No. John T McNeill (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960, I. vii.5)) and Calvin, in his commentary on II Timothy, also points to having the inspired inerrant Word of God kept intact in the Scriptures (which is the Old Testament that Paul speaks of in 2 Timothy 3:16).[280][281]. Unless Khoo was saying that he could not find Turretin taking the view that there are "real contradictions", Khoo is not really correct in saying that he could not find "real contradictions" at all in Turretin's Institutes (at least not in the place cited by Ong).
Bible Presbyterian Church - Wikipedia [36] He announced in May 2022 on Hebron BPC joining on 10 March 2022 as the tenth member of BPCIS. By studying the scriptures we can begin to know of Gods faithfulness, constant love and eternal goodness. The doctrine of premillennialism is so clearly taught in the Bible that it is difficult for anyone, absent resorting to "spiritualizing" hermeneutic, to explain away the facts in (a) and (b) above without calling also into question the explainer's interpretation of other Biblical doctrines. [152] In a revamp of its website recently, Zion Serangoon BPC revised its statement of beliefs by reducing from 12 to 9 the statements which form the chief tenets of faith/beliefs of a typical BPC (see "Doctrinal Statement" above);[99] the last or twelfth statement on biblical separation has now been dropped.
What is the Presbyterian Church, and what do Presbyterians believe Home - Cornerstone Reformed Church: BPC Twin Cities Area For Presbyterians and others of the Reformed tradition the Bible is the means by which Christian believers come to understand how God has been present with humanity since the beginning of time and is present in our world today. A. Hodge and William G.T. Tow said he had the support of Life BPC, except for one or two in the Session which later increased to a few, and also the BP Presbytery. [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. ", from Psalm 12, saying:[217]. . [89], Though dispensational premillennial in their eschatology, the BPC and its ministers are covenantal and not dispensational in their theology (soteriology) as not all dispensational premillennialists are dispensationalists even though every dispensationalist is dispensational premillennial in his eschatology. 715-966-9674 (Pastor's cell phone) ", "KJV-NIV Verse Comparisons Information gathered from "If the Foundations be Destroyed" by Chick Salliby", "Why We Do Not Accept the Doctrine of Verbal Plenary Preservation (VPP)", "Responses to What about the footnotes in the NIV Version?
Life Bible-Presbyterian Church : Interpreting Psalm 12:67 published in The Burning Bush, Volume 10, No.
Calvary Pandan Bible-Presbyterian Church - YouTube . [316], Westminster divine Richard Capel stresses the importance of the Fountains (i.e., the original language copies or apographs) running clear since "if the Fountains run not clear, the translations cannot be clean", as he (Capel) says "[i]t's out of question that the same God, who committed the Oracles to the Jews, did also take care that they should preserve them safe and sure, uncorrupt and pure" and expects that the 'Church of the Gentles' similarly "have and do preserve the Greek Text uncorrupt, and clear" (Capel's Remains (London: John Bartlet, 1658), 40, 41 & 80). Kent Brandenburg writes Psalms 12:6-7: Answering Doug Kutilek's article "Why Psalm 12:6-7 is not a Promise of the Infallible Preservation of Scripture" (updated 12 July 2016) and points therein to an easy-to-read and less lengthy article of Grace Life School of Theology at Preservation: Examining the Relevant Passages, Psalm 12:6-7 that discusses the "grammatical argument" and gives several examples from the Psalms and other parts of the Hebrew Old Testament showing where feminine nouns with masculine pronouns are used to refute Kutilek's argument. [204] However, viewed from another perspective, Ross sees the preservation of God's Word as a miracle as he does not see why the God who works all things after the counsel of His own will could not have sovereignly made it happen without the kind of direct intervention in history that was the same as the kind that makes blind men see, Christ rises from the dead, etc. [275] Even though Life BPC declares in What We Believe on its website on "the KJV Bible to be nothing less than God's powerful inspired Word, just as any faithful translation of God's Word into any language can also be presented as being His inspired word" and on the apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:15-17 calling the Scriptures that Timothy had as "inspired" despite the fact that he had only a copy (either the Old Testament in Hebrew or a Greek translation of the Old Testament),[276][277] Life BPC seems happy to ignore Heng's confusion or ignorance and put up his article dated 26 April 2008 misrepresenting that VPP is perfect KJV, and the KJV is "100% perfect, equivalent or the replica of the original Word of God" not