One Book Rightly Divided: Prophetic Edition - Hardcover

Douglas D. Stauffer; Andrew B. Ray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1942452055 ISBN 13: 9781942452058

Publisher: McCowen Mills Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

God has given man the Bible, yet the scriptures are debated with more vigor and less agreement today than in any previous generation. The resultant widespread error propagated by churches and cults has compelled the republication of this highly acclaimed title. One Book Rightly Divided addresses many difficult and confusing questions, such as: When did the New Testament begin? Some say immediately following Malachi (Matthew 1:1); others adamantly proclaim not until after Christ s death (Hebrews 9:17). What happened to the souls of those in the Old Testament of whom it was said that God s Spirit departed from them (1 Samuel 16:14; Psalm 51:11)? What is the purpose of water baptism? Some teach that water baptism brings salvation (Acts 2:38); others teach that water baptism simply illustrates salvation; while yet others teach that water baptism serves no purpose in the present age. When Christ returns to establish His Kingdom, will it be the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven ? Some teach that one of these is physical and the other strictly spiritual (Luke 17:20; Romans 14:17) while others adamantly claim they are both the same (Matthew 19:23-24). What does the Bible mean when it refers to the blotting out of one s name from the Book of Life (Revelation 3:5)? When are names recorded in the Book of Life? Since the Bible contains no contradictions, how does one reconcile For by grace are ye saved through faith ... not of works ... (Ephesians 2:8-9) with by works a man is justified and not by faith only (James 2:24)? Can both be true? Did Peter and Paul write two different gospels to the same group one teaching the loss of salvation and the other teaching salvation by grace with eternal security (2 Peter 3:15-16)? The answers to these important questions serve as the tip of the iceberg with which the reader will become familiar in this work. In fact, One Book Rightly Divided with its 6,745 Bible references will enable the diligent student to answer the critic and solve his own personal uncertainties concerning difficult passages from God s word.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas D. Stauffer is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of Bible history, apologetics, and prophecy. He is a prolific author, having written eighteen books along with numerous writings published in Christian periodicals. Because of his biblical expertise, Oxford University Press commissioned Dr. Stauffer to work as a contributing editor on the New Pilgrim King James study Bible. Immediately, following high school, Doug served a four year tour of duty in the USAF. Upon discharge, he returned to Pennsylvania to attend The Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a BS degree in accounting. A few months later he began attending Bible college. While attending Bible college, Dr. Stauffer passed the CPA exam. He then worked as controller of several organizations. In 1994, he gave up his work as CFO of a multi-million dollar company along with managing his own firm when God began dealing with him about dedicating his time more fully to the ministry. Since that time, he has earned his ThM and then his PhD in Religion from International Baptist Seminary. Along with being a frequent guest speaker on radio and television, he has served over a dozen years in the pastorate and logged thousands of hours teaching in churches and at the college level. Dr. Stauffer currently serves as an Assistant Pastor at Antioch Baptist Church and an evangelist and president of Partners for Truth Ministries. Doug and his wife Judy are blessed with two children, Justin and Heather. Andrew B. Ray is the pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has a heart for the Lord, His word, the church, the family, as well as the next generation. He spends countless hours counseling and obediently declaring all the counsel of God. As a diligent student of the scriptures, he earned his Doctor of Theology degree and faithfully preaches and teaches at the church, as well as the Bible institute. Before becoming pastor in May 2007, Dr. Ray served as assistant pastor for four years at Antioch Baptist Church under Dr. David F. Reagan. Upon Dr. Reagan s death, Andrew was unanimously voted as pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. Bro. Ray is the author of The Fingerprint of God along with a four year series of devotional books called Daily Strength: Devotions for Bible-Believing Study. He has also written several gospel tracts and is currently serving as an editor for a songbook that incorporates scriptural songs, bringing back original lyrics altered or removed by modern hymnals. He is truly what the Bible defines as a man who labours in the word and doctrine (1 Timothy 5:17). God has blessed Bro. Ray and his wife Lula with five children: Noah, Hannah, Sara, Charity, and Isaac.

