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Saturday, January 03, 2004
  And this is from a US reader:

It was and is all about power. The KJVO issue is just one other control issue. Something else to beat the masses over the head with. "If you don't feel this way then you are sinful!" Jeri's also right that the misogyny that comes from this particular society makes having these sorts of rules necessary. That's what what keeps the flock in line. I knew that was what my experience was but to see it explained in plain language was a blessing and illuminating. And what you've said about vile men getting power because they want it is true. The welfare of the flocks secondary to that quest.
 
  From yet another Canadian Reader:

I can't stand to read the FFF forums -- it makes me sick that professing Christians would speak that way to each other. With such foul accusations and rudeness..... It's just weird....the people who think they are the centre of the world, I mean....

The ...churches of the type I'm familiar with are a) autonomous; and b) do not have pastors, but rather a group of teaching elders. So when an elder or a well-known preacher is caught in a serious sin, it generally remains within a single congregation, and is usually dealt with by the other elders and the congregation. [plurality of eldership---ed]....

The misogyny [in the IFB-KJVO-FFF culture---ed] is really horrible, and something I'm not familiar with at all....I have NEVER heard anyone speak contemptuously or rudely about women or to women in the way that these IFB people do.
 
  From a Canadian Reader:

"It would be wonderful if someone would [speak out against child molesting from pulpits---ed.]….However, … this sin is merely the most horrific manifestation of the lack of accountability ….The root of the problem is that somehow these men think they can get away with it, because nobody can challenge "the man of God".

I for one would be more impressed if one of these IFB-KJB… pastors pointed out the Biblical pattern of a plurality of Biblically qualified elders, whom the Pastor and all other people in the assembly are accountable to…. Pastors might still commit adultery, child molesting, wife abuse and other terrible sins (for the sin nature is still present), but it would reduce the number of men giving into their sinful cravings, and it would reduce the overall number of incidents in the church as a whole. I could also add that we would see new power in preaching, real evangelism, strong churches, etc. (rather than a corrupt edifice focusing on "the man of God" and "soul winning").
Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
 
 
Secret Radio
Secret Radio has posted two new episodes over the last two days. I've been doing the editing on the new series (more than 20 new episodes), and it looks like the blogspot roster system is working. Apparently you can upload files and post date them so that on the given day you just log in and click the Publish button, and the new file that you uploaded a week ago is made part of the visible blog for readers. Using this method, the series has been rostered through early February (don't know the date). So if you are reading it, you should have a more consistent reading schedule (Monday through Friday).


New material in the series makes it clearly adult in nature. As editor, I've edited it down to keep it free from gratuituousness, and I believe that Christians will benefit from reading Secret Radio, but it's still not for children.
 
 
The Leaders are Angry
Quite a hullabaloo is going on in the FFF. Apparently the guilty consciences of a lot of the preachers have been stung by my repeated rebukes against them for their failure to protect the flock of God by preaching against the sins of child molestation. There is a rising number of instances of the problem in IFB-KJVO churches. And the defense I am hearing is that the problem occurs only in Hyles-affiliated churches. But as I argued this with Pappa Bear, he pointed out that Jack Hyles was engaging in his affair with Jenny Nischik before Hyles went KJVO. And then it clicked. We both probably accept that Hyles was a corrupt man and a cynic regarding Scriptural authority. He would go in whatever direction gave him the best advantage.


Of course, I thought. He could dive right into the KJVO movement, with its staunch support of independence among church leaders and their utter lack of accountability. Needless to say, Jonathan Farris, part of the church that sheltered Dave Hyles for so long while Dave was sleeping with women in the church, has been pretty loud in his denials of my allegations.

Some people are asserting that I am saying that believing in KJVO causes people to become child molesters. That's not what I'm saying. But I am saying that the movement known as KJVO/KJB has attracted more than its share of molestation incidences. I don't know if the cause can be proved, though I usually chalk it up to the misogyny that is so rampant in the movement. (Just read the Hyles-Anderson Forum on the FFF and you'll see what I mean.)

