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About Fred R. Coulter
Resignation from the WCG
With a ministry now spanning 44 years,
Fred Coulter is on a God-inspired mission to preserve the truth of God
for the next generation of faithful Christians. According to Coulter,
forces of godless evil are subtly working behind the scenes in religion,
government, education and economics. Secular-liberal, New Age-satanic
forces are fast at work corrupting the fundamental truths of the Bible
and destroying godly morality; prominent atheists--especially in America
and the UK--have mounted bitter assaults against God and the Bible. In
fact, Christianity itself is experiencing rampant doctrinal confusion
and heresy, resulting in the overthrow of bedrock moral values. Even the
Scriptures themselves are no longer held as sacred, but have been
thoroughly violated in the rush to produce so-called "modern"
gender-neutral translations.
It is against this backdrop that Coulter
has worked as minister, author and publisher to produce nine biblical
books, an abundance of booklets and papers, 1600 audio sermons, and 400
video sermons--all designed to safeguard the true doctrines of
Christ, as well as the Scriptures themselves. Recent publications
include Occult Holidays or God's Holy Days--Which?, now in its
second edition. A much-needed resource for Bible students, this book
contrasts the pagan holidays of nominal "Christianity" with the
God-ordained holy days of the Bible. In July of 2008, Coulter's work
reached a personal milestone with the first printing of The Holy
Bible In Its Original Order--A Faithful Version With Commentary.
This extraordinary Bible is
unique in that it is the only complete Bible ever
published--with Old and New Testaments--that follows the original,
canonical manuscript order as recognized by scholars.
As a new, easy-to-read English
translation, The Holy Bible In Its Original Order is completely
faithful to the original Hebrew and Greek texts.
In 2009 Coulter published an updated and
expanded Second Edition of The Holy Bible In Its Original Order--which
includes a new 32-page appendix, "Understanding Paul's Difficult
Scriptures."
Education
Coulter attended the University of San
Francisco and in 1960 graduated from San Mateo State College (San Mateo
Junior College) before graduating from Ambassador University (Ambassador
College), Pasadena, California, with a BA in Theology in 1964. From
1972-75 Coulter completed advanced biblical and ministerial studies
under the Ambassador University Master's Program. While completing these
studies, he was encouraged by his professor of Koiné Greek to
consider translating the books of the New Testament.
Translating the New Testament
After completing formal instruction in
New Testament Greek, Coulter continued to expand his knowledge of Greek
for the next 20 years by undertaking a verse-by-verse study of the books
of the New Testament using the Byzantine Text. In the course of his
study, he was moved to translate the Gospel accounts into clear,
easy-to-read English for contemporary readers--resulting in his first
published work, A Harmony of the Gospels in Modern English (now
in its third edition). Ultimately, Coulter was inspired to translate the
entire New Testament. After twelve years of translating, The New
Testament In Its Original Order--A Faithful Version With Commentary was completed and published in 2004. (This publication has subsequently
been replaced by The Holy Bible In Its Original Order.)
Translating the Old Testament
In 2006, Coulter began collaborating
directly with Old Testament Hebrew Consultant E. Michael Heiss to
develop the Old Testament portion of The Holy Bible In Its Original
Order. This new translation of the Old Testament is based on the Ben
Asher Masoretic Hebrew Text. Together, Coulter and Heiss have
meticulously combed through each and every word and phrase in the Hebrew
and English to produce a version that is faithful to the original texts.
The result is a "fresh, easy-to-read translation that retains the grace
and grandeur of the King James Version" (Dr. Will Tomory,
Professor of English, Southwest Michigan College). While no
translation is perfect, every attempt has been made to translate the
original texts with accuracy and fidelity.
Ministerial Career
Ordained a minister of Jesus Christ in
1965, Coulter has pastored numerous Sabbath-keeping churches of God in
the Pacific Northwest, the Mountain States, the greater Los Angeles area
and Monterey, including the central coast area of California. Since
1983, Coulter has served as president and pastor of the Christian
Biblical Church of God (CBCG), headquartered in Hollister, California (cbcg.org).
Coulter's ministry reaches all parts of the United States and Canada,
with additional offices in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom,
South Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Web sites
Coulter has also developed in-depth Web
sites for the purpose of preserving biblical truth (cbcg.org,
biblicaltruthministries.org and churchathome.org). Over 1500 audio
sermons and Bible studies are available for download, including hundreds
of video sermons, sermon transcripts and biblical articles.
Commentaries, histories and chronologies are also available.
Each year, nearly 500,000 people from
around the world actively utilize the church's Web sites--where they find
timely, inspiring weekly sermons and in-depth, verse-by-verse biblical
study materials covering virtually all of Scripture.
Web site study materials cover such
topics as:
Prophecy in the End Times
True Christian Character and Behavior
Christian Living
How to Pray
How to Study the Bible
Major Publications
The Holy Bible In Its Original Order
A Harmony of the Gospels In Modern English
Occult Holidays or God's Holy Days--Which?
God's Plan for Mankind Revealed by His Sabbath and Holy Days
The Christian Passover
The Day Jesus the Christ Died
Lord, What Should I Do?
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