Warning on the King James Bible Research Council — Pro-KJB While Embracing a False Gospel and Distorted Doctrine of Preservation

In May of 2025 the King James Bible Research Council (KJBRC) delivered a Conference on the King James Bible at Pembina Valley Baptist Church in Winkler, Manitoba, Canada, pastored by Michael Sullivant.

Notwithstanding other issues, the two that stand out and demand exposure are the false gospel and distorted doctrine of preservation.

Though we appreciate any true defence of the King James Bible, it really pales in comparison to the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Of course a true Bible ("the sword of the Spirit" -- Eph 6:17) is paramount for the true gospel; the issue of Bibliology is important but not nearly as important as soteriology/the gospel. The gospel should not be neglected in favour for something else or anything else for that matter, in spite of its doctrinal importance.

The False Gospel of the KJBRC

The gospel of KJBRC is not pure. The KJBRC doctrinal statement of faith itself has zero mention of repentance or anything associated with repentance or Christ's Lordship (who Jesus is). This points not only to an anemic gospel but also a perverted one, and exposing men that do this is of utmost importance. We don’t believe a more important issue exists today, with the massive and specific gospel perversion surrounding repentance and Christ’s Lordship, and lest someone is compelled to falsely accuse, we certainly do not believe salvation requires any works -- repentance is not a work (e.g., Ac 11:18), nor is surrender to the Lord (e.g., Phil 2:9-11).

Biblical faith (which is repentant faith) in the true Jesus (He is both Lord and Saviour) are the two areas concerning the gospel that are most under attack today amongst evangelicals and fundamentalists, which covers the basis of majority mainstream professing Bible-believing Christian branches. Faith without true repentance is not true faith. It's a spurious and dead faith. Many preachers don’t preach on repentance at all. Some merely mention the word on the fly, more akin to a knee-jerk reaction. Very rarely do preachers actually expound on what true Biblical repentance is, and that is a great shame and disgrace, since no one can be saved without genuine repentance. It’s also not enough to just say the word. It must be described and defined. It is absolutely life and death crucial and it is commanded in Scripture. Repentance is a Major Element of the Gospel and Must Always Be Preached, Including Its Description.

Most of the men in the council of the KJBRC, are extremely weak or corrupted in their position on the foundational doctrine of repentance, Christ's Lordship and consequently the gospel. All the host churches are of this calibre -- let's consider some samples.

Over the course of its National Conference history, at least what is visible on their website (2017 onwards), the host churches have been extremely weak at best in their gospel position, and with most being corrupted and sold out to a perverted gospel of damnable heresies that produces counterfeits. Out of a measure of grace and optimism, I would want to believe that at least some have stuck to a true gospel that doesn't neglect critical elements of the gospel (i.e., repentance and everything that the doctrine is associated with, i.e., fear of God, forsaking all, turning from sin/self/stuff/people, surrender to the Lord, etc), but I am having difficulty finding this to be true among any of these churches or council members, including Plantation Baptist Church out of Plantation, FL (conference hosted 2021), Calvary Baptist Church out of the Grand Cayman Islands (conference hosted 2021 and 2023), Eastland Baptist Church out of Orlando, Florida (conference hosted 2022), etc. In majority of cases, if not all, their gospel is watered-down substantially, unscriptural and along the lines of easy believism and quick prayerism, both of which are pseudo counterfeits of the truth, and produce--almost without exception--fake and deceived "believers" that continue abiding on the broad path to destruction and damnation. With the typical no-repentance, no fear of God, no surrender to Christ, no forsaking all, and unscriptural cliche 'If I were to die today, would I spend eternity in Heaven with God?', they are virtually all the same with their "simple plan of salvation," all in agreement with the corrupted and anemic ear-tickling gospel that Caleb Garraway preaches in his Gospel Film (exposed at that link), which video is also linked to some of their church website "Salvation Plan's." The invitation of Garraway to the 2025 national conference, and then the recommendation of his book on the Bible at the Pembina Valley Baptist Church conference, is another way the false gospel is being embraced and promoted by the KJBRC.

Sure they may hold to many good and commendable positions that we wholeheartedly agree with, and against the onslaught of apostasy, but all of that doesn't really matter if the gospel is in error and people end up in hell with some good doctrine, morals and the King James Bible.

In similar fashion to the Pembina Bible conference, in 2019 the KJBRC delivered a Bible conference at the Community Baptist Church of Durham, Ontario, and Open Door Baptist Church out of Council Bluffs, IA in 2020, both of which present an anemic and corrupted gospel of easy believism, with the former specifically perverting repentance and belief.

In 2017 the National Conference was hosted by Maranatha Baptist Church in Matoon, IL, pastored by the heretical Daniel Haifley, an extremely compromised so-called "Baptist" preacher who preaches a false gospel and has succumbed to the prevalent worldliness that runs rank through evangelicalism and protestantism, incl. gender indistinctiveness. This false teacher was forced to resign from KJBRC after his disastrous debate with the ungodly, deceitful and dishonest heretic Mark Ward in 2024, who refuses to debate true scholars on the King James Bible (such as Thomas Ross). I guess liars and heretics love bad company. We have no issues by the way with giving these men the labels above or that of false teacher because of the false gospel they purvey, amongst a host of other serious issues. God's Word demands their exposure (Rom 16:17-18; 2 Tim 3:8-9).

The National Conference of this year (2025) was hosted by Wyldewood Baptist Church, who promotes the standard revivalist impure and anemic, corrupted gospel that omits repentance and Christ’s Lordship, and purveys easy believism and quick prayerism, offering the standard rote prayer for eternal life.