unlike Michael D Sproul in the U.S who, seemingly misinformed, claimed without basis that Jeffrey Khoo (like Ruckman) "believes that God inspired the [KJV] translators to create a new edition of the TR by the Word choices in English", the translators are "perfect" so that "no one can ever touch the TR of the King James translators' creation" and, above all, spread the serious falsehood that the young Turks in the VPP leaders over whom Waite "has had tremendous influence" [Jeffrey Khoo and SY Quek] had forced out the senior leader and founder of the BP movement to the rejoicing of Satan and the quenching of the Holy Spirit. The RSV changed Elizabethan language to contemporary English and made use of better Greek manuscripts. [58] David Wong is also one of the four authors/editors in the 2018 publication, Heritage & Legacy of the Bible-Presbyterian Church in Singapore (hereinafter Heritage & Legacy); he wrote seven articles compared to six written by SH Quek in the book. 377378)[59] in the book rather than his epochal message on the three-fold cord in 1971 [109] (repeated in 1985[4]) which characterises the BPC from its inception. [307][308], The KJV translators used mainly Beza's 1598 edition but they also consulted the editions of Erasmus and Stephanus and the Complutensian Polygot. Timothy Tow did not follow Harris and MacRae all the way on the NIV as he wrote in 1998 the lyrics for The King James Bible vs Hundred Versions and penned in the Life BPC's weekly of 26 July 1998 (while he was pastor of the church) his call to those using the NIV, the RSV and other modern Bible versions "to cease taking their poison and be delivered from the death in their pot". [301] The Majority Text does not have all the words of the TR. The word "singular" means "separate from others by reason of superiority or pre-eminence, 1635 above the ordinary in amount, extent, worth or value; especially good or great; special, particular remarkable, extraordinary, unusual, uncommon standing alone, peculiar in this respect 1791 [d]ifferent from or not complying with that which is customary, usual, or general; strange, odd, peculiar 1684". Francis Schaeffer was the first minister to be ordained in the new denomination. . As of 2009[update], there were 20,000 members in 32 BP churches in Singapore. Timothy Tow learnt this doctrine from Dora Yu, John Sung, Chia Yu Ming, Oliver Buswell, Allan MacRae and R. Laird Harris, the last three-named being Tow's professors at Faith Theological Seminary which was founded by conservative Presbyterians headed by Carl McIntire who himself held dearly to the doctrine of the Premillennial Return of Christ and had it incorporated into the WCF by the Bible Presbyterian Church of America, founded also by him and other conservative Presbyterian clergymen.
Providence Presbyterian Church: He is the Coming Elijah on Apple Podcasts 299-300 Milne says that "it is true that God has not promised to maintain a single codex of both Testaments down through the ages, but as the believing church has always taught, God's Word is locatable [bold added] in the Masoretic text of the Old Testament and the Greek common or majority text of the New" and "[t]hese texts have not been hidden", and, "[w]here there are variants in the manuscripts, the church has not found it an onerous task to collate the texts and arrive at the authentic autographic text" because "the Holy Spirit has confirmed the divine authority of this Word in the hearts of His people down through the ages" while "those who are not spiritually awakened will not recognise the divine authority of the Scriptures, nor submit to them". This His Church is fully committed to the system of reformed doctrine as expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, along with the basic principles of Presbyterian Government. [92][93], The continuity in covenant theology sees a unifying theme of one Saviour and one way of salvation in the Covenant of Grace as OT believers had looked forward in faith to the (first) coming of Christ the Messiah-Saviour to atone for their sins by His sacrifice on the cross of Calvary, while NT believers looked or look back in faith to Him since He had already come and made the atoning sacrifice: the church is manifested in the nation of Israel in the OT (as Israel is not merely a political/national entity) and continues in the NT 'as organised from the day of Pentecost onward'.