Response to elder's teaching

Teaching of the Church

According to 1 Timothy 3:2, elders must be “apt to teach”. In Titus 1:9, elders are expected to be “holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.” The Greek word (parakaleô) translated as “exhort” can also mean “encourage”, “comfort”. Thus, the ruling elder’s teaching – though not formal or on a full-time basis like that of the pastors who are teaching elders – includes informal counselling and words of encouragement. The elder should also be able to “convince the gainsayers” by sound doctrine (Titus 1:9). The Greek word (antilegô) translated as “gainsayers” refers to “those who speak against”. Hence, elders must acquaint themselves with the biblical doctrines and practices of the church, that they may give a sound response to those who object to the doctrines of the Word of God.

This, of course, does not mean that every elder must be equally knowledgeable and gifted to perform the task of teaching. It is abundantly clear that there are some elders (being pastors) who are specially tasked to “labour in the word and doctrine” (1 Timothy 5:17), while others focus mainly on ruling the church. However, every elder must be able to communicate sound biblical knowledge. To fulfil such an important duty, elders must have a constant, prayerful commitment to equip themselves with sound theological knowledge. They must equip themselves to teach competently in Bible studies and to answer the inquirers wisely and adequately. They must labour to both propound sound doctrines and defend them for the purity of the church. http://gethsemanebpc.com/pastoral/importance-of-ruling-elders-ii/


My response,

Elders are not called to teach false teaching like Verbal Plenary Preservation!
Pastor must be humble not to bully elders!

I have divided the writings into many blogs......

To confuse the false teachers, and to avoid attacks from my enemies, i have put my words into so many blogs, and there are my manuscripts in so many blogs with so many different web addresses. Those blog contents are more or less the same.

Give you an example:

Please look at the year 2009, i had written 429 postings. That 429 posting is my fingerprint in all the different blogs.

http://febcbpc.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-very-sad-state-of-bible-presbyterian.html


https://web.archive.org/web/20161026144605/https://vpplawsuit.blogspot.sg/


I like to close one blog, then open another blog. Before i close a blog, i will remove all the old postings into a new blog with a new address. That is the reason there are so many blogs under my writing, but i usually put my fingerprint here and there inside my blogs. So many different versions of manuscripts. But the message is the same, to refute those false teachers in FEBC and BPC in Singapore.

Also created many facebook account with different name and faces to introduce my blog.

At least 50000-page view in total in all those blogs few years ago.....i continue to write until today, over 1000 postings in one blog.

I love BPC and that is why i rebuke! If not i will not have spent so much time writing these blogs.

Remember Charles Seet from Life Bible Presbyterian Church, he has done great evil unto BPC, be sure he will not be spared from coming punishment.

Introducing a good Bible Presbyterian Church in Singapore

Mount Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church

http://www.carmel.sg/

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The Ancient of Days

WLC Q1: What is the chief and highest end of man?

WLC Q1: What is the chief and highest end of man?
A1: Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God¹, and fully to enjoy Him forever². (¹Rom 11:36; I Cor 10:31; ²Psa 73:24-28; John 17:21-23)


Alternative answer from Life Bible Presbyterian Church is:
To glorify our church, our Bible, our elders, our pastors, ourselves... 

BPC! BPC! BPC

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:16

 “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” Ephesians 5:19


“Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Thessalonians 1:11

 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Prov 22:6)

The Story of BPC

Dean Burgon Oath obeyed by BPC and Far Eastern Bible College

Dean Burgon Oath

I swear in the Name of the Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit that I believe "the Bible**** is none other than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the throne. Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse of it, every word of it, every syllable of it, every letter of it, is direct utterance of the Most High. The Bible is none other than the Word of God, not some part of it more, some part of it less, but all alike the utterance of Him that sitteth upon the throne, faultless, unerring, supreme." So help me God, AMEN.

Beware:  The Bible here refers to TR underlying the KJV.

