Showdown

God's Final Showdown

God's final showdown with Conservatives, Fundamentalists, and Evangelicals today (Rev 3:14-19) will have to do with the controversy over the authority of the Authorized Version, King James 1611 Bible. (Often referred to in this article as "THE BOOK") Consequently, apostate Fundamentalists, for years, have been trying desperately to renew old arguments about "the fundamentals" being the real issue.

All attempts to sidetrack the Body of Christ from its terrible duty and its true obligation have failed and will continue to fail. The disturbing fact remains that the church in the twentieth century, having argued (thoroughly) all the major doctrines in the Bible and having defined what Christian is supposed to believe concerning them (Trinitarian controversies in the 1 & 2 centuries, the natures of Christ in the 3rd & 4th centuries, the problem of the sacraments, the authority of bishops, etc.) has finally arrived in this last century at the jumping off place: Is THE BOOK from which she received her 'doctrines' true or is it not?

Having completely exegeted, debated and thrashed every major doctrine (Augustinianism versus Pelegianism, Calvinism versus Arminianism, Sprinkling versus Immersion, Fundamentalism versus Liberalism, etc.), the twentieth century 'church' must now face the King James Bible.

Note these three truths in regards to the modern schooling position regarding The King James Version 1611 Bible!

1) The faculty members of Christian schools and seminaries are dedicated to planting the maximum amount of uncertainty about THE BOOK that they possibly can into the minds of their students.

2) Their motive for service is negative and critical, and they approach the King James Bible with the preconceived idea that it cannot be perfect.

3) They will grasp at any straw to deny the God-given text, and they will ignore or ridicule any believer's attempt to justify that text.

Their ultimate purpose is manifest: It is to make a living as 'gods,' who, having received 'superior knowledge' (Gen 3:1-4), are equipped to sit in judgment on the King James 1611 Bible. They present themselves to the uneducated and uninitiated as saviors from what they believe are the "archaic, obscure, and misleading words of the Elizabethan English". The student is suppose to graduate with a thankful heart for the wonderful privilege he has had in sitting at the feet of those 'recognized' and 'qualified' men who were so good and so 'godly' that God called them to correct the greatest book the world has ever seen.

Conflicting Authorities These folks believe that in order to maintain their authority or their employer's authority (the school) over the word of God, they must recommend conflicting authorities so that they may maintain their own authority as God.

The purpose for recommending two conflicting authorities is that the THIRD authority (the one who made the recommendation) can sit in judgment as the final arbiter and establish himself as the Final and Absolute Authority. Even though these folks may profess in the 'original autographs' & profess to believe in 'verbal, plenary inspiration', since no one can check them to see whether he believes in them or not, when it comes to Biblical Authority, he has to be his own god, and his god is his paycheck. (Phil 3:19; Rom 16:18).

A Weapon Against Modern Christian Education The King James Bible (not the NKJV) is designed to arm the Bible-believing Christian against Christian education so that he can successfully put down and shut up the belly-worshiping apostate in the modern Christian school who is engaged in establishing the authority of Christian education instead of the Holy Bible.

Bible Believer 'Christians' Since the authority of the Holy Bible is the last issue upon which the Body of Christ must decide before the close of this age, the last generation of Christians will be divided into BIBLE BELIEVERS and apostates. The apostate will call himself a "Fundamentalist" if he is Premillennial; he will call himself an "Evangelical" if he is Presbyterian. The term "Christian," of course, can e used by anyone today since the word has fallen into such disrepute since 1900 that it really means little or nothing anymore.

Everyone in America is a "Christian" even if he was instigating riots (Martin Luther King), advocating the overthrow of the government (Ralph Abernathy), publishing pornographic magazines (Flynt), drinking beer at Bingo tables (any RC priest), belly dancing, strip teasing or popping pills, etc. A "Bible Believer" is something else these days. You will notice the modern "Christian" rarely professes to be a Bible believer, but if he does, he will never even tell you which BIBLE he believes. On a rarer occasion - when he does profess to be a Bible believer, he will get out of it by saying that he believes in the "original manuscripts." But since no manuscripts were a "Bible" till years after they were written, and since two different sets of Bibles came from two different sets of manuscripts, the lie wasn't really worth the time or the effort it took to word it.