When one examines the statement of faiths and salvation presentations of the above churches, what they present for the most part are true, yet wholly insufficient to save a sinner and pull him or her from the clutches of hell and from the modern damnable heresy of Jack Hyles, Tom Wallace, Michael Sullivant, and many others, that purvey the false gospel that excludes repentance and perverts repentance does not involve turning from one’s sins or from self is spreading its hellish leaven through many independent Baptist churches. As 20/20 has noted recently and in the last few years, heresies on the gospel concerning repentance and Christ's Lordship are present everywhere including among Sword of the Lord leaders and churches.

In 2015 and 2019 the KJBRC met at the Quentin Road Bible Baptist Church out of Lake Zurich, IL, home of Dayspring Bible College, and Phil Stringer, who is the Vice-President of the KJBRC and one of the speakers at the Bible Conference at Pembina Valley Baptist Church. Stringer additionally is the Vice-President and Academic Dean of the Dayspring Bible College, again, the school of Quentin Road Bible Baptist Church.

We are pinpointing this church out of all the churches here with its gospel as the quintessential example of KJBRC's false gospel embracement and propagation, for a great reason. They are the epitome of true gospel deniers and corrupters, and the benchmark for this sample of churches.

Quentin Road Bible Baptist Church, Dayspring Bible College, and consequently Phil Stringer, boldly, blatantly, and unashamedly reject Biblical repentance and even call it a counterfeit of Satan, and this belief is a well summarized overview of most gospel perverters amongst independent baptists, other baptists, neo-evangelicals, protestants, reformed, and so forth, though most do not actually place their heresy on the subject into their statement of faith. The statement below, from the "Doctrinal Distinctives & Statement of Faith" of Dayspring Bible College/Quentin Road Bible Baptist Church, explains what they believe about repentance:

"Repent (metanoeo) means a change of mind. Repentance in salvation means a change of mind from any idea of religion that man may have and to accept God’s way of salvation. Repentance does not in any sense include a demand for a change of conduct before or after salvation. Matthew 21:32, Acts 20:21, II Corinthians 7:8-10. One of the counterfeits Satan is using today is the misuse of the word repent. To insist upon repentance that in any sense includes a demand for a change of conduct either toward God or man is to add an element of works or human merit to faith. Penance is payment for sin. Penitence is sorrow for sin. Works add something of self in turning from sin. But repent (metanoeo) means a change of mind. Repentance in salvation means a change of mind from any idea of religion that man might have and accepting God’s way of salvation. Nowhere does Scripture use the phrase, “repent of sin to be saved.”

This statement is loaded with lies, and reflects the clear truth that their gospel is false and perverted, which does not and cannot save, which then consequently means they are "accursed." (Gal 1:6-9). No man can be saved without repentance or by false repentance. It is true repentance or perishing (Lk 13:1-5). The Biblical doctrine of repentance is the emphasis and foundation of salvation, the very foundation of Christs gospel preaching, what Christ commanded His apostles, and all born again believers.

In October of 2015, Thomas Ross confronted David Brown, President of the KJBRC, concerning this matter, and the short gist of the email exchange was a lackadaisical no-worries-mate attitude, with no intention whatsoever of doing anything about the corrupt and perverted gospel that they were in association with at Quentin Road Bible Baptist Church and Dayspring Bible College. By their reaction, as it appeared, it was clearly an issue of no importance, but this is altogether unsurprising considering the fact that Phil Stringer attends and works there, further establishing their lack of concern and wilful ignorance, seeing that all are members of the Big Boys Club where no negative speech is approved against another club member. None would dare sharply reprove, or reprove at all, another Camp dweller.

Here is a brief refutation of lies proclaimed in the statement above.

Lie # 1: "Repent (metanoeo) means a change of mind. Repentance in salvation means a change of mind from any idea of religion that man may have and to accept God’s way of salvation." The passages "Matthew 21:32, Acts 20:21, II Corinthians 7:8-10" are misused to further the lie. A few sentences later, "Works add something of self in turning from sin. But repent (metanoeo) means a change of mind."

Repentance is not just a mere change of mind. It is much, much more than this. Many, most, texts in the NT fit the Biblical position of a change of mind and will and emotions that results in a change of action (turning, contrite, broken, self-denial, forsaking all, etc) and leads to a change of life (salvation and everything it comes with, a new creature/heart/life), including the ones erroneously listed in the statement: Matt 21:32; Ac 20:21; 2 Cor 7:8-10.

Repentance could be defined in a basic and rudimentary manner as a change of the mind and will and emotion that produces a change of action (turning from sin/self/stuff/people) and subsequent change of life (justification/regeneration -- immediately, permanently, and dramatically). Many, many illiterate and likely mostly unregenerate preachers claim that repentance is merely a change of the mind. Yet nothing in scripture even remotely hints at the idea that repentance is just a change of mind, which really could mean almost anything. Most that proclaim this lie, do so on the back of misusing and corrupting the one Greek word "metanoia," which conveniently "supports" their false repentance and salvation. Their rejection of the actual doctrine of repentance in Scripture, which is supported by 3 or 4 Greek words and nearly as many Hebrew words in the OT, speaks volumes to the false professions and dead faith of their "churches."

No single text in the NT speaks of a “repentance” that doesn’t result in a change of action and life. Such a false position is completely absent from the pages of the NT. Advocates of this false repentance, in light of the overwhelming case against them through the four Greek words in the NT and two Hebrew words in the OT, and from lexica, make several arguments for their position in hope they will overturn the crushing weight of its Biblical usage.

