Disclaimer
Sometimes people get upset because of what they are reading, therefore this disclaimer, so that it is clear to whom I am writing unto and for.
I believe and hold to The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, and things that I state here may also be stated in that Confession.
- I am writing to the church, not the world. “For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person” (1 Cor. 5:12-13).
- I believe in separation which should be clear from the text above.
- I believe in the only living true God, infinite and all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all his attributes, one in essence, and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit; I believe in the Triune God.
- I believe that the Bible is God’s Word, every Word of it, that it is God-breathed.
- Genesis 1-11 is foundational to me in a literal way.
- I believe that man is created in God’s image and that mankind through the fall is sinful, I hold to the doctrine of original sin.
- I believe in TULIP: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.
- I believe in the preserved text, that the Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek Received Text (Textus Receptus) is providentially preserved by an almighty and sovereign God.
- I believe that the King James Version (KJV), Modern English Translation (MEV), and the New King James Bible (NKJV) are the best translations that we have of the Masoretic Text and of the Textus Receptus in English. My everyday Bible is my Allan Longprimer 43, which you may find at Allan’s Bibles-Direct.com. It is a beautiful Bible with 100 000 centre column chain references. The more I read in my KJV the more I see its value as translations. I have a rudimentary understanding of Hebrew but a good understanding of Greek, so this is my understanding of KJV, MEV and NKJV as translations. They are very good.
- Everybody does not think that a formal equivalent translation is the best to read. I do believe that, since I hold to that every word in the Bible is inspired, every tittle and jot. I therefore have a hard time with these idiomatic translations. The Bible is mostly clear and is usually easy to understand, and if you follow the advice to let Scripture explain Scripture you should have no problems with understanding God’s perfect Word.
- I do not hold to a King James only belief. But I believe, as stated above, that the source text of the KJV and the NKJV is God’s preserved Word. But if I had to read the eclectic text (sometimes called the critical text), it would be the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB); I am not very fond of their use of Yahweh where most of the other translations have LORD, but I like its consistency, and it retains many important theological terms. Or I would read NASB 1995 which also is a fine and consistent translation.
- I am a Cessationist. Scripture is God’s perfect way to give his Word to us. I am not denying the Spirit; He regenerated me, He leads me every day, and He dwells within me, He is enlightening the Scripture to me, without the Holy Spirit I would be lost and dead in sins, and God still does wonders in His time and when He wants.
- All Bible quotations will be from the KJV if not stated otherwise.