No. 80 OFFICIAL NEWS ORGAN OF THE DEAN BURGON SOCIETY
April - July 2007
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"The Words of the Lord are pure Words: as silver tried in a furnace
of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them
from this generation for ever." (Psalm 12:6-7)
The Dean Burgon Society's 29th Conference At Bible Brethren Church,
Hagerstown, MD
The 29th Annual DBS Conference will be
held at Bible Brethren Church in Hagerstown, MD, on July 18-19, 2007.
The Church address is: Corner of Burhans Blvd. & Wesel Blvd. Pastor Paul
Reno and Bible Brethren Church will be hosting the meeting. They will be
serving lunch and evening meals during the conference. A nursery will be
available for ages birth to 3 years for the evening sessions on
Wednesday and Thursday, July 18th and 19th, and plans are being made for
youth meetings (age 3-8) to be held during all the adult sessions.
A block of rooms has been set aside at a near-by Super 8 Motel for a
nightly rate of $60.88 which includes a continental breakfast. There is
a hair dryer, microwave, refrigerator, and coffee maker in each room.
The phone number: 301-582-1992; address: 16805 Blake Road, Hagerstown,
MD, 21740. Use Map Quest and/or the DBS website for maps.
The nearby airports are Washing-ton/Dulles (IAD) or Baltimore/Washington
(BWI). Commuter flights are available into Hagerstown. There are many
historical sites in the area for the families. A list will be provided
by the church.
Dr. D. A. Waite was invited by Pastor Kenneth Rainey to speak at his
Wayside Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, May 20-23. He defended the KJB
and the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words underlying it. The meeting was
very successful in spite of great opposition from supporters of Bob
Jones University. Many members of the church who supported BJU left the
church. Please pray for Pastor Rainey, Wayside Baptist Church, and their
financial needs as a result of their stand for the KJB and the Words
that underlie it. Many DBS and BFT books were sold. In addition to those
attending the meetings in person, we had viewers from people in (1) 27
States in the United States, (2) Canada, (3) Australia, (4) New Zealand,
(5) Peru, and (6) Brazil by way of the Internet.
Several new families began attending the church as a result of the
meeting. Dr. Waite's excellent presentations during the conference are
available on DVD. All six messages can be viewed by clicking on
http://www.biblefortoday.org/idx_videos_wayside_bc.htm or go to
BibleForToday. org and/or DeanBurgonSociety.org and click on the Wayside
Baptist Church BAR.
We invite all ladies to meet with the DBS Women from 10 to 12 noon,
Wednesday, July 18th. Carolyn Reno, our Hostess, will welcome the group
with a devotional. Patricia Williams from GA will speak on Charles
Spurgeon, and Patricia Canter from OH will talk on the textual issues
also. Some will give testimonies. Yvonne Waite encourages all DBS women
to support their husbands and the cause by joining with one another in
this Bible-version battle.
All DBS meetings will be streamed LIVE over the Internet at
http://bftbc.org/ DBS07.asx Or, you can click on
the BAR just below the
Wayside Baptist Church Meetings BAR on BibleForToday.org and/ or
DeanBurgonSociety.org. Through the skill of our DBS Treasurer, Daniel
Waite, and the equipment at his disposal, our DBS Conference will be
able to be seen and heard all around the world. We are thankful that
this can be done. Please tell your friends!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
9:00--12:00 noon DBS Exec. Committee
10:00--12:00 noon DBS Women Meet
12:00--1:45 p.m. Lunch at the Church
2:00-2:45 p.m. Dr. Bob Barnett (MI)
"Believing God"
2:50-3:35 p.m. Dr. H. D. Williams (GA)
"The Voice of God"
3:40-4:25 p.m Pastor J. Paul Reno (MD)
"‘A Look at Other Language Bibles"
4:30-5:15 p.m. Testimonies & Q&A
5:15-6:45 p.m. SUPPER at the church
7:00-7:05 p.m. SINGING
7:10-7:55 p.m Dr. Kirk DiVietro (MA)
"Dynamic Equivalence of the UBS"
8:00-8:10 p.m. Singing & Offering
8:15-9:00 p.m. Dr. Michael Monte (MN)
"Comparing Spiritual things with Spiritual"
Thursday, July 19, 2007
9:00-9:30 a.m. Dr. Don Jasmin (MI)
"Video Presentation"
9:35-10:00 a.m. Dan Waite (NJ)
"DBS-Then and Now"
10:05-11:05 a.m. Testimonies & Q&A
11:10-12:45 p.m. LUNCH at the church
1:00-1:45 p.m. Pstr. David Hollowood (PA)
"Truth"
1:50-2:35 p.m. Dr. Bob Doom (NC)
"The Mess in the ‘Message'"
2:40-3:25 p.m. James Grumblatt (MI)
"Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth"
3:30-4:30 p.m. Testimonies & Q&A
4:35--5:00 p.m. Mark Reno (MD)
"Bible Versions--What IS the Big Deal?"
