B-P Church = Bible-Pharisee Church

"Pharisee" is derived from Ancient Greek Pharisaios (Φαρισαῖος),^[7] from Aramaic Pərīšā (פְּרִישָׁא), plural Pərīšayyā (פְּרִישַׁיָּא), meaning "set apart, separated", related to Hebrew pārûš (פָּרוּשׁ), plural pĕrûšîm (פְּרוּשִׁים), the Qal passive participle of the verb pāraš (פָּרַשׁ)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisees

 B-P Church is

Bible-Pharisee Church, or

Bible-Press Church....

Should Differences in Biblical Manuscripts Scare Christians?

Randy Leedy | Wed, December 28, 2016 | Articles, Training 4

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Many Christians are troubled by differences in wording among various Greek New Testament texts: The Bible has scribal errors in it? Then how can I be sure what I’m reading is God’s word?

I have taught New Testament Introduction to beginning seminary students for many years, and I’ve come to realize that there’s a simple path to clarity and comfort regarding this issue—simpler than diving into excessively complicated details about ancient manuscripts written in languages few Christians have the training or experience to assess reliably.
Here are three reasons Christians should not be troubled by textual variants.

1. No theologies or denominations claim a particular text

Yes, there are differences between Bible manuscripts, and from a certain perspective, they can look alarmingly serious. For example, those manuscripts (and resultant Bible translations) which “omit” 1 John 5:7 seem to some readers to undermine the doctrine of the Trinity.
But there’s a simple way to demonstrate how trivial the differences between ancient manuscripts really are in terms of their effect on the body of truth that the Bible reveals. We have lots of doctrinal differences within Christianity, right? But there are no Calvinist manuscripts/versions, Arminian manuscripts/versions, Pentecostal, Reformed, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Congregationalist, Egalitarian, Complementarian, Integrationist, Cessationist, or Continuationist manuscripts/versions.
Take any systematic theology textbook you want, and the set of proof texts offered for particular points is for all practical purposes version-independent—the authors don’t care which translation you use, so they just give references. The difference in doctrinal character among the various manuscripts and translations is very close to zero. The “omission” of 1 John 5:7 (in the judgment of almost all textual scholars, those words were actually added very late in the manuscript tradition, not appearing in Erasmus’ Greek New Testament until its third edition) has not caused a single Christian denomination to descend into Unitarianism—because the New Testament elsewhere still clearly teaches the doctrine of the Trinity. In fact, none of the Greek writings of the early church ever mentions this passage—even in their discussions of the Trinity! If the church fathers recognized and formulated that vital doctrine without referring to this verse, then its presence in the New Testament of their day is highly unlikely, and certainly its absence from a Bible text or translation today constitutes no defect in doctrinal character.
If the differences between Greek texts were doctrinally significant, you would expect theologies and tribal groups to grow out of distinctive readings of those texts—you would expect certain sects to adopt Greek texts as theological banners. But compare the positions of Majority text advocates, Textus Receptus devotees, and eclectic text users on the core doctrines of the historic creeds and you’d be hard pressed to find a doctrinal difference for which they claim support in their favored New Testament text as opposed to others.
Different Christian tribes bring somewhat different lenses to the Bible, but it’s the lenses that differ, not the Bible.

2. Even if we had absolutely perfect copies, the work of interpretation would still have to go on

If we had the originals themselves—the very pieces of papyrus Paul used to compose Romans and Ephesians, for example—or if no copies contained any textual variants at all, unlocking the Bible’s power would still require us to do exactly what we do now: search for Scripture’s wisdom as for hidden treasure, interpreting carefully, comparing Scripture with Scripture, and making relevant personal application. Nothing would change except that we would be able to dismiss from our minds the possibility that the text we’re working with may not preserve God’s exact inspired words with complete perfection. But my own weaknesses as a reader expose me to far more significant misunderstanding than the manuscript differences do, so by far the greatest problems that God must overcome in order to talk to me are within me, not within the transmission process.

3. Pristine perfection is a property of the next world, not (generally) of this one

It’s true that the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts we have can’t all preserve the exact wording of the originals (and by definition, a translation cannot do so). The fact that no two manuscripts are identical down to the jots and tittles means that at most only one manuscript of any given Bible book can be “perfect.” All manuscripts of any size (some are less than a page) contain some obvious scribal slips, so it seems clear that God hasn’t given us access to the one “perfect” manuscript of any book of the Bible.
The very strong pattern God has ordained is that pristine perfection is a property of the next world, not this one, so I just need to conform my expectations to that reality. The textual imperfections that generate so much angst and controversy are well within an easily tolerable range, and, while of course we must make the wisest choices we can, we can be completely at ease that, with the exception of extreme paraphrases or Bibles translated by cult groups, any Bible we may use is fully trustworthy as God’s Word. We need not fear that some of these Bibles are the devil’s. Where does Scripture warn us to ferret out and avoid the devil’s Bibles? It seems that, in his sovereignty, God has arranged that the very few Bibles possibly worthy of that categorization are obviously so, not subtly so.