Repentance involves all three faculties of man (intellect, will and emotions), not just the intellect, and is well exemplified in the salvation of the Ninevites (Jon 3:5-10). We also see God’s repentance here, a change of the mind and will (“God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them”) which resulted in a change of action (“and he did it not” - v. 10), but His repentance never changes His life, so that aspect of repentance is not illustrated in God’s repentance, because He doesn’t change. The Ninevites repentance is noted in the intellect in that they believed what Jonah had proclaimed about Gods coming judgment (vv. 4-5). The emotions are noted in their sorrow for their sin exhibited in a very striking way by humbling themselves, “cry[ing] mightily unto God” (v 8), “in sackcloth and ashes” (vv. 5-6). Then the volition is noted, the purposed turning away from their evil ways and violence unto God in such humble contrition that even their cows wore sackcloth and ashes (vv. 6-8).

This also happens to be the benchmark of repentance, God’s expectation of repentance for salvation, according to the words of God the Son (Lk 11:30-32). Also noted in this account of salvation of the Ninevites is Christ’s Lordship, which dovetails with repentance. The king of Nineveh “arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.” (v. 6). He, the king of a very powerful and ever growing in power Gentile nation (Assyria), stepped off his throne so Christ could get on it — he set aside his kingly robes, took upon himself the garb of affliction and humility, and turned from all his evil ways with humbleness before Almighty God in acquiescence and contrition while crying out to God for mercy. This earthly king recognized his subservience to God, his evil towards Him and that God was God and he was not, and thus forsook all that he had in humble surrender to the King of kings and Lord of lords (Lk 14:31-34, 26-27).

Repentant faith in Christ involves losing one’s life, that is, turning from our own way of living, exaltation of self and comfort, to surrender to Christ as unconditional Lord (Mk 8:35; Matt 10:32-39; Lk 9:23-24; 14:25-33). It’s an exchange of masters (Matt 6:24). Repentance involves turning from all known sins/idols: from general sin (Is. 55:6-7; I Th. 1:9; Ac. 26:20) and from specific sins (Ezk. 18:20-23, 28-32; Ac. 3:19, 26), and this is the change of action wrought from a change of mind and will.

Interestingly, the “change of mind” only “repentance” confined to sheer intellectualism, is so defined in a word that is not found to be translated as repentance or its metonyms or in principle, but “metaballo” found once in the NT in that of Ac 28:6 where the pagan people on the island of Melita (today Malta) “changed their minds, and said that he [Paul] was a god” when they “saw no harm come to him,” after a viper had latched onto his hand from out of the fire, and "they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.” (v. 4). Those who witnessed the event “changed their minds” from thinking he was “a murderer” to that of “a god.” “Metaballo” means to turn about in opinion; a changed mind. Thats what occurred in the minds of the Maltans. It’s purely of the intellect, nothing volitional. This happens to be the very word that is being described by these repentance rejectors of the “change of mind” persuasion. “Metaballo” has nothing to do with repentance, yet its meaning is used to describe “repentance” by repentance rejectors.

The Bible clearly teaches repentance is a change of mind and will and emotion that always results in a change of action and then life. The idea that repentance is a change of mind that may or may not result in a change of action and life, the false “change of mind” only position, is totally unbiblical and heretical. It is a serious, dangerous and Satanic corruption of the saving gospel of Christ. Its advocates should consider the warning of Gal 1:8-9 and tremble:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

One of the greatest diabolical attacks of our day by Satan is on the gospel/salvation, and therein specifically against repentance and Christ’s Lordship. The Devil doesn’t want people to be saved, so he damages the area that will affect that to the greatest degree. False repentance is a false gospel. A change of mind only repentance is false repentance. Those who teach this wilfully in spite of the massive amount of Biblical evidence against it, are classified in Scripture as false teachers and need to be marked and avoided (Rom 16:17).

Repenting is NOT just a change of mind about sin or God or unbelief. This is heresy, further explained at that link if you click on it, and purveys "another gospel" (2 Cor 11:4). Repentance is also NOT synonymous with faith, alluded to by their statement, which is likewise heresy and indicative of a false gospel (Gal 1:6-9). Repentance is not the same as faith. The Bible makes a very plain distinction between these two very different words. "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts 20:21). In reality, repentance and faith are two different actions though they are intimately connected and cannot necessarily be separated in time, in the act of salvation. Repentance is to acknowledge one's sin and rebellion against God and to change one's mind and will about sinning against God, and to turn from this sin, from self, from stuff and from people. Repentance is to surrender to Jesus Christ as Lord. Faith is to trust the finished work of Christ for forgiveness and believe what the Bible says about you, your sin, your eternal destination, your need to repent and surrender, etc. Repentance and faith are the two aspects of man's response to God's offer of salvation, and neither are true without the other. They are also not the same because all preachers in the Bible proclaimed repentance aside from faith, including the Lord Jesus Christ, who preached "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Lk 13:3). Peter, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted" (Ac 3:19). Paul, "God . . . now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Ac 17:30) and that all sinners “should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance" (Ac 26:20). Jesus made it very clear that repentance was a component of the great commission, "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem" (Lk 24:47). Both repentance and faith are to be preached, and while these doctrines are intimately connected, they are not the same. Biblical salvation involves both: "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ac 20:21). That is what the Lord's Apostles preached, and they are our only infallible guides became their words are the infallible and inspired words of God. Anyone that claims that repentance does not have to be preached or that it is the same as faith is denying the plain teaching of the Word of God. It is plain heresy, and worse, the “damnable heresy” of a false teacher (2 Pet 2:1).

Repentance is also not just repenting in general and not from all known sin. These and other arguments are debunked in the report, Debunking False Arguments of the False “Change of Mind” Repentance Position.

Lie # 2: "Repentance does not in any sense include a demand for a change of conduct before or after salvation."

