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Ward wronger about English

INTRODUCTION

Mark Ward is working on a book which he thinks is about understanding the Bible better, and on that side, his desire is good, but because he has accepted false premises of small “m” modernism, his execution is tainted.

LANGUAGES

Ward follows the “Reformed” position of the Puritans that God’s words as written in Hebrew, Chaldean-Syriack and Greek are more superior than translation. The idea that God used Hebrew and Greek without error is true, but to imply that truth is locked there because translation is a human work is incorrect.

Translation is a human work in a normal sense, but we have the promises of God which override the natural things of this world.

“But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith” (Romans 16:26).

Notice that God promises that the nations are to know the Scripture and to be able to obey (comprehend and do exactly) it.

“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28:20).

Again, the gentiles clearly can know what Jesus said, even in the end of time, because it is being communicated to them.

From these and other passages we can infer easily that God can and is using the Scripture in English, and even further, we can find that the correct form of the Scripture for the world is in the global language of English.

Just as people after the time of the Apostle John have correctly understood and articulated doctrines from Scripture like the Trinity through church council creeds, and just how the correct canon of Scripture has been settled, so likewise a correct translation of the Scripture has been made in English as a standard for the world.

Remember, languages are under the hand of God, he scattered the people by confusing their languages, and God is in control over tongues, so that they may serve the Lord Christ in His historical reign until He come in person.

God is superintending over language, specifically English.

GOD’S USE OF LANGUAGE

Mark Ward has sadly taken on a naturalistic view of the transmission of Scripture, of translation and of language. It is the view that permeates evangelical Christianity, which has accepted Deistic principles of small “m” modernism.

While modernists like Ward accept that God is in general control and that He has caused in a messy way to have the Scripture come to us, they do not see God’s more pervasive superintendence through the natural processes, but instead act as if God’s will is just natural processes and ironically they put more emphasis on human learning to have to struggle and strive to translate and get the Scripture to us today.

It is a very weird fatalism that says, “Whatever is happening is God’s will, but God is not actually getting anything perfect through human agency”. Yet the Scripture shows us a very different view, which appears to be a prophecy against modernism:

“GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.”
(Deuteronomy 32:1-7).

God’s work is perfect, therefore God is able to get His word to us properly. Why should we believe that the inspired autographs are perfect, but the providentially supplied English translation made common in English-speaking evangelicalism throughout the globe has not been highly exalted by God?

THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS GOD’S ENGLISH

Mark Ward starts from the very naturalistic, even mocking position, that the King James Bible is merely bound to Elizabethan and Jacobean English. Because it was made in those times, it is bound to them. But is it? Because the King James Bible is speaking to today.

Ward also uses a propagandistic technique of saying that the seeming weight and sacredness of the language of the King James Bible is parallel to Tridentine Catholics making out as if Latin is more holy than common languages. However, there is a major fault here: Latin was ostensibly a dead language in the 16th century, whereas English is a world dominating language today. And again, the language of the King James Bible itself is more “Bible-ish”, recognisable and currently comprehensible due to internet tools and education than ever.

This is because the KJB is God’s use of English, and it speaks clearly to people today.

Mark Ward mocks the KJB by trying to say there are incomprehensible or difficult words. But that is due to the nature of Scripture, not due to the nature of language usage. Scripture has advanced concepts.

Ward has also inconsistently attacked KJB words like “study” or “halt” by trying to read in modernistic definitions. These are similar to attacks on the KJB’s translation of words like “firmament”, “unicorn”, “bishop”, “power”, “bowels”, etc., etc. These attacks are made from adherence to Jewish fables, from ignorance, from theological partisanship, from error, from pride, etc.

The truth is that the Spirit of God is giving comprehension of the exactness of words and their meanings from the KJB, and having a stubborn-hearted, ignorant or addle-minded approach towards God’s setting up and use of the KJB is a disservice to the manifest providence of truth which God uses to speak as a paper prophet to today. That is why there is a warning in Scripture that those who do not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people.

NATURAL PRINCIPLES ARE SUBSERVIENT

It is obvious that the Scripture is God’s use of language, and that He uses words to mean what He means.

But Mark Ward wants to be like Humpty-dumpty and limit or dictate whether words mean what they mean, or do another tricky thing, and impose a category about what words meant (used to mean) and what they apparently mean now.

Except, if anyone looked at the human record of English word usage (the Oxford English Dictionary), they will find meanings still exist, and that words are only lost if they are not used any more, and if words no longer have the meaning they used to have (like the nefarious agenda of the Newspeak Dictionary).

It is therefore a propaganda technique to imply that words have lost meaning, and that means are irrecoverable. The opposite is true: the KJB word meanings are not lost, and through both the direct work of the Spirit and human agency like internet technology, word meanings are kept in knowledge.

The Holy Ghost really is leading and guiding into all truth.

ALL THE BLATHER ABOUT THE GREEK

I’ve been criticising the idea that preachers and teachers take Greek words in their sermons and say what those words mean. Such a practice is a complete waste of time and contrary to Scripture. It is not a method Paul or Peter used, it is not in any way materially helpful, especially since we have good translations.

Having every jumped up basket weaver telling us what the Greek words are and what they “really” mean, in contradiction to the use and definition in the KJB, is in fact warring against the KJB’s translation. Are these unlearned men really right even though they might try to make themselves look smart by mentioning Greek words.

