Are you a Bible Believer?
 

Bible Believer - "One who believes the scriptures were given by inspiration of God."

Not all that glitters is gold! Not everyone who claims to be a Bible Believer is really a Bible Believer! Here is a simple test to determine whether or not you qualify as a Bible Believer:

I. A Bible believer is someone who can hold the Bible in his hands!

This may sound strange at first but understand there are plenty who claim that God's word can only be found in the "originals." What's wrong with this? The originals are gone! God did not preserve them. And alas, there are only copies of hundreds of Greek texts, many of them varying from text to text. If the "words" of God are only to be found in the originals, they are gone forever! If they are found only in these varying Greek texts, one scholar's guess is as good as another! However there is an alternative: GOD ACTUALLY FULFILLED THE PROMISE OF PSALMS 12:6,7 !

"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."

According to this text, we should have the very WORDS of God! Which would show, Jesus Christ really did mean what He said in Mathew 24:35: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my WORDS shall not pass away." Do not be fooled by the claims of the so-called scholars! God HAS preserved His words! We have the scriptures given by inspiration of God according to 2 Timothy 3:16 (context is the last days of the church age). With superior manuscripts from Antioch (Acts 11:26), superior translators (Psa. 68:11) during the Philadelphian period of church history (Rev. 3:8), and under the authority of a king (Eccles. 8:4), God has preserved His WORDS in the English text of the Authorized King James Bible of 1611!

A real Bible believer can hold the Bible! Someone who uses "modern versions", can only hold a "reliable translation" of a corrupt text from Alexandria, Egypt (Siniaticus & Vaticanus - Deut. 17:16, 17) and claim "only the originals were inspired", when there are no such things as the "originals" any longer!

Do you accept the King James 1611 as God's preserved words? If you don't, you are really not a Bible believer! You can't actually handle God's word!

II. A Bible believer is someone who believes the Bible literally!

The real student of the Bible recognizes that the Bible has already had thousands of prophecies fulfilled! Why is this important? Because they were literally fulfilled! That is, they happened exactly as God said they would happen!

The Exaltation of Joseph The Egyptian servitude

The deliverance of Israel The crossing of Jordan

The walls of Jericho The fall of Babylon

The Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ The coming of John Baptist

The humble entrance of Israel's KING The crucifixion of Jesus Christ

These are only a few examples of prophecy which was literally fulfilled! Over 300 prophecies well fulfilled by the first coming of Jesus Christ! When GOD gave prophecy it was to be literally believed, because it was and will be literally fulfilled! Many claim to "spiritually interpret" the Bible. This is PIOUS BALONEY! God the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible as it is! There are over 31,000 verses in the Bible. We are commanded to read the Bible, study the Bible, memorize the Bible, rightly divide the Bible, preach the Bible etc., but NOT ONCE ARE WE COMMANDED TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE! This is something someone made up because he would not believe the Bible literally! This mark of apostasy becomes clear especially when Bible prophecy comes up. "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." - 2 Pet. 1:20 What about the coming "Beast" or "son of perdition" (2 Thess. 2:4-12; Rev. 13:4)? Do you believe it, or are you going to interpret those passages because you don't want to believe it? What about "the mark of the beast, his name, or number to his name" (Rev. 13:16-18)? Any interpretations? What about the "white horse" (Rev. 19:11) the "thousand years Satan is bound" (Rev. 20:1,2)? Do you believe these prophecies will be literally fulfilled as all other Bible prophecy has and will be? or do you have a "private interpretation" to offer up? Someone says, "The Holy Spirit says this means etc." - Oh no you don't! The Holy Spirit wrote it the way that it is! All becomes clear to someone who believes the Bible. If you want to be a Bible interpreter, FINE!, just don't claim to be a BIBLE BELIEVER, because you're NOT!

III. A Bible believer is someone who reads and studies the Bible!

Those who never read and study the word of God are either going to believe what they are told by a fallible human or nothing at all. How sad it is for so many to claim to be followers of Jesus Christ and yet ignore His word. Some trust tradition of men. They trust in what their church believes, what their preacher says, or what their grandmothers said...-"Let God be true and every man a liar (Rom. 3:4)"! The many heresies and cults of today are a direct result of Bible ignorance! It is a sin to neglect the Bible!

"But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY WORD that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" - Matthew 4:4

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" 2 Timothy 2:15

Seriously, if you never read the Bible or study it, do you really expect anyone to believe that you believe God wrote it? If you pay more attention to the newspaper, or any book for that matter, than you do the Bible, don't kid yourself... you really don't believe it do you? No, you don't! If you did, you would not ignore it!

IV. A Bible believer is someone who obeys the Bible!

Because of every man's inherited sin nature (Rom. 5:12), God has commanded "Ye must be born again" (John 3:3). The way to be saved is through the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:23). This is the only way according to the Bible! If you try to go to heaven by way of water baptism, church attendance, good works, .etc; it is because you don't believe the Bible! If you haven't been saved yet, you are in disobedience to the word of God right now!

"I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" - John. 14:6

"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" - Acts 4:12

"For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved" - John 3:17

Ye must be born again!

Pastor Dilbert R. Terry (my pastor)

Ok, I have question. There were these two "Bible Believers" that claim they hold to everything you outlined above. One believes in the doctrine of Young Earth Creationism. The other believes in the Ruin-Reconstruction (Gap Theory) interpretation. Since both claim to be true KJV Bible Believers by the above criteria, yet both have very different beliefs (based on the literal wording of the KJV Bible), how do you determine which one really is the TRUE Bible Believer? Or, are they both TRUE Bible Believers?

