Out of love for the truth and from a desire to elucidate it.
1. The issue of Wine Drinking has split Bible-Presbyterian Churches, theologically speaking, this is unwise. Some foolish theologians in the USA decades ago, have problems with the bottle issue. The fact we know, the main issue is drunkenness, not the drinking. A bottle of wine has broken the bond of the body of Christ. The church split and then they formed Bible Presbyterian Church. Stupidity without limit, totally refrain people from the wine, they broke the body of Christ. Please refer correctly to John Calvin, many of his writings supporting wine drinking. When you are attacking those brethren who are consuming alcohol, you are attacking John Calvin, in this way, you should not call yourself a Presbyterian Church, you should be called a Pharisees Church.
2. The issue of Tongue-speaking has split Bible-Presbyterian Churches, this is another unwise act. Please study the Bible carefully before judging others who are speaking in an unknown tongue like the Charismatic, there is another tongue in the Corinth church, different from the tongues in Acts, tongues in Acts are human languages like English and Mandarin, the tongue in Corinth speaks not to man, but to God. Please read 1 Corinthians 14: 2, "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit." Here Paul said, this tongue is not a language, because no one understands them. This is not a language which spoken to men, but to God. Please handle the issue of "tongues and tongue" carefully before you judge the charismatic!
3. The issue of Exorcism has split the Bible-Presbyterian Churches, this is another unwise issue. Satan is not our friend, let us cast Satan and the devil out of the church, together with the false theologians and teachers into the lake of fire in hell. Jesus commanded us to cast out demons in the body of the false theologians and teachers in various seminaries!
4. The issue of interpretation of Gap-Theory of Genesis' 6 days creation, became another quarrel and hot issue among these ministers. Theologically speaking, again this is very childish. Let us open to academic freedom in speech. There is a gap, for example, millions of years between 6 Creation days. Every 24 hours there was a gap of millions of years. Why not?
5. The issue of Bible Version. Stop quarreling about Bible versions, there is no such thing as the King James Version Only, or only KJVism, anti-NIV, stop all this nonsense and foolish argument. God may keep His words in NIV, ESV... etc. Why not? Are you man behaving like God, to judge others who are reading the NIV? I dare not.
6. The issue of personal view becoming Doctrine, and harshly imposing it. There is good intention to defend the Bible, but when it is overdone, it will become a heretic, like Verbal Plenary Preservation (VPP), only the spiritual man can understand the spiritual thing, why bother when there are other Bible version rather than KJV Bible? Why disturb the peace in the body of Christ with a personal view like VPP? Who are you to decide the Word of God? The Canon was chosen long ago, we are to accept them as inspired Word of God. Why we cast doubts into those who are reading the NIV...? I personally view that KJV must be read together with NIV, ESV...Not a single version alone! Most BPC churches read the KJV for so many years, but what happened? They keep on fighting for words, keep on fighting for minor issues, we seem like we do not understand the Bible? Our spiritual eyes are blinded by KJV, our spiritual ears are deafened by KJV, our mouths are full of dung? Even until VPP pops up! KJV creates so many Pharisees among us. Fighting for nothing? Wasting our young energy!
7. The issue of Management of doctrinal conflicts. No such thing as interdependency among Bible Presbyterian Churches. We need to check and balance. There are few pastors who are sitting in a church for too long, becoming dictators in BPC! New Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Singapore will be the sole representative of this denomination. One Moderator (he is not the Pope), chosen among the ministers, should be elected by voting from members consist of various Pastors, Elders, Deacons, and various church representatives. There is one committee that oversees the welfare of the church and the member churches of the Synod. Every member church should send 6 reports to the Moderator in one year. Each Pastor oversees the matter in the local church, and elders, deacons should help the pastor to manage the local church. Every theological issue and conflict must be decided in the Synod, no one pastor decides theological conflicts even in his local church. Theologians in the Bible Colleges will be elected and decided through Synod representatives together with the Bible Colleges representatives in a special meeting. The authority of a theologian is not higher than the Synod and its representatives! Let us put our house in order. Other BPC who does not join the Synod, cannot represent BPC in any theological stand and settle theological conflicts, they are the hornets among us, fly freely, without directions for unity. One day they will be tired and fall onto the ground.
a. There is no underground Synod like FEBC that can represent BPC located in Singapore, every Synod meeting must be recorded in black and white so that the younger generation learns from our mistakes. Timothy Tow should not have dissolved the Synod 1988, that was his mistake. Someone has to correct his mistake.
