[Trapped]

Aron,

Thanks for your response and I wasn't bothered that you "butted in". Language is a thing used and colored by each person's perception and experience and I just wondered what clever sister meant when she said "fundamental". There is the meaning you described concerning the crux of the whole thing ..... I agree, if a person doesn't believe Jesus was raised from the dead, the rest is moot. There is no salvation, there is no rest of the NT, there is no host of other things.

But sometimes people use a word, e.g. "fundamental", to mean something a little different, say, "deep-seated", or "specific" or something close, and I'm just curious to know what clever sister meant.

For my part as I came to grips with the fact that I have problems with the way the LC that I grew up in as a church kid does a lot of things, I would occasionally butt up against the fact that some of the things I had a problem with were actually backed up by the Bible and I had to contend with it (I say "had to"....really I still am). I can't imagine I'm the only one that experienced that so was interested to know what specifically she meant.