Although Khoo did not say in KJV: Questions and Answers, p.23 that Williamson takes the view that the perfect text for the Greek NT is the Textus Receptus, almost the entire last two paragraphs on p.15 of G.I. [131] At Graham's 1957 New York crusade, he eulogized Dr. Jesse Baird, a well-known liberal and apostate, by calling him 'a great servant of Christ'; at his 1957 San Francisco Crusade, he praised Episcopal Bishop James Pike who denied the deity, virgin birth, miracles, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ; and at his 1963 Los Angeles Crusade, he commended Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, the crusade's chairman who denied practically every fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, as "one of the ten greatest Christian preachers in America". Bible Presbyterians do not have synod-controlled boards for missions and education, but annually approve independent agencies for mission work, as well as colleges and seminaries. The above stands in contrast to Isaac Ong's claims that "Turretin dispels the argument made by those who hold to VPP that if the text is not perfectly preserved, then the whole Bible is corrupt" and "Turretin is not concerned about the small variations in the texts; these do not hinder the truth and discredit the doctrine of God's providential preservation of His Word". [252][253], Burgon had himself said that the Textus Receptus "is an incomparably better text than that which either Lachmann, or Tischendorf, or Tregelles has produced: infinitely preferable to the New Greek Text of the Revisionists [i.e. [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?" 104 & 107-108, quoting Westminster divine Joseph Caryl (16021673) on Matthew 5:18 in An Exposition with practicall observations continued upon the Thirty-fifth.Thirty-seventh Chapters of the Book of Job (London: M. Simmons (1664), 525) and Caryl's fellow divine William Twisse (1577/8-1646) in The Scriptures Sufficiency To Determine All Matters of Faith, Made Good against the Papist: OR, That a Christian May be Infallibly Certain of His Faith and Religion by the Holy Scriptures (London: Matthew Keynton (1656)), makes the point that the words of God delivered still exist in the extant text which contains no contradictions (see also "Francis Turretin on real contradictions" above) and "[w]hen the Westminster Assembly came to compose the Chapter on Scripture in the Confession of Faith, the perfect and holy doctrines, matter and words of Scripture, were deemed to be preserved in the pure extant original language texts of Hebrew and Greek" the purity in view being perfect or total as it is God who kept the original language texts of Scripture pure by His 'singular care and providence', and while His overruling providence does not imply that the autographic originals were to be produced perfectly in every copy down through the ages, "the stress of God's 'singular care' emphasises the personal nature of God's intentions to preserve the original language texts for the use of His church in all ages"; and a special providence, not a general providence, is in view. XVII, o mnstire nchinat tot Sfntului Ierarh Nicolae, unde, ntre anii 1642-1653 a slujit Sfntul Atanasie al III-lea Patelarie, n dou rnduri Patriarh Ecumenic al . [31] However, David Wong, the first General Secretary of the BPCIS,[33] announced in August 2020 on Mount Horeb BPC (another in the Mount Carmel group of mountain-named BP churches[34]) becoming the eighth member of the BPCIS. 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. There are more differences than those listed by SY in his exchange with PG as the KJV is based upon the Majority Text that is founded on more than 5,000 New Testament manuscripts while the NIV is based upon the Minority Text that is founded mainly on two corrupted New Testament manuscripts, as pointed out by Richard Anthony at Comparisons between The Majority (KJV) and Minority (NIV) Texts; see also KJV-NIV Verse Comparisons on the differences between the two versions. [296] Sin was previously the pastor of Maranatha BPC and the first Dean of students of ERBC before he left in January 2018 a year after ERBC's inauguration in January 2017. This is the more common opinion of the orthodox, which we follow as safer and truer", and he follows up immediately with: "This has all along been the primary contention and constant plea of VPP advocates in defending our Perfect Bible. Is the passage genuine? ", by moving it to the front, Ong then quotes the other questions, "The question does not concern Rather the question is The question is not The question is whether ", and stops short at " of parallel passages"[238] (underlined below) without going on to quote or deal with the ultimate question plus its answer (both in bold italics) in the full quote below:[250], "The question does not concern the irregular writing of words or the punctuation or the various readings (which all acknowledge do often occur); or whether the copies which we have so agree with the originals as to vary from them not even in a little point or letter. He (KC Quek) had defended his son's association and co-operation with para-church organizations; he also