[155], Timothy Tow's position on Bible versions accords with that of Carl McIntire who, when the RSV was copyrighted and promoted by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA ("NCC") in 1952, launched immediately a blitz against the RSV which included him publishing and printing in hundreds of thousands a pamphlet The New Bible, Revised Standard Version: Why Christians Should Not Accept It to denounce as heretical the RSV's rendering of certain Bible verses such as replacing "everlasting" (KJV) in Micah 5:2 with "ancient days" (RSV) and replacing "virgin" (KJV) in Isaiah 7:14 with "young woman" (RSV); these changes removed Christ's eternal pre-existence and deity. The Bible is a collection of 66 individual books that together tell the story of a group of people bound by a common faith in God. "[205] Ian Paisley, in a sermon preached by him, says: "The Bible is still with us. The first had to do with a classic Reformed piety over against a piety of fundamentalism. Book of Order, W-4.4003b, Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Luke 23:42, 2023 Presbyterian Mission Agency Privacy Policy | PC(USA) Donor Privacy Policy | GDPR Privacy Policy | Legal Notices. Where that Word is read and proclaimed, Jesus Christ the Living Word is present by the inward witness of the Holy Spirit. No. Those who came to call themselves "Bible Presbyterians" saw the serious criticisms against Scofield's notes as a swipe against historic premillennialism itself, rather than merely the dispensational form of premillennialism, and wanted the freedom to use the Scofield Reference Bible. The reason why we chose Faith Bible Presbyterian Church as our name, is because we want others to see that we are truly committed to "the Word of God and testimony of Jesus Christ"; we are contending "earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Rev. [60][61] SH Quek and David Wong underline their role as the main spiritual leaders of the evangelical/new evangelical faction[51] with answering the questions posed by the Editors in the round-table discussion in Heritage & Legacy on the dissolution of the BP Synod.[62]. PG responded on 4 February 2008 without the evidence requested, alleged that Jeffrey Khoo has three formulae for VPP and concluded with asserting that she can never be a believer of VPP and "out rightly reject it as a HERESY" (capitalised by PG). "[291][292], Heng, like Joshua Lim, was a witness for Life BPC in its unsuccessful lawsuit to evict the FEBC from the Gilstead Road premises. He wondered if, instead of a break, Life BPC was just going 'independent' with the blessings of its mother church. ), William B. Riley in his book "The Finality of Higher Criticism or The Theory of Evolution and False Theology" (1909) points to a booklet entitled "Higher Criticism" by R S Driver and A F Kirkpatrick, respectively Regius Professors of Hebrew at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, saying that the text of Scripture "is seriously corrupt" when the text of the Old Testament more than 2,000 years ago "was in every essential respect what it is at this hour" and Moses, Joshua and Samuel despite the Scriptures saying so are not the authors of the Pentateuch and the books of Joshua and Samuel; Riley points to Frederic Bettex, a German scholar, in his book "The Bible the Word of God" (p.276) summing up the views of the "Progressives" or higher critics (in his country) thus: "Revelation? 3238), more than four years prior to VPP becoming an issue (in 2002) wrote on the lives, work, beliefs, secret beliefs and practices of Westcott and Hort, as well as their fruit, before concluding on the very extensive damage done by them so that any modern version of the New Testament based on the work of Westcott and Hort, no matter how good in other ways, is "clearly blemished" and that "[t]hose who want to honour the Word of God must not promote the use of any of these versions by the church, not because the content of the version is evil in itself, but because the attitude of being contented to use a blemished version rather than an existing unblemished one, dishonours God. [49] However, the church failed as the Court of Appeal, the apex court in Singapore's legal system, held that the VPP doctrine is not a deviation from the principles contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith ("WCF"), by which the work of the college has been informed and guided from its inception, and it is not inconsistent for a Christian who believes fully in the principles contained within the WCF and the VPI (Verbal Plenary Inspiration) doctrine to also subscribe to the VPP doctrine. The name had to be changed because of a successful lawsuit in civil court by the mainline denomination regarding name infringement a trademark-violation issue. [69][70][71] The omitted words reflect the link at the outset of the Singapore BPC with the ICCC in the battle against ecumenism and the WCC (represented locally by Malayan Christian Council ("MCC")). "[203], VPPist Thomas Ross takes the view that the preservation of God's Word was not controlled by God in the same miraculous manner as the original writers of Scripture were inspired (2 Timothy 3:16) but "accurate copies of the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic autographa are God's Word, having in them the breath of God (Matthew 4:4) in the same manner that the original manuscripts were the Word of God, inasmuch as the words of such copies are identical to the words of the autographs". Is the passage genuine? 