50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

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5. We do 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 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.”
a. We must declare the KJV Bible to be nothing less than God’s powerful inspired
Word, just as any faithful translation of God’s Word into any language can also be
presented as being His inspired word. In 2 Timothy 3:15-17, Paul refers to the
Scriptures that Timothy had and calls them inspired despite the fact that he had
only a copy. It is possible that he had the Old Testament in Hebrew, but it is more
likely that he had the Greek translation of the Old Testament, since his father was
a Greek and he lived in Lystra, which was definitely Greek-speaking. We can
therefore confidently say, when we hold the KJV in our hands, that what we are
holding is God’s inspired word.
b. We need to be firmly convinced that it is important to keep on promoting and
using the KJV. As more and more English-speaking churches around us abandon
the KJV for one or more of these newer versions, it is important to understand the
reasons why Bible-Presbyterians should continue to hold on to it. We live in the
end times and we cannot afford to be blind to the forces that are working around
us in the Christian world. Our theological position is recognised by the version
we use. For example, if a person promotes and uses the Douay version or Jerusalem
Bible, he is probably a Roman Catholic. If a person promotes and uses the
RSV or NRSV, he is probably Liberal. If a person promotes and uses The TEV,
NIV or Living Bible he is probably a New Evangelical. In fact the NIV can with
full justification be called the “New Evangelical Version” (NEV) because of the
deep involvement of the National Association of Evangelicals in its production
and promotion.
6. “We do dismiss the theories of Liberal and Modernist scholars who claim that the
books of the Bible were edited compilations of stories, legends and ancient writings of
many unknown human authors that were gradually adapted, edited, modified and
compiled over hundreds of years until they reached their present form.”
a. One example of this is their theory regarding the writing of the first five books of
the Bible (Genesis to Deuteronomy). While we believe that these books were
factual, historical, inspired by God and written by Moses in the 15th century BC,
Liberal scholars speculate that the events described in them did not take place, but
were merely made up to explain the origins and reasons behind existing phenomena,
and that they evolved as documents (named J, E, D & P) written between the
9th and 4th centuries by unknown writers and were gradually compiled into one.
The same approach has been used on the four Gospels and other books of the
Bible. The result of these theories is that the Bible is no longer regarded as being
the Word of God, but as the words of men.
7. “We do believe that the only correct way to interpret Scripture is by comparing verses
with each other and harmonising their meaning. No part of the Bible ever contradicts
another, and the verses that are difficult can be understood with the help of related
verses that are easier to understand.”
a. According to The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter I, para. IX, “The infallible
rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore,
when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is
not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak
more clearly.”
b. This results naturally from the fact that all 66 books of the Bible were written by
one author, God Himself, and would therefore be completely consistent.