How do Greek words really help? And yet Mark Ward is writing in his book that they are Hebrew and Greek words that Christians should know. Well, that’s confusion and nonsense. There are Greek words that are now English words. There are Greek words which the KJB translators had to know in order to translate into English. There are Greek words which good men had to know to confirm that the KJB’s translation was correct. But that’s happened for 400 years, and that time is over now. Now we can rely on the KJB’s translation itself. There’s nothing in English that’s more or less than the originals, but we have it all perfectly fine, indeed, exactly right.

Let’s find God’s words in the KJB and stick with them.

In a moment of rare clarity, Mark Ward himself also has seen that having people spout Greek is not always a good thing. After all, the Greek academic mafia and the power of the Greek diviners is about maintaining their system, that Greek is controlled by them, and means what they particularly want it to mean.

So if people are just spouting Greek for the sake of it or using poor tools or not bringing actual clarity of understanding, Mark Ward knows that he has to “lovingly correct” his own side.

Ward has the temerity to accuse loving the KJB to be akin to Roman Catholic venerations but the irony is that there is a funded body of the Greek curia which wants to control Bible interpretation and doctrinal concepts. The problem isn’t the authority of adhering to an interpretation, the problem is the usurping authority of the modernistic methodology and the adhering to wrong doctrinal outcomes.

Ward gone wrong

INTERPRETATION MATTERS

Christianity is in a war of Bible interpretation. Arminians and Calvinists can use the KJB and come to different views. Futurists, Historicists and Preterists can use the KJB and come to different views. There’s battles over all kinds of things. Yet these people can all use the KJB.

The KJB isn’t the problem. It isn’t a problem of what Bible version, the problem is actually interpretation. Now, a modern Bible version can be a small part of the issue, and it cannot be minimised that the people who want to doubt the end of Mark or the woman caught in adultery or 1 John 5:7 are putting themselves into a weaker position. But that’s not the biggest issue here.

There is a bigger difference between the KJB and other translations. That’s where conceptual differences occur on a much more significant level. Translation has a great effect on interpretation. But it is ultimately an issue of what God’s words are said to mean.

WRONG DOCTRINES

A bunch of wrong doctrines have historical roots, but today, wrong interpretations are rooted in wrong translations and most especially backed up by wrong interpretations.

We have to understand that the Scripture is God’s message to mankind. It’s less about God giving specific messages to an individual in the Bible, and more about what God wants the whole Church to know.

20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2 Peter 1:20, 21

The Scripture is primarily written on two levels, the natural writer writing to the original audience, and secondly, the Holy Ghost writing to the entire Church.

Because God is the author, we see that while there might be a natural and plain reading, there are often deeper spiritual meanings. This is the difference between what we might call the primary and plain reading or interpretation, and the deeper spiritual sense.

Just look at what Paul said about oxen treading out the corn, that while it shows care for livestock, it really was written primarily with the spiritual meaning, that labourers in the gospel ought to be rewarded.

At the same time, this does not mean that the Bible could just mean anything, or everything. The meanings are particular, known to God, and to be known to us.

THE WAR AND THE IMPOSITION OF MODERNISM

Today, the Devil is not using physical persecution to kill Christians in the Western world. He is using doubt and confusion about the Bible to destroy people’s faith.

Modernism, broadly, comes from a godless way of thinking about the world, as if there is no God. That way, instead of having the Holy Ghost interpret, you have to look to records of how men interpreted, and worse, you have to go to the lexicons and modernistic ways of interpreting as though God couldn’t possibly have a correct English Bible translation, and as though God couldn’t possibly have Christians today gaining right understanding, even though He promised that we shall know the truth.

The biggest and easiest way to pervert the meaning of the Bible is through all this talk about the Greek. Most wrong doctrines and wrong ideas today will be because people will say “the Greek here really means blah blah” and they will try to introduce a shift in ideas by talking about what the original languages really mean in light of the apparent culture of Bible times. The funny thing is that what they say the culture of Bible times is seems to be different from what the Bible actually teaches.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say there was a little door in the gate of a city and you had to unpack a camel to get it through the door. But this will be what people will say, meaning something ridiculous like, that you have to get rid of all your money and possessions before you can get into the Kingdom of God. There is no such teaching anywhere in the Bible, but that’s how they will interpret a certain passage.

MODERNIST HERMENEUTICS

Modernist hermeneutics are the way in which modern people (e.g. theologians, Calvinist intellectuals and in-crowders) interpret the Bible. They basically have a method. It goes like this: assume God doesn’t exist and you have to look at the words (grammar, style of writing and the contextual flow) and put them into the historical isagogic of who wrote to whom when (i.e. the historical context) and then cross a “principlizing bridge” which takes from the ancient era (another language, another culture, another time and another place) and brings the Scripture to some sort of sense and relevance that we can understand, learn from and apply today.

Notice in that method it isn’t about believing a doctrine of rightly understanding the Scripture as though God really can bring us to understand, but instead is all about some human science and art of interpreting.

MARK WARD IS A CHIEF ATTACKER

Mark Ward is writing a book to try to make out as if the language of the Bible doesn’t seem to mean what it seems to say. That there is something more and beyond the good old King James Bible.

I can only imagine the tripping ropes of inflexible thinking that it takes to argue that language has meaning beyond mere alleged “literal” meanings. No doubt, Ward will sufficiently cause us to doubt every normal statement made in English to then make out as if we cannot just take the King James Bible, which he will slur as belonging to a distant century, has added layers of difficulty.

