Roddy Kenneth Street, Jr., B.A., M.Div. is the author of all the "street tracts" presented at the many sites of the Street Tracts International Net, an outgrowth of the Street Tracts International Mission. He is a Christian of Protestant lineage, in early life a Presbyterian, later a Baptist, and for the last 20 years he has been officially a member of a congregation that is part of the Southern Baptist convention. He holds a B.A. in English Literature that was awarded to him in 1973 by the Univ. of NC at Charlotte, and he also holds an M.Div. degree that was awarded to him in Dec. 1995 by Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC.
He believes that the Holy Scripture of the Christian Bible is inerrant and that it should generally be interpreted in the most literal way possible, and believes that ALL Scripture in God's Bible is totally reliable and utterly truthful, with regard to all verses and all writings in every book of both the Old Testament and the New Testament;
his high esteem for the inerrancy of Holy Scripture relates only to the long-approved books of the Protestant Christian Bible, and does not carry over to all of the apocryphal writings (the intermediate "Apocrypha") that may be found contained in some Roman Catholic versions of the Christian Bible;
it applies to all Holy Scripture in the books of the Jewish Bible (our Old Testament), but does not carry over to any of the "sacred" writings that came later from the Jewish rabbis;
he believes the Bible is the Word of God, directly inspired by and created by the Holy Spirit of God (one Person of the Holy Trinity that consists of God The Father/God The Son/God The Spirit ), and it thus reflects the Light and the Utter Truthfulness of Jesus Christ, Who is also the Word of God, the Holy One, and Who is ultimately the Final King and Eternal Ruler of our Universe;
he believes that the Holy Bible is 100% reliable in all matters of both history and science, and is the only source of certain and Absolute Truth about our Universe;
thus he does not support any of the very imaginative and speculative re-interpretations of Scripture that have been produced by the fantasy-loving supporters of historical-critical methodology and the ever-erroneous theories of Evolutionism and the New Age religious cults;
he believes that Jesus Christ is Holy, the Divine and Only-Begotten Son of Father God, equally God and Man, coming down from Heaven to Earth to bring salvation to those who believe in Him and follow obediently His teachings, and that those who love Him will obediently follow His teachings, spreading the truth of the gospel and of Holy Scripture rather than perpetrating erroneous theories or perpetuating fallacious beliefs;
he believes that as the Word of God, Jesus Christ has revealed His Truth to humanity both in His words spoken on Earth while in the human form of the God-Incarnate Jesus Christ and also in all of the Holy Scripture of the Bible, which He has written in its entirety and for which He is also responsible;
that in the combination of both Old Covenant Scripture (Torah, Kings, Prophets, Writings, in toto) and New Covenant Scripture, we are blessed by Jesus Christ with a grand revelation of Absolute Truth and revealed knowledge that informs us about our Universe in wondrous ways, giving humanity a great knowledge that did not exist for all the generations that came before the birth of Jesus Christ on Earth;
he believes the Word of Jesus Christ in which He declared that no one knows both Heaven and Earth except for God The Son, Who came down from Heaven to Earth;
he believes the words of Jesus Christ in which He declared that not one dot or tittle of His Holy Scripture would ever prove to fail, and that it will endure unchanging and inviolate until all the prophecies of the Law and the Holy Scriptures have been fulfilled, and that the Holy Scripture will endure even beyond that time, for ever and ever;
he believes the Word of God when He tells us that the grass withers and flowers fade, but the Word of God will endure forever;
he believes the Word of God abides forever, that it has endured through the millennia of chaotic and sinful violence on Earth, enduring as the evil world of Noah was destroyed by God's Flood, enduring as the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God's fire that came down from Heaven upon them,
enduring through the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, enduring when the errant Jewish people were for many generations prisoners of Babylon, enduring in the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ, enduring even the nearly 2 and 1/2 thousand years that the Jews were homeless, without any nation of their own,
enduring during these recent years, in which we have seen the nation of Israel re-created and the scattered Jewish people re-established in the land that God promised to them-- enduring even as the genocidal leaders of many Muslim nations around them (such as the Hitler protege in Iran) have ceaselessly threatened the Jews with utter annihilation, determined to wipe their nation off the map;
enduring in our current time, as worldwide violence, terrorism, sexual perversion, sexual immorality, and "free sex" fornication habits reach levels that must surely compare to the days of Noah, or even surpass them,
and enduring even as 10% of all Muslims in the world (well over 100 million of the 1.2 billion Muslims on our Earth) declare themselves to be in an extremist sect of Islam which supports worldwide terrorism attacks, viewing favorably all violence committed by Islamic terrorists against Israel and the United States,
enduring as Islamic terrorists threaten the lives and safety of all Jews and all Christians everywhere (persons who may live in any country of this Earth), repeatedly threatening to bring total destruction upon all freedom-lovers everywhere, for both the Godly and the unGodly, as they continue in their fanatical determination that all nations on Earth must submit to their prophet Mohammed and their Allah;
enduring in the time of upheavals and worldwide difficulties that we see in the present hour, and enduring even during the coming Tribulation years and the Great Tribulation of our world's future, and even in the burning destruction of the Earth and the fierce judgements of the Apocalypse in the Day of the Lord, in the dread and awesome days that are yet to come;
he believes the words of Jesus Christ, Who promised that, even though Heaven and Earth will pass away someday when He renovates His Universe, with a New Heaven and a New Earth then to be brought into existence, His words will never pass away;
that even though Heaven and Earth may pass away, His Word will never pass away.
Amen, and Hallelujah!
Signed,
Ken Street , earth-trekker at large
April 4, 2008
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