[94][95]. However, Ko remarked that the testimony of Elder Dr Ang Beng Chong is more factual and truthful. [223], Even though PG seems to agree with SY that Luke 2:33 is correctly translated from the Greek text as "Joseph" in "And Joseph and his mother marvelled " (KJV) instead of "[t]he child's father" in "The child's father and mother marvelled " (NIV) as the latter undermines the deity and virgin birth of Christ (since Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit), PG says that SY ought to apply the same criticisms to the NIV to also the CUV which also translates Luke 2:33 as "The child's father and mother marvelled ". Quek Kiok Chiang ("KC Quek"), a founding BPC elder who relinquished the pastorship of Zion Serangoon to his son SH Quek on 31 October 1970,[63][54] was on different side with Timothy Tow and SH Tow after the dissolution of the BPC in 1988. The denomination describes itself as a confessional church which believes in historic Calvinism. [289] He was still around to defend the VPP doctrine in April 2008 when Heng wrote his article as Timothy Tow was named as one of the defendants in the lawsuit commenced by Life BPC against the FEBC directors in September 2008 to evict them from operating the FEBC on the Gilstead Road premises teaching and preaching VPP (see "Life BPC's Lawsuit against FEBC" below). No. [201] However, even though Warfield is a venerable Christian scholar, his adoption of the Westcott and Hort textual critical theory and redefinition of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy to make it apply only to the autographs with the consequent uncritical acceptance of the theory by Princeton Seminary and evangelical and fundamental seminaries led to the Textus Receptus being replaced by the United Bible Societies and the Nestle-Aland Critical Texts as the text in NT studies and the birth of more than a hundred modern English versions of the Bible from the mutilated (shortened) and corrupt Westcott-Hort text causing confusion over the infallibility, inerrancy and authority of the Scriptures.[209]. The reasons are: (1) The Scriptures are inspired of God (theopneustos, 2 Tim 3:16). 5, from the crafts and malice of this crooked and perverse generation of men, and for ever. [245] The TBS has printed in one book the Bible in the Hebrew and Greek original Biblical languages. The Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church ( FPBPC) is a Reformed Christian denomination formed in 2008 by conservative Presbyterian clergy and churches who disassociated from the Bible Presbyterian Synod [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Synod. The Bible Presbyterian Church is an American Protestant denomination in the Calvinist tradition. [51] SH Quek is currently the Senior Pastor of Emmanuel BPC and Pastor Emeritus of Zion Bishan BPC. Citing the issue to be in the different interpretations of the same Scripture passages cited by both sides to support their views, Daniel Chua (p.501 of Heritage & Legacy) attempts an exegesis of 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15. [239], While Sin decried that the verses quoted by VPP proponents do not support a perfect TR of 1611, Sin himself (on page 3 of his article) uses two of the verses Isaiah 40:8 and Psalm 119:89 to support his belief that God's words are fully preserved "in the body of the Byzantine or Traditional complete family of texts (as opposed to the inferior Alexandrian text type)" even though these two verses also do not identify the "Byzantine or Traditional complete family of texts". The remaining synod retained the name Bible Presbyterian Church. Biserica Adventist Betania Galai, (GL) - Construita in 1993. The New Testament contains four accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the account of the earliest Christian churches and other writings from the early Christian era.
Life Bible-Presbyterian Church - Wikipedia [172], The Zion Serangoon BPC's paper of 7 July 2015 (see above) promotes the ESV as having certain advantages over the KJV and lists among the references made in the study by the Session and the Board of Deacons for the issuance of the paper Dr Joel Grassi's A Critical Analysis of the English Standard Version of 2001. [14] It works and co-operates with persons in churches linked with the WCC. [126], The term "Neo Evangelicalism" was coined by Harold Ockenga in 1948 emphasizing the repudiation of separatism and a determination to engage in theological dialogue in a new emphasis to apply the gospel to sociological, political and economic issues. Heng, who had served as Assistant Pastor to Timothy Tow at Life BPC from 19631970,[275] was said by Joshua Lim on p.186 of Heritage & Legacy (2018) to have in particular his relationship with Timothy Tow stretched to breaking point as he [Heng] had accepted an invitation in 1969 to speak at a Methodist church against the BPC's stance of separation (from churches in the modernist ecumenical fold); and, after Tow had left for a 5-month sabbatical leave in the Holy Land in July 1969, Joshua Lim seemed to be hoping that Tow would not return to pastor Life BPC (based on talk Joshua Lim claimed to have heard) even though the plan before Tow left was to return to pastor the church and this was followed through with Heng resigning subsequently in August 1970 despite Joshua Lim saying (also in Heritage & Legacy, p.186) that the votes of the Session of Life BPC were skewed towards Heng.[294]. Build up the body of Christ. To compromise with such churches is to endanger Christ's flock. Scrivener published (posthumously) in 1894.