This is a blatant lie, but one pushed by the mafia of modernist hermeneutics.

We all know that language can be non-literal and words can be contextual. But we shouldn’t be reading the Bible with mere natural, God-free logic. Language is not just some secular science, it’s a divine gift that needs to be practiced in light of its author. English as we know it (especially in the Bible) is not the product of a series of happenstance accidents but is divinely designed.

THE TRUTH IN ENGLISH

Mark Ward and others like him hold that the full truth cannot be in English. No, they see English as just a reflection, a bad reflection, of the real, deeply mystical (it seems) truth in the original languages. God inspired in Hebrew and Greek and somehow these languages are more holy. Also, modernism (you know that belief that there isn’t really an interventionary God), says that you can’t actually get the full meaning from the originals into English. (And that’s if they know what it really means in the original languages!)

HOW MEANINGS OF WORDS ARE CONTROLLED

Like the Newspeak Dictionary in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, there is a special lexicon that tells the modernist what a word might mean. This is a lexicon called BDAG, which was made by modernists who use a method as though God is not in control of languages or that God can actually communicate truth to common Christians.

No! You have to go through these special hierophant authorities, and BDAG was made to give an extensive list of words from Greek, and then guesses as to their meanings. Out of these different options of meanings, a modern day user (peddler) of Greek can then choose which meaning he (or “she” if your name is Faith Womack) thinks best fits the context at a certain place. These meanings come from a variety of eras and sources, so it’s by no means restricted to Christian texts. Furthermore BDAG is the letters of the surnames of the men who made the work.

Bauer = Higher Critic, Liberal, Historical-Critical, big “M” Modernist
Danker = Moderate, Higher Critic, big “M” Modernist
Arndt = Secular-backed, conservative, evangelical, small “m” modernist
Gingrich = Neutral scholar, centrist, small “m” modernist

WHAT IS WARD’S WAR ON WORDS REALLY ABOUT?

What could possibly motivate a financially struggling man like Mark Ward, but the promise of funds for his work in reverence to his higher masters. His higher masters being certain leaders in the entire industry of impositional interpretation.

You see, Christians must be told that they CANNOT be allowed to safely interpret Scripture for themselves, because they couldn’t possibly be led by the Spirit of God. What they need (apparently) is good advice, good tools which means buying stuff and listening to guides like Mark Ward.

There’s a whole industry of products that exist that are said to be needed. These products include paying for the privilege of attending their institutions of higher learning. By “their” I mean both sides of the Christian industry, the got-at Pentecostal ones as much as the got-at Reformed ones. The intellectual mafia might sit like a curia in the intellectual side of Christianity (Baptists, Presbyterians and Reformed), but is just as much at work through the cognate world of Pentecostalism and Charismaticism. Everywhere where it is taught that the “Greek” really means something other than what the Bible says, they are there.

BUT, HE PROTESTETH

Mark Ward will say he is not at war with the King James Bible and “loves” it, even though this entire exercise is specifically designed to fight the meanings of words in the King James Bible.

They will say that they are not Liberal/Modernist/Higher Critics, even though everything they have is like the evangelical-friendly version of the same sources. Mark Ward is a small “m” modernist, which is a dangerous leaven in Christianity.

They will say that you can use the tools for free so you don’t need to spend a dollar getting “educated” by “hermeneutics”. That’s called voluntary subjection where one puts themselves on a low level and denies that the Holy Ghost practically leads into truth.

18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:18

THE REAL ANSWER

There is a mighty doctrine of the Scripture that says that we can know. We can attain. We can understand. We can access all necessary wisdom.

This blows up the entire library of books of hermeneutics, every lexicon and all the books about choosing the right Bible translation for your fleshly desires.

Believers should align to the truth, not listen to Mark Ward’s classifications of “common Bible study errors”.

But, an objector may say, “every Christian is interpreting for themselves” and “there are so many doctrinal disagreements” and “there are so many varieties and subsects of Protestantism today”.

Here is the answer. If all Christians align with the Holy Ghost’s interpreting they are going to be interpreting for themselves rightly. If Christians align with the truth of the Holy Ghost’s leading and teaching in their proper study of relying on King James Bible English words, then we will align to the standards of the truth, not multiplicity of doctrines. If we look to Jesus and think after God, then I am sure we will align to sound doctrine.

28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Isaiah 44:28

The building of Jerusalem is by a Spirit-led people being actually Spirit-led, and the foundation to the temple is the true Scripture, the actual truth of the Scripture clearly known at the basis of a proper Church movement in the Earth.

And now you will see how the modernist approach disallows this interpretation because they both disbelieve it and have a method to not make the Scripture say or be understood to mean this thing.

Providence, population and perfection

One of the objections that is made about the idea that the King James Bible (and specifically the Pure Cambridge Edition) are perfect today, is the idea that these only exist in recent history, and not for most of world history since 4004 BC (or whenever creation was).

They can ask why would the KJB be right, when the Early Church did not have it?

The answer is obvious and simple, which is that just as Scripture has been revealed successively through history, so also have truths been understood. The Council of Nicaea articulated truths in 325 AD, and it makes sense that the best textual work and translation occurred in 1611.

Remember, in 1571 BC, when Moses was born, no one had any Scripture (except maybe the Book of Job). The world’s population is estimated to have been less than 50 million at the time. (Different modelling puts out different numbers from 10 million to 50 million for the death of Moses in approx. 1451 BC.)