Wow, how brash. Unbelievable. What would be the point of "repenting" if no change of conduct was expected? This is such a ridiculous and foolish statement to make, refuted by one passage alone, never mind the remainder of Scripture. Ac 26:20,

"that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance."

The very word itself, repentance, demands a change of conduct. Good and godly works is the fruit of true repentance. There is no salvation without repentance and salvation is never true or genuine if there hasn't been a real change of conduct. 2 Cor 5:17 makes that abundantly clear, while the two passages that follow, vv. 18 and 19, detail how the call to the new birth transpires (stated to clarrify that salvation is the only subject of 2 Cor 5:17-6:2) . 2 Cor 5:17:

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

We see this exemplified in every single true conversion in the Word of God, including those at Ephesus:

"And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." (Ac 19:19)

John the Baptist preached for the people to show forth fruit unto salvation. All new births have fruit, which continues. The change of life occurs after the consummation of salvation, when repentant faith has been genuine for the new birth. Its the immediate and ongoing fruit of true repentant faith (2 Cor 5:17), where the sinner is no longer on the broad road that leads to destruction and damnation, but has entered the strait gate onto the narrow way that leads to blessing and eternal life.

Lie # 3: "One of the counterfeits Satan is using today is the misuse of the word repent. To insist upon repentance that in any sense includes a demand for a change of conduct either toward God or man is to add an element of works or human merit to faith."

Again, there is no such thing as repentance without an immediate and permanent change of conduct. This is true of both repentance towards God and towards man. Consider the latter:

"Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him." (Lk 17:3)

Repentance entails a change of conduct, evident in the very word. There are three Greek words used in the NT referring to repentance, and all three elements of repentance are addressed and reflect the change of conduct that occurs with genuine repentance. Only false repentance is does not produce a change of conduct, or a change that endures.

1. “Metanoia” used in number of scripture, such as Lk 11:32; 15:7, 10, and expressed as a reversal of your thinking, your mental attitude. “Anonia” essentially refers to the mind. You change your mind, so one of the facilities repentance deals with is the mind. You have to change your mind about yourself, how you view yourself, the way you really are, the way Scripture says the way you are, how God says you are, to see yourself as a fallen, corrupt, and wicked sinner from the cranium to the feet. You acknowledge that you are a guilty filthy, wicked sinner under the wrath of God, and hell-bound. The change of mind is greatly influenced by fear of the Lord.

2. “Metamelomai” is another Greek word used for repentance seen in Matt 21:28-32, and it emphasizes regret and sorrow, the emotional faculty of man. Once the mind grasps the new definition of who I am, there is a consequential emotion that goes from the mind to the feelings, and there is godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:10) and shame. This aligns perfectly with what Jesus said in the beginning of the sermon on the mount, “blessed are the poor in spirit,” so you understand who you are, you are spiritually poor, spiritually bankrupt, you have nothing, so what do you do? You actually are sad then, “Blessed are they which mourn, for they shall be comforted.” So you see your condition, you see your spiritual poverty and you mourn over your lost and unrighteous condition.

3. “Epistrepho,” is a third word and found in places such as Lk 17:4; 22:32, and means you change directions in your life and refers to your will, your volition. It starts in your mind, moves to your emotions and activates your will. It has to start in the mind, you understand the truth, you know what it says. 2 Tim 3, “from a child thou has known the holy scriptures.” So you have to know it, understand it first, and actually love it, “receive . . . the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (2 Th 2:10), before it can get down to the emotional and volitional levels. Its a self-assessment that matches up with what God’s Word says about you. You want to go away from yourself, and go after Him, “come after me” (Mk 8:34), thats the turning of repentance, turning from your ways, your sins, your idols and your loves, to God. That is the volition, and it starts with a self assessment that is dramatically different than anything you have ever viewed yourself. You have to hate yourself to the degree that you would literally die if needs be, deny self, take up the cross, a symbol of death. When someone sees themselves for who they really are, they won’t make something sacred out of their life, knowing how bad they are, how wicked they really are.“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer 17:9)

Saving repentance demands a change of conduct!

• Repentance involves agreeing with God (Neh. 9:33-35; Lev. 26:40-41: Jer. 17:9).

• Repentance involves turning from all known sin (Lk 13:1-5; Ac 3:19, 26; 14:15; Rev 9:20-21; 16:9-11).

• Repentance involves turning from our stuff—which is idolatry and covetousness (Mk. 10:21; 8:36-37; Lk. 9:25; 18:22; Ac. 14:15; 1 Th. 1:9).

• Repentance involves turning from the world (Phil 3:8-11; Matt 6:24; Jam 4:4; 1 Jn 2:15-17).

• Repentance involves turning from all self-righteousness (Lk. 5:31-32; 18:9-14; Rev. 3:17; Heb 6:1).

• Repentance involves turning from ones peoples, including family, which is idolatry (Matt. 10:34-37; Lk. 14:26).

• Repentance involves denying self and dying to self (Mk 8:34; Jn 12:24-25).

• Repentance involves surrendering to Jesus, which is losing your life for Christ and the gospels sake (Matt 10:39; Lk 9:24; 14:26; Mk 8:35; Jn 12:25).

• Repentance involves taking up the cross (Matt 10:38; Mk 8:34; 10:21; Lk 9:23; 14:27).

• Repentance involves turning from false religion (2 Cor 6:14-18; Heb 6:1; Jn 4:23-24).

• Repentance involves a desire to make things right with God (Lk 19:5-10; 2 Cor 7:10-11).

• Repentance involves counting the cost (Lk 14:28-32; 10:21; Matt 13:44, 45-46) and forsaking all (Lk 9:57-62; 14:26-33).

