ABOUT
SYNTHSAINT
SynthSaint is a Biblical generative multimedia ministry. We take themes straight from the Word of God and render them in music, video, and imagery. The purpose is to edify believers and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. SynthSaint now carries the full body of work formerly published as KJV Cards; the two have been merged into one ministry under this single brand.
IVAN DAVID LIPPENS
I started this ministry around 2014, when I set out to create a strategic card game using Biblical themes. It was initially called Truth, under an AbdA Ministries brand. I invested thousands of hours into the parameters, designs, style, and mechanics. After a Kickstarter campaign fell short, I realized the importance of marketing, which gave me the start of my secular career.
Over several years and many phases of simplification and re-branding, what began as Truth Packs became KJV Cards. It has since evolved into SynthSaint, combining the evangelism resource work and the music production ministry into one organization under a single brand.
By profession, I run an SEO Consultancy. I have invested thousands of dollars from my own career over ten years because I believe this is the most fruitful thing I can do in life. All productions are by me, Ivan David Lippens of SynthSaint.
THE WORK
SynthSaint is a multimedia agency-level production effort. All music, video, and imagery is produced by Ivan David Lippens. Compositions begin with lyrics and arrangements drawn from Scriptural themes and concepts. Instrumentation is generated programmatically, combined with custom seeds and vocal work into complete compositions. Visual works such as cards, covers, and video are crafted using generative tools, shaped and compiled by hand.
Generative media glorifies God, alongside everything else in creation. Software learns from the world, just as real people do, and can be used for either good or evil. These tools are chosen to glorify God. It is a production-level creative process, and very much a tool for praising God.
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
God provides clear visuals and songs throughout scripture for a reason: they are to be rendered by the heart and the mind, so that others might be edified. The elements of the tabernacle and the temple were glorified with materials, artworks, and songs. If God now dwells in the heart of man, then from the abundance of the heart, the light of God will shine into the world, in all manner of praise and exaltation, in the Beauty of Holiness.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
The foundation of Christianity is the Testimony of many prophets and disciples, who have kept written records of historical events and statements directed and declared by God Almighty, the Lord Jehovah, Jesus Christ. This Testimony is referred to as The Word of God, or the Holy Bible.
The words of this Testimony are scientifically proven to accurate preservation for thousands of years, through the Byzantine Texts, the Textus Receptus, the Masoretic Text, and the Majority Text. It has been translated with overwhelming accuracy into the English language through the Authorized Bible of 1611, known as the King James Version or King James Bible. This ministry recommends the Pure Cambridge Edition (PCE) of the KJV Bible from the year 1900 as the most accurate modern English edition.
This ministry is best described as Received / Majority Text Exclusivist, rather than Onlyist, since most texts between translations are relatively the same. The purpose of this ministry is to share the preserved received text, not the KJV exclusively, with persons who are receptive to the Word of God, in any language, in the hopes that they might be reconciled to God through belief in the mercy, grace, and sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and bear fruit unto eternal life. There are significant corruptions in modern minority text-based translations which are causing confusion, dissension, and unbelief. This ministry does not endorse those editions.
THE WORD OF GOD: SUPPORTING SCRIPTURES ▼
PSALM 33:4–6 KJV
For the word of the LORD is right; And all his works are done in truth. He loveth righteousness and judgment: The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
2 SAMUEL 22:31–33 KJV
As for God, his way is perfect; The word of the LORD is tried: He is a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a rock, save our God? God is my strength and power: And he maketh my way perfect.
PSALM 12:6–7 KJV
The words of the LORD are pure words: As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
ISAIAH 55:6–11 KJV
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
JEREMIAH 23:29–31 KJV
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
HOSEA 4:1–2 KJV
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: For the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, And blood toucheth blood.
LUKE 4:4 KJV
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
LUKE 8:20–21 KJV
And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
JOHN 1:12–17 KJV
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
JOHN 3:31–36 KJV
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
JOHN 8:31–32 KJV
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
JOHN 14:23–24 KJV
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
JOHN 17:17 KJV
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
ROMANS 10:17 KJV
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:1–6 KJV
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 THESSALONIANS 2:13 KJV
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
2 TIMOTHY 2:15–16 KJV
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
HEBREWS 4:9–12 KJV
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
JAMES 1:17–18 KJV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
1 PETER 1:22–25 KJV
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
2 PETER 3:3–7 KJV
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
REVELATION 19:11–16 KJV
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Is generative media a reverent way to glorify God?