Conclusion

If the manuscripts were hopelessly confused across their whole bodies of text about whether Paul’s gospel was justification by faith plus works of the law or justification by faith without works of the law; or if some manuscripts said that the baptism of the Spirit includes speaking with tongues and some said the opposite; or if some promised that Jesus would rapture his church before the Tribulation while others took what we now call a postmillennial view—then identifying the correct text would obviously be a matter of theological importance. Jesus called some matters of the law “weightier” than others (Matt 23:23)—if serious differences existed among those, we’d have a serious difficulty.
But the variations we have among manuscripts raise far different questions: does the inspired text say we have redemption through Christ’s blood twice or only once? Does it testify to Jesus’ atoning blood 44 times or only 43? Does John say “his anointing” or “the same anointing” (one letter different in Greek) in 1 John 2:27?
Even the two major passages that are textually questionable—Mark 16:9-20 and John 7:53–8:11—do not affect the doctrinal character of the New Testament. The former largely duplicates material found in the other gospels; the latter illustrates truths we know well from other passages: the scribes and Pharisees are self-righteous and Jesus is forgiving and yet demanding. If such textual variants represent Satan’s best attempt to corrupt the doctrinal character of Scripture, then God is clearly keeping him on a very short leash, indeed. Oh, for a life full to the brim of such problems as these!
The bottom line is that God has arranged things so that I can take any good English Bible translation, based on any textual or translation philosophy, treat it as if its every English word were straight from him, and get everything I need from that Bible to know, love, and live for him in a way that will bring Christ’s “Well done!” when I stand before him. And what more is there to life? Wherever a problem in transmission or in my own reading may tend to lead me astray, there’s a corrective somewhere else in Scripture that, when I interpret the parts in light of the whole, will keep me within bounds.

Randy Leedy, PhD, has taught Greek and New Testament at Bob Jones Seminary since 1994. He is the author of Greek New Testament Sentence Diagrams and Love Not the World.

The end of Volume 1

The theologians who are teaching false teachings are here and there on earth, they hide under the covering of Martin Luther, John Calvin and John Wesley.

They said they are returning to the reformed theology, they said they wanted to lift up Calvinism, but they slandered Lutheranism! These theologians are wasting time, in chasing winds of doctrines!

I had seen, these Calvinists promoting Roman Catholicism among the presbyterians, and I had seen, they betray a man like turning their palm. I had seen, they smoke, they drunk with wine even after prayer to give thank. I had seen leaders of this so called reformed theologians, pushing the back of one another like a politician, tapping your back, and then kill you without a sound!

I had seen politicians who are so cruel, we are suffering until today, that is why I wrote this blog, to expose this murdering into the world, the Lord is my witness! I shouted in pain, "Halleluyah, thank God!"

Politicians are so cruel that inhumanly they killed and swindled our hard earned money, they destroyed my vehicle to turn over me from preaching the Gospel, put God say to me, "Give thank!"

This is the end of the writing of Volume 1, refuting the false teaching of Verbal Plenary Plenary, where I make a simple conclusion, this Verbal Plenary Preservation is a lie, a delusion from the depth, and this is voice calling for repentance, I will continue to write, until the end of that great day come to me, where I meet the Lord face to face!

Elders, humble yourselves, do not call yourselves as a theologian! Rather in humility, we call ourselves faithful raiments, the follower of Christ! Watch your back, keep away from false teachers!

A Chinese Elder

I know of a Chinese elder in the BP church, he had been attacking the chinese fundamental churches like us, and so may God repay him for his evil onto the servant of the Lord, he is from BP! Surprise, the enemies in the closet, the skeleton in our closet in not out of fundamental churches, but they are in the fundamental churches like us.

So great the war until there is no love in the end of the battles, the brethren is bringing one another to the court room!

Jesus is calling

Come home, come home, Jesus is calling...

Tenderly, He is calling, for you and for me!

The Persecution

Since the pastors and theologians came to knew about my blog, I had written with harsh words describing the Verbal Plenary Preservation, since I am a brethren in Christ, I am sorry to use those rough and harsh words! Being improper and impolite! May God forgive this puny little creature! Uncooked young man!