But apart from the fact that cultural misogyny has been linked by others to deviant sexual behaviors (Marty Braemer, please note the spelling), I would say that the lack of accountability is what has made the group (KJVO) a place where the predators that are in place are able to last for so long. It's like the Catholic church: nobody challenges the parish priest. So it goes in KJVO: with their unbelievable (and unbiblical) reverence for autonomy and independence, nobody comes in to ask questions or issue challenges. I recall in the Joe Combs case, one church member who suspected that Combs was hitting Esther abusively solved the problem by leaving the church. In other words, he "separated", rather than confronting.

So that's what these guys are doing. In the rush to say, "It's not my problem," they just separate further, leaving a sinning preacher or corrupt church absolutely free to continue on its way.

But my offer still stands. Anybody can prove me wrong by sending me a sermon tape from an IFB-KJVO preacher preaching a sermon against child molesting from those in church office. I'll put as much of it as I can on MP3 and run it here.
 
Friday, January 02, 2004
 
Second visit to the gym to lift weights
One of the best exercises for a bad back like mine is the rhomboid row. Your rhomboids are a set of muscles on either side of your spine, right between the shoulder blades. Not real big muscles, but they are the muscles that keep you straight (or help to). When you see men or women who have developed a permanent slouch with rounded sholders or even a hump from poor muscle strength in back, it's the rhomboids that are over stretched and weak.
(picture from http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/animsport.htm)


Many gyms used to have a shoulder/rear delt station that looks like an ironing board perched at an angle to the floor. You could lie on your stomach on that board so thatyou'd be about 45 degrees to the ground and use a dumb bell in either hand to do a rhomboid row, which almost looks like a dumb bell chest fly except your back muscles are pulling the weight, because you're face down. (on chest flies you lie face up.)

Well gyms don't carry that type of station any more. Chests and abs are in. People want to look good, and the erector muscles along the spine are often ignored or relegated to calisthenic-type exercises.

I actually prayed about the problem because finding a way to do rhomboid rows is critical for me. Today at the gym as I was doing squats at the Smith Machine (because I cannot bear any weight on the bar yet), I saw a man showing his girl friend how to prop herself with her leg under her on one of the slant benches so that she could do rhomboid rows with proper weight distribution chest-down on the slant bench (thus making sure only her rhomboids bear the weight through the rowing motion). He and she both gladly helped me get the form right on the slant bench to do the row. I told them I had prayed about the matter because my back is so bad, and I thanked them very much for their help. They didn't know quite what to say and laughed it off, but it is a witness to them. I did pray about it, and the Lord provided an answer. I'm very thankful.

I am allowed to do only four exercises with weights (three sets each). So I did lower back extensions, a seated pull on a Hammer machine that works the mid-back close to the rhomboids, squats on a Smith machine, and the slant-bench rhomboid rows. Then I came home and hung upside down. My back is sore, and it cracked a lot as I stretched onthe inversion table, but overall I feel pretty good.


One caveat is that for some reason I get mild throat spasms after lifting weights.
 
Thursday, January 01, 2004
 
The Dissenting View from Pappa Bear

Well, I *was* going to put up two posts of a well-argued point (that I still disagree with) in which a poster names PappaBear draws a sharp line of distinction between his segment of IFB-KJB and the Hyles-affiliated segment (which he says is the corrupt side of the IFB-KJB movement). But he has told me he would rather keep his posts on the forum. So, Okay. If you want to see his dissenting view, you'll have to go to the FFF and check the Hyles-Anderson Forum. Look for "PappaBear" as the poster, and his posts are entitled "BASS" (my abbreviated screen name).


I still disagree with him and I don't see where he has shown a clear distinction except in his own mind. But he's writing in good conscience and makes his case well.

 
 
Happy New Year

Once again, I have failed to make it to Midnight on New year's Eve. I got to 10:00 PM and was so sleepy I couldn't see straight. I've been working 6-day weeks since early December, so I am taking off today and tomorrow to rest, catch up on a writing project or two, and de-stress by physical exercise. the throat spasms had slacked off quite a bit but started to bother me Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, so I am being more careful.


I was invited out last night but declined. Instead, I worked on a recent writing project that requires a lot of tedious research through cached google pages; then proofread copy for Grace Jovian's Secret Radio; and swapped a few e-mails with friends. As 9:00 ticked by I thought I might make it all the way to midnight, but the next hour was my undoing. I was too tired. So ten o'clcok found me getting into bed.
 
