World's Christian Fundamentals Association, was an interdenominational organization founded in 1919 by the

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minister

William Bell Riley William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor. Biography In 1878, at the age of 17, Riley publicly professed faith in Ch ...

of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was originally formed to launch "a new Protestantism" based upon

premillennial Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. Premillennialism is based upon a literal interpretat ...

interpretations of biblical prophecy, but soon turned its focus more towards opposition to

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