5:05--6:45 p.m. SUPPER at the church
7:00-7:05 p.m. SINGING
7:10-7:55 p.m. Pastor Ken Rainey (SC)
"A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ"
8:00-8:10 p.m. SINGING & OFFERING
8:15--9:00 p.m. Dr. D. A. Waite (NJ)
"Bible Falsehoods of Michael Sproul"
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Editor's Corner
by Dr. D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D.
DBS President
This year's Dean Burgon Society's meeting will be a very important one.
If you will read carefully Dr. H. D. Williams' excel-lent article on
POSTMODENISM, you will be able to see what happened at my meetings in
Greenville, SC with Pastor Kenneth Rainey and the Wayside Baptist
Church. Because of the strong affinity with Bob Jones Univer-sity's
(BJU) erroneous Bibliology, more than half of Pastor Rainey's church
tried to cancel my speaking on the "DEFENSE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE AND
ITS UNDER-LYING WORDS." You can view for yourself all six of the 202
Power-Point slides. Turn to BibleForToday.org or DeanBur gonSociety.org
and click on the 2nd BAR on that page or paste in
http://www.bible
fortoday.org/idx_videos_wayside_bc.htm
You can see the meetings on the Internet, and you can order audio tapes
(8 audio cassettes, BFT #3318/1-8 @ $25 + $5 S&H) or video tapes (3 VCR
or DVD videos please specify which you want, 6 hours each, BFT
#3318VC1-3 @ $35 + $5.00 S&H). Also order the DBS Women's tapes BFT
#3319TP at $4.00 + $2.00 S&H and/or #3319VCR @ $15.00 + $4.00 S&H.
Pastor J. Paul Reno sponsors a writing contest each year for young
people on various Bible themes. For details, please phone Pastor Reno at
301-739-8585. The deadline is close. We need youth trained with
convictions on our King James Bible.
You can eventually see our DBS Annual Meetings from 1986 to the present
by going to
http://www.biblefortoday.org/idx_dbs_ video_sermons.htm
Though many of our DBS speakers are now "with the Lord," by the means of
STREAMING VIDEOS, they are still able to defend the Words of God and
encourage us all! Daniel Waite is working on the videos to make them ON
DEMAND for each speaker for each of the years 1986--2007. This is a very
difficult work. Pray for him.
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POSTMODERNISM VERSUS SCRIPTURE
by Dr. H. D. Williams,M.D., Ph.D.
A DBS Vice President
Scripture
"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blas-phemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (3) Without
natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, (4) Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; (5) Having a form of
god-liness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2
Timothy 3:2-5)
A recent conference was held in Greenville, SC, on Defending the King
James Bible from May 20-23, 2007. The meeting was held at the request of
Pastor Kenneth Rainey, Wayside Baptist Church, who invited Pastor D. A.
Waite, Th.D., Ph.D., from the Bible For Today Baptist Church, to present
his defense of the KJB [see Dr. Waite's book, Defending the King James
Bible, available from Bible For Today, [BFT #1594 @ $12+$5 S&H)].
Some members of the church were immediately upset that Dr. Waite was
invited and left the church. This divisiveness oc-curred because a
person in the church identified himself as having links to Bob Jones
University (BJU). BJU opposes Dr. Waite. A whispering campaign was
started, which accused Dr. Waite of heresy. In spite of the significant
attack on Pastor Rainey and the financial strain he incurred as a result
of about 22 members leaving the church, he still held the conference. He
remains firm in his stand for the KJB and the underlying Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek Words.
This author was privileged to attend the meeting at Wayside Baptist
Church in Green-ville. The presentation by Dr. Waite was superb. The
significant question-and-answer- time-periods, which were allowed by Dr.
Waite and Pastor Rainey, were excellent. They demonstrated Dr. Waite's
incredible knowledge, wisdom, mastery of the version issues, and command
of the Bible languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
Some insights were gained by this author from the details surrounding
this meeting, from observation of the people attending, and from some of
the questions posed at the conference during the question and answer
periods.
(1) Insight 1: Without a doubt, postmodernism (PM) has infected society,
including the church. Postmodernism is a term coined by Jacques Derrida.
It is a system of thought which goes beyond "modernism," which stressed
everything is based on reason (or evidence).
Modernistic thought had its beginning in the Reformation and reached its
pinnacle with the publication of Darwin's fallacious book, The Origin of
Species, in 1859. It was spurred on by the intense and dramatic results
of science in the twentieth century.