 
So what is "KJV-Only?

Without going too deeply into the history of this movement within fundamentalism, "KJV-Only" is a belief that the King James Version of the Bible is the single best (or only acceptable) text to use in the preaching and study of God's Word. There are differentiations within the group:


1. Some people believe that the KJV, for a variety of reasons, is the most reliable text to use, surpassing the NIV, new KJV, NASB, and others. There's nothing supernatural about the translation; it's just the most careful and painstaking translation, so they rely on it as their primary translation. I use the KJV for hard copy reading, but with the advent of electronic Bibles, I use multiple translations and also look at the Greek and Hebrew and the notes that explain them and show the recurring use of Greek and Hebrew words in the Bible. I like the KJV, but I do bear in mind that the KJV is largely rendered in blank verse and uses a high, formal language of grandeur, whereas most of the original Bible was written simply and directly in trade language versions of the early language. There are books of poetry in the Old Testament. But the "flavor" or "feel" or the original upon contemporary readers of the prophets and apostles is quite different from what we get in the KJV. The original, overall, was a lot more direct, simple, and in the vernacular.

2. Others believe that the KJV comes from what is called the "Received Text," a Greek translation created by Erasmus that (according to adherents to the "Received Text" idea) is the single best Greek text that can be used to create any English translation. The fact that Erasmus admittedly had to go back to the vulgate on some passages and render them in Greek to make a complete Greek text casts a lot of doubt on this view. Latin (especially Jerome's Latin) is a poor receptacle for Greek. Going from original Greek to Jerome's Latin and then to Erasmus's Greek guarantees some degree of imprecision.

Erasmus himself, though a pioneer in bringing Greek into university studies at the dawn of the English Reformation, admitted that he was far better at Latin. Indeed, Erasmus was a master of Latin and was one of the few men who brought that language to its height in early Renaissance writing. His Greek text definitely marked the end of the domination of the Vulgate, and Erasmus championed translating the Greek text into common languages so that all people could read the Bible. But he knew that his Greek text had some holes in it, because questions about his translation and word choices dogged him, and he produced revisions. Erasmus's Greek text was a cornerstone of the English Reformation, and Tyndale used a later version that Erasmus produced for his great work of English translation.


3. The final version of this belief (also called "KJB" for King James Bible") is that the King James Version is an inspired version, and the Greek texts are corrected from the King James. OK, you can stop laughing now, and yes, there are people---preachers even---who believe this. Some include the Received Text idea into this idea, a tracing of an inspired translation all the way back (or so they think).

Here's a thumb nail of the problems with the Received Text and especially the KJB position:

1. A mandate that an English Bible must be the supreme translation of all languages shows an incredible provincialism (that the English language is destined to be the ultimate language of the Bible, when the Bible was completed and the canon closed well before the English language ever existed as a distinct language);

2. The idea that any English translation can equivalently hold the ideas conveyed in Hebrew and/or Greek shows a lack of knowledge of languages. Plain and simple, English is not an equal receptacle for the ideas presented in the Hebrew and Greek. Every English translation---any English translation---will fail to capture the exact meaning word for word from the original languages because English lacks the semantic distinctions of Hebrew and Greek and lacks the verb tense forms to convey an equivalent meaning

3. Positing that a Bible translation promoted by the homosexual and papist-leaning King James, who believed himself the Head of the Church in England and persecuted anybody who disputed that claim effectively, shows a lack of the knowledge of history. King James wanted a Bible that would undercut the Geneva Bible and its copious notes on salvation, because he wanted to be the undisputed head of the Church of England. He wanted one Bible, one English Church (something that encompassed both Protestants and Papists and allowed them a measure of latitude), and he wanted no Puritans to disrupt the England that he envisioned. When KJB-ers grovel and fawn on the image of King James, they are off in their la-la land of gross ignorance of history.

