BASIC THEOLOGY FOR EVERYONE
The Basic Theology for Everyone courses are conducted during the regular FEBC semesters on Monday and Thursday nights from 7.30
p.m. to 9.30 p.m. These classes are especially opened to the public.
There is no minimum educational requirement for admission to these courses, but those working towards the Certificate must have at least 3 GCE “O” Level passes inclusive of English.
A pamphlet introducing the courses that will be offered may be obtained from the College office. The registration form should be completed and submitted to the Registrar, FEBC, 9A Gilstead
Road, Singapore 309063 before 21 July 2008, together with your payment. Cheques should be crossed and made payable to
Far Eastern Bible College. Please write your name on the reverse side of the cheque.
Should students decide to drop a course, fees will be
refunded if the FEBC Office is notified within 21 days of commencement.
Attendance will be taken at every lecture. Certificates
of Attendance will be awarded to students who have attended at least 80% of
the respective courses.
In the Semester, July to November 2008, the following courses are offered:
THE WESTMINSTER STANDARDS
Rev Dr Jeffrey Khoo, STM, PhD
Mondays, 28 July-10 November 2008,
7.30-9.30pm
The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and
Shorter Catechisms (1643-8), according to the great Princeton theologian—B
B Warfield—are “the richest and most precise and best guarded statement
ever penned of all that enters into evangelical religion and of all that
must be safeguarded if evangelical religion is to persist in the world.” In
an age when theology is frowned upon, and truth is cast aside for the sake
of so-called unity, the Westminster Standards must ever more be studied and
safeguarded. Dr William Hetherington was absolutely correct when he said,
“The existence of a Confession of Faith is ever a standing defense against
the danger of any Church lapsing unawares into heresy…. Nothing essential
is omitted [from the WCF]…. It contains the calm and settled judgment of
these profound divines on all previous heresies and subjects of controversy
which had in any age or country agitated the Church…. Each error is
condemned…by a clear, definite, and strong statement of the converse truth.
There was, in this mode of exhibiting the truth, singular wisdom combined
with equally singular modesty. Every thing of an irritating nature is
suppressed, and the pure and simple truth alone displayed; while there is
not only no ostentatious parade of superior learning, but even a
concealment of learning.” There is much to learn from the godly men who
penned the Westminster Standards.
The importance of studying the Westminster Standards
cannot be emphasised enough. Of the utmost importance is the fundamental
doctrine of the Holy Scriptures which forms the basis for every other
doctrine of the Christian Faith. Learn about the Verbal Plenary Inspiration
and Verbal Plenary Preservation of the Holy Scriptures of which the
Westminster Confession of Faith has much to say. In this post-modern age of
unbelief and uncertainty, every Christian needs to be faithful, sure and
certain of God’s forever infallible and inerrant words which He has
inspired and preserved. It goes without saying that the duty lies with us
to study for ourselves what the Westminster Standards teach in the light of
the Holy Scriptures so that we will not be swept away by seducing spirits
spouting doctrines of devils in these perilous days. Fundamentals of the
Christian Faith: A Reformed and Premillennial Study of Christian Basics
by the lecturer, and The World’s Greatest Truths by Dr Lynn Gray
Gordon will be the textbooks used.
Do you know the awe-inspiring story behind Question 4 of
the Westminster Shorter Catechism? Come and find out!
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THE BOOK OF ROMANS
Rev Dr Prabhudas Koshy, ThM, ThD
Thursdays, 24 July-6 November 2008,
7.30-9.30pm
John Calvin wrote of Romans, “When anyone gains a
knowledge of this Epistle, he has an entrance opened to him to all the most
hidden treasures of Scripture.” This epistle is essential to Christian
theology. It has helped to shape the faith of Christians throughout the
centuries, for in it Paul thoroughly explains many major Christian
doctrines: Depravity of man, Election, Faith, Justification,
Sanctification, Adoption, Preservation of Saints, Covenants, Law and Grace,
Israel and New Testament Church, etc. It also contains key elements of
practical Christian living.
The epistle engages our hearts and minds. It fills our
minds with wonderful divine truths and warms our hearts with promises of
divine love and providence. The study of this epistle is going to be
mentally invigorating and spiritually enriching.
This course will provide a verse by verse expository
study of the epistle of Romans in its immediate context as well as in the
larger context of Scripture. The main purpose of this course is, as Paul
said in Romans 12:2, that you may be “transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.”
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