Review

It has often been lamented that Baptists seldom undertake the daunting task of serious doctrinal writing. Not to be intimidated, Doug Stauffer and Andrew Ray have stepped up to the challenge and delivered a masterful piece of work.  Written from the gifted and gracious hearts of two genuine Bible teachers, One Book Rightly Divided is destined to become top shelf material for Bible-believing libraries everywhere.  I look forward to using and recommending this well-balanced and much-needed work for many years to come. --James L. Melton

As with every weighty biblical truth, the dispensational study of the Bible has ditches on either side. Ignoring God's divisions of the Bible can be dangerous to one s understanding of eternal salvation as well as destructive to the doctrines of Christianity. The sense of so much scripture can be lost when the Bible is not properly divided. Yet, overly dividing the Bible can give way to the undoing of many great truths for present-day believers as well as nurture inward pride and strife amongst the brethren. This book seeks to expound upon biblical principles to bridge this ever-widening gap. I have always appreciated my good relationships with Brother Doug Stauffer and Pastor Andrew Ray. I have been privileged to preach for and with Pastor Ray on several occasions. These are good Bible-believing and Bible-practicing men who love our Lord Jesus Christ, His Church, and God s perfect word. I encourage you to read their work with an open mind, discerning heart, and teachable spirit. It has always been my position that believing and studying the Bible makes one an individualist instead of a blind robot who follows someone else s system. Surely, the truth of the priesthood of the believer allows the Holy Ghost to give Bible students differing insights into the understanding of scripture. Yet, these truths never cause anyone to veer away from the fundamentals of our faith. We must always continue to diligently emphasize the commands of our Lord to His Church while laboring to understand each division of the word of God with a humble heart. I trust this work will positively contribute to your study into the path of God s truth. --Brent Logan

It has been more than four decades since the Lord Jesus Christ saved my soul. By the grace of God, I was justified the moment I put my faith in the finished work of the Lamb of God. I was blessed to find myself in fellowship with those who were part of (what I would later learn) a very, very small segment of professing Christians; those who believed that the Bible was to be rightly divided. My earliest discipleship lessons included learning the difference between the nation of Israel and the New Testament Church, between law and grace, between the Rapture of the Church and the Second Coming of Christ to earth. It was a sure foundation indeed. The people of that church introduced me to the Scofield Reference Bible. One man gave me a book I still treasure, Dispensational Truth by Clarence Larkin. (Only the Lord knows how many nights I gave up sleep to pour over those charts!) In the days before so many books were on-line (whether legally or illegally, I cannot tell), I would spend every spare dollar collecting the works of A. C. Gaebelein, August Van Ryn, Graham Scroggie, and others who with a keen eye and true heart showed me clear divisions between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven, pointed out those parts of God s word specifically for the Jew, the Gentile, and the Church of God, and highlighted minute but meaningful differences between the four Gospels, time periods in Acts, and the kingdom age set against eternity. All of these men placed the focus of their dispensational studies on the person of the Lord Jesus Christ showing what He had done, was doing, and will yet do from age to age. He was truly given all the glory. Later, I would be introduced to the works of Peter Ruckman, Greg Estep, and others who drew sharper lines of distinction, then to Cornelius Stam, J. C. O hair, Dave Reese, and others who taught to varying degrees and with skillful persuasion that the Bible was not only to be divided but that it consisted of parts so different that there were great impassable gulfs between Paul and Peter, one portion of Acts and another, and, in fact, ways for men to gain eternal life apart from the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary. My searching into these matters reached its depths when I plowed my way through every note and cross reference in The Companion Bible and as I read with a mixture of wonder and concern through all the other works of E. W. Bullinger. For good measure, I found relief in the excellent work Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth by Harry Ironside. Let me say that I thank God for every one of these men and the hundreds of other authors and preachers not mentioned, for their study and teaching. I am truly appreciative for each bit of truth they passed from their hearts and minds to mine. As I pressed farther and farther into this matter of right division, which for me was but one small field of study among all the wonders of God s Holy Bible, two things became clear to me. First, the deeper I went the more the authors, and those who preached the doctrines learned from the authors, proclaimed the virtues of a dispensational system and the less they proclaimed the virtues of the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, being washed in the blood of the Lamb, being saved by the grace of God, and being a fellow member of the body of Christ ceased to be the basis of fellowship. One had to adhere to a precise manner of dispensational teaching or one would be excluded, shunned, derided, and in some circles destroyed. The bond was no longer Christ but how one viewed Acts 9 or Hebrews or an obscure passage in Judges. Had I been concerned only with dispensationalism, this might have made sense; but when one takes scripture as a whole, such a position cannot be justified. Second, it became evident that there were those who had so turned their eyes from Christ to (see Foreword inside book) --James Knox (Foreword)

Edition details

• Publisher: McCowen Mills Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1942452055
• ISBN 13: 9781942452058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 844
• Editor: Lois Barnes, Grammar, Susan Keller
• Illustrator: Rick Quatro