Calvary Bible-Presbyterian Church | | Singapore We also endeavour to "earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints . (SBC), D.Min (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)", "Announcements, Session 2016 Nominations, Mt. The first part of Khoo's answer quotes Prof William F Orr of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary affirming "that the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New which was known to the Westminster divines was immediately inspired by God because it was identical with the first text that God had kept pure in all the ages" and "[t]he idea that there are mistakes in the Hebrew Masoretic texts or in the Textus Receptus of the New Testament was unknown to the authors of the Confession of Faith". A Warm Hearted, Gospel Centered, Reformed Congregation Committed to the Expository Preaching of God's Holy Word. See more. After noting that theological liberalism was spreading worldwide and had also reached Singapore, Ang went on to say that Say Mia Tng's English Service, under the leadership of Timothy Tow, separated from the MCC to align itself with the ICCC and 'Bible-Presbyterian (BP)' was added to the church's name to distinguish it from the mainline Presbyterian Synod of Singapore. 89), were instead cited with approval in Preserving Our Godly Path. We are guided by the common faith. Luke 2:52 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. Prophecy? The current President of the ICCC, Brad K Gsell, is also opposed to Billy Graham as he wrote The Legacy of Billy Graham: The accommodation of truth to error in the evangelical church (1998, Revised and Expanded Edition, published by Fundamental Presbyterian Publications). Ockenga was pastor of the Park Street Church in Boston, founder of the National Association of Evangelicals, co-founder and first president of Fuller Theological Seminary, first president of the World Evangelical Fellowship (now World Evangelical Alliance), one-time editor of Christianity Today and a member of the board of directors for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. No matter what happens, one generation comes and another passes away, God is going to preserve His words from one generation to another. XVI No. [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. For how could such things be predicated of it, if it contained dangerous contradictions, and if God suffered [permitted] either the sacred writers to err and to slip in memory, or incurable blemishes to creep into it? William H. Goold (London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1850), Vol 16, 471 as "the vulgar copy we use was the public possession of many generations, that upon the invention of printing it was in actual authority throughout the world with them that used and understood that language" and Owen was presumably referring "to the Beza edition of the Greek text", but Warfield seemed to deny the acceptance of the Received Text [i.e., the NT in one copy or book] by the Puritans who were using an edition of it. that "God has providentially preserved His Word in and through all of the extant manuscripts, versions, and other copies of Scripture" (p.121) see "FEBC and Life BPC on VPP" above. [113], That the BPC of America adopted at the beginning a strong or militant stance on separation "one that calls for separation not just from unbelief and apostasy, but also from compromise and disobedient brethren" is clear. "[255][256], Isaac Ong seems to be flirting with Higher Criticism as he himself recognises that "Higher Criticism and German rationalism are the roots of liberal theology". It came down to a conflict over the use of alcoholic beverages. The question is not as to particular corruption of some manuscripts or as to the errors which have crept into the books of particular editions through the negligence of copyists or printers. Khoo then goes on to state that G I Williamson "did likewise write to this effect" by quoting Williamson on God's "singular care and providence" by which He has "kept pure in all ages" the original text, so that we now actually possess it in "authentical" form just like the photographic copy of a will "would still preserve the text of that will exactly the same as the original itself" if the original had been destroyed and although photography was not invented until long after God's Word was first written and the original writing or copy had been worn or lost, the question on how then could the original text of the Word of God be preserved is answered as: "God preserved it by His own remarkable care and providence."[262][263]. The question is whether there are universal corruptions and errors so diffused through all the copies (both manuscript and edited) as that they cannot be restored and corrected by any collation of various copies, or of Scripture itself and of parallel passages. [222] Because the CUV is typeset vertically (to be read from top to bottom and from right to left), the same verses listed by Jeffrey Khoo are printed in the main body of the CUV, sometimes in two vertical lines/columns of characters of slightly smaller print in the expanded column space from offsets to both the right and the left, as in the notes on Matt 18:11, " "("some ancient scrolls have: 'The Son of Man comes to save the lost'"), placed directly below the last character (face) and the adjacent period mark of the CUV verse in the main text or body of the CUV. (Trinity Theological College); Johnny Tee Chow Meng, B.Th. Faith Presbytery, Bible Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, Harvey