challenged the late Patrick Tan's proposal to him (as the incumbent Moderator before the Synod dissolution) to have Timothy Tow made the Synod Moderator to lead the BP Church back to the original stand before Patrick's proposal was withdrawn. See more. Without preservation, all the inspiration, God-breathing into the Scriptures, would be lost. Faith [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". Cuv Parascheva. [207], In Providence Of God In Preserving Scripture, Paul J Barth quotes from the writings of Puritans William Ames (15761633), John Flavel (16271691), Edward Leigh (16021671) and John Owen (16161683), Scottish Commissioner at the Westminster Assembly George Gillespie (16131648), German Reformed theologian Amandus Polanus (15611610) and current Reformed theologian Richard Muller. [310], Scrivener's The New Testament In The Original Greek Together With The Variations Adopted In The Revised Version (Cambridge: The University Press) issued in 1881 has a 9-page appendix at pp. [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. To compromise with such churches is to endanger Christ's flock. It is symptomatic of New Evangelicals to change focus to social work such as the provision of assistance in natural disasters. [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]. Bible Presbyterian Church 1650 Love Road Grand Island, NY 14072 (716) 773-7303 [88] Allan MacRae, in Biblical Christianity published with SH Quek helping him select his letters to be included in the book, says Scripture teaches that the Jews will return in unbelief to the land God covenanted to them through Abraham, and that the nation Israel living in the land in the day of Christ's coming will be converted (Zechariah 12:10; Ezekiel 20:33-40; 3:21-25) as God has declared that Abraham's seed will not cease from being a nation before Him forever (Jeremiah 31:35-37) and, while He is not going to leave Israel unpunished (Jeremiah 30:7-11), His purposes in grace will be fulfilled when His purposes in judgment are accomplished (Jeremiah 23:5-8; Hosea 2:14-16; Romans 11:26, 27). 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. [200] In addition to Preserving Our Godly Path and Our Statement of Faith on the Preservation of God's Word, Life BPC's stance on the VPP issue can be examined at Our Stand on the Preservation of Scriptures, which also has articles from the Chinese Session of Calvary Pandan BPC and BP ministers such as Philip Heng and Jack Sin. La data de 06. Khoo also points to Bob Phee, now with BPCIS, who wrote and distributed in October 1988 a paper entitled "Neo-Evangelicalism in the Bible-Presbyterian Church" detailing the neo-evangelicalism of SH Quek. 31 were here. [214] But the Court of Appeal (coram: Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Phang Boon Leong and V.K. [173], Those who embrace the VPP doctrine believe that God has preserved, down to the last detail, all of Scripture without any loss of the original words, prophecies, promises, commandments, doctrines, and truths. Or are translations the product of the wisdom, care, skill and diligence of men (per Owen) made from the apographa preserved by the wisdom, care and providence of God Himself (per Owen and WCF 1:8) so that they can be compared against the apographa to see if alterations or amendments to any translations are needed? While God's Word was not written in one book or copy as the Old Testament has 39 books written over a long period of time from about 1200 to 165 BC and the New Testament has 27 books written between about 50 and 100 AD the Bible can now be read in one book. No. are: (a) the Bible has no verse which explains how God will preserve His Word or teaches that God did preserve perfectly the original text of Scripture; (b) the preservation verses (e.g., Matthew 5:18, Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33 and Psalm 12:6-7) cited by preservationists or VPPists as supporting the perfect preservation of God's Word by His special providence do not do so but they point rather to God's Word on the protection of His people (not His words) and on prophecies not failing but will all come to pass; (c) God's Word has not been perfectly or miraculously preserved in that some words might have been lost through negligence but the amount lost is so small that there is no effect on overall doctrine; (d) there are errors in the Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament such as the discrepancy between 2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles 22:2 regarding the age of king Ahaziah which needs correction by conjectural emendation; (e) God has providentially preserved His Word not in one manuscript or text type but in and through "all the extant manuscripts, versions and other copies of Scripture" (including Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament); (f) no two manuscripts, no two editions of the Masoretic Text and no two editions of the Greek Textus Receptus are exactly the same; (g) the Scriptures teach only inspiration and inerrancy for only the autographs; and (h) our Bibles are reliable despite the non-perfect preservation of God's Word.[191].
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