If at the time of Joshua there was a maximum of 2 million Israelites, and the world population was 50 million, that’s 1/25th of the world’s population that could know Scripture.

Let’s move forward to when the entire Old Testament was complete, to when it was even translated into Greek, and available in the Roman world, when Jesus was doing His earthly ministry.

The world’s population is estimated to be 170–300 million at the time. How many people knew either Hebrew or Greek, and could access the Old Testament? Not China, not most of Africa, not the Americas, not Greater Germania and not even people who only knew Latin and Celtic/Gallic languages.

If we jump forward to the time of the Reformation and Ottoman expansion, in 1517, estimates are of 460–500 million people in the world. This was before the Bible was translated into German by Luther or into English by Tyndale.

We see the providence of the printing press, the rise of the English-speaking peoples, the spread of Protestant Christianity and the increase of literacy.

Maybe 1% of the entire world spoke English when the King James Bible was translated.

But what do we see? Growth and advancement that helps the spread of Christianity and the rise of the KJB.

Population growth estimates are:

  • French Revolution (1789): ~700–900 million
  • End of World War I (1918): ~1.8–1.9 billion
  • End of World War II (1945): ~2.3–2.5 billion
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989): ~5.3 billion
  • September 11, 2001: ~6.1 billion
  • 2026: ~8.3 billion

In the same period we see the growth of the English language:

  • 1611: Approximately 1% of the world spoke English natively; virtually none as a second language
  • 1789: Around 2% native, with 1–2% second-language speakers
  • 1918: Approximately 6–7% native, 3–5% second-language
  • 1945: Roughly 8% native, 5–7% second-language
  • 1989: About 7% native, 10–15% second-language
  • 2001: Around 6% native, 15–20% second-language
  • 2026: Approximately 5% native, but 25% or more of the global population knows English as a second language

Think also about exploration (colonisation), advancement in travel and communication/information technologies. We have advanced in computing in the 20th century, and the internet has boomed in the 21st.

So a perfect Bible in English in 1611 makes sense, because the majority of the world’s population growth is happening since the 20th century.

Between 2000 and COVID-19 (2020), English became the most dominant language in the world, outrunning Chinese. However, it is the fact that many people are learning English as a second language that makes it beneficial.

The Pure Cambridge Edition was first published before the First World War. It existed by being printed in the millions over the decades. It is rising to acknowledged prominence by the internet and international mailing.

All of this ties together the important points that the King James Bible is the Bible for the future. It points to why a perfect English Bible version is rising in these days, and not in the time of the Crusades or something.

It is important to link together the dominance of the English-speaking nations, and the power of the truth of the Gospel. The Gospel is having impact into the world, and the best theology comes from the English-speaking nations (whether people argue for Baptists, Westminster Confession/Presbyterianism, Wesleyanism/Holiness and/or Pentecostalism, etc.).

In South America, the Gospel is increasing to some degree (though there are questions about specific Pentecostal brands of Christianity with the South American lower classes), which itself is having an effect of bringing them to the English language (since Christian music exists primarily in English, for example).

One can see the potential for using the KJB and true Gospel preaching impacting into places like South Korea, India, Africa, South America and through the Pacific (which has already been impacted by Evangelicalism).

There are more than ever people alive today who need the Gospel. English is more than ever spoken. The KJB is more than ever available.

It is now possible for more people than ever to receive and use a perfect Bible. Therefore, we can see the potential for true and impactful world evangelism.

“But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith” (Romans 16:26).

Time, Gravity and Matter

A Universal-Time Interpretation of Physical Processes

INTRODUCTION

According to the Bible, time is flowing at a universal rate, whether on Earth or in space.

Using a creationist model, it would appear that light was instantaneous in Genesis 1, but that light decay occurred in the universe since the fall of man, and has now stabilised at a fairly constant rate.

It is my intention to present a view of the universe which necessarily rejects Einstein’s unbelieving general relativity, and which builds upon a correct Newtonian view.

We will therefore hypothesise a framework in which time is absolute and universal, flowing at a constant rate from past to future, independent of location, motion or gravitational potential.

We will reject the usual modernistic explanation that time is moving a different rates as one moves up from sea level. Instead, we will suggest that observed discrepancies in clocks, atomic transitions and biological processes are explained not by a relative passage of time but by the physical effect of gravity on matter. Gravity acts as a universal regulator, influencing the rate of atomic, chemical and biological processes.

Light maintains a universal speed, with minor local distortions possible, and historically decayed from near-instantaneous velocity to its present stable value. This model perpetuates a Newtonian understanding of time, aligns with experimental observations such as satellite clock behaviour and freefall phenomena, and avoids conceptual complications associated with relativistic spacetime curvature and time dilation.

We are overthrowing Einsteinian error.

CORE CONCEPTS

Historically, the consensus of Christian societies were built upon the Newtonian view of the universe that recognised time as absolute and uniform, flowing independently of physical events, and three dimensional space as a fixed, consistent framework. Consider Newton’s clockwork universe as operating in this way.

In contrast, Einsteinian relativity introduced a variable-driven, location-dependent concept of time, predicting that clocks in different gravitational potentials or moving at different velocities tick at different rates—a phenomenon commonly referred to as time dilation.

While this relativity seemed to be predictive, particularly in technologies such as GPS, its interpretation relies on the presupposition that time itself is relative. This paper disposes that view to set back truth, that a universal-time framework in which observed clock discrepancies and other relativistic phenomena can be fully explained as physical effects of gravity on matter, rather than variations in the passage of time.

