We pray for unity within the Bible-Presbyterian Church. Calling some of their fundamentalists to repentance. We reprimand Far Eastern Bible College (FEBC) lecturers for teaching heresy and living in lust and pride! ++THIS BLOG HAS STRONG LANGUAGE. Reader discretion is advised++
What's wrong with VPP?
I could write long essays on this but I think the leaders of
the Mandarin Congregation at Pandan had done an excellent job to summarise this
issue into a small little booklet. I shall attempt to do a short point form
summary soon.
In the meantime, please read this booklet prayerfully.
http://valiantfortruth.tripod.com/PandanChineseRejectsVPP.pdf
I just came back from the Annual Congregational Meeting. I do not like what I saw and heard. Firstly, the meeting did not go according to the agenda. The message was purposely planned right at the end so that the congregation do not have a chance to voice their opinion.
Things started quite smoothly except for the chairman's
snide remarks occasionally.
However, I was totally disappointed with the treasurer. He
seemed to be unprepared and was unable to answer many questions raised. This is
his responsibility not the internal auditor! He was even visibly irritated by
the question from one of the members of mandarin congregation and hence
misinterpreted his question and gave a totally out of point answer.
Furthermore, he seems not have much patience with people.
I was quite surprised that the Mandarin Congregation managed
to come up with 271 signatures calling for a ECM. However, I am very sceptical
of its effect and as many fellow english congregation members continue to be
mislead and indoctrinated by the pastors. Kudos to the mandarin session. Do not
give up this fight against extremism.
The finance report and budget was quickly called for
adoption by members after the chairman said that any queries be directed at the
internal auditor and treasurer after the meeting. How can we adopt the report
if there are questions unanswered? This is absurd.
The sermon really took me by surprise. In my entire
christian life, this is the first time I heard a sermon that has no references
to the bible, full off personal attacks, unsupported accusations and deceit.
I did not expect this from the almighty and revered Dr Tow.
Let's see what he had to say. He mentioned that we must
remember history and started giving a personal account of how the BP movement
started and how Calvary Jurong and Calavary Pandan came about. I was very
disgusted. So many "I"; seemed like he has claimed all the glory of
God for himself. Furthermore, anyone familiar with the history of the BP
movement will know that what he said was not true. He was not the one that
founded the BP movement. It was Dr T. Tow and Dr Quek KC. The decision for a
Pandan outreach was made by the Jurong Session, not his personal decision. Rev
Tang came over from Jurong and not as what he said the BOE invited him after
Pandan Mandarin was established. He made us of Rev Philip Heng and Elder Cheng
but do not that both of them do not subscribe to this extremist theory of VPP.
Next he goes on to a gross generalisation of the churches in
singapore seems like every other church except the BP churches headed by him
are going "back to rome". This is his very subjective opinion and a
simple validation will prove him wrong. By the way, it is sola scriptura and
not sola KJV.
Reformation did not give us the KJV. It gave us the German
bible, which do not use the MTTR underlying KJV as texts.
Next he tried to define VPP and keep referring to his
useless book. I have read the book and do not feel blessed as he claimed. He
used faulty logic to say that since the autographs do not exits, our
constitution refers to the apographs. This is his own creative interpretation
of the constitution. He even took the Mandarin report's statement out of
context and added in his own opinion and intrepretation.
Oh, before I forget. Before he started out on his slides, he
displayed a lot of bible versions such as the NIV, RSV, Living Bible and was
condemning them one by one as corrupt, not fit to the called the bible and that
people of read them are doomed. This is pure blashpemy. These are the word of
God! Thousands of people have been saved by them! He also displayed an image of
a symbol representing the Holy Trinity as Satan's symbol. Nonsense.
www.greatdreams.com/three/trinity5.gif
looks similar to this.
Next, he mentioned that doctrine is not decided by member's
votes by the BOE. He uses Constitution 11.2 to say that this is the specific
responsibility of the BOE. However. I personally think that the BOE has failed
in this responsibility and the members must do something about it!
After that he continues with an elaborate personal attack on
Rev Tan Eng Boo and Rev Tang which I shall not elaborate. He takes their words
out of context and accuses them of saying things they did not meant.
Lastly, he mentioned that CUV is the best chinese
translation available. But fellow readers, it was predominantly based on the
Revised Version which he condemned as corrupt. This is double speak. Lastly he
said that someone in New York is translating a chinese bible from the KJV. Oh
great, one man's work. How is this different from many modern english
translations. Do you want to read the CUV which was translated by a panel of
bible scholars almost a century ago or you trust the work of a single man? A
translation from a translation? Infallible?
God Bless You.
