Summary of Dr. Jeffrey Khoo in promoting VPP_KJV among the B-P Churches

In "A Plea for a Perfect Bible", Dr. Jeffrey Khoo argues that

1. (a) KJV translators produced a TR identical to the original (autographa) word for word.
2. (b) Preservation of God’s Word ended in 1611 similar to canonization of the bible.

As a result of this

(c) The King James Version is the perfect bible, 100% free from errors

(d) There is absolutely no scribal errors in the King James Version

Khoo’s conclusion are that those who believe that the KJV has scribal errors

Khoo’s behaviour towards this bible issue.

1. (h) An all out war against those who do not use KJV or who believe KJV has scribal errors
2. (i) Disregards that his actions will, and have, caused disunity in the BP churches.
3. (j) Promotes VPP_KJVonlyism by every means possible to win "his war" e.g. Khoo claims that he is not a Ruckmanite( someone who believes that the KJV is the final revelation from God, replacing the Greek and Hebrew text) but a look at his college bookshop proved otherwise; books promoting Ruckmanism are proudly displayed (see photographic evidence below). Khoo is the academic dean, which means that he is ultimately responsible for all things academic-- books and academic matters.
4. (k) Khoo imposes his own beliefs on the bible. In essence ‘A perfect god must give a perfect scripture in the KJV, similar to the Hindu and Muslim having "perfect" scriptures in the Bhagavad Gita and the Koran.’

(a) COMMENT: JK believed that there were corruptions and errors in the bible before KJV was published (1611) He contradicts his own interpretation of Psalm 12:7 that preservation is forever. Khoo went on to say that the texts underlying the KJV are the exact words of the original (autographa).

"In like manner, the Lord allowed copyist errors and corruptions to enter into the transmission process through the pen of fallible scribes. Nevertheless, His providential hand kept His inspired words of Scripture from being lost. In light of God’s providence, that nothing happens by chance, and that history is under His sovereign control, I believe that in the fulness of time—in the most opportune time of the Reformation when the true church separated from the false, when the study of the original languages was emphasised, and the printing press invented (which meant that no longer would there be any need to handcopy the Scriptures thereby ensuring a uniform text)—God restored from out of a pure stream of preserved Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, the purest Hebrew and Greek Text of all—the Text that underlies our KJV—that accurately reflects the original Scriptures."( PFPBpg9)

"that the words of the Received Greek and Masoretic Hebrew texts that underlie the King James Bible are the very words which God has preserved down through the centuries, being the exact words of the originals themselves." ( PFPBpg4)

(b) COMMENT: Khoo drew a parallel between canonisation and preservation. Who was the council to determine that preservation ended in1611? Who made up the council? Khoo, Fuller and Ruckman? Khoo argued that Dean Burgon thought likewise!!!! If preservation did indeed end in 1611 how could it be forever? What about those verses that speak of God preserving His Word forever?

"Is there a historical precedent that tells us that God’s providential work can involve a closure, a terminus? The answer is yes. All the inspired NT books were completed by AD 100 when the Apostle John wrote the last book of Revelation, and God warned against adding to or subtracting from His Word in Rev 22:18-19. However, we know that in the first few centuries, there were uninspired men who penned spurious gospels and epistles, and passed them off as Scripture. Some of these were the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Nicodemus, the Epistle of Barnabas, etc. Nevertheless, none of the inspired books of Scripture have been lost or obscured in the canonical process. By the providential guidance of the Holy Spirit, God’s people were led to identify the 27 books to become our NT Canon, no more, no less. There was a terminus to the canonisation of Scripture at the Council of Carthage in 397".(PFPBpg9)

"That the providential preservation of Scripture sees its historical parallel in the providential canonisation of Scripture was Dean Burgon’s thinking as well." (PFPBpg10)

(c) COMMENT: Khoo believes in miraculous preservation of the KJV. He confuses the event in 1611 as one of preservation with one of translation.

What kind of Bible do fundamentalists have? Do they have a perfect Bible? The VPP fundamentalist would say yes, but the anti-VPP would say no. Make no mistake about it, both claim to believe in VPI, but

despite this, anti-VPP fundamentalists say they do not have a perfect Bible. Is this biblical? Is this logical? Is this safe? Anti-VPP fundamentalists say that God’s preservation of His Bible is imperfect. (PFPBpg10)

(d), (e) COMMENT: Khoo imposes upon God that there must be a manuscript that is identical to the autographa. He identifies the KJV_TR (if it exists) as the autographa. Hence there cannot be any scribal error since it is directly from God..

