Bryan C. Ross begins From This Generation For Ever by stating plainly what this study is built upon: the King James Bible is the Bible for English speaking people and the Received Text undergirds that confidence. The GLBC Statement of Faith quoted in the excerpts affirms that “the entire Bible is verbally inspired of God” and that God “has providentially preserved His completed Word for us today” in the Textus Receptus and the King James Version. Ross frames the study to defend that conviction carefully, with historical, textual, and dispensational concern.
Ross adopts a presuppositional posture at the outset: we accept the Bible’s own claim of divine origin and then examine the evidences from that starting point. The notes explicitly set out basic assumptions — God exists, God has magnified His word above His name, the Word is eternally settled in heaven, God has communicated by inspiration, those words were written down to be available, and God promised to preserve what He inspired. Ross says, “for the purposes of this class we are going to initially adopt a Presuppositional approach,” and then proceeds to test and marshal internal and external proofs from that foundation.
On inspiration Ross remains faithful to the language of plenary, verbal inspiration taught in the excerpts. The course outline and lesson list repeatedly return to the nature and mechanism of inspiration, including treatments of revelation, inspiration, illumination, and various theories (Lessons 6–19 and beyond). Ross intends to explain how God’s living Word relates to the written Word, and he sets the scriptural claim of inspiration as the proper starting point for textual and preservational study.
Preservation, for Ross, is not an afterthought but a promise. The GLBC Statement of Faith in the excerpts quotes Psalms 12:6–7 as the basis to affirm that God has providentially preserved His completed Word, and Ross expressly connects that promise to the existence of a preserved text for English speakers in the KJV. He also insists that this conviction must cohere with a right‑division, mid‑Acts dispensational understanding: what one believes about God’s Word must not contradict what one believes about God’s working in time during the present dispensation of grace.
Ross warns that the attack against the Bible is old and methodical. He draws on the Genesis 3 narrative to show Satan’s five tactics against God’s word — the initial question (“Yea, hath God said…?”), subtraction, addition, watering down, and outright denial — and he insists these same tactics continue in textual controversies today. Ross further presses the warning of a coming famine of the words (as he teaches from Amos and related lessons), stressing that the faithful must know where the words are and preserve the final authority of the Book in hand.
The pastoral thrust of Ross’s work is training and steadiness: he wrote these lessons to teach faithful men in the assembly and to forge a King James position that is historically, textually, and denominationally consistent. He urges diligence in knowing what the Book is and where it is, because the power for evangelism, holiness, and sound doctrine comes from that preserved Word. For those who hold a Mid‑Acts, right‑division posture, Ross calls for sober study of inspiration and preservation so that our confidence in the KJV stands on biblical, historical, and dispensationally consistent ground.