One + One = Confusion Now, these great, new, "godly" ("disciplined" Pharisees) Evangelicals, Conservatives and Fundamentalists have invented a new word for the Bible believer. He is to be called a DIVISIVE INERRANTIST. John R. Rice is a little plainer; he calls us 'nuts.' Others call us 'Crackpots.' With equal charity and propriety, we may say of them and others like them, "Go soak your head in a bucket." There is nothing in the Bible that tells a believer to treat such opinions with anything but contempt. Men who talk like this are to be rebuked sharply, and we are to have no more respect for their Biblical scholarship when discussing matters of "inerrancy" than for Biblical scholarship of the worst liberal that ever promoted 'their personal wares.'

"Divisive Inerrants" (Bible believing Christians) could never keep up with these correcting educators anyway when it came to schisms, divisions and confusions. When could anyone cause so much confusion using ONE final authority as a man could cause by using TWO that conflict? The confusion in the modern home is not due to ONE final authority. The confusion in the United States Government and the UN is not due to ONE final authority. The confusion in the local churches has never been because of ONE final authority. There is no confusion on this earth that was not the result of conflicting authorities. and whether this conflict is between the Bible and Tradition (Roman Catholicism), the Bible and the Key (Christian Science), the Bible and The Book of Mormon (Mormons), or the Bible and the NASV, etc. the conflicting authority always produces confusion an division.

From Our Side As KJV 1611 Bible believing Christians, we only ask our listeners and readers to examine the material we present and allow them to draw their own judgment. We believe in freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of press; and we want it understood that we would not wish to censor our most bitter critics under ANY condition. We believe in open warfare, out-and-out competition, no holds barred no quarter given, and not quarter asked for. If the "divisive ERRANTISTS" would like to censor us, limit us, hinder us, or prosecute us, that only says what anyone could guess about their 'godliness.'

Facts! Let it be understood that opposition and criticism mean nothing to us; we are here to deal with FACTS. Name calling and slander we can put up with. WE are not interested or concerned with what the Alexandrian Cult thinks of us or our work, our lives, our ministry our scholarship, or our convictions. We are interested in presenting the FACTS that deal with the Authority of the Authorized Version and if no one agrees with these facts they may reject them at their own peril; it is nothing to us one way or another. After all, to their "own master: they "stand or fall" (Romans 14:4) and we have never professed to be their master or anyone else's.

Toleration but No Compromise We do profess, however, to be in subjection to the Holy Bible and under its divine authority as the absolute and final authority in all matters of faith and practice. The attitude of the saved scholars who disagree with us may vary from ridicule to extreme bitterness, but our attitude toward them (those who attack and criticize the KJV text) will always be consistent: We will tolerate them and we can love them as brothers in Christ (If they are) and we can put up with their ridicule and bitterness. However, we will certainly not hesitate to correct them every time they correct the text and our attitude towards their so-called 'scholarship' in such cases will be the attitude of a KJV Bible believer toward an infidel: toleration but no compromise, no persecution but no respect either.

We are not to persecute ANYONE for his religious beliefs or doctrinal convictions and we are not to be so intolerant of the opinions of others that we would take any steps to prevent them from expressing their opinions openly or privately anywhere at anytime. But compromise or respect is out of the question. At no time do we have to compromise with the Alexandrian Cultist, and at no time are we to have any respect for his Biblical scholarship where he uses that pseudonym for the purpose of overthrowing the authority of the word of God.

Those who accuse us of intolerance and "persecution" should examine their own thin-skinned Christianity. It is a sin to feel as if you are being persecuted simply because someone "calls your hand" and lays it down on the table, face-up. There are a lot of Camp-fire Brownies these days who think they are bing "persecuted" because somebody proves publicly that they don't know what they are talking about when discussing Biblical Authority.

And in Return People who criticize the Authorized Text (1611) have no right to demand anything in return from us after we show the truth but a sardonic grin. We are not going to be gentlemanly about it because after a few battles with these "good godly" men whose "sound speech cannot be condemned", we have arrived at their number: 666. They will not take documented evidence anywhere from any real Bible believer where it deals with biblical TRUTH.

When we are accused of using bad language or being 'crude and vulgar', etc. it still does not have any bearing on the documented evidence that is presented that deals with the facts.