• Repentance involves receiving Jesus as Lord, which means to surrender to the King (Mk 10:21; Lk 14:25-35; 19:12-27; 23:40-43; Ac 9:3-6; 10:36; Rom 10:9-13).

• Repentance involves turning with contrition and compunction from going your way to God’s way with the desire, intention and motivation to serve and obey Him in holiness and righteousness (Ex. 8:1; Is. 55:7; Mk. 10:21; Lk. 15:17-21; 18:22; Rom. 2:1-4; I Th. 1:9).

• Repentance involves all three faculties of man: intellectual (Pr 1:29; 2:1-5; Jer 8:6; Rom 3:11), emotional (Ez 9:6; Ps 34:18; Ezk 6:9; 9:4 Jon 3:8; 2 Cor 7:10) and volitional—the will (Is 55:6-7; Ezk 18:30; 1 Th 1:9; Ac 14:15; Matt 13:44-46). In the N.T. repentance is described and translated by three different Greek words, and in the O.T., three different words, and they illustrate that repentance involves all three faculties of man.

All of the above are described as salvation/gospel in the bible, none of them are "add[ing] an element of works or human merit to faith," as heretics who actually reject the truth of Scripture would interject and proclaim.

Lie # 4: "Penitence is sorrow for sin. Works add something of self in turning from sin."

Indeed penitence is sorrow for sin, and "godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation" (2 Cor 7:10). Maybe "worketh" trips up the heretic, more than likely, and gives "credence" to his rejection of repentance and thus the true gospel. There is NO salvation without turning from sin, even as illustrated by the Thessalonians, who "turned to God from idols [sin] to serve the living and true God;" (1 Th 1:9).

One of the Greek words used for repentance and noted in passages such as Matt 21:28-32, is “Metamelomai” and it emphasizes regret and sorrow, the emotional faculty of man, sorrow over sin. Once the mind grasps the new definition of who I am, there is a consequential emotion that goes from the mind to the feelings, and there is godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:10) and shame over ones sin and selfishness and idolatry. This ties into what Jesus said in the beginning of the sermon on the mount, “blessed are the poor in spirit,” so you understand who you are, you are spiritually poor, spiritually bankrupt, you have nothing, so what do you do? You actually are sad then, “Blessed are they which mourn, for they shall be comforted.” So you see your condition, you see your spiritual poverty and you mourn over your lost and unrighteous condition and your offence against a Holy God whose eyes are not hidden from your transgressions, leading to godly sorrow fear of the Lord.

Lie # 5: "Nowhere does Scripture use the phrase, “repent of sin to be saved.”"

Nowhere does Scripture use the label "Trinity," so it must not be true, goes the utterly ridiculous straw man argument of gainsaying heretics.

Scripture is no more obligated to use the phrase “repent of sin to be saved” than "trinity," considering both truths are found abundantly in Scripture, though the phrases itself be absent.

Those exact words do not have to be utilized to know that Scripture teaches--and abundantly--that man must “repent of sin to be saved.”

When "God . . . commandeth all men every where to repent:“ (Ac 17:30b), He means that sinners "Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin” (Ezk 18:30). “[T]urn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?” (Ezk 33:11). The Lord Jesus warns that the unsaved who do not “repent of their deeds,” deeds such as “murders . . . sorceries . . . fornication . . . thefts . . . [and] worship [of] devils, and idols,” will suffer great tribulation (Rev 2:22) and be slaughtered by Him at His second coming (Rev 9:20-21; 16:9-11; 14:18-20; 19:11-21; 2 Th 1:7-9).

Indeed the Scriptures teach that sinners must repent of sin to be saved.

True repentance, that is a willful, intellectual turning from sin (covered below) and self (Lk 14:26-33; 15:1-32; Matt 10:32-39; Jn 12:24-25) and stuff (Mk 10:21; 8:34-38; Lk 12:16-21; Ac 19:18-19) with godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:8-10), in surrender to Jesus Christ as Lord (Lk 14:15-33 and 15:1-32; 19:11-27; Phil 2:10-11; Jon 3:5-10) and is a major component of the gospel (Mk 1:1-4; Lk 24:44-48; Ac 20:21, 24). To pervert any element of the gospel is to pervert the gospel.

Repentant faith in Christ involves losing one’s life, that is, turning from our own way of living, exaltation of self and comfort, to surrender to Christ as unconditional Lord (Mk 8:35; Matt 10:32-39; Lk 9:23-24; 14:25-33). It’s an exchange of masters (Matt 6:24). Repentance involves turning from all known sins/idols: from general sin (Is. 55:6-7; 1 Th. 1:9; Ac. 26:20) and from specific sins (Ezk. 18:20-23, 28-32; Ac. 3:19, 26), which is the change of action wrought from a change of mind and will. The major issue with lost people unwilling to repent is because of wilful rebellion and love for sin and self. We see that in Pr 1:20-32, Jn 3:19-21 and Rom 1, where lost people “hold the truth in unrighteousness;” (Rom. 1:18-23). What is “unrighteousness”? Sin of course. In other words, the unsaved know but will not turn from their sin. The rest of the Bible agrees with that. Read for instance Pr 1:20-32 and Jn 3:19-21.

John the Baptist preached to the lost that they need to turn from their sin, to repent (Matt 3:2; Mk 1:1-4), which will result in bringing forth good fruit, and those who do not repent and as a result bring forth good fruit are hewn down at the root with the Lord's axe and cast into the unquenchable fires of hell (Matt 3:7-11). Jesus Christ preached the same message of repentance (Matt 4:17; Mk 1:15-20; 8:34-38; Lk 14:25-15:32) and commanded His apostles to preach the same message (Mk 6:12) and His saints to continue to preach the same message of the gospel (Lk 24:47).