The KJV-only/KJB movement, as you probably realize, is a latecomer to theology. The Received Text idea is older and has been around a while, but KJV-only (especially KJB) is probably less than 50 years old. God's people have done very well without it. One problem about it is that it puts "God in the pocket." If the KJB is the ultimate in God's Word, then the Bible becomes a simple book and a simplistic book. The Bible is readable, certainly, but God commands the diligent study of His Word, and simplifying it by saying that a single translation is the ultimate and corrects the original manuscripts cuts away the complexities and intricacies that are supposed to occupy our time as we study God's Word. We are intended to dig deeply into God's word and find complexities in it that require meditation and concentration. Oversimplifying it is just a means of trivializing it.

A horrible corruption is growing in these churches, and though I have been pelted with rebukes by many preachers who hold the KJB or received text view of the Bible and loudly proclaim "Not in my church!" regarding child molestation and other gross sins, I have yet to see any of them stand up in a pulpit, address the corruption that is being tolerated in so many IFB pulpits, and thunder against it. They will preach against gays; they will preach against Bill Clinton; they will preach against the French. They will even preach against women wearing slacks. But when it comes to the topic of men in pulpits who molest children, (and other men who know this is going on and say nothing), then they are stone silent.

I continue to document and research the instances of gross sin in IFB-KJVO churches. The hardcore of KJB seems to be the center of the problem, (The poster named Pappa Bear from the FFF corrects this as being Hyles versin of KJB.) but I have yet to find any KJVO pulpit that openly and faithfully takes a stand opposing the corruption and holding up the standard for faithful church discipline.

Here is a list of people in the movement, many of them affiliated with Hyles-Anderson college, who have been charged, indicted, or found guilty of molestation, sodomizing young children, or rape:

Edward Quakenbush (KJVO-KJB, HAC affiliated), of New Testament Baptist Church, raping a 14 year old boy, convicted.

Andy Beith, principal of Liberty Baptist Academy in NW Indiana - sex with an 11 year old girl. Sentenced to 30 years, parole in 11.

Beith's father, also a graduate of HAC, was arrested His father was arrested a few years prior for soliciting an undercover officer in a local park. Made for interesting headlines. Imagine a Baptist pastor being arrested for such a thing. The media made the most of it, of course. [As they should have.]

Kerry was the name of the missionary who squabbled over the Spanish Bible and went to prison for molesting a little girl.

Calvin Stone, a HAC short timer sent to prison for molesting a little girl.

Overla, a HAC grad/pastor who pleaded guilty to molesting an 8 year old girl

Chester Mulligan, who is charged with molested a 14 year old girl. (Honrary doctorate from HAC)

Pastor Joe Combs, (found guilty) former HAC Bible teacher, molesting, raping adopted daughter
Evangeline Combs (assault, not sexual), torture and assault of adopted daughter
Associate Pastor Timothy Lee Leonard, (charged but acquitted because child-witnesses unable to testify)
Deacon Mark Foeller, (indicted but acquitted because witnesses refused to testify)
Deacon A.V. Ballenger, (found guilty) molesting a little girl
Youth Pastor Jeffrey Jerrell,
Administrator Joseph R. Strang
pastors Caleb Thompson (assault against a child, not sexual) ,
Joshua Thompson (assault against a child, not sexual).

All of those men have been charged with shameful crimes: an assortment of rape, child molestation, sodomy, and assault. And then, of course, there's Dave Hyles, elite adulterer and pornographer, also a product of that movement. He must have learned adultery at his father's knee, of course, because Jack was an old and experienced hand at it, and he also got off by bluster. Dave spent several years at Pinellas Park Baptist Church AFTER having been expelled from Miller Road Baptist Church. He declared that he had repented and exercised some deception, though the church leadership at PPBT failed to enforce Biblical discipline.

This failure to obey the Word of God that they claimed to follow is somewhat understandable in consideration of the fact that the leadership was at that time in the "hundred percenter" segment of IFB-KJVO that followed Jack Hyles, Dave's father. They looked for words from Dave, made him write a letter of apology (a single letter, though he had engaged in affairs with over a dozen women). There was no longterm discipling, no accountability, no continuing effort to keep him---a man who had engaged in rampant sexual perversions that were no secret---under the care of church leadership. Needless to say, Dave strung along the leadership of PPBT for as long as they stayed gullible, which amounted to several years. They then caught him in gross sin, expelled him, and he went to Berean Baptist Church in Orange Park, Florida (another hundred percenter church), a predator now loose again, where he was admitted into membership without church discipline being enforced. He was later expelled from that church.
 