However, man began to realize that science does not bring about a utopia
or demonstrate man's goodness; rather just the opposite. For example,
the rationality for the development of the atomic bomb, and its
subsequent use in World War II, cast a cloud over the tenets of
"reason." The loss of innocence subsequently caused amillen-nialism (the
theological belief that the goodness of man would gradually bring about
a Biblical allegorical "1000 year" period of time known as the
millennium) to be disregarded by many.
In spite of the realization that man seeks "his own way," is "lustful,"
is going "astray," and is "covetous" (Jer. 17:9, Isa 53:6, 2 Pe. 3:3, 2
Tim. 3:2), it is not spurring an abandonment of Humanism and a
(re)turning to the Scripture. Rather, an abandonment of "reason" has
been replaced by an intensified turning to "self" that is spurred on by
the infusion of Eastern thinking. Such Eastern thinking (especially
Buddhism) rests on the premise that truth is "both/and" versus
either/or. For example, God exists and God does not exist are both true,
correct, or possible beliefs at the same time in Eastern thinking.
Postmodern man has decided that he alone is capable of determining
"truth" for himself. It is a form of relativism, but a relativism that
is turned inward. It is a relativism that states the only "truth" is
what is best for me. This is thinking that goes far beyond the
relativism of past generations. There are no longer any "true" moral
com-mitments. The PM thinker reasons that what is right for you may not
be (and probably is not) right for me. Therefore, PM man says: "If I
determine something is right for me, then it does not matter the
evidence, reason-ableness, or witness of individuals." Post-modernism
"assumes that Christianity may be true for some people, in some places,
and at some times, but it is not true for all people, in all places, and
at all times. It is relatively true, not absolutely or universally true"
[Mc-Dowell, as quoted in The LIE That Changed the Modern World, p. 366
[BFT #3125 @ $16+$5 S&H]. The difference of PM from modernist thinking
is that only "I" can determine the significance of "relativism."
Therefore, stealing, lying, murder, for-nication, etc., may be right for
me in some places and at some time (i.e. no morals).
Some of the questions asked at the Greenville conference and some of the
sub-sequent actions by individuals after the meet-ing reflect this type
of thinking.
For example, in spite of the superb presentation by Dr. Waite, and his
precise answers to questions, one family said that they wanted to use
the modern versions and left the church. Their response was contrary to:
(1) the evidence presented by Dr. Waite, (2) the clear Scriptures
presented mandating God's preservation of His Words, (3) the defense of
the KJB in regard to its SUPERIOR texts, SUPERIOR translation technique,
SUPERIOR translators, AND SUPERIOR theology.
The reaction by this family is clearly indicative of postmodernism. It
is way beyond the relativism of modernism. The relativism of modernism
has at least main-tained a thread of morality: that is, there is truth,
but its application is relative to a situ-ation. The postmodernist does
not believe even this tenet, but rather, truth is only what "I"
determine it to be. Could this be the reason for rejection of clear
evidence and Truth by many "so-called" fundamentalist schools?
- Words Versus The Message Or Concept
(2) Insight 2: Words are no longer important to many people because of
PM. Inferences, or the implied message, or a con-cept is all that is
important. But God pro-mised to preserve His Words, saying:
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Words shall not pass away."
(Matt. 24:35, Mk. 13:31, Lk. 21:33. Note these exact words occur three
times in the Bible and contain the strongest negative in the Greek
language (OU ME) meaning: "by no means," or "never, never, never")(cf.
Psa. 12:6-7, Psa. 117, and DOZENS of other places).
This insight was stimulated by a ques-tion asked by a BJU graduate and
the member of a local Greenville church that uses many modern versions.
The question asked related to Words left out of a sentence but the
meaning could be inferred by knowledge known to some people. (i.e. If I
mention that I am a member of a certain church, why should I have to
mention the pastor's name.) The person asking the question implied also
that modern versions were satisfactory be-cause they did not exclude any
doctrine by leaving out Words in some places.
This is a "midget" question, and could be posed only by a postmodernist
who does not understand "covenants," "testaments," or contractual law.
"Messages, inferences, and concepts" are subject to interpretation and
are not absolute. "Words" form a message, not a message the "Words"
(e.g. many churches have the same name, therefore to precisely identify
the church, a pastor's name is im-portant).
A "message, inference, or concept" (not based upon precise, preserved
Words) allows an individual when confronted at the seat of judgment to
claim: "I did not understand." This allows the individual to pick and
choose what is "truth" according to "internal desires" (as opposed to
external written instructions). This is the relativism of the postmod-ernist–the message–"I" determine what is the "truth" in the message.
