Because of grace?

Last year, in this blog, I wrote that the things mentioned in this blog all are hearsay, I hear and I say....some are coincidentally happened ....And I told you that I am living very near to the Wood Bridge...you know what I mean!

This blog is the first draft, it is not edited nicely, pardon me, for my poor English, I hope some one can understand my writings.

Sometimes, some strange rythmes and feelings came, and they help me to write down the blog, but sometimes, it is my own feeling at work to influence me in writing this blog. Another time, it is because i am thinking like a child, so most of the time, i wrote like a child.

In the Bible, there is a saying, when we are a child, we talked like a child....in 1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."

And today, let me write like a child again, I wanted to write about some schooling systems, they are not based on any merit at all. Some of the school cannot come to first world standard, let me illustrate it for you.

In UK or US, or down here in Singapore, we have set 40 or 50 marks, to be the passing mark in the examination..

Overall Grade

* A1: 75% and above
* A2: 70% to 74%
* B3: 65% to 69%
* B4: 60% to 64%
* C5: 55% to 59%
* C6: 50% to 54%
* U: Below 50%, considered Un-graded, or failed.

For example, the GPA table for Raffles Institution is as below:

Grade Percentage Grade Point
A+ 80-100 4.0
A 70-79 3.6
B+ 65-69 3.2
B 60-64 2.8
C+ 55-59 2.4
C 50-54 2.0
D 45-49 1.6
E 40-44 1.2
F <40 0.8

But sad to say, in some places, their GCE standards 'deliberately lowered' to make sure some "coloured faces or a particular race" of pupils pass the exams, from 40 or 50, the usual passing mark, it has been lower to only 18 marks, to pass the exam paper. Marvellous?

For other coloured races, their passing mark is set to 40 marks or 50 marks. This is not fair at all in sitting the same exam,...and they said they are not racist, and they see me as a racist in writing this blog...they warned me in creating problem for them? Who is the trouble maker?

What about the theologians who give grace and recommendation only to those who accept their teachings, their Verbal Plenary Preservation (VPP), if you accept VPP, you will become like their brothers and friends, if you do not accept the VPP, you will be called an out cast, an enemy in Christ, a stranger, a lazy snake...they called you "new evangelical...modernist...postmodernist...rebellous!"

Are they following any merit system in judging others? No, they see VPP as the passing mark for Christianity in End Time!

Are they judge the right judgement? Are they the judge? We are not any judge! The judge is at the door, He is Jesus Christ, let Him say something about the merit system, let Him say something about the Word of God, the scripture...what did He said?

Genesis 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground."

Zephaniah 1:14
"The great day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen! The cry on the day of the LORD will be bitter, the shouting of the warrior there."

Matthew 15:10
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand."

Understand what....? Do not just listen to any Bible, must understand...what to understand...

Luke 8:18
Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."

Luke 10:16
"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

Let me ask you a few childish questions here, now I talk like a child again...Did any one reject Jesus, just because they read the CUV?

Did CUV reject Christ totally?
Did NKJV reject Christ? No!
Did NIV reject Christ? No!
Did ESV reject Christ as our saviour? No!
Did KJV reject Christ as God? No!

John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

Did CUV bring people to Christ? Yes or no?
Did KJV bring people to Christ?
Did NIV bring people to Christ?

In what merit system we must used to judge a Bible version, weather it is faithful or not faithful then?
Should we judge the Bible version according to a few manuscripts, or the "perfect underlying text of KJV?"

To me, I talked like a child again, Christianity is not teaching a merit, not even a simple one like the VPP, but Christianity is preaching about grace...

Because of grace, the historical church was using many imperfect manuscripts as his Bible, many editions of Bibles were being done! Because of grace...we Chinese reads the CUV until today!

Because of grace...we are not KJV only! Because of grace we are not CUV only! Because of grace we are not a NIV only....