Herbert and Catherine Schaible are members of the First Century Gospel Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and after refusing to take their sick child to a medical treatment facility due to belief that medicine and hospitals are not Biblical, allowed their child to die of pneumonia.
Media outlets such as the utlra liberal Huff Post, and Facebook groups such as IFB Cult Survivors are touting this as an example of fundamentalist abuse.
A few observations we want to make here.
There are 3 types of people I don’t trust:
1) A psychic that has a wreck on the way to work
2) A bald man that sells hair tonic
3) A faith healer that wears glasses
First of all, First Century Gospel Church is NOT a fundamentalist church. Liberal media and liberal churches have been permitted to use the term “fundamentalist” so loosely that any church that commits a heinous act or crime is now called a “fundamental” Christian church. The FCGC does not believe that a person is saved the moment one accepts Christ as Saviour but that salvation depends on “continuing faith in Christ”. In a sermon titled, “How To Be Saved And Kept”, the FCGC gives the following statement about their progressive salvation view:
Very few, if any, trust God for the healing
of their body, and even less trust Him in faith
for finances. Most avenge their own wrongs,
and do not trust God to control family members. If anyone lives like that, then they are not
saved, and not kept by faith in the power of
God—they are lost and following the unbelieving ways of the world [1] (emphasis added).
Thus according to the FCGC, among all of the things you must do to stay saved, one of them includes trusting God for your healing. If the parents did not trust God to heal their sick child, they could lose their salvation. THAT IS NOT FUNDAMENTALISM.
Now a word about faith healers.
While it is certainly Biblical to pray for sicknesses (James 5:14), and Christ healed many of their ailments, it is erroneous to shun medical treatment for serious conditions. Most of the miracles performed by Christ were to verify His ministry and deity (Acts 2:22) and this ministry was practiced by the apostles. But these miracles as a sign had a cessation point. Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:20 “Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.” Thus there were example of men in the Bible that were NOT healed.
Moreover, of the many people who offered greetings to the church in Colossae, one of them was named Luke, a physician. Col 4:14. Thus the New Testament was not opposed to the use of doctors.
I can’t count how many times I have seen Oral Roberts or Benny Hinn put on reading glasses to read a passage of the Bible. Is not
Oral Roberts
blindness an ailment that Jesus healed characters in the Bible from (John 9)? Then why don’t faith healers trust God to heal their eyesight? Or how about healing AIDS and cancer patients or raising the dead? Acts 9:40.
The next time you have an irregular heart palpitation or your child has an excessive fever, pray for them, call the pastor of the church, by all means use anointing oil, and GET TO THE HOSPITAL.
And you liberals can lie about and slander fundamentalism all you want, but at least get the right churches.
J/A
Do Right Christians 
Thank you! One of the basic problems that Christian fundamentalists AND political conservatives have is the fact that anyone can use a name, but the fact is, deviating from the ideologies of either group disqualifies you. Westboro “baptist church” is not even a church, let alone Baptist! “Fundamentalists” isn’t even an option. Anyone who calls themselves any kind of Christian and yet falls for the lies about what Christian fundamentalism is, is simply falling into the trap set by the spirit of anti-christ in this world. They are helping set the scene for persecution of the Church, and the eventual one-world government led by Anti-christ. I never did agree with the heavy-handed style or harsh views of some of the men who called themselves fundamentalists in the past, but that is up to their deacons and church members to keep them accountable to the Word of God. That helps to keep the “I” in IFB.