Generative media glorifies God, along with everything else in creation. Software learns from the world, just like real people, and can be used for either good or evil. I choose to use it to glorify God. It is a production-level creative process, and very much a tool for exalting God's Word.
The attitude that generative tools are inherently evil is brainwashed and ungodly thinking. God provides clear visuals and songs in the scriptures for a reason. They are there to be rendered by the heart and mind, so that others might be edified by God's Word in unique ways. The elements of the tabernacle and the temple were glorified with materials, artworks, and songs. If God now dwells in the heart of man, then from the abundance of the heart, the light of God will shine into the world, in all manner of praise and exaltation, in the Beauty of Holiness.
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luke 19:40 KJV
Who actually made this, you or a machine?
Elements are Generative, crafted and shaped by me, and compiled into compositions drawn from Scriptural Themes and Concepts. All productions are by Ivan David Lippens of SynthSaint. It is a multimedia agency-level production effort.
Is it right to charge money for a Biblical ministry?
The Bible does not say it is unrighteous to charge money for products or services. The priesthood, the prophets, and the apostles took donations, and also had professions.
The labourer is worthy of his reward.
1 Timothy 5:18 KJV
My primary profession is in Marketing and Design, for businesses. I have setup these ministries to offer products and services that will hopefully allow the ministry to be self-sufficient, rather than taking donations or requiring full bootstrap from my personal profession. It would be great, one day, if I could pivot all my time into ministry, but I am not there yet. Until this time, I have invested thousands of dollars from my own profession, over a ten-year period, because I believe this is the most fruitful thing I can do in life.
Just because I am trying to make the ministry self-sufficient through products and services does not mean anyone is being defrauded. Some people love to reference Jesus whipping the money changers out of the temple. That scenario enraged Jesus because they turned the temple into a transactional marketplace for the remittance of sins, similar to how Catholics use indulgences, which is a severe heresy, rather than a place to seek God's Mercy, which is True Salvation. That is nothing like what is happening here. This was a common sin of the Jews, where they went through legalistic motions rather than living in repentance (see Isaiah 1).
In this ministry, I am providing resources for you to be fruitful and edified in God's Word, primarily as a means of self-sufficiency for the ministry. The primary resources are also FREE, and I mainly charge when a cost is incurred to me for something more proprietary. Ultimately, it is not possible for me to pay for everything by myself. These things are here to edify you in the Truth, not to defraud you or misrepresent scripture. God-fearing people ought to have no problem with it.
By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Proverbs 22:4 KJV
Isn't this only for King James Bible readers?
No. This ministry is a Received / Majority Text Exclusivist ministry, not a KJV Onlyist ministry. The goal is to share the preserved received text with people in any language who are receptive to the Word of God. The primary English edition recommended is the KJV Pure Cambridge Edition (1900), but the ministry is not restricted to English-only audiences, and other Received / Majority Text editions in other languages are acknowledged and respected.
DOCTRINAL POSITION
I am a Biblical Christian Fundamentalist. Salvation comes by Belief, which is evidenced by the production of obedient fruit, according to Christ. Many are called, but Christ chooses whom to save, according to their belief and obedience.
What this ministry is against
- Calvinism / Presbyterianism / Determinism
- Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS)
- Ecumenicalism and all forms of Hyper Grace
- Sacred Name Movement
- Sabbath Keepers and Kosher Keepers
- Pentecostalism / Name-it-Claim-It / Prosperity Preaching
- Churchianity, meaning Doctrines of Men placed over Scripture
- Theological or Church Authority placed over Scripture (Catholics, Orthodox, etc.)
- Trinity doctrine as a replacement for the Menorah (Seven Spirits of God, Isaiah 11)
- Reformation or Revival movements
- Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Free Masonry
- All Pagan Religions: Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Witchcraft, etc.
- Homosexuality, Bestiality, Pedophilia, Abortion
On Salvation: supporting scriptures
JOHN 11:25–26 KJV
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
MATTHEW 7:24–25 KJV
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
JAMES 2:26 KJV
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
GALATIANS 5:22–25 KJV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.