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
 
Another IFB-KJVO Preacher Arrested for Child Molesting
Chester Mulligan, formerly a pastor in East Chicago (a stone's throw from Hammond,Ind), and a recipient of a Hyles-Anderson honorary doctorate, has been arrested in Oklahoma on charges of having relations with a 14 year old girl. The alleged victim, now 20, has come forward. Mulligan is awaiting extradition back to Indiana. He has been advertised as IFB-KJVO on several KJVO-church web site directories.


The news broke on the FFF just as several of us were arguing about total depravity and the Christian's inability to live by good works by his own efforts. Such a startling piece of evidence of total depravity in yet one more IFB-KJVO preacher who engages in legalism seems to have had some effect. I have seen no more posts from Marty Braemer or BAPTIST since the news broke.

If you're unfamiliar with he doctrines of the Grace of God and how Christ preserves His people from sin, let me draw your attention to the incident in which Christ bid Peter to come walk to Him over the waves of water. Peter did so, waiting for His command to him to walk on water and then keeping his eyes fixed on Christ as he did so. Yet when Peter took his eyes off Christ and focused on the waves and his own inability to really be doing this, he sank. This is the life of faith. The Christian cannot overcome the indwelling sin that is his nature. But Christ is our salvation and Christ is our righteousness. We focus on our Savior, our righteousness with God. And like Peter, focused on Christ, we can walk over the raging turmoil of what we are by birth. The life of the Christian must be lived by faith. Our salvation comes by Christ, not our own works, and our sanctification comes by Christ, not our own works. Rather, He works in us.
 
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
 
Secret Radio to return January 2
A post on the famous FFF has confirmed that Secret Radio will be broadcasting more adventures from Greater Independent Baptist College, starting January 2. Looks like a more consistent broadcast schedule is being attempted, with new broadcasts on January 2 and 3, and then daily on weekdays on a M-F basis.

 
 
Back to the Gym
Well, at last I am able to get over menopause problems enough to go back to the gym and start following the advice given me by both my family doctor and chiropractor. I started lifting weights again this morning, with a focus on strengthening my back.

First (at home), I did five minutes on my stair stepper, then hung upside down on my inversion table for five minutes. Then I did five minutes again on the stair stepper and then hung upside down again. All of this is in consideration of my tricky back. But by the end of the two sets I felt warmed up and loosened up along my spine.


My car was pre-packed the night before, so I grabbed my purse and sped off to the gym, where I did a circuit of back extensions, rhomboid rows on a Smith Hammer machine (30 lbs, then 40lbs), and squats on the Smith machine with no weights on the bar (just getting the form perfect for this highly effective but oh-so-dangerous-if-you-it-wrong exercise). My chiropractor had told me to do no more than four exercises, three sets each. So I did this circuit three times. Then I did three sets of tricep dumb bell lifts.

It's six hours later, and my muscles feel sore, but everything is still moving properly, and there's no burning or sharp pains. Next session is scheduled for Thursday, Lord willing! And tonight I will definitely hang on the inversion table!
 
Sunday, December 28, 2003
 
Jack Hyles and Friedrich Nietzsche, Part Three
5. As far as I know, Nietzsche never taught that people were to be abandoned to the forces of nature. However, the Nietzschien view of the Superman and his morality being self-defined lead to such a reading of Nietzschien ethics. Victims are victims because they lack the superman qualities to survive.Ie, victims are victims because Nature did not give them the qualities to adapt and progress.


5a.The Nietzschien order, whether this is what Nietzsche specifically intended or not, is an order in which the strong survive and the weak perish. The strong retain the moral prerogatives that stem from their self-made morality. So if the weak perish in the system of the strong, it is not demanded that the strong save them; nor is it expected that the strong will even pause to help them.

5b.In the Hyles-Nietzschien system, the pastor Superman has the right as leader to humiliate, subjugate, and dominate members of the herd. The supermen within the herd will rise above