Allan Cundick

Latest news relating to cundick Allan Cundick can be read at
www.surrey.police.uk/news/online-media-centre/statements/article/8239

Mr Cundick is in court today 31st January 2014. Guildford Crown Court .
His next appearance for plea and hearing is on 25th April 2014
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This info can be found on Surrey Police page, article 8421 or click  news-stories

Calvinist report in Believer's Magazine

Ian Rees’s report in Believer’s Magazine, Jan. 2014

". It is over 22 months since Ian Rees

began meetings at Tenby on Sunday evenings and now on

average around 27 people gather in the community centre.

He is seeking guidance about starting to teach them [has he never read in the Gospels of the Great commission to teach all nations?-ed ]

local church truth after having gone through the book of

Genesis, or to start on another book. [No Gospel?] There has been a very

evident change in the lives of several unbelievers during

the last few months, and although they have not yet publicly

confessed faith in Christ the change in attitude shows a

work of God has begun in them. Rebecca is involved in

helping a number of the ladies who have health issues and

is able to take them to hospital appointments and such

like. They are praying about starting a Sunday School in

Tenby as the community centre is now available for hire

all day on Sundays, and are wondering about starting an

evening meeting during the week. Ian has also been asked

to preach in Haverfordwest on a weekly basis. They would

value prayer for wisdom regarding the next steps in each of

these aspects of their work."

Shall we hear of another church being planted, without conversions, baptism, obedience, etc?- RS

 The Apostle’s Creed as posted on Ian Rees’s Blog. He wrote: We believe, teach and try to live by these historic doctrines of the Christian faith.

I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
              I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen

We believe that sinners are spiritually dead to God, unable to see, know or hear Him without His intervention, and unable to earn God’s favour or to save themselves; that any work of God in the heart of a sinner is a work of grace that comes entirely and completely from the sovereign will and choice of God; and that though God is sovereign in choosing to work in and with sinners, all are ultimately held responsible for their own lives and decisions. -I Rees

Thus I Rees reveals himself to be a Calvinist, preferring Romish utterances against the Scriptures
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Also in this issue of BM,

In Question and Answer Box:

In the passage in Matthew 18.15-17,do we assume that

the offender and the offended are in the same

assembly? What is the position if they are not?

Answer:" ….One possible course of action would

be for the elders of the assembly

in which the offended brother is in

fellowship to make contact with the

overseers of the church with which the

offending brother is associated and to

discuss, with all the facts before them,

how the matter can be best resolved."

David E West

This appears to be a movement towards a united oversight. The questioner “assumes” the Lord’s words to be of insufficient help and to lack finality.

Waymarks  is aware of assemblies who have punished the offended person for raising a complaint.

 

Anniversary

Waymarks has now completed ten years of blogging,
Thank you to my supporters worldwide.

Do not allow the sons of Belial to thrust their permicious modern versions on you. Do not be seduced into thinking God tolerates divorce, remarriage, and church fellowship. Do not be impressed by those who think they can approach the Lord while dressed in the ungodly styles of this world. Do not be taken in by the doctrines of devils being promoted by leading Brethren.

We continue to be attacked by evil men. They have sought to set members of my family against me.
They have tried to isolate me from church fellowship. I have been slandered and libelled.

We shall endeavour to continue alerting born again Bible believers against the wiles of the pseudo Brethren. 

 

How we got our Bible

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AV NEW TESTAMENT

These articles were first published in Waymarks from August 1993 to date. They may therefore appear repetitive and disjointed, for which I apologize.

It has been argued by some Bible critics that Christians were not well educated in the 1^st Century AD and therefore they were not able to copy the New Testament documents without making many errors. They relied, therefore, on unconverted monks and scribes. We regard this as misinformation.

The New Testament documents reveal that reading was common in the 1st. century AD, as the following verses indicate:

Have ye not read? (Matt.12:3; 19:4); Have ye never read? (Matt.2l:l6); Thus the chief priests, Pharisees and Scribes could read.

 The elders could read (Matt.21:42);

 The Sadducees could read (Matt.22:31);

 A certain lawyer could read (Luke lO:26);

 The Jews could read (John l9:26);

The Ethiopian also (Acts 8:28); and Philip (Acts 8:3O.);were able to read.        

 The ministers of every synagogue could read (Acts l3:2l: 15:21);

Simon (Acts l5:l5); and the saints at Corinth could read (2Cor.l:15);

The saints at Ephesus (Eph.3:4); and the saints at Colosse (Col.4:,16); also could read.

at least some at Thessalonica were able to read. (1 Thes.5:27).

 All of these could read, and many more.

Many of those converted at Ephesus destroyed their Spiritist books (Acts l9:l9). Paul had many books and parchments (2 Tim.4:13). Peter, a Fisherman, could read and write. The apostles, elders and brethren wrote letters (Acts 15:23). The Corinthian believers wrote letters (1 Cor.7:1; 18:.3). Others were used of God to write the books of the New Testament. These were not all intellectuals and scholars. We conclude that the standard of literacy was high in Apostolic days.

 It is quite wrong to suggest that most believers were illiterate in those days.

Literacy was high throughout the Roman Empire and Grammar Schools were found in every city. Roman children however were normally taught at home and those of the ruling classes learned to read and write in Greek as well as Latin.

Early in church history the centre of Christian activity and missionary endeavour moved from Jerusalem to Antioch (Acts 11:19). Antioch was a highly cultured city of some half a million souls. It was the third largest city in the Roman Empire. Being in Syria. the language was Syriac ( very closely related to Aramaic). The New Testament Scriptures were first written in Greek but a Syriac translation was made from the original manuscripts which is considered by reliable scholars to be a 1st Cent. or early 2nd Cent. work. (J.N.D. agrees). This translation is known as the Peshitta, of which copies are extant, and agree remarkably with the Received Text, and hence with the A.V.

