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FEBC Under Siege by Life BPC:
Pray for Peace and Unity Based on
Truth and Charity
DAY OF PRAYER AND AFFLICTION
Far Eastern Bible College started
its new semester on January 2, 2008 with a Day of Prayer. The Rev Dennis
Kwok, pastor of Truth B-P Church, delivered the Lord’s message to the
college family. He spoke from 2 Timothy 2:15 and encouraged both faculty and
students to be approved workmen of God by (1) cutting a straight path with
the Word of Truth, (2) not wandering from the Word of Truth, and (3) leading
people back to the Word of Truth. He also announced the launching of the
FEBC Alumni Fellowship which is aimed at fostering close ties among
graduates.
We welcome the following new
full-time students: Kiet Thaven (Cambodia), Lee Gwang Ho (Korea), Gloria Son
Lee (USA), Leong Kwok Whye (Singapore), Peter Phoa (Singapore), and Puspa
Shakya (Nepal). The “Basic Theology for Everyone” night classes continue to
draw many lay students from different churches packing the FEBC Hall to the
last seat, and spilling into the dining area. The course on Biblical
Hermeneutics on Thursday night taught by Dr Quek Suan Yew has attracted 270,
and the study of Job by Dr Das Koshy on Monday night saw 210 attending.
This new semester started on a
difficult and painful note. The Pastor and Elders of Life BPC have denied FEBC
the use of its sanctuary due to the latter’s belief on the Verbal Plenary
Preservation (VPP) of the Holy Scriptures. In a January 5th letter
to the Rev Dr Timothy Tow, their founding father and FEBC’s principal, they
called VPP “a heresy.”
The belief that we have a 100%
Perfect Bible in our hands is not a heresy but a truth that is solidly
grounded on the Holy Scriptures (Ps 12:6-7, Matt 5:18, 24:35, John 10:35) and
understood by the logic of faith (John 20-29, Heb 11:6). We cannot but teach
the infallibility and inerrancy of the inspired and preserved original
language words of the Hebrew Masoretic Text and Greek Textus Receptus on which
the Authorised Version (KJV) is based, and take a separatist stance against
textual criticism and the corrupt Westcott-Hort Text underlying the liberal,
ecumenical, neo-evangelical versions of the Bible.
Dr Peter Masters of
Spurgeon’s Tabernacle considers “the
perfect preservation position as an ‘honourable’ one … aimed at safeguarding
the Word, and promoting its integrity. Its advocates seek to proclaim and
adhere to the Gospel and the historic doctrines of the faith. They seek to
preserve an excellent translation of the Bible, and to oppose corrupt W & H
based translations. … the position is honourable. It is certainly not
base, self-seeking, unfaithful, or heretical in the sense of denying any
doctrine of the faith.” In another letter, Dr Masters wrote, “May I say that
the ministry of FEBC under Dr Timothy Tow … is a remarkable manifestation of
the blessing of God in maintaining inerrancy, fundamentals, evangelism, sound
hermeneutics and biblical separation. Your work is magnificent and encouraging
in the highest degree.”
On the sole basis of
God’s power and promises revealed in His forever infallible and inerrant
words, we pray and plead
with Life BPC to take a stand with their founding pastor—the Rev Dr Timothy
Tow—for a 100% Perfect Bible without any mistake, and not pursue the
displacement of FEBC from her birthplace and home at Gilstead Road.
The Rev Hien Nguyen, FEBC alumnus
and pastor of Brisbane B-P Church, conveyed his well wishes to the college via
email (Jan 2, 08) on the opening day of prayer:
Our dearly beloved Principal,
Rev Dr Timothy Tow, the Matron Mrs Ivy Tow, the Academic Dean Dr Jeffrey Khoo
and the FEBC Faculty and students,
We greet you in the blessed name
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We give thanks and praise to the
Lord for sustaining you and preserving FEBC and blessing her over the years
despite all the hatred, opposition, and attacks from the enemies of His Truth.
Truly, great is His faithfulness! (Lam 3:23). Thank God for the blessed days
and sound training I enjoyed at FEBC.
We always uphold you and FEBC in
our prayers. May the Lord our God be with you, strengthen you, sustain you,
and bless you abundantly with a blessed and fruitful semester.
May the Lord strengthen you and
use you mightily to train faithful servants of His Truth and to contend for
His Truth in these last days of compromise and apostasy.
May the Lord continuously lead
you and prosper FEBC, our Alma Mater, for the sake of His Name, His Word, His
Truth and His glory.
Faithfully yours in Christ,
Hien Nguyen
FEBC Alumnus
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