1605 County Road G, Merrill, WI 54452. [97] (See also Timothy Tow in The Story of My Bible-Presbyterian Faith and Allan MacRae in Biblical Christianity above). [168], The ESV (first published in 2001) and the NIV are critiqued by Timothy Tow and Jeffrey Khoo in their book Theology For Every Christian (2007) and listed together with the NIV, NASB, NKJV and the RSV all (except NJKV) translated from the Alexandrian/Minority/Wescott-Hort Text and the Nestle-Aland Greek NT as among the many Bibles of ecumenism, modernism, neo-evangelicalism and neo-fundamentalism. The editorial in The Burning Bush, July 2004, p.65 cited by Ong says, "The College Board and Faculty affirm the 100% inspiration and 100% preservation of the Holy Scriptures ", before going on to declare univocally "the traditional Hebrew Masoretic Text and Greek Textus Receptus underlying the King James Bible to be the totally inspired and entirely preserved Word of God". [108], KC Quek, BPC founding elder, in The Bible-Presbyterian Church of Singapore and Malaysia 19501971 concurred when he wrote that the second fold of the threefold cord of the BP Church Movement was the determination from the beginning "to separate from all entanglements" by taking the Scriptural position of separation (2 Cor. Richard A Muller wrote in Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics (2nd Edition, Baker Academic), Volume 2, Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, p.433:[249]. Pastor. [282] The words of Article 4.2.1 are: "We believe in the divine, verbal and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures in the original languages, their consequent inerrancy and infallibility, and, as the Word of God, the Supreme and final authority in faith and life" (italics added to the words "original languages"). [304] Sin also says on p.5 of his article, "No translation of one language to another will ever be perfect, regardless how learned the translators were or how superior the underlying texts or techniques may be " And VPPists do not take a different view that a translation, including the KJV, can be perfect. [214] But the Court of Appeal (coram: Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Phang Boon Leong and V.K. Life Bible-Presbyterian Church ( Abbreviation: LBPC; Chinese: ) is a reformed, fundamental, and separatist Bible-Presbyterian church located at Gilstead Road, under the Novena Planning Area, within the Central Region of Singapore. ", "Providential Preservation: B.B. [299] (See also "KJV and VPP" under "Isaac Ong joins in" above. The Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger Catechism and Shorter Catechism was adopted in the first Bible Presbyterian Synod in 1938. [121], Jeffrey Khoo (True Life BPC) and Charles Seet (Life BPC) see no degrees in separation, as separation is simply separation and has the holiness of God which has no degrees as its premise. [258]Gary North says that there is little doubt that Darwinism [evolutionism] and higher criticism were the two sources in the successful assault on Christianity in the late-nineteenth century. Sin commences his article by stating on p.1 that "[a]n objective and biblical appraisal" of the VPP debate is required. 203204 points to Turretin viewing the autographa as not corrupted in the extant apographa as seen in the Formula Consensus Helvetica prepared in 1675 in Zurich by John Henry Heidegger of Zurich, with the help of Turretin of Geneva and Lucas Gernler of Basel, affirming the providential preservation of Scripture thus: God, the supreme Judge, not only took care to have His Word, which is the 'power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth' (Rom 1:16), committed to writing by Moses, the prophets, and the apostles, but has also watched and cherished it with paternal care ever since it was written up to the present time, so that it could not be corrupted by craft of Satan or fraud of man. new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element'); [142] This is contrary to the claim on their website[143] that their book was published inter alia to honour BP "pioneers". [46] All three new leaders uphold the VPP doctrine. