World Congress of Fundamentalists

In 1976, more than two thousand delegates from every continent gathered in the week of June 15-22 in Usher hall, in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland. The purpose of this first World Congress of Fundamentalists was to give "a united witness to the infallibility, inerrancy, and verbal inspiration of the eternal Word of God."
The formal resolutions emerging from this first World Congress of Fundamentalists included a definition of Fundamentalism.

A Fundamentalist is a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ who

1. Maintains an immovable allegiance to the inerrant, infallible, and verbally inspired Bible;
2. Believes that whatever the Bible says is so;
3. Judges all things by the Bible and is judged only by the Bible;
4. Affirms the foundational truths of the historic Christian Faith:

   The doctrine of the Trinty
   The incarnation, virgin birth, subsitutionary atonement, bodily resurrection, ascension into Heaven and Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ
   The new birth through regeneration of the Holy Spirit
   The resurrection of the saints to life eternal
   The resurrection of the ungodly to final judgment and eternal death
   The fellowship of the saints,who are the body of Christ;

5. Practices fidelity to that Faith and endeavors to preach it to every creature;
6. Exposes and separates from all eclesiatical denial of the Faith, compromise with error, and apostasy from the Truth; and
7. Earnestly contends for the Faith once delivered.

The committee on the Definition of Fundamentalism included Bob Jones III, Jack P. Manley, Ian R. K. Paisley, G. Archer Weniger, and David D. Yearick

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