There is no such things as “easy-repentism.” It's actually impossible for someone to repent without the goodness of God granting the ability unto life (Rom 2:4; Ac 5:31; 11:18). In other words, it's not easy to repent of all your sins (cf. Lk 13:23-24).

False repentance doesn’t make it easier, because it doesn’t save. It is a false way. To love God and His Word is to hate every false way:

“Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.” (Ps 119:127-128)

It is true that repentance is always from sin in salvation, and from all sin and sinful ways, not just from some sin. There are many Biblical examples and proofs, detailed in the following articles:

• Does the Bible Teach that Sinners Must Repent of Their Sin to be Saved?

• Repentance — The Foundation of Salvation

The major reason that prevents sinners from being saved? Repentance. They resist the truth and the absolute necessity to repent, to turn from their sins, self, stuff, and people in godly sorrow and surrender to Christ. Why? People love their sin, self, stuff or people more than God and more than being right with God (Jn 3:19-21; Pr 1:20-32). The pathetic “repentance” that is taught by Stringer and most of the rest of the KJBRC is no issue for sinners because it isn’t real or biblical. It comes with no cost. It comes with no suffering or affliction or brokenness. It produces nothing (hence the fruitless and changeless professions that are embraced).

Not only does the KJBRC embrace a false gospel, they also pervert, corrupt, distort, misuse and abuse the Word of God to advance their heretical and accursed version of the "gospel," further establishing the fact that most of these men are wicked false teachers wresting the Scriptures unto their own destruction (2 Pet 3:16-17).

The enemies of repentance are the enemies of Scriptural doctrine, a true gospel, and how God told us to do it in His Word. People that reject repentance will argue it out of the gospel by means of circular reasoning. Instead of exegeting passages on repentance, they gloss over them and treat them very superficially. They make it clear that they do not want to actually know what Scripture says about it and thus salvation. To treat the most foundational issue of salvation—i.e. repentance—as insignificant (as almost every single church mentioned herein does), is very tell tale. These are likely heretics, since, firstly, scripture should never be handled in such a manner, and secondly, repentance is a huge part of the gospel which without no man can be saved.

The False Doctrine of Preservation of the KJBRC

According to their website, the KJBRC claims to defend the preservation of Scripture. They profess to stand for the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament (OT) and Textus Receptus of the New Testament (NT), both of which underlie the KJV, with the latter being essentially the 1524-1525 edition of Jacob Ben Chayyim, and the Greek Textus Receptus ed. Scrivener, and the Authorized Version itself as well. Of course this is a noble position, highly commendable, but is it actually their true position?

This does not appear to be the case.

On multiple occasions during the Q&A allotted times, parts 1 and 2, their appears to be a contradiction between what they purport to believe on their website and what was actually taught in these Q&A sessions. In the first part of the Q&A, Stringer makes the following statement which completely contradicts what they allegedly stand for in written form on their website:

“A lot of folks want to make a big deal, say, well if God preserved His word it had to be in Greek. We point a lot to promises that God will preserve His Word. Is a single one connected to a language? Does the Bible ever say God will preserve His Old Testament in Hebrew or persevere His Old Testament in Greek? [Manny Rodrigues nods his head in agreement with what Stringer had just stated.] Very clear from Erasmus on, they believed God had preserved His words."

In support of his sandhill position, Stringer goes on to construct the strawman that Erasmus also competed the Latin Received Text (Textus Receptus) at the same time as the Greek Textus Receptus. This is a bad argument. Erasmus did not believe that God inspired and preserved His Word in Latin, but in Greek. Let it be called a Latin Textus Receptus, it wasn’t seen as the Scriptures that God inspired. Irregardless, even if he did believe this, we know that God inspired His NT in the Greek language, so the argument is moot whether a man wrote a Latin Received Text and many read it (only because they had no choice, the Roman Catholic Church forced people to read the Latin Vulgate, an important piece of information that Stringer conveniently leaves out).

During the second session, Stringer continues advancing the same heresy, bald-facedly lying that God did not tie preservation to a language. Only a few minutes later, attendee pastor David Harness asks a question about the manner of preservation of Gods Word (which he also falsely believes to be the KJV in how God fulfilled His doctrine of preservation -- He did not), which is answered by David Sorensen and completely contradicts Stringers statement. This was followed by another contradictory statement by Phil Stringer, further rejecting the Biblical doctrine of preservation and also Gods method of preservation, which was OT--the Jews and NT--the local church. It was not “Cambridge or Oxford,” but the local NT church, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Either Stringer is a hypocrite or a deceiver or both. We say both. Things that are different are not the same. You cannot say on one hand that God has inspired and thus preserved His Word in the Hebrew Masoretic Text and Greek Textus Receptus, but then on the other hand declare that perseveration is not tied to any single language. This is a nonsensical statement to make to begin with and ties more squarely into the Critical Text position of words not necessarily preserved, only thoughts and ideas. The Q&A session reflects what these men and KJBRC truly believes, not an article on their website.

Stringer was teaching here and in the context, that God preserved His Word by means of the English translation, the KJV. This is the English preservation position which is frequently tied into the English inspiration position, but not always. It doesn't appear to be the case here. He, and the KJBRC, doesn’t believe that Scripture is preserved in the underlying text, tied to the language in which it was given. Stringer proclaims that true preservation of Scripture is allegedly found in the English, the KJV, and could be found in other texts as well, such as the Latin Vulgate. A translation however is not preservation but the product thereof, a reflection of the inspired and preserved Word of God, if using the right text and right translation methodology. The KJBRC position actually rejects God’s promise to preserve His Word.