Therefore, gravity itself is sort of like aether, where large planetary and stellar objects cause what could be imagined to be denseness, strength of gravity, and moving away from them, weakness of gravity, and that the strength of gravity holds things in orbit or draws things (e.g. a ball falls to the ground, a comet whizzes toward the sun).

PRINCIPLES

  • Absolute universal time

Time is considered a constant, universal flow, identical across all locations and independent of motion or gravitational potential. The passage of time cannot be accelerated, slowed, or controlled by human devices; it is a fundamental property of the universe.

  • Gravity as a regulator of matter

Gravity is a universal influence acting on all matter with mass. It affects all physical processes proportionally, including:

  • Atomic transitions
  • Nuclear decay
  • Chemical reactions
  • Biological processes, such as neural firing

Clocks do not experience “slower” time in stronger gravitational fields; they tick differently because their internal physical processes are directly influenced by gravity.

  • Light’s decay and current stable universal speed

Light propagates at a universal speed in the current universe. While minor local distortions may occur due to interaction with gravitational fields, its global speed remains consistent. Historical observations suggest that light may have decayed from near-instantaneous speeds in the early universe to the present stable value. This provides a coherent explanation for cosmological observations without requiring time itself to vary.

OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE

  • Atomic clocks

Atomic clocks placed at different altitudes or velocities show consistent variations in tick rates. In this model:

  • A clock at sea level ticks at 1 second per standard unit
  • A clock in orbit might tick at say 0.97 seconds per the same standard unit

These differences reflect the physical influence of gravity on the atoms and electrons of the clock, not a change in the passage of time.

  • Freefall and satellites

Clocks in freefall, such as on orbiting satellites, behave as if unaffected by gravity, consistent with the experience of weightlessness. This occurs because the momentum state of freefall alters the manifestation of gravity on physical processes, even though universal gravity continues to act on all matter.

  • Grounded clocks, under constant gravitational acceleration, are affected directly.
  • Freefall clocks exhibit normal behaviour, as observed in orbital satellites.
  • Biological processes

Neurons, metabolic cycles and other biological processes respond proportionally to local gravitational potential. Therefore, a brain at high altitude or in orbit may operate at slightly different rates compared with a brain at sea level, reflecting gravity’s regulation of matter, not a relative flow of time.

  • Light and electromagnetism

While the speed of light remains globally constant:

  • Minor local gravitational interactions can produce observable effects, such as redshift or bending of light, without requiring time itself to be variable. (The universe itself may be expanding since creation, which may also account for redshift.)
  • This ensures causality is preserved and measurement consistency remains intact.

CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS

  • No time dilation

All phenomena traditionally interpreted as time dilation are fully explained as physical effects of gravity on matter. No clock, neuron, or atomic process measures a different universal time; instead, their rates of operation are influenced by gravity.

  • Gravity as a universal regulator

Gravity is not a localised force acting inconsistently; it is a universal regulator that proportionally influences all matter. Because matter cannot be shielded from gravity, all processes are affected in predictable, proportional ways, producing the exact observations attributed to relativistic effects.

  • Simplicity of universal time

By positing universal time, the model eliminates the need for spacetime curvature, relative time metrics, or multiple frames of reference. Observations across locations, altitudes, and velocities are consistent with a single, universal clock regulated only by the physical influence of gravity.

ADVANTAGES OVER RELATIVISTIC MODELS

  • Conceptual simplicity preserves Newtonian absolute time and consistency with the Scripture.
  • Consistency with experimental data: atomic clocks, satellite measurements, freefall phenomena.
  • Predictive differences in clock rates, biological processes, and atomic transitions are fully explained by gravity’s proportional influence on matter.
  • Compatible with a universal light speed. Minor distortions are local and do not contradict measurement standards.

REJECTION OF THE MODERNIST MODEL

It is crucial to emphasise a fundamental distinction often overlooked in conventional physics: predictive agreement does not imply causal truth. Relativity correctly predicts observed variations in clock rates, atomic transitions, and other phenomena. However, interpreting these observations as evidence that time itself flows differently is a metaphysical assumption, not an empirically demonstrated fact.

In the universal-time framework, these same phenomena are fully explained without invoking a mutable time. Gravity acts as a universal regulator of matter, altering the rates of atomic, chemical, and biological processes. The differences observed in clocks or biological functions are not evidence of “time dilation” but rather of gravity’s physical influence on matter. Time itself remains constant, universal and unchanging.

This distinction is more than semantic. It advances understanding by providing a causal account of observed behaviours: whereas relativity treats time variations as a mysterious property of the universe, the universal-time model attributes changes to tangible interactions of matter with gravity — an approach consistent with Newtonian intuition and the observed regularities of the physical world.

In short, phenomena traditionally described as time dilation are not inexplicable “temporal magic”; they are observable manifestations of matter’s response to gravity, all occurring within a single, absolute temporal framework.

CONCLUSION

This approach offers a credible and conceptually coherent alternative to the prevailing Einsteinian framework. By positing a universal-time, gravity-as-regulator model, the universe can be understood in terms of tangible, causal interactions, rather than abstract manipulations of an elusive “flow” of time.

