Mike Randall
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Mike Randall is the president of Baptist Bible College - Springfield, Missouri and the Baptist Bible Graduate School. For over 38 years, Randall has been in full time ministry. He spent 22 years as a pastor.
Randall has held numerous offices in the Baptist Bible Fellowship International, on both the state and national level. He has worked at Baptist Bible College for 14 years. He served seven years as a member of the faculty and seven years as the school’s vice president.
Since 1995, Randall has been the editor of The Baptist Preacher and the Baptist Bible Tribune. He has had experience and training as a teacher, pastor, administrator, editor, and author.
The highest degree Randall obtained was a Doctor of Letters (D.Lit) degree from Louisiana Baptist University[citation needed] (an unaccredited institution).
[edit] Controversy
Randall wrote in the July/Aug. 1997 issue of The Baptist Preacher (a reprint of his earlier article that appeared in the April 22, 1988 issue) that the only perfect Bible was "the original manuscripts." Furthermore, he claimed that copies of the manuscript have allowed us to read the Bible today "as originally written." This meant that the contemporary Bible "could be used to represent copies made of those original writings." Thus, while Randall would claim no translation is perfect, he would say the Bible is the word of God due to the "faithfulness" to the original writings.[1]