The true non-contradictory position is the accurate English translation of a providentially preserved text. The Bible teaches that God preserved all His Words, in the language in which they were written (Hebrew and some Aramaic for the OT, Greek for the NT), and those Words have been accessible to every generation of believers (Ps 12:6-7; Isa 59:21; Matt 4:4; 5:18; 24:35). The KJV is the best English translation of those Words. This position is buttressed upon biblical and historic teaching on the preservation of scripture, and doesn’t say that every Word was preserved in any particular printed edition of the Textus Receptus previous to 1611, but that the perfectly preserved Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic Words were received by and accessible to true churches (saints) throughout all generations.

The doctrine of preservation must start and finish with faith in what God’s Word says. What it actually says, not what someone wants it to say. That is the foundation. Not just Word but all the words in His Word right down to the jot and tittle. Perfect preservation applies to all his words as they were given, in Hebrew, Greek and some Aramaic. Passages that speak to this include: Ps 12:6-7; 33:11; 100:5; 111:7-8; 117:2; 119:89, 152, 160; Pr 30:5-6; Is 40:8; 59:21; Matt 5:18; 24:35; 1 Pet 1:23-25; Rev 22:18-19.

Some important points concerning the doctrines of inspiration and preservation:

1. God’s Words were inspired perfectly in the autographs (2 Tim 3:16-18; 2 Pet 1:21). Copies of autographs are just as inspired as an original writing, and are considered perfectly equal in authority, and almost no one has ever handled an original wiring. Original manuscripts were destroyed at the hand of Emperor Diocletian's wrath between AD303 and AD313. Copies referenced in the Bible (such as 2 Tim 3:15) are not translations. They are copies of the original document, which was written in a certain language: Hebrew or Greek.

2. The Lord promised to preserve all these inspired words from His Word for each subsequent generation, just as they’re preserved eternally in Heaven (Ps 12:6-7; 119:89; Dan 10:21, 11:2 ff; Am 1:1; Matt 24:35; Jn 17:8; Rev 1:1). The Bible teaches the verbal, plenary preservation of the inspired autographa (Ps 12:6-7). The promise of preservation of the words was the words that were given, which were in what language? Right, Hebrew and Greek.

3. The Lord promises and affirms the perpetual availability of the preserved words of God to every generation of believers (Is 59:21).

4. The Lord used His chosen people Israel to preserve and guard the OT Scriptures in the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Ac 7:38; Rom 3:2) and the true NT churches to preserve and guard the NT Scriptures in the Greek Textus Receptus (Matt 28:19-20; Rev 22:7-10).

5. NT churches are to recognize, receive and preserve the Lord’s Words (Jn 17:8, 20; 1 Th 2:13) while rejecting manuscripts with added or deleted words or forged canons (2 Th 2:2) offered by Satan (Gen 3:1 ff; cf. De 13:1-5). The church, as the depository of God’s words (1 Tim 3:15), led by the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:13), recognized and received (Jn 17:8) the words of God as they were given her by Christ her Saviour. Believers can have confidence that the words of Scripture, and, as a necessary consequence, the books of Scripture, and these alone, constitute the deposit of infallible revelation which forms their sole authority for faith and practice (2 Tim 3:15-17) and upon which they will be judged (Jn 12:48), because the Spirit led the church to accept these words, the words from the Hebrew Masoretic Text and Greek Textus Receptus, and no others, as God’s Word. These true local churches have recognized the KJV as the Word of God in the English language because it came from the recognized, received, and preserved words that God gave, and thus have rejected all modern versions, including the ESV, NIV, NKJV, etc, as corrupted perversions and Gnostic laced readings in both text and translation.

6. The Lord has given His explicit Words of revelation to man in order that man may be able to demonstrate his stewardship with all of God’s Words at his respective judgment (Jn 12:48; Rev 20:12). That requires preservation.

7. The Lord Jesus Christ has inspired His autographa (2 Tim 3:16-17), promised to preserve all of His Words (Ps 12:6-7), expects man to receive by faith His revelation and produce perfect copies or accurate translations based on the Received Bible which originated with Him (Matt 28:19-20; Jn 17:8, 20; Rom 16:25-26; cf. Neh 8:8) which movement He began (cf. Ac 2:41; 8:14; 11:1; 17:11; 1 Th 2:13).

So to the question where is the preserved Word of God today, our answer is this: exactly where it’s always been since its inception—in the inspired, inerrant, plenary preserved Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received Text, not the KJB (a translation of the preserved text), which are the very texts in which God originally inspired all His words and the very texts that the translators of the KJV used to translate the AV1611 (“translated out of the original languages,” the first page of your KJV)—the very preserved words of God to this day. God, Who by His singular care and providence, has kept His words pure in all ages, and are therefore authentic, that they may be used to convict, reprove, and call the sinner to repentance, to teach, edify, and comfort the believer, and to judge the world in the last day. Since God who cannot lie has promised the perfect preservation and general availability of the very consonants, vowels, and accent pointings of the Hebrew OT (being the Hebrew Masoretic Text), and of the words of the NT (being the Greek Received Text, or TR), those words have never been lost and therefore have never needed restoration or re-breathing, either in the original tongues or by any subsequent translation. The Divinely preserved words in the original languages are to be the authority for all translations. This position is based upon the following Scripture: Ps. 12:6-7; 19:8; Pr. 30:5; Is. 59:21; Matt. 4:4; 5:17-18; 24:35; Jn 5:39; 12:48; Heb. 4:12; 6:18; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Ti. 1:2; Lk 16:17; Rom. 10:8.