Reasons for Our Way of 'Approach' We have our reasons for being what we are, by the grace of God, and doing what we feel God would have us to do, by the grace of God; and the last thing we are concerned about is what some egotistical, overweight, baby-faced, dried-up, pin-whiskered mutt thinks of our life. We have observed that the universal rejection of the authority of the Authorized Text by college and university professors (while their Institution "uses" it and "prefers" it) is so ingrained and so indigenous to their makeup that they will not accept documented evidence dealing with facts no matter HOW they are presented or WHO presents them.

The crippled alibi that the reason for the rejection is "who presents it" or "how it is presented" is only the sick whine of a double tongued hypocrite. David Otis Fuller and Edward Hills have been presenting documented evidence for years and they have been presenting it in a quiet, gentlemanly, Christian way with the "sweet spirit of Christ" and "sound words that cannot be condemned." Did they convert the faculty at Liberty, BJU, Tennessee Temple to the truth? Of course not. "How" it was presented was never the issue; that was just a lying alibi dug up by a thin-skinned sissy for purposes of dodging the truth.

Herbert Evans has carried on a battle for the truth for years in a cool, quiet, objective, scholarly fashion, exactly as Pickering, Wilkinson and Philpot have done. Did the Alexandrian bunch accept their presentation? Of course not. They had no intention of listening to the truth to start with. When Evans, Pickering, Hills, and Fuller knocked at the door of John R. Rice, BJU and Afman, they came fully dressed in formal attire. They had taken a bath and had applied anti-perspirants. They had their hands and fingernails cleaned, their shoes polished, and their best manners forward. They acknowledged their insufficiency, they politely asked for help, they kindly suggested certain remedies, and they behave themselves like Christian gentlemen the entire time they stood outside the door on the doormat. Were they invited in? Of course not! If these folks ever gave up TWO authorities, they themselves would cease to be the authority; the BIBLE would be the authority, and they wouldn't have that!

Here, At Touchet Baptist Church At Touchet Baptist Church and on the church web site, we will give God every benefit of the doubt and Christian Scholarship NONE! We will seek to justify the KJV Bible and put down anyone who thinks that his (hers) opinion can outlive it. Our approach will be positive when dealing with God's truth and negative when dealing with the "logic" and "epistemological rights" of those who would alter it.

In short, we will bolster and reinforce the living words of the living God, and we will take for granted that any other attitude towards those words is SATANIC, whether it be nurtured at a seminar in the National Council of Churches or a World Congress on Fundamentalism at a Christian University.

God reserves His own destructive criticism for those logical, rational, reasonable wise men (I Cor 3:19,20) who insist that everything must match their grammatical standards and rules of logic.

I Corinthians 1-3 and Acts 17 tell us all we need to know about these careful, crafty, logical "thinkers" whose critical faculties and "intellectual acumen" enable them to spot "mistakes" in the Authorized Text. Paul said that if anyone of them really wanted to be wise, he ahd better learn how to become a fool first (I Cor 3:18). The insuperable "problems" which keep arising in the classroom with the Authorized Text are ...all plain to him that understandeth (Proverbs 8:8,9), and since understanding always depended upon fearing the Lord and departing from evil (Job 28:28), there is no particular point in thinking that seminary education is necessary to the understanding of the Bible one way or another.

Our Confession! We candidly confess that the King James text of the Old Testament (Authorized Version) is far superior to Kittel's Hebrew text, DeRossi's Hebrew text, Kennicott's Hebrew text, or any hebrew text that any of you are reading. We do not hesitate to state bluntly and openly that the King James text for the New Testament (Authorized Version) is superior to Erasmus' Greek text, Aland's Greek text, Metzger's Greek text, and any other that you are reading or will read in the future.

Our faith in the AV text is founded on I Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 4;:12; and John 8:43-44 as those words are found in THAT text.

Our Desire to the Reader May the reader pray over each problem he believes exists and is interested in studying and may he seek the truth earnestly and prayerfully (John 3:21, 7:17), realizing that he cannot trifle (Ezekiel 14:1-11) with the Holy Bible and escape in one piece (II Thess 2:11,12). God is no respector of scholarship! There is not one verse in either Testament that ever suggested that God revealed Truth (let alone the "deeper truths") to ANYONE because of his culture or his education. That is a modern fable, nourished by people who draw salaries promoting culture and education.

May the reader be rooted and grounded in the faith, established and settled in the authority of God Almighty, and may he be armed to the teeth against the pious hypocrites in the Laodicean church who "use" and "prefer" a Book that they do not believe!

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