8. The issue of Division in BPC. The New Synod should consider accepting Bible Presbyterian Churches from different backgrounds, such as Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic, and even ordinary BPC backgrounds. Even though each has its different constitutions, different theological backgrounds, we must learn to learn from one another, accept one another, all are welcome to join the Synod, it can be done. It is sad, we cannot see eye to eye, even talk to each other because of our forefather's fault, who was teaching us to be militant, to create fractions and infighting among us, this is not good for the sake of the one Gospel we preach. There will be a time, when we all come together as a family, witnessing one Lord, and there will be a time we unite to worship one God our Father. Triune God a united Three Persons, may we become like Him. We have to learn to accept minor differences among us. Even though we have started to unite, but it may take another 50 years before all of us unite under one Lord.
9. The issue of Pride. Bible Presbyterian Church (BPC) is like King Saul. Saul, though chosen directly by God and initially zealous for the Lord, is easily moved by the circumstances. He is successful against the Philistines and Amalekites, but he also does things in his own way or—even worse—in the people’s way, against the word of the Lord. As a result, Samuel tells Saul that his kingdom (1 Sam. 13:14) and even his own kingship (1 Sam. 15:23) will be taken away. The Golden Lamp Stand will be removed from BPC if we do not repent, returning to the first love for Christ, we have made a man Timothy Tow to be our idol praising his ideologies, false theologians became our lords, and wrong motives taken over us, are we for God, or are we fighting for our pride, for our reputation or for ourselves? Fighting for KJV? For our own BPC legacy? Or for the Lord? The Lord God looks at the heart! Repent BPC, humble ourselves, rise and shine for the Lord. This time BPC is chided in a blog before it is too late when BPC is chided in the heavenly court!
10. The issue of Eschatology. Some BPC's ministers and preachers like to say "Jesus Christ will come today, tomorrow, be prepared!" To warn people that Jesus Christ will be coming soon and very soon. This saying is wrong because Jesus Christ will not return if the Third Temple in Jerusalem is not built. If today the Third Temple remains unbuilt then we know Jesus Christ will not return tomorrow. How can we say Jesus Christ will come tomorrow if the Third Temple is not built? There is no doubt, Jesus of Nazareth, the Saviour of the world, is going to return, we believe the third temple will appear before the return of Jesus Christ.
11. The name of "Christian Fundamentalist" is stinking like shit to some. Why? Theologians and preachers from Far Eastern Bible College, some Bible Presbyterian Churches located in Singapore, and some fundamentalist churches in the world have given Fundamentalists a bad name. These so-called Fundamentalist Christians are cruel and rude. Let me explain, they always talk softly and preach gentleness to us, they can preach fiery messages here and there, and so, they can easily seduce people's hearts. They are stubborn, stiff-necked because they have a strong will. They are the whitewashed tombs, outwardly they look godly, they have faces looking like an angel, they are always behaving like they are fighting for the Lord, and they are on the Lord side, and they always say they are upholding the truth in the Bible. Actually, they are very very cruel inwardly, spiritually speaking they are the wolf in sheep's clothing, I met a lot of these fundamentalists among us. No love in their hearts, no love for the neighbors, no love for the people who have a different viewpoint from them, even a little bit different also cannot be accepted in their midst, no love for people who are weaker than them! To these evil and wicked fundamentalists, what count is the truth, not any love, and what count is the reward in heaven, and not any people's life on earth. If you perish, you perish, they do not care. What they care about are their so-called "doctrines." Woe on these fundamentalists!
12. The issue of the drum. You have rejected a drum to be played in the Sunday Worship. You have looked down on those churches who used drums in worship. Having such high regard for traditional music such as the piano. This is absurd. Drumming is rooted in our earliest biblical worship traditions. The frame drum (Hebrew tof) mentioned seventeen times in Scripture is commonly mistranslated as “tambourine” or “timbrel.” The jingly instrument we know as a tambourine today did not come into existence until the Roman period, according to archaeologists and biblical scholars. The instrument referred to in the Old Testament is a large frame drum, about twelve to twenty-two inches across its face. It was most often played by women in both secular and religious contexts. Hebrew women, such as Miriam (see Ex. 15:20-21) appropriated this same drum in the worship of Yahweh, continuing to do so at least until the period of Babylonian captivity, and possibly beyond. The sound of drumming, in combination with the blowing of hollow rams’ horns (shofar), cymbals, and dancing were among the earliest ways our spiritual ancestors worshiped God. So the sound of drumming reminds us of our roots as Christians.(Click the link here) Today the Jewish people the chosen of God still play drums in worship, beware of another kind of drum mentioned by Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 13: 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body,a but have no love, I gain nothing. Beware there is another kind of drum, our stomach!
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