This happens to also be the same position as the KJV translators and historical Bible believing churches over the centuries. The Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646, The 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1677 and 1689, have this as their textual position:

“The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of the writing of it was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentic; so as in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal to them. But because these original tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have a right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded in the fear of God to read and search them, therefore they are to be translated into the vulgar language of every nation unto which they come, that the Word of God dwelling plentifully in all, they may worship him in an acceptable manner, and through patience and comfort of the Scriptures may have hope.”

Keep reading here on The Biblical Doctrine of Preservation in Contrast to a Dangerous Position.

We have no doubt that Phil Stringer is an absolute heretic, and likely many other men at the KJBRC. The gospel that he stands by is utterly perverted and some of the doctrines he embraces are unsound and fables. This is the man that appeared to boast, towards the end of the first Q&A session, that his church had hosted the ungodly, lying, deceptive and heretical Mark Ward in their pulpit, a popular heretic among neo-fundamentalists today. How sad and disgraceful to speak even favourable of a man that hates the KJV of the Bible and its underlying text, with his deceptive sly smile, which God will wipe off his face (Pr 1:20-32), while he pretends to be a "fundamentalist" and a "Christian."

Nearly every question presented by PVBC attenders reflected a gross ignorance to the Texts of Hebrew and Greek underlying the KJV, and the Biblical doctrine of preservation. During one of the sessions, a lady from the audience asks what the Masoretic text is, which she is hardly able to pronounce. What a shame that she knows so little about the underlying texts of the KJV, albeit a real time reflection of the anemic education on scripture that is taking place in the pulpit at this heretical church that gladly welcomes men who passionately embrace a false gospel. Concerning their continual necessity to surrender to the Furher Sullivant, and need of tithing, we have no doubt they lack any education or knowledge.

Conclusion

These are two very important areas of heresy that demand exposure, but they are not the only issues. The President and Vice-President of KJBRC (Brown and Stringer, respectively) have no issue ecumenically yoking with absolute heretics for some alleged "Christian" cause such as Bibliology (while showing no concern over the gospel). Consider The Center for Study and Preservation of the Majority Text as a case in point, where they associate and work together with priests and scholars of unscriptural and heretical orthodox churches for some common "good." The organizations defunct website (not sure about the group itself) is archived on the web @ https://web.archive.org/web/20180819040941/http://www.cspmt.org/, where we read that

"CSPMT is an organization dedicated to scholarly study, research and preservation of Byzantine Greek New Testament manuscripts. This textual tradition is found in various printed editions in the West and is also preserved in the Greek New Testament and lectionary text of the Orthodox church."

Their website describes and lists their board of directors:

"Our board members at CSPMT are leading ecclesiastical officials, pastors and textual scholars from various traditions which uphold the Byzantine text of the Greek New Testament. At CSPMT we are dedicated in sharing this rich legacy with scholars, clergy and other interested parties."

Here are (or were) the board members of this unscriptural and ecumenical organization, noting both President and Vice-President of the KJBRC listed as directors:

Do they also reject the doctrine of separation and the many passages that demand separation?

What is the point on holding to the KJV of the Bible but end up in hell because you believed and purveyed a false gospel?

Any heresy and perversion of the gospel must be immediately confronted and true believers should not give place or heed to false teachers, “no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue” (Gal 2:5). That means confronting these men of the KJBRC, David Brown, Phil Stringer, Manny Rodriquez, David Sorenson, etc, and also Michael Sullivant and PVBC/CBBC, and reproving them for their embracement of a false gospel either directly or indirectly through association. Men like Sullivant are not so much concerned about the true gospel as they are to allegiance and submission to his highness, further evident by the Biblical illiteracy of the average church member of PVBC. True churches must warn against such assaults on the gospel and maintain strict and total ecclesiastical separation from its advocates (Rom 16:17; Ti 3:10; 2 Jn 1:7-11). They must also boldly preach repentance and faith to every creature, so that they not only negatively oppose error, but by their true doctrine and practice adorn the truth (Matt 28:18-20; Lk 24:47; Ac 20:21).

A corrupt gospel is not a problem for the KJBRC. Two utterly contradictory views of repentance, at least one of which is Satanic, are fine as long as one believes in the KJV of the Bible. Paul stated that “no other doctrine” was to be allowed in the church (1 Tim 1:3), but these men have no problem with unsound doctrine, even a perverted gospel. When Peter confused a lesser issue that only indirectly related to the gospel–eating with Gentiles rather than only with Jews (Gal 2:14), Paul withstood him to his face before the entire church of Antioch (Gal 2:14-18). For Paul, those promulgating a false gospel were not tolerated, “no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue” (Gal 2:5). We are thankful that the Apostle Peter repented of his gospel opposition (cf. 2 Pet 3:15)— his repentance was unsurprising, understanding that he was a true born again believer indeed—which resulted in a change of conduct, something that ungodly heretics such as the KJBRC do not expect. Pathetically, for the KJBRC, a corrupt gospel is to be tolerated, and with such an attitude, the truth of the gospel will not continue. Masses of people are screaming in hell today because of the abominable rejection of repentance taught by these men or by the churches where these men attend, minister or preach. These men are apostates enhancing the furtherance of even greater apostasy, inoculating the unregenerate to their false nature. Anyone who cares about the purity of the gospel, loves the Holy Triune Lord of the church who wants a pure Bride for Himself, and believes in Biblical separation, should completely avoid KJBRC and their meetings and membership in their organization or any association with the board and the churches they minister for. Do not support, associate with, or commend the KJBRC, but reprove it as an unfruitful work of darkness.

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Eph 5:11)

Anyone that corrupts the gospel needs to be marked and avoided, in obedience to Rom 16:17-18, for they are accursed false teachers:

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”