Anti-VPP fundamentalists would deny that God’s people today have the perfect Word of God. According to them our Bible today contains scribal errors. However, such errors are so insignificant that they do not affect the spiritual truths taught in the Scriptures. This sounds rather neoevangelical, doesn’t it? (PFPBpg1)

Anti-VPP fundamentalists ape the neo-evangelicals when they say that it is of no consequence whether such discrepancies are simply scribal errors or true factual errors since they are so "minor;"……. (PFPBpg2)

Surely God could not have possibly allowed the corruption to be so devastating that not a single manuscript would reflect the autographal reading. (PFPBpg2)

(f) (g) Comment: The below has to be read in its context. Khoo would accuse anyone who says that there are scribal errors (eg 2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chron 22:2 ) in the texts underlying the KJV as a liberal, neo-evangelical and one doubting God’s Word. If that were true, John Calvin, John Owen, Francis Turretin, Matthew Henry, Martin Luther , the KJV translators, the Westminster Divines may not be Christians because their salvation is in doubt. Khoo misquotes the bible to his own destruction because he twists the sacred meaning and significance of God’s Word to promote his view of miraculous preservation.

If God is incapable of giving us a perfect Bible, what makes us so sure that He is capable of preserving our salvation to the very end? We are thrown into all kinds of doubts. If we doubt our Bible, we might as well doubt our salvation (cf 1 Cor 15:14-19). (PFPBpg13)

Indeed, if the Christian Bible is not perfect, infallible and inerrant, "then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; … If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable" (1 Cor 15:14-15, 19).( The Emergence Of Neo-Fundamentalism: One bible only? Or "yea hath god said?"pg47)

If the Bible contains error, no matter how small or minor, I worry! "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (Jas 2:10). If a person says he believes in a perfect Bible, and yet denies just one verse, yea even a jot or tittle, he is guilty of denying all of the Bible.(PFPBpg12)

(h) (i) Comments:D A Waite, the mentor of Khoo, in a letter to Mr. Lim Seng Hoo declares that "We are at war with these schools and others on their apostate views of BIBLIOLOGY, the doctrine of the Bible, its texts, its translation, and its preservation." Khoo tried to win over Life BP church with his VPP_KJVonlyism but failed in his attempt. He was successful in splitting the church. However, Khoo never gives up. His sympathizers who is trying hard to change the constitution of some of the existing BP churches and influencing the young minds.

(j) Khoo will deny that he is a Ruckmanite, but the truth is that what he says disagree with what he does. Ruckmanite material are displayed prominently in his bible college bookshop. Page 31 of "Answers to Your Bible Version Questions" by David W Daniels, is written "I have a very simple suggestion. Grab an interlinear King James New Testament (or Old Testament or single volume Greek/Hebrew bible) and correct it anywhere the translation disagrees with the King James. I am not kidding" Shown in Fig1 and Fig2

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Besides Daniels, Gail Riplinger’s books (Fig 3) are proudly displayed together with Samuel Gipp who wrote that the KJV translators did not know they were inspired. Riplinger is well known for her factual errors and Ruckmanite views.

(k) COMMENT:The premise of Dr. Jeffrey Khoo in his crusade to convert the BP-churches (to VPP_KJVonlyism) is that a perfect God must give us a perfect bible in the KJV (or as he claims the Hebrew and Greek text underlying the KJV). Khoo imposes his personal belief on every Christian. His interpretation of God’s Word is coloured by his obsession. Christians who believe that the KJV has scribal errors have been labeled by Khoo as liberal, neo-evangelical and neo-fundamentalist.(Conservative reformed Christians believe that the Word of God is perfect but the KJV is a very good translation).The obsession of being perfect has so taken hold of Khoo that he described God as a "perfectionist." This is the biggest insult to almighty God. A perfectionist is an imperfect person trying to be perfect. God is perfect. He does not need to try to be perfect. Khoo may be a perfectionist but definitely not God.

It is not surprising when Khoo rejected outright the established opinion of all Christian scholars (e.g. the KJV translators, the Trinitarian Bible Society) that Christ and the Apostles quoted some passages from the Septuagint. Khoo of course disagreed with the KJV translators because the Septuagint was not that well translated. One can see that Khoo contradicted himself because he described the KJV translators as guided by God in choosing the perfect words to produce the perfect KJV, yet he rejects what the KJV translators say about the Apostles using the Septuagint. It stands to reason if one realises that Khoo is more of a politician than a seminary professor.

Divine providence has to be supernatural—God is a Perfectionist,……. ( The Emergence Of Neo-Fundamentalism: One bible only? Or "yea hath god said?"pg46)

Hindus and Muslims all believe that their Scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita and the Koran respectively, are perfect. Yet Christians who claim to believe in the one living and true God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and Christ the only Mediator and Saviour of the world, are not so quick to believe they have an existing infallible and inerrant Scripture. ( The Emergence Of Neo-Fundamentalism: One bible only? Or "yea hath god said?"pg47)

Faithfulness to God and His Word demands that a Christian believe in a perfect God who has given His Church a perfect Bible.(PFPBpg9)

I believe in a perfect God who has given us a perfect Bible. (PFPBpg12)