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. The alternative is not believing God and having errors in Scripture, which is acceptable to textual critics and many modern MVO [Multi-Versions Only] people. Galai is a port on the River Danube in Moldavia in Eastern Romania where Jews first settled at the end of the sixteenth century. La data de 06. The Chevra Kadisha administered Jewish communal life starting in the eighteenth century. The Bible-Presbyterian Church ("BPC") was a conservative reformed denomination in Singapore. The editors of Heritage & Legacy chose to include only KC Quek's reports on welfare services in Singapore (pp. (pp. [138], Daniel Chua paints a different picture (p.518, Heritage & Legacy), based probably on pioneer member Joshua Lim's earlier account in Heritage & Legacy (pp. See more. [25][23], After Life BPC failed in its lawsuit to dislodge the FEBC directors from the Gilstead Road premises to take over the operations of the FEBC due to the church disagreeing with the college teaching the doctrine of verbal plenary preservation ("VPP"),[26][27] Life BPC taking the lead role started Emmanuel Reformed Bible College ("ERBC") in January 2017 on the premises of Calvary (Jurong) BPC, an ERBC affiliate together with Maranatha BPC and Sharon BPC. If mother church was in agreement with Life BP Church, mother church would not stay on in the ecumenical Synod but heed Life BPC's call to all Protestant Christians, as noted by church historian Bobby Sng (see above), to separate themselves from churches that had liberal leadership. [272] Joshua Lim had in his open letter remarked or asked "Can anyone say he or she has never lied or distorted the truth or uttered untruth?" ", "Aren't older manuscripts more reliable? [244], Isaac Ong directs his readers to Jeffrey Khoo's KJV: Questions and Answers, p. Rather than giving offerings that are designated to specific individuals or mission . Jeffrey Khoo says Isaac Ong was extremely vague on what Turretin says about "contradictions" as Ong seems to give the impression that Turretin actually believed that there are "real contradictions" in the Bible in Ong's quotation of Turretin in Institutes of Elenctic Theology (hereinafter Institutes), volume I, page 71. [160][161], When Ho Peng Kee was installed as an elder of Mount Carmel BPC on 17 April 1987, he was presented with an NIV (1984) bible by David Wong and Ang Beng Chong with the latter hand-writing on the inner cover of the presented NIV Bible the charge to Ho in the KJV in full in 1 Peter 5:24 beneath which Wong and Ang signed off their names. [20] Although the founders are BP ministers, BGST is a trans-denominational college. [Jeffrey Khoo quotes (2) up to here in his response to Ong see above.] [156], Timothy Tow praised McIntire's swift offensive against the RSV and although McIntire did not act as speedily when the NIV first appeared in 1978 due to fifth columnists within the ICCC ranks, Tow nonetheless commended him for reaching "the crowning of his life-long struggle against Satan's wiles to falsify God's Word" when the ICCC, at its birthplace in Amsterdam, in 1998 passed a resolution urging "all Bible-believing churches worldwide to use only the Authorized KING JAMES VERSION in their services and in their teaching ministry" amidst more than 150 so-called 'versions' of the Bible extant around the world. Welcome to Grace Bible Presbyterian Church! He spoke at Calvary Pandan BPC, as well as FEBC, on the textual issue and defended the KJV and its underlying texts. [314] After quoting Whitaker Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 15751595 and regarded by Wayne Spear as the most significant influence on Chapter One of the WCF (The Westminster Confession of Faith and Holy Scripture, Carson and Hall (eds. [218], Although glad to note at the beginning of her second letter that SY Quek in his response to her first letter had shown her some respect as "a person saved in Jesus Christ", PG took issue with SY Quek and SH Tow for seemingly regarding the Chinese Union Version ("CUV") as the "Perfect Bible" despite the original language texts used for translating its NT being the same Westcott and Hort Greek text underlying the English Revised Version (p.4). [244], Higher or source criticism is a branch of biblical studies that emerged in mostly German academic circles in the late eighteenth century that seeks to investigate the origins of a text by focusing on its sources to determine who wrote it, when and where it was written without treating the Bible as the inerrant Word of God but as a text created by human beings at a particular historical time and for various human motives to be analysed, interpreted and evaluated like any other book; in contrast, lower (or textual) criticism seeks to determine the original form of a text from variants. [229], The Textus Receptus and Majority Text have frequently been used synonymously and while this is largely correct because the Received Text or the TR does represent the majority of textual witnesses in most readings, the TR also contains readings not supported by the majority of extant Greek manuscripts.
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