Key principles of this model include:

  • Time itself is constant and universal, independent of motion, location, or gravitational potential.
  • Gravity regulates all matter, proportionally affecting clocks, atomic transitions, chemical reactions, and biological processes. Differences in clock rates or neuronal activity are not evidence of time itself changing, rather, they are the result of matter responding to gravity.
  • Clocks do not control or measure time; they reveal the effects of gravity on the matter within them.
  • Light propagates at a stable universal speed, with only minor local distortions that do not contradict measurement standards.
  • Phenomena traditionally attributed to time dilation are fully explained without invoking relative time or curved spacetime.

By reframing physical phenomena in this way, the model preserves classical Newtonian intuition, aligns with empirical evidence, and avoids the conceptual complexities and metaphysical assumptions inherent in relativity. Whereas Einsteinian relativity interprets observed variations as intrinsic alterations in the flow of time, the universal-time framework attributes them to tangible, causal interactions of matter with gravity, providing a clear and mechanistic understanding.

In this view, the universe operates under absolute time, with gravity as a universal regulator and light as a consistent reference for all physical processes. Observed variations in clocks, biological processes, and atomic transitions are simply manifestations of matter’s response to gravity, all occurring within a single, unchanging temporal framework. This model offers a coherent, causal, and conceptually simpler foundation for understanding the cosmos, preserving both empirical consistency and the intuitive clarity of Newtonian physics.

Promoting orderly Christianity

INTRODUCTION

Liturgy and devotion are two important facets of how a Christian interfaces with God.

Liturgy means the manner of how church (e.g. Sunday public worship) and religious services (weddings, funerals, etc.) are ordered and relates to their content, their use of the Scripture and other elements, particularly scripted elements. Liturgy can also involve the religious content, including Scripture readings, that is used by other organisations, or at other times, for example again weddings and funerals, but also baptisms, child dedications or other services.

Devotion means the manner of family altar, private gatherings and especially personal interaction with the Lord.

While evangelicalism and especially Pentecostalism have largely loosed themselves from the constraints of templates and formulaic prayer, there are still patterns to be found in Word of Faith teachings as regards to model sermons/studies (e.g. the Kenneth Copeland Reference Bible) and model prayers (e.g. prayer of petition, tithing prayer, etc.)

THE NEED FOR COMMONALITY

Different denominations and movements have their own prayer books, hymn books, etc.

The Word of Faith Movement has several books containing prayers, such as, Prayers that Avail Much (original) by Germaine Copeland (not related to Kenneth Copeland), and secondarily material by Lynne Hammond.

It also has been telling that all kinds of Christians have used the Anglican Book of Common Prayer’s wedding ceremony as a tradition. It is this tradition which keeps the use of a wedding ring as a custom for marriage.

Reading the Scripture through the year, in church or personally can be well guided by using the charts of the Book of Common Prayer for daily, Sunday and special day readings. I think this would be good for encouraging the personal reading of Scripture and also having everyone reading/hearing the same thing every day.

Not everything would be useful from the Book of Common Prayer, of course, including Apocrypha readings, but it certainly is a good and common resource to draw upon.

It is also important to understand how the Book of Common Prayer works, in that it has a fixed position of the year and a moveable portion of the year, and that requires switching from one calendar to another so many weeks before Easter, and this continues on until so many weeks after Easter. This is because Easter moves every year.

THE 1662 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

The Book of Common Prayer has developed out of the deep Reformation era, and the common form as it stands now is called the 1662. There are also modernised, localised and translated forms of the Book of Common Prayer, but we are not advocating in any direction that way.

The Book of Common Prayer has altered in ways since 1662 but still is called the 1662. It alters in regards to naming the current monarch of England, and also in 1859 some content was removed.

One of the removed elements that is really good, and to be retained on its own, now independent of the Anglican/Episcopal church is the content in regards to the Gunpowder Plot and Landing of William III, http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1662/nov5.pdf

I have copies of the BCP: a Queen Victoria, Oxford, 1900 and a Queen Elizabeth II, Cambridge, 1954. Older copies can easily be sourced from archive.org, see also here: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1662/1662.html

FURTHERANCE

Whereas it is expedient to retain, restore or alter elements of common liturgy and devotion arising from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, its practice can continue privately or in church services under the concept of a Protestant titular bishoprick of Bethlehem. I discuss related matters here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1777l7qmCWorAcFq5zOEwIajhbjuOlQlK/view

1 Corinthians 14:33 and 40 states:
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

Order and conformity would mean that we should use the same Bible, a time-honoured and correct one. Only the King James Bible should be the standard and guide. In regards to the question about editions, it is good to have the Pure Cambridge Edition.

The Book of Common Prayer uses the Lord’s Prayer from pre-1611, and likewise the readings of the Scripture can be printed in forms not consistent with the Pure Cambridge Edition, so these can be altered. In the creeds, they can be followed, but “catholick” and “virgin” should be lowercase. Also, as mentioned, the Apocrypha readings are not required.

The Book of Common Prayer should be used as a resource that can be drawn upon, for weddings, words for certain days of the year, especially the 5 November material, and would be an excellent guide for daily readings and Sunday readings, and can be used in church or personally.

In this way we can follow the irenic encouragement for orderly Christianity in line with the Word and Spirit movement.

The Word and Spirit perspective does not conform to any single Protestant stream in total, but to recover and synthesise those doctrinal, devotional and practical strengths which have been preserved in different parts of the Protestant inheritance.

