50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

10. We do believe in the biblical doctrine and practice of personal and ecclesiastical separation
from all forms of unbelief and apostasy, viz., Romanism, Ecumenism, Modernism,
Charismatism, and Neo-evangelicalism.
11. We do reject as false the tongues-speaking, demon-casting, faith healing, dreams and
visions, words of wisdom/knowledge/faith, prophecies, slaying of the Spirit, holy laughing
and dancing of the Pentecostal Charismatic, or Vineyard Movement.
12. We do believe that God created the universe out of nothing (cf. John 1:3; Col 1:16;
Heb 11:3).
13. We do believe God created all things perfectly and very good in six literal or natural,
and not figurative or poetic days.
14. We do believe the Genesis Flood was global or universal, and reject all other views
which attempt to limit the geographical extent of the Flood.
15. We do believe Isaiah 7:14 is a strictly messianic prophecy historically fulfilled only
by Jesus Christ who was conceived supernaturally in the womb of the virgin Mary by
the power of the Holy Spirit as announced by the angel (Matt 1:22-23; Luke 1:26-35).
16. We do subscribe to the premillennial view of Christ’s second coming (i.e. that Christ
will return and then reign on earth for 1,000 years) that recognises that the specific
promises God made to Israel concerning restoration to their land, with the Temple
rebuilt, will be literally fulfilled to the Israelites, and not fulfilled spiritually in the
Church.
17. We do reject the so-called “Biblical/Christian Counselling” of today (as taught by
Gary Collins, Larry Crabb, Frank Minirth, et al) that is influenced by Freudian or
humanistic methods which essentially question the sufficiency of Scriptures, and the
power of the Gospel.
18. We do reject the modern-day Church Growth movement (as promoted by George
Barna, Bill Hybels, C. Peter Wagner, et al) which advocates worldly techniques or
carnal methods to increase church membership.
19. We do uphold and promote the good name, doctrine, and ethos of the Life B-P Church
in accordance with God’s Word, and do protect her from detractors and enemies from
without and within.
20. We do love all who disagree with our doctrinal positional statement, even as God so
loved the world (John 3:16) and as Christ has commanded us to love our enemies
(Matt 6:44), and do pray that those who disagree with us will seek the truth diligently
as God will draw near to those who draw near to Him (James 4:8) and His truth shall
make them free (John 8:32).
21. We do serve the Life B-P Church because we love Jesus Christ who has called us to be
members of this Church, and do intend with the Holy Spirit’s help to faithfully declare
“all the counsel of God” (Acts 20:27), and to “earnestly contend for the faith which
was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3), speaking the truth in love (Eph 4:15), to
the glory of God the Father.
Explanatory Notes
1. “We do believe that the Hebrew and Greek texts that were used for the King James
Version of the English Bible (KJV) were providentially preserved by God and are
therefore closest to the original autographs of the Bible.”
a. It is often claimed that the Greek source text used by the translators of the KJV for
translating the New Testament is of inferior quality. This subjective opinion was
popularised by Westcott and Hort, who were trying to elevate a different source
text above the Majority Text, which is the source text for the KJV. The thorough
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