Need we remind individuals that judg-ments based upon precise Words will
be the "sine qua non" at the judgment seat of Christ and at the Great
White Throne judgment (Jn. 12:47-48)?
(3) Insight 3: Many individuals believe: "My peer group," "my alma
mater," and "my friends" are more important to me than the evidence such
as: (1) the "received" preserved Words of Scripture (2) the signi-ficant
and overwhelming historical evidence, (3) the preserved manuscripts of
Biblical books, and (4) ancient church leaders' writings supporting of
the Received Texts. It is evident they think:
"If "I" abandon my friends or school (such as BJU, Maranatha, Central,
Dallas, and others), concerning the ‘version' issues, then my job,
friends, and status in society will be adversely affected."
This is postmodern thinking: "I will not abandon my peers no matter
what!" "I" believe they are right, even though the evidence my peers and
associates present is of a significant and error-ridden minority posi-tion. Also, most academic institutions and scholars believe the
minority evidence (in spite of contrary majority evidence and minority
evidence presented by heretics like Westcott and Hort). In addition, it
is obvious the PM thinkers' primary concerns are loss of salary,
position, friends, and peer group. This is "self" as opposed to "sheep
for the slaught-er" (Psa. 44:22, Rom. 8:36).
Dr. Bill Sheffield, Dean of Bible at Louisiana Baptist University, warns
that every one of us (believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Words),
and particularly pastors, will be faced with postmodernism. Space does
not allow us to consider post-modernism in "Christian" psychology,
Is-lamic jihad, politics, church stats, crime stats, and more. It is
there. It is a sign of the "last days."
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves." (2 Tim. 3:1-2a)
Books may be ordered with credit card by phone at 856-854-4452 or from
the DBS website: www.DeanBurgon Society.org.
At the HomePage click on
DBS Press, then click on "Click here to order DBS Publications" button.
1. Inspiration and Interpre- tation by Dean John Burgon. There is an
excellent summary of this book by Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. at
www.Dean BurgonSociety.org/dbs2925d.htm. This is a
"must have" book for
anyone interested in the preservation of the Scriptures. Dean Burgon
remarks on "Essays and Reviews" concerning inspiration and
interpretation of Scripture. The book includes sermons on "The Study Of
The Bible Recommended; And A Method Of Studying It Described," "Natural
Science and Theological Science," "Inspiration of Scripture--Gospel
Difficulties--The Word Of God Infallible--Other Sciences Subordinate To
Theological Science," "The Plenary Inspiration of Every Part of the
Bible, Vindicated and Explained.--Nature Of Inspiration.--The Text Of
Scripture," and much more. Order DBS #1220 now for a gift of $25 + $5.00
shipping and handling. Hardback book, over 600 pages.
2. A Guide to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. This book is
by Rev. Edward Miller who was a close friend and fellow worker with Dean
John W. Burgon. In this volume, Miller condenses and sums up Dean
Burgon's methodology for textual criticism. In it he refutes the false
system used by Bishop Westcott and Professor Hort. This DBS #743 is for
a gift of $12.00 + $5.00 shipping and handling. It is a hardback book of
168 pages.
3. The Last Twelve Verses of Mark by Dean John William Burgon. Dean
Burgon vindicates and establishes Mark 16:9-20 as genuine. In his day
the only manuscripts without these verses were the Vatican (B) and Sinai
(Aleph). Order DBS #1139 for a gift of $15.00 +$5.00 S&H. Hardback book,
over 300 pages.
4. Revision Revised by Dean John William Burgon. In this volume, Burgon
does the following four things: (1) He attacks the false Greek text of
Westcott and Hort; (2) He demolishes the theory behind that text; (3) He
refutes the English Revised Version of 1881 and (4) He defends the King
James Bible! Order DBS #611 for a gift of $25.00 + $5.00 S&H, Hardback
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5. Traditional Text Of The Holy Gospels by Dean John William Burgon. A
careful survey of the historical supremacy of the New Testament Greek
Text that has been preserved from the first century until the present.
Dean Burgon shows the superiority of this text and the inferiority of B
and Aleph and others. Order DBS #1159 for a gift of $16.00 + $5.00 S&H.
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6. The Causes of Corruption Of The Traditional Text, by Dean John
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and Greek texts. An excellent textbook for those interested in the
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8. Ten Reasons Why the D.B.S. Deserves Its Name by Dr. D. A. Waite,
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bound. It uses the letters of DEAN BURGON and explains how both Dean
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Needed. Order DBS #1847 for a gift of $5.00 + $2.00 S&H.
9. Scrivener's Annotated Greek New Testament by Dr. Frederick Scrivener.
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10. Word-For-Word Translat-ing of The Received Texts--Verbal Plenary
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