Word and Spirit draws together two streams of King James Only (Pure Cambridge Edition) Fundamentalism and Word of Faith Pentecostalism, but also encompasses vast elements of Multiple fulfilments of Bible Prophecy which includes Historicism (traditional Protestantism), millenarianism (Puritan), higher life entire sanctification Christian perfection (Holiness), creation (Fundamentalism), law and grace (Wesley/Finney and Reformed Evangelicalism), etc.

One also must mention the preference for Redemption Hymnal and a common pool of classic choruses, including those by David Ingles.

CONCLUSION

Having commonality in liturgy and devotion is very helpful in orderly Christianity. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is a good resource for selective usage. The aim of the Word and Spirit movement is not merely insular but universal, therefore Christians are encouraged to conform to the pattern shown them.

Just as the Pure Cambridge Edition is the common inheritance for all Christians, so right Protestantism should be held to as a matter of common faith.

Spelling matters

Someone asked me about the Cambridge, Oxford and London, and older and newer spelling difference of “rasor” versus “razor”. The question is, does it really matter?

If you are going to really believe that every word of God is pure and that jots and tittles really matter, then you will want precision.

So is it really important to have “rasor” and why should we consider the Cambridge spelling to be correct? The answer could be, even if it doesn’t matter (I personally can’t see a doctrine hanging on the spelling of the word), the point that the rest of the Edition that has that spelling is right, we go right along and accept rasor as well.

But for the argument of etymology and propriety. In Middle English, the French influence, it was rasour, so the z spelling is more recent.

Now, if we go one way, we will find really big differences which are important, like between “intreat” and “entreat”.

FORMSENSEDIRECTION
intreatask, pleasetoward will/favour
entreat treat, deal with toward person/condition

But in the other direction, in something which ordinarily wouldn’t matter, we ought to side with the Pure Cambridge Edition of the King James Bible.

By the way, the spelling “ought” not “aught” is not in the Pure Cambridge Edition. The mid-20th century London Edition used the spelling “aught”. If it is all the same one way or the other way, that’s one thing. But the spelling convention in the Bible (coming from 1611) has been “ought”.

“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” (Deut. 4:2).

See that word in bold in that statement.


Theological convergence model

Outline of the Divine OEconomy from a Word and Spirit view and the impact on nations

Note this is really more a draft conceptualisation.

Accordingly, we are at the time of the battle of Bible interpretation. The Infidels (Modernists), Gog (Russian philosopher prince) and modernist-influenced Christians have their interpretative methods and models, but a Word and Spirit approach opposes them on the basis that the Scripture is to be rightly understood and the Holy Ghost really is present to aid and help.

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Word and Spirit: English-Speaking Theology

INTRODUCTION

We need to start from God’s work in history, and the Scripture received, message conveyed by preservation and doctrine understand.

Protestant Christianity confesses that Holy Scripture is the supreme authority for faith and doctrine, yet it has also insisted that Scripture is not self-interpreting in a mechanical sense. Rather, Scripture is given by God to be understood by His people, through the illumination of the Holy Ghost, within the life of the Church.

The King James Bible stands today as the providentially preserved, exact and settled form of Scripture in English, and that theology, doctrine and creedal understanding are now best and most safely expressed in English, as an act of faith in divine providence. This is an explicitly anti-Enlightenment position, rejecting the imposition of human thought over truth, but instead affirming the Word and Spirit as the governing principles of Christian truth.

After arguing that the Scripture is now being accessed by believers in an authoritative form in English, we must then see that interpretation should take place anchored in the English alone, rather than in any of the original language requirements of modernistic hermeneutics. And now, I am suggesting that doctrine, creed and the very fabric of our Christianity exist entirely in English, because the best forms of Christianity have arisen since the days of William Tyndale in English, and that this is built on a middle English foundation of the Lollards which in turn is built on an Anglo-Saxon reception of the truth from the Celtic world. I am going to argue that theology necessarily must exist in English.

The doctrine of the Trinity serves as a proving ground for this approach.

THE KING JAMES BIBLE AS PROVIDENTIALLY PERFECT SCRIPTURE

The Protestant doctrine of Scripture has never ended with inspiration alone. Inspiration without preservation leaves the Church perpetually uncertain. The Reformers understood this, even if they did not systematise it as later generations would.

The King James Bible represents not merely a successful translation, but the culmination of providential transmission. God, who inspired His Word, has also governed its history, ensuring that His Church possesses a stable, authoritative text.

Scripture itself affirms this principle in Psalm 12.

The claim is that God has chosen the English language as the final means of preservation for this stage of redemptive history. The existence of an exact, identifiable text, such as the Pure Cambridge Edition, is its logical outworking. A God who intends His people to know the truth is providing His words in a knowable form.

Without such finality, doctrine becomes provisional, theology unstable and authority endlessly deferred.

THE PROPER PROTESTANT INTERPRETATIVE METHOD

True Sola Scriptura has never meant Scripture isolated from the Spirit. The Reformers were explicit that illumination is necessary.

John Calvin stated, “The testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason.”

Scripture is divine speech in written form. It is therefore understood as divine in origin, not merely analysed as mere human literature. Linguistic examination, genre awareness and comparison of Scripture with Scripture are necessary, as subject components of how to interpret, with deference to the divine will behind and revealed in Scripture.

The Holy Ghost stands above providential tradition, creeds, teachers and commentaries. These serve the Church because they are themselves fruits of the Spirit’s work across history, they are aids to Scripture, and the second way in which God communicates to His people after the primacy of Scripture itself.