From https://verbal-plenary-preservation.blogspot.com/
The simplest and most reasonable conclusion regarding Verbal Plenary Preservation is this: God inspired the original autographs and has sovereignly protected His Word through the preservation of thousands of manuscripts with thousands of slight variations—arguably none of which is doctrinally significant. Taken as a whole, these variations do not negate God’s message or His preservation of that message. God has ensured the purity and preservation of His Word through thousands of surviving manuscripts spread over thousands of years and miles. These manuscripts show God’s superintending care through the use of imperfect men so that the Bibles we have today can truly be called God’s Word.
https://www.gotquestions.org/verbal-plenary-preservation.html
1 Timothy chapter 1
3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer 4 or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith. 5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6 Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk. 7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
YOU LOVE ONLY THOSE WHO AGREED WITH YOU? YOU ACCEPT THEM AS YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THEY ARE CLOSE TO YOU AND YOU LOVE THEM.
FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT AGREE WITH YOU, YOU KEEP THEM AWAY FROM YOU. YOU TREAT THEM AS DIRT. THIS IS NOT RIGHT.
WHO BUILT THE BPC IN SINGAPORE? YOU SAID IT WAS TIMOTHY TOW! I SAID IT WAS GOD, WHO BUILT THE BPC. STOP DEFENDING TIMOTHY TOW. LET HIM STAY IN HEAVEN, HE HAS BECAME A SAINT IN HEAVEN.
YOU ARE CALLED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER ON EARTH. DO NOT QUARREL WITH ONE ANOTHER ANYMORE ABOUT BPC'S HISTORY AND LEGACY.
BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD. DO NOT MISLEAD THE YOUNG SERVANT OF THE LORD, TO INVOLVE WITH YOUR QUARREL, THEY ARE STILL YOUNG, RATHER LEAD THEM TO JESUS CHRIST, NOT INTO YOUR NONSENSE OF VERBAL PLENARY PRESERVATION, QUARREL ABOUT BIBLE VERSIONS.
PETER DENIED JESUS THREE TIMES, BUT THE LORD STILL ACCEPT HIM AS HIS CHIEF LEADER AMONG THE APOSTLES.
HOW MANY TIMES NIV DENIED THE LORD?
I AM LIVING UNDER GREAT PRESSURE IN MINISTRY, BUT YOUR SPLIT AND QUARRELS AMONG YOU ARE THE HEAVIEST BURDENS I AM SHOULDERING, I HOPE ALL OF YOU BECOME GOOD FRIENDS TO EACH OTHER.
AGAIN, I BEG YOU, TO LET GOD'S PEOPLE GO, TO HAVE BROTHERLY FELLOWSHIP AMONG THE BPC UNDER ONE ROOF. DO NOT HINDER THEM WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER. PLEASE LET THEM GO TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP TOGETHER DURING THE EASTER MORNING SERVICE. THAT HOLY DAY IS ASSIGNED TO REMEMBER JESUS' RESURRECTION, PLEASE SHAKE YOUR HANDS WITH OTHER BPC MINISTERS. SHARE YOUR PEACE AND LOVE ON THAT DAY. EVEN THOUGH THEY DISAGREED WITH YOUR VIEW.
YOU ARE TEACHING SOME WRONG TEACHINGS, SO FROM THESE REPENT, AND STOP DOING THAT AGAIN. YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE TO TEACH THE BIBLE, FAITHFULLY LEADING OTHERS TO BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST. DO SOME LEADERSHIP COURSES, DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING, AND DO MORE CHURCH PLANTING COURSES IN THE FEBC. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME IN DEFENDING THE KJV, DO NOT KEEP ON FIGHTING OVER THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF BPC IN SINGAPORE, IT IS BETTER IF YOU STOP TEACHING VERBAL PLENARY PRESERVATION.
I WROTE THIS MESSAGE IN TEARS, I PRAY THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER IN BPC, YOU HAVE ADDED A LOT OF WEIGHT ONTO MY SHOULDER, IN SERVING THE LORD, SEEING YOU KEEP ON DEVOURING ONE ANOTHER, AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH THOSE LIBERALS, I WISH YOU PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER WITH YOUR CLEAN HANDS AND CLEAN HEARTS.
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU MIGHTILY.
BRAVE AND LOVE IN CHRIST
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SPEAKING TO US IN BETWEEN ALEXANDRIAN MANUSCRIPTS AND BYZANTINE MANUSCRIPTS, IN THE FUTURE, GOD MAY GIVE US NEW MANUSCRIPTS IN BETWEEN THESE TWO. WE MUST BE PATIENT. WE ARE STILL SEEKING THOSE NEW MANUSCRIPTS TO BE DISCOVERED.
WE DO HAVE THE WORD OF GOD IN OUR HANDS, VERY CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL ONE. DO NOT BECOME TOO SURE THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE THE PERFECT BIBLE IN YOUR HANDS, AND DO NOT LIKE THE LIBERALS, WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD'S WORD AT ALL.
NOW, WE MUST BE AT PEACE WITH ONE ANOTHER! WHO ARE READING KJV AND NIV.
THE TRIUNE GOD IS CLEARLY MENTIONED IN KJV, ESV, ESV, AND NIV.
PEOPLE WOULD BELIEVE CHRIST IN READING THE BIBLE! JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY SAVIOR AND LORD, IT IS RECORDED IN NIV, ESV, OR KJV.
PEOPLE WHO READ KJV BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST. THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO PEOPLE WHO READ NIV, THEY ALSO BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST.