But then, without those harsh words, my blog will be seen without intensified means! But those tough words had drive the blog to the right direction, to refute!

And the theologians and their fellows are not happy with me, and they are angry with me, in their sermons they had mentioned about me? I think that I had to hide this blog from the public, and they may not come to accept this writing it is better for me to write this blog quietly. Hope they may not be provoked to do some foolish things, may God intervene this hours, when the days are in darkness, where God's people believed and trust in evil politicians and falsehood.

The theologians are persecuting us, may the Lord sent them away in peace.

The Enemy within

The enemy within the churches that made the churches stop growing, and these are the elders and leaders who are not totally committed to see churches grow!

But they like to see churches split!

And the end time, there is a fallen away from the truth, beware of this.

I knew of a uncooked, or half cooked young man, he was laid hand by a self supporting pastor, there is that gift in him, it is like a seal! The young man also self supporting his ministry.

He was laid hand by a pastor who was a loud and gifted speaker, and he had handed with that gift too! His voice was loud and rough!

When they laying of a hand on your head, a spiritual gift is given to you, this is very true.

But, look, who is laying his hands on your head, what gifts have you been given!

Not, with that quarrelsome spirit, separating among you, self ego, self promoting spirit!

You better lay your hands on the Chinese Bible! And start to read it carefully!

And then put the Bible up on your head, and bind it with a rope, if it is needed to keep close to the Bible!

When you preach

When you are preaching, it is in such a burden, in much tension, for me, preaching is like a boxing match. The boxer is not hitting the air, but he is hitting the opponent! Every time he hit the opponent, he gets a point, until he wins the match! The boxer must try his best to hit, if he does, he gets a point! We must preach, to get a point!

When you come, to hear me preach, after the sermon, in such a tension, some of you, will say I am preaching like a mental ill patient, forgotten to eat his pills!

I hope you hear the Sunday sermon with a grateful and cheerful heart!

A cheerful heart, is a good herb for your bones!

No matter who is the preacher is, hear him with a cheerful heart, you must swift to listen! Slow to talk!

But you must know that preacher, he must not be a proud looking man! Then you will start to look into your Bible, when he is preaching on the pulpit.

Are we, one of the humble preacher, who is teaching the word of God?

in making a good theologians

In making a good theologian, it also takes a long time, much good works, more than that, it is in a furnace of purifying, 7 x 7 times of purifying in his mind, teaching and theology!

Above all, he must passed the tests of pride of this world, lust of the eyes, lust of the fresh!

And then he or she must passed the tests of the discerning the wrong and the false spirits! The wrong and the right teachings come from these spirits!

To make a good theologian, it take at least 40 years, in the ministry of Bible teaching!

First 40 years, like Moses in palace, for study, approved onto God!

Second 40 years, like Moses in wilderness, serving!

Last 40 years, in leading the flocks! As a leader.

We cannot be Moses, he is such a humble man on earth!

Swift to listen for first 40 years? Slow to speak for the next 40 years!

To be a theologian, it is impossible for a man, but it is possible, only God's grace.

Moses also killed a man, before he went hidden in the wilderness! That is why, it is by the grace of God! He lived until 120 years old.

For 40 years, he was running from the palace, his college!

The End time is the time for the Holy Spirit to work.

Like in the beginning, the Holy Spirit was moving over the water in the Book of Genesis, in the creation.

In the end time, the Holy Spirit came to anoint us, to live with us! To transform us!

HE IS THE COMFORTER GOD HAD PROMISED TO US!

In this end time, it is a time not for us to pursuing any perfect Bible nor the KJV, but it is the time for the Holy Spirit to work.

It is a time to read the Bible, HUMBLY, and obey it, teach other in humility!

The 21th century is the century for the Holy Spirit, God with us, to guide and lead us!

Pastors are you waiting on the Holy Spirit in the end time?

You are not alone here on earth, He is here for you!

Making a good pastor

To make a good pastor, it must at least, take some years, like 20 year in ministry, he or she must goes through many testings!

The tribulation

To make the charismatic happy, feel good about the end time, i will say this to them, if I am asked about the tribulation in the end time. The end time, the calamities and sufferings are surely great.

In the end time, the charismatics are very concerned about their lives!

I will happy, to tell them, I will say this to them, "Probably, you guys the charismatics will go up to the heaven first, before the tribulation....this is the first rapture! You will not go through the tribulation! ...

And then we the fundamentalists will stay on the earth to go through the tribulation on earth, and then we will have to wait for the second rapture, surely you guys like to hear this kind of encouragement."

Do encourage your friends in the end time!

Those who are endured to the end, will be saved!