Cedars Bible Presbyterian Conference, Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bible_Presbyterian_Church&oldid=1126538675, This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 22:17. Also the last statement (either the tenth or eleventh) of the Carmel group of churches omits the underlined words in statement (xii) (i.e., 4.2.12 of Life BPC's[65] or Shalom BPC's constitution[67]): "We believe in the real, spiritual unity in Christ of all redeemed by His precious blood and the necessity of faithfully maintaining the purity of the Church in doctrine and life according to the Word of God and the principle and practice of biblical separation from the apostasy of the day being spearheaded by the Ecumenical Movement (2 Cor 6:1418, Rev 18:4)". He says that 'keep away' in v. 6 and 'not associate' in v. 14 (per modern Bible versions used by him) cannot mean to 'totally cut themselves off from a brother' because v. 15 to 'not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother' means as he is, after all, a 'brother' (adelphos). Grace and Peace. says that politicians and theologians today often speak ambiguously to appeal to those they disagree with or to deceive those they speak to. But they (SY Quek and SH Tow) only regarded the CUV as the "Word of God", not the "Perfect Bible", for the Chinese people today since it is the best in terms of faithfulness, reliability and accuracy among the Chinese versions presently available, and versions or translations (whether the KJV or the CUV) are never superior to the inspired and preserved Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek Scriptures which need to be consulted for clarity and fullness of meaning and to compare Scripture with Scripture which is VPP; this seventh tenet was put up by the FEBC so as not to undermine the Chinese brethren's confidence in their Bible. While Steve Combs feels that the Scrivener TR should be amended to include "Amen" at the end of Ephesians 6:24, Bearing Precious Seed Global ("BPSG") where Combs is their Assistant Director/Global Translation Advisor believe that God's preserved Greek text is the Received Text as represented in Scrivener's 1881 text, printed posthumously in 1894 and now published by the TBS which is used by BPSG as the Greek text for their translation work.[313]. promoted by TC Lim (see above)[193] while adopting its views and modifying (e) above to limit the preservation of God's Word to only the Majority Text, Byzantine Text and Received Text (all editions) so as not to displace the long-entrenched position of Life BPC established by Timothy Tow in the use of the KJV as the exclusive English Bible for public reading, preaching and teaching (pp. And then verse 7, how I love this: 'Thou shalt keep them O LORD,' that is, keep His words; 'thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.' VPP is taught in a 10-lesson course The Doctrine of Verbal Plenary Preservation[240][241] in which Lee teaches lesson 3 on the foundation or the fundamentals/basics of VPP at Biblical Support for VPP (I), and Jeffrey Khoo teaches the more advanced phase on the identification of the VPP text or words in lesson 8 and lesson 9. 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. But Article 4.2.1 is precise in that the inspired Scriptures the B-P Church believes to be infallible and inerrant are the Scriptures in the original languages and not simply and only the autographs.
Bible Presbyterian Church General Synod This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. "[251], Turretin himself explains why there are no real and true contradictions thus:[250]. And if corruption is admitted in those of lesser importance, why not in others of greater? Westminster divine Daniel Featley (15821645) says that the Bible Translated is the undoubted Word of God in as far only as it agrees with the Bible in the original languages (London: N.B. [29] However, the BPCIS was not legally constituted and registered as a society until 19 December 2018. [157], McIntire's legacy on the KJV continues in the Bible Presbyterian Church in Collingswood, NJ the church that he founded and pastored where they still "believe the King James Version is the most faithful and accurate translation available in the English language" and they use it exclusively in public worship and in the teaching and training of their children and youth. For practical purposes, others like the Trinitarian Bible Society, which has been quoted by Sin as another authority, also uses the KJV Greek Text as edited by Scrivener. [244], Jeffrey Khoo says that VPPists do not deny what Owen had written; Khoo then points Isaac Ong to Khoo's own article John Owen on the Perfect Bible on Owen affirming the present perfection of Scripture in that while "we have not the Autographa of Moses and the prophets, of the apostles and evangelists; but the Apographa or 'copies' which we have contain every iota that was in them". Sinai in February 1859 in a wastebasket) and the Codex Vaticanus (placed in the Vatican Library at an unknown date and left there for centuries before being made known in 1841), the foundations for the critical Greek Text of Wescott and Hort of 1881 which, collated with Weymouth's third edition and Tischendorf's eighth edition by Eberhard Nestle in 1898, became what is known as the Nestle's Greek New Testament the text used in all "modern" translations that are opposed to certain doctrines of Scripture such as the virgin birth, the deity of Christ, the blood atonement, the Trinity, and others.
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