After all, Christ promised, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.” (John 16:13).

The Protestant confidence that truth is knowable rests not in human intellect, but in divine intention. God intends to be understood, sufficiently and savingly, by His people.

THEOLOGY AND CREED MUST BE EXPRESSED IN ENGLISH

Theology does not exist apart from language. Every doctrine must be spoken, taught and confessed. The Nicene and Athanasian formulations were not timeless abstractions; they were contextual expressions of biblical truth using the most serviceable language available at the time.

That language is no longer Greek.

The continued dependence on Greek technical terms is not a mark of fidelity, but often of intellectual inertia. These terms were never inspired; they were tools. English now fulfils that function more effectively, more universally and more safely.

The English-speaking Church has already proven this. The Book of Common Prayer, for example, demonstrates that creedal and Trinitarian doctrine can be expressed clearly, reverently and precisely in English without loss of substance.

The insistence that theology must remain tethered to Greek categories effectively privileges the academy over the Church and resurrects a clericalism the Reformation explicitly rejected.

THE TRINITY AS A TEST CASE

Scripture presents the raw data:

  • One God
  • The Father is God
  • The Son is God
  • The Holy Ghost is God
  • The Father is not the Son
  • The Son is not the Spirit

The doctrine of the Trinity is not an invention, but an interpretative articulation of what the Scripture shows. It is the only formulation that preserves all biblical testimony without subtraction.

The creeds do not explain how God is triune; they establish what must be affirmed and what must be denied. As Athanasius rightly insisted, denial of the Son’s full deity is denial of salvation itself.

English theological language is fully capable of expressing this reality:

God is one being, eternally existing as three distinct persons — Father, Son and Holy Ghost — each fully and truly God.

No Greek metaphysics is required to grasp this truth. What is required is submission to the totality of Scripture.

COUNTERING SCHOLARLY OBJECTIONS

1. Textual Criticism

Modern textual criticism assumes that Scripture exists only as a reconstructive hypothesis, never as a settled text. This assumption is philosophical, not biblical.

The Protestant position insists that God governs history, not merely inspiration. Endless textual fluidity undermines faith and contradicts Scripture’s own claims of preservation.

2. Historical objections

It is often claimed that Trinitarian doctrine developed under political pressure. This confuses clarification with invention. Heresy forced definition; it did not create truth.

The early Church did not impose doctrine on Scripture — it defended Scripture from reduction.

3. Philosophical objections

Enlightenment rationalism demands that doctrine be demonstrable prior to belief. Christianity reverses the order: faith receives revelation, and reason serves it.

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5).

The Trinity is not irrational; it is supra-rational. It exceeds reason without violating it.

WHY GREEK DEPENDENCE IS NO LONGER DESIRABLE

Greek-based methods (translation, interpretation and theological definitional categories) once served the Church. They no longer do so universally or effectively. Continued dependence on them:

  • restricts theology to specialists
  • obscures rather than clarifies doctrine
  • undermines the Protestant principle of accessibility

The Reformers themselves rejected linguistic tyranny. William Tyndale famously declared his desire that the ploughboy should know more Scripture than the cleric. That vision is fulfilled not by perpetual return to Greek, but by confidence in English theological speech.

The King James Bible stands as the providentially preserved Word of God in English. The Holy Ghost illuminates that Word, guiding the Church into truth. Theology and creed must therefore be articulated in English, as the living language of the Church, regardless of the attacks from Infidelity, and the many inroads Enlightenment-based thinking has made into the academic gatekeepers of modern day Christianity.

The doctrine of the Trinity demonstrates that this approach does not weaken theology but it strengthens it. It exalts Scripture, honours the Spirit, respects providential tradition, equips the Church and safeguards to communication of the very articulation of truth the future of mankind.

THE CHAINS OF PROVIDENCE

True doctrine passed from the Apostles to the Church of Constantine where the Creeds were made. This then informed the insular Latin tradition, as doctrine came up from Gaul, and was in the end of sub-Roman Britain (as it had been since Joseph of Arimathea, St Alban or St Helen had been there) and eventually was seen in Wales in the family of Arthur.

It also went to Ireland by Patrick, to Scotland by Columba and came to Northumbria by Aidan. Thus, we can be sure that there is a direct line through the Celtic church to the Anglo-Saxons that was parallel to the truth also being in the Eastern, Greek-speaking world. I will call this the York line.

The second Canterbury line among the Anglo-Saxons came from Rome, and also reinforced by the Normans, resisted by the Barons (Magna Carta) and the people (the anti-curial movement) and present in the Lollard movement under John Wycliffe. In this line the expression of the Trinity was primarily in Latin.

Thus the Reformation was from the outset taking Scripture from Greek, doctrinal expression from Nicaea that had been in Greek, but moved to English. The doctrine of the Trinity was therefore expressed in English in the Book of Common Prayer, besides it being made common by other means in English, like through the Westminster Confession.

Now by these was doctrine being expressed fully in English, and the successive rise of Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism and so on have all been in English. The best theological progress in the world has been in English.

Yet, many have joined with the lies of Infidelity to try to fight English by trying to make Greek rule over Christian truth.

We see this spiritually-based ideological war, whether in New Zealand, where evil forces have tried to subject English everywhere, and we see it throughout Calvinism where they willingly enslave themselves to Greek.

The opportunity is for people everywhere to burst these bonds and to come into the uplift of the Spirit into the heady clouds of clarity, wide expression and right understanding.