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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceeds from the mouth of God.
(Matthew 4:4) NKJV
Welcome
The Foundation for Biblical
Research was founded in 1977 to
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Perform
technical research in the original languages of Scripture,
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Develop,
publish, and promote the technical tools produced by that
research, and
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Accomplish
Biblical research on specific practical topics and publish
books for the benefit of all believers (and even a number of
known unbelievers who were drawn to Christ through them).
Some of the results of FBR have
been
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The
Standard Writer’s Guide for Greek and Hebrew Exegesis, which has been endorsed by many seminary professors as an extremely
competent and thorough guide for grammatical exegesis,
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The
Exegetical Bible,
which is incomplete at this time (Several seminary graduates
accomplished approximately 800 of the 8,000 hours necessary
for this project before FBR was no longer able to fund the
project. This project is planned for resumption in 2010. ),
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Bible-Based Hermeneutics
(which was completed in September, 2007), and
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The
Dictionary of Bible-Based Word Meanings
(Currently, about 10% of the research required to complete
this project is in rough-draft form. Much of that research
will be included in Bible-Based Hermeneutics. I
intend to dedicate the rest
of my life in completing this project, along with the help
of others who grasp the vision. Volunteers are encouraged to
apply, after they have completed the Bible-Based
Hermeneutics text.)
The following non-technical books for all believers were written based
on the above research, both to demonstrate the kind of
practical results that can be derived from such exacting
research and to fund the completion of FBR’s technical
projects:
What the Bible Says about
Child Training, book and workbook,
What the Bible Says About
Being a Man,
What the Bible Says About
Suffering,
Successful Home Schooling,
Will
Early Education Ruin Your Child,
No Place
like Home…School,
On the
Other Side of the Garden,
book and workbook, and
Victorious Women.
FBR stands firmly on the premise that the
only Theology that is fitting for man to learn and base his teaching on is
one that can be totally substantiated by Scripture. This
statement is not to suggest that all existing Theologies are
incorrect. It only means that any systematic Theology or
fragment thereof a student accepts as truth must be able to
stand up to honest evaluation based on a hermeneutically
correct Scriptural analysis. Am I insinuating that man does
not know anything about God’s Word at this time? Absolutely
not! However, every humanly developed Theology has sprung
forth, at least partially, from the mind of man and therefore
has potentially been tainted by man’s fallen nature. It may
even have been developed as a response to challenges from
unbelievers or from apostate, heretical, or misguided
Christians. The challenges of Gnosticism, Arminianism, and
other heresies have been the impetus for much Theological
research. Sadly, some Theologies are more anti-positions than
positions developed by an objective attempt to research and
rightly discern “the
mind of Christ.”
What I am saying is that NO
doctrinal position can be blindly accepted as truth,
especially by those who are called to preach to others. God
commended the Bereans because, as Acts 17:11
states
(based on this author’s interpretation from the Greek), “they
welcomed [Paul’s teaching] with all eagerness, carefully
examining the Scriptures daily, [wishing] to find those things
[the things that were said] were so [in the degree or manner
stated].” These were
not those Jews who
were negative to Paul’s teaching and challenged what he said;
they sought the Truth and readily anticipated its being proven
out of Scripture. Every doctrine should be so investigated
before it is accepted, and especially before it is taught to
others.
FBR’s ultimate objective would be that God might use Spiritually-gifted
men, who are committed to the premise stated above, to effect
a “Resolution” of the major issues dividing Conservative
Evangelical Theology today. These issues encompass the
disagreement between the contradictory positions of T.U.L.I.P.
and Free Grace, as well as the controversy between Covenantal
and Dispensational Theology. I believe this resolution will be
necessary before the Scripture can be fulfilled that says,
for the
equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity
of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a
perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ;
(Ephesians
4:12-13) NKJV
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