• Ammerman, Nancy Tatom (1987). Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1231-X
• Boone, Kathleen C. (2002). The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism. New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 0-88706-894-4