They are both true Bible believers. One of them is simply wrong. (Although which one is wrong, I can not tell.) If being a "true Bible believer" means understanding every doctrine, I fear nobody is one.

I agree.
I used to assume that Bible Believers believe in the "ruin-reconstructionism", and I was surprised that others didn't believe it. Their position with the KJV is just the same as mine, but they don't believe in the "gap" as I believe all Bible Believers should have seen. (Just a personal opinion.)

Romans 12:1-4

what is a Bible believer?
 

A Bible beleiver is not just one who says he beleives the Bible but deeply loves Gods word and obeys it even to his own hurt. Being a living sacrifice daily. Often as a Bible beleiver we must show it by following Gods word in the deep areas of our hearts not just in the observable areas that people can see.

George's articles on the heart are very revealing even of the condition of a saved man. I was saved late in life but I do my best to get caught up to where God wants be to be conformed to his son daily

Based on Cody's definition, a Bible believer is someone who reads the Bible, and doesn't try to come up with some crazy interpretation, but rather let's Scripture interpret Scripture, and not to interpret Scripture that does not need to be interpreted.

Genesis 1:5 "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

13: "And the evening and the morning were the third day."

I could write more, but this Scripture is so easy to understand because it is completely literal and does not even hint at the need to interpret it symbolically.
Christians, if need be, I will write an essay to show why this chapter of the Bible is very easy to understand....that the Day-Age Theory contradicts science, is a new theory that is not what Christians have been saying for millenia. It doesn't make sense in any way. When you believe the Day-Age Theory, you are stretching your theology, your understanding of the world and how it works, compromising toward the views of evolutions who came up with the idea of an old earth, and (not seemingly) contradicting science just to give a theory that does nothing to avail or explain Christianity.

Please excuse me if any of my language offended you. It is not my intent to offend, I feel very strong about this topic, however, and I believe that it is very important. I will be more than happy to write an essay explaining and defending my viewpoint.....

Day-Age is obviously not correct. The account in Gen 1 gives no room for "interpretation" as to the length of the creative days.

The question is whether or not there is a "gap" between verse 1 and 2. You don't have to set aside the literal reading of the creative days to teach that verse 2 shows a world in a state of judgment.

Ok, some people (like me) confuse Gap and Day-Age...naming the spaces between the "ages" as "gaps".

"verse 2 shows a world in a state of judgment"

or rather than that view:

Light had not yet been created, along with all other things, therefore:

The earth (not "world") was in the state of creation, not judgment.

it was without form - creation was just beginning
it was void - nothing had yet been created on earth
it was dark - the definition of the absence of light

Just to be clear, I am not attempting to advocate the gap theory. I am currently studying it out.

My own research on the subject is very limited. I tend to take the most simplistic approach to Bible interpretation first. There is no indication in the text of a gap. Second, I depend greatly on my gut feeling ("Holy Spirit urging") when a doctrine is posited. In this case, a little red flag pops up. It seems to me that this is an attempt to reconcile secular science (read evolution) and the Scriptures. Just as it takes a greater than average faith to believe that God has perfectly and exactly preserved His every word so that I can hold it in my hand and read it, it also takes great faith to confront and reject the "proofs" of science about the age of the universe/earth, and hold fast to the plain truth of the Scriptures.

Here is a post from David F. Reagan's Article: To Gap or Not to Gap:

Objection Three: The Gap is an Accommodation to Godless Geology

I admit that many of the early proponents of the gap compromised with modern science in their beliefs and teachings. They used the gap to explain the geological ages, the fossil record and the existence of dinosaur skeletons. Obviously, this was wrong.

There is no reason to bow to modern science in any of these areas. Creation with apparent age (meaning things looked mature at the time of creation just as Adam was created as a mature adult and not as a baby) and Noah’s flood could easily explain the geological structures as we have them. However, a weak argument in favor of a position is no reason to reject it. The gap I am talking about is not a scientific accommodation but a biblical doctrine.

http://www.learnthebible.org/gap_or_not.htm

Wow you are amazing!!!!
How are able to type without any hands or even see what you're doing!!!
I hope you dont mind me asking, but how do you go about getting around the world when you have no feet to walk on, no eyes to see with, no hands to assist somehow and no tongue to speak when you need assistance from others?!

Oh, you DO have eyes?
You DO have feet??
you DO have hands???
you DO have a tongue????

Are you a sinless man?
Obviously not, we are all filthy sinners.

So why havent you cut and plucked off and out all of those respective parts of your body when you sinned with them as Jesus stated in Matthew chp 5?

I thought a reall bible believer was a literal believer?

Sorry for the extreme and drawn out sarcasm but seriously!
SERIOUSLY!

I believe it has to be the Millennial citizens that have to do that, but not Church Age saints.

Tim God cannot creat something that is not good or perfect. Lucifer was perfect until, man was perfect until, the earth was perfect until. the earth nor the heaven had any darkness in it's original form for it was pure with God and in himis no darkness at all.

then God came in six days and created anew.

the heaven and earth were created in the beginning perfet. then after that which took place which the BIble mentions only a little about but it has to do with Lucifer and one third the angels.

it is later that God creates the Heavens and the earth in six day.

but ask yourself one question as to the second Day of creation. why does God not call it good? I mean if it is speaking of an atmosphere that we can breath and have protection from solar radiation so we don't die. why does God not say it is good? Obveiously those things are good.

it is in that second day that God had to do something more than just make an atmosphere and a space to later put the moon, sun and stars. can you figure out what and why?

alll that man can see is what God created in six days. but there are things man cannot see that are beyond the universe and its vast space. that will be for us for all eternity. but for now it is divided from us but the very thing he created in the second day

God tells Adam to replenish the earth. that would mean it was filled previously to the six day creation.