The Burning Bush Vol 9 No 2.pmd - Far Eastern Bible College

A STANDARD RAISED
God during the last three decades to offset the ecumenism of the World
Council of Churches (WCC), which today is degenerated to a
self-glorified socio-political gathering of professional churchmen, our
greatest fight is with Satan masquerading within it, whose work of
mischief is to attack God’s Word. Of this hidden adversary our Lord says,
“He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44).
The greatest lie Satan has spread in this generation is the teaching
through neo-evangelical professors of the Fuller Seminary type. They
proudly concede that the Bible has “limited inerrancy.” A corresponding
subtle attack from even greater heights of conceit (the sin that brought
Lucifer’s downfall) is to criticise the Bible’s so-called “grammatical
errors.” Fancy a Greek professor picking on John’s or Peter’s “uncouth”
rhetoric when he himself cannot stammer a kindergarten rhyme in modern
Greek. Let him say in grammatical, modern Greek,
“Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn’t know where to find them ...”
After all, if Greek scholarship is to be profound, the koine must be
deepened by the classical and broadened by the modern. And how much
Shakespearean English do these Greek professors know if the King James
Version offers them a double superlative? Please let them point out the
grammatical error of Acts 26:5, “that after the most straitest sect of our
religion I lived a Pharisee.” How true is the observation by Herbert
Spencer, “When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has,
the greater will be his confusion.” And better still is Paul’s verdict,
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he
knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. But if
any man love God, the same is known of him” (1 Cor 8:1-5).
The Battle For the Bible
The Battle for the Bible is the life-and-death struggle in our
generation as never before! It has been observed by Dr Charles
Woodbridge that there have been three periods of great controversy
between truth and error in the course of Church history. The first period
occurred in the time of Constantine in the controversy between
Athanasius and Arius. It came to a head at the Council of Nicaea, AD
325, when Arianism was condemned. It was a fight over the person and
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