Verbal Plenary Preservation

FEBC, which embraces the VPP doctrine based on the Westminster Confession of Faith which at Article 8 of Chapter 1 states that the inspired OT and NT Scriptures in the original languages are "by His [God's] singular care and providence, kept pure in all ages", teaches that God has supernaturally preserved each and every one of His inspired Hebrew/Aramaic OT words and Greek NT words to the last jot and tittle so that God's people will always have in their possession His infallible and inerrant Word kept intact without the loss of any word, and that the infallible and inerrant words of Scripture are found in the faithfully preserved Traditional/Byzantine/Majority manuscripts and fully represented in the Printed and Received Text (or Textus Receptus) that underlie the Reformation Bibles best represented by the KJV, and NOT in the corrupted and rejected texts of Westcott and Hort that underlie the many modern versions of the English Bible like the NIV, NASV, ESV, RSV, TEV, CEV, TLB, etc.^[101] The Board of Elders of Life BPC disagreed.^[102]

The Bible-Presbyterian churches (Singapore), which had their Synod dissolved in 1988 because of disagreements, were again split with one group aligned with the founding pastor Timothy Tow embracing VPP, and another group not aligned with him taking the non- or anti-VPP position.^[103]

The church and the college had shared premises at 9, 9A and 10 Gilstead Road (the "Premises"). In 2008, due to the disagreement on VPP, the church sued the college's directors, including Timothy Tow (the church's founding pastor), in Suit 648 in the High Court over allegedly "deviant Bible teachings" in an attempt to force FEBC to leave the Premises.^[104] However the church failed as the Court of Appeal of Singapore, the apex court in Singapore's legal system, held, inter alia, on 26 April 2011 that:^[105]

1. "the VPP doctrine is actually closely related to the VPI doctrine which both parties [i.e., the College and the Church] adhere to,” (rejecting the Church's contention in [59] of the Court of Appeal Judgement that it is “an entirely different creature from the VPI doctrine)";”
2. "the College, in adopting the VPP doctrine, has not deviated from the fundamental principles which guide and inform the work of the College right from its inception, and as expressed in the Westminster Confession;"
3. "[i]t is not inconsistent for a Christian who believes fully in the principles contained within the Westminster Confession (and the VPI doctrine) to also subscribe to the VPP doctrine;" and
4. "[i]n the absence of anything in the Westminster Confession that deals with the status of the apographs, we [the Court] hesitate to find that the VPP doctrine is a deviation from the principles contained within the Westminster Confession."

However, even after the Court of Appeal of Singapore had ruled that the VPP doctrine is not deviant, Life BPC continues to regard VPP as heresy since the paper "Mark Them Which Cause Divisions" issued by its Pastor and Elders dated January 2008^[106]—rebutted by the Rev Dr Jeffrey Khoo in "Making the Word of God of None Effect"^[107][108]—is still on its website more than five years after the apex court's ruling.

Copied from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_plenary_preservation#cite_note-108

The A-Z Qualities

The A-Z Qualities of Timothy Tow

A—Availability,
B—Balmine
C—Charisma,
D—Devotion,
E—Exemplariness,
F—Fatherliness,
G—Godliness,
H—Humility,
I—Integrity,
J—Joyfulness,
K—Knowledge,
L—Legacy (left behind for us all),
M—Magnanimity,
N—Nobleness,
O—Obedience (to the Lord),
P—Patience,
Q—Quest,
R—Reliance (on the Lord),
S—Selflessness,
T—Trustworthiness,
U—Undaunted (by difficulties),
V—Vision,
W—Wisdom,
X—X’tra mile (to help others),
Y—Yielding (for the Lord),
Z—Zealousness.

Temple of War in Singapore

“There is a wide-spread ignorance among professing Christians–every heretic who speaks well is surely believed, and anyone who doubts him is called narrow-minded and unloving.” (JC Ryle)

Temple of War in Singapore