Eusebius tells us that the Apostle John began to collect together the writings of our N.T. and his disciple Polycarp completed the task in the 2nd. century. The writers knew they were writing Scripture of course, even as they wrote it Peter confirms this,(2 Peter 3: 16)

 Believers did not need a convention of apostate clerics to tell them what was inspired of God and what wasn't.

The last of the New Testament writers was the apostle John.  Thus his writings completed the canon of Scripture and he began to collect all the N.T. writings together into one book.

Further developments from the 2nd Cent. AD

Believers were making their own copies from the available manuscripts, and believing in verbal inspiration, were very careful in their copying. Any individual mistakes would have been quickly remedied when they gathered together for their Bible studies

A complete Bible was available from the middle of the 2nd Century. All believers knew what was Scripture and what was not. At the this time, the first version (translation) was produced. It was the Syriac Peshitta. Antioch in Syria had become the Church Headquarters. Still in the 2nd. C, came the Italic, the Gallic, and the Celtic (British) versions in Old Latin, and the Greek Catholic version. The Old Latin version was used by the Waldensian believers for the next 1000 years. All these were based on a common text described as Byzantine, which is identical to the Received Text of the A.V. The Greek mss. which had lain hidden for 1000 years came to light subsequent to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The vast majority of these Greek mss. were found to be Byzantine in character.

Erasmus used a representative selection of these to produce his first Greek N.T. in 1516. Stephens followed on in 1550, then Beza, 1598, and then Elzevir produced his Greek N.T. In 1624. This text became known as the Received Text and has been shown to be consistent with the text existing in the 2nd.C.

English versions were then produced from the works of Erasmus and Stephens, viz., Tyndale's (1534), Coverdale's (1535), Matthews' (1537), The Great Bible (1539), Geneva (1560) and Bishop's (1568). In 1611 the King James Bible (A.V.) was produced. This was not strictly a revision, but a fresh translation of the Stephens text and diligently compared with all the other versions including Luther's. The language was kept as close to Tyndale's as possible. From Apostolic days the Church has never been without a Bible. An unaltered one too, because God is faithful, Who promised to preserve His own word for all generations (Ps.12:6,7).

Wycliffe produced an English translation in 1380, but it was based on Jerome’s Latin Vulgate.

From the beginning falsified copies of Scripture were made. Paul warned against the many which corrupt the word of God (2Cor.2:17). Others who would send out letters with his forged signature on them (2Thes.2:2). The few of such which have been found come mainly from the hot sands of Egypt, far, far away from the true source of Byzantine Gospel activity. (Remember Byzantium is the old name for Constantinople.) These corrupted mss. became the basis for the Jesuit Rheims Bible of 1582 which was an attempt at thwarting the work of the A.V. translators.

Greisbach, Lachman, Tischendorf and Tregelles all produced Greek N.T.'s based on the Jesuit Bible and its two underlying mss., Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. Then, at the end of the 19th C., Westcott and Hort used the work of these men to concoct a further Greek Text for the Revised Bible. Almost all modern versions are based on the work of these latter two men, both of them Mariolators.

There are therefore in effect two bibles. The A.V. with its pedigree going back to the autographs and regarded by many as the Book of the Reformation; and all modern versions, which are essentially Romish.

We are thankful for all the Lord's servants down through the ages who have laboured to place in the hands of the Lord's people a Bible in their own tongue. For the English speaking nations tist work was completed in 1611 A.D. The meanings of the handful of archaic words can be discovered from any good modern dictionary.

More anti-Bible stuff from Precious Seed Magazine

John Bennett and 1 Thess 5: 22

There has been much discussion amongst commentators about how
the verse above ought to be translated in our English version. Should
we accept the KJV word ‘appearance’, when reality is meant rather
than a mere semblance? I suspect that when William Tyndale worked
on translating the Bible into English his desire was not to generate a
discussion of semantics. Too often we can use our command of the
English language as a cover for dabbling in things that we know we
would be better leaving alone. Sailing close to the wind can cause
even the experienced sailor to capsize!

It would be good if we allowed the simplicity of this verse to challenge
our hearts. Does what we see, our first impressions, give us a sense
of unease about pursuing a matter further? Is there an ‘appearance
of evil’? If so, let us heed the advice of Paul to Timothy and flee. We
can be reasonably sure that what is for our good will not have the
appearance of evil .̶       Precious Seed Magazine:Vol.68, issue 4, 2013, Editorial

Mr Bennett thinks it would be good if we allowed the simplicity of this verse to challenge our hearts. He has done his best to destroy its simplicity. The Authorized Version accurately translates eidos to read appearance. There are no Greek variants. Westcott and Hort therefore also had eidos in their Greek text. The word carries both literal or figurative interpretations depending on the context.

Bennett’s “semblance” introduces confusion. Semblance may mean “an assumed or unreal appearance; a copy or imitation” Thus if semblance were used in John 5: 37, where eidos appears we would have a seriously heretical statement.

And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape (eidos). We fear that Bennett  stands where these Jews, addressed by the Lord, stood. The next verse certainly condemns Bennett and his co-Bible haters: and ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

Bennett seems to think that Tyndale produced the Authorized Version. Certainly our AV Bible is largely based on Tyndale’s work, but if Bennett was only slightly interested in the truth he would know that Tyndale’s  translation of I Thessalonians 5: 22 reads “Abstain from all suspicious things.”

By suggesting that appearance implies semblance, Bennett mocks Christ.