THAT IS THE POINT I WANT YOU TO LOOK INTO.
THERE ARE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN KJV AND NIV, BUT WE ARE SAVED BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST.
KJV AND NIV ARE CARRYING THE GOSPEL, I PRAY THAT YOU MAY NOT CONTINUE TO ATTACK ONE ANOTHER, BUT RATHER LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
God is our surety.
Jeffrey, Jeffrey! Suan Yew, Suan Yew, Prabu, Prabu! Clement Chew, Dennis Kwok, Joshua Yong...
You have the responsibility to reconcile with your brothers in
Christ, this is sure. This is 100% sure.
YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR AND TOO DEEP INTO THE PAGES OF THE
SACRED TEXTS UNTIL YOU FORGOT YOURSELF, YOU FORGOT YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO YOUR
BROTHERS IN CHRIST. YOU FORGOT WHO IS LIVING WITH YOU, THEY ARE YOUR BROTHERS AND
SISTERS, YOU ARE CALLED TO BE WITNESSES FOR BROTHERLY LOVE, RECONCILE WITH THEM.
OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN ALL YOUR OFFERING
STAND FIRM, AND GO, JEFFREY, JEFFREY, GO, BEFRIEND AND
RECONCILE WITH THOSE BPCs WHO HAVE DIFFERENT VIEW WITH YOU.
You are like a striker in a soccer team, if you do not score
a goal, you fail to be a striker, no matter how good your talent or skill, you
fail the whole team, to win the game.
I BEG JEFFREY KHOO, SUAN YEW, AND PRABUDAS KOSHY IN FEBC TO STOP WRITING, PREACHING IN BASHING OTHER BPC, I BEG YOU TO STOP WRITING ARTICLES IN YOUR COLLEGE PUBLICATION OF FEBC, BURNING BUSH, ATTACKING OTHER BPC, OR NEW SYNOD OF BPCIS! PLEASE DO NOT PROVOKE YOUNG SERVANTS OF GOD TO FOLLOW YOUR WAYWARD WAY.
I BEG ALL OF YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL TODAY, TO STOP ATTACKING OTHER DENOMINATIONS WHO ARE PREACHING CHRIST, WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE READING NIV OR ESV, YOU ARE TO BE HUMBLE TOGETHER SHARING THE GOSPEL WITH THEM. THE LORD IS COMING SOON.
I BEG YOU, AS A BROTHER IN CHRIST, BEGGING YOU TO STOP ATTACKING OTHER BPC WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU.
I BEG YOU TO BE HUMBLE, TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING, TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART. PLEASE STOP DAMAGING THE UNITY IN BPC.
MOURNING YOUR SIN AND CONTINUE TO TEACH THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD WITH HUMBLENESS.
MAY THE PEACE OF CHRIST BE WITH US.
I REMIND YOU, YOUR CALLING IS TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD FAITHFULLY, AND DO NOT QUARREL WITH WORDS. BE A GOOD SHEPHERD, TAKING CARE OF THE FLOCKS GIVEN TO YOU.
DO NOT BECOME A STUMBLING BLOCK TO THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING GOD IN THE LAST DAYS.
I SAW MANY FUNDAMENTALISTS AND THEIR DOWNFALL. MANY FELL BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE, I HOPE ALL BPC UNDER THE EARTH, WILL REPENT, AND RETURN TO THE GREAT SHEPHERD, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ONTO US.
MAY THE HOLY SPIRIT CONTINUE TO SPEAK TO ALL OF US.
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:1-6
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
James Chapter 4:1-17
I am not suggesting every Christian denomination under the world unite as one. I am praying that the BPC may stop attacking one another in this same denomination, stop bashing one another in the same denomination, to be a good witness to others.
Lets BPC builds one another in BPC. It is so difficult to achieve now because a few who are stubborn continue to attack one another on the pulpits.
Proverbs 21:2 |
A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart. |
CHAPTER XXXI. - Of Synods and Councils.
1. For the better government, and further edification of the Church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called Synods or Councils; and it belongeth to the overseers and other rulers of the particular churches, by virtue of their office, and the power which Christ hath given them for edification and not for destruction, to appoint such assemblies; and to convene together in them, as often as they shall judge it expedient for the good of the church.
2. It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience; to set down rules and directions for the better ordering of the public worship of God, and government of His Church; to receive complaints in cases of maladministration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission; not only for their agreement with the Word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God appointed thereunto in His Word.
3. All synods or councils, since the Apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith, or practice; but to be used as a help in both.
4. Synods and councils are to handle, or conclude nothing, but that which is ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs which concern the commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition in cases extraordinary; or, by way of advice, for satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.
CHAPTER XXV. - Of the Church.
1. The catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all.
2. The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel (not confined to one nation, as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion; and of their children: and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.
3. Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints, in this life, to the end of the world: and doth, by His own presence and Spirit, according to His promise, make them effectual thereunto.
4. This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular Churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the Gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.
5. The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on earth to worship God according to His will. 6. There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof.
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