[WT Sharpe]

In 1910, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church came up with the following list which they referred to as the "Five Fundamentals" of the Christian religion:

1) The inspiration of the Bible by the Holy Spirit and the inerrancy of Scripture as a result of this.
2) The virgin birth of Christ.
3) The belief that Christ's death was the atonement for sin.
4) The bodily resurrection of Christ.
5) The historical reality of Christ's miracles.

One who accepts these is, by definition, a fundamentalist.

Here's a quote from Thomas Paine to mull over:

.....The Bible has been received by the Protestants on the authority of the Church of Rome, and on no other authority. It is she that has said it is the Word of God. We do not admit the authority of that Church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins, its amphibious doctrine of transubstantiation, etc.; and we ought to be watchful with respect to any book introduced by her, or her ecclesiastical councils, and called by her the Word of God: and the more so, because it was by propagating that belief by fire and faggot that she kept up her temporal power.
..........— Thomas Paine (1737-1809), English staymaker, American patriot, Deist. Contribution (unsigned) to The Prospect (1804). Quoted in The Great Quotations (1961) by George Seldes.