Faith in the Age of Criticism Pt 4

3. Critical evaluation of what we believe and why we believe what we do does not make a person liberal. Even the terms "fundamentalist" and "liberal" need to be discarded or at least redefined because they carry far too much baggage from our history. Instead, criticism (or questioning) of what you believe is the best way to see if your faith is genuine and real and if it continues to hold true to the principle of the text while speaking to the modern situation to which you are attempting to apply the text. This is not some form of “ situational ethics” but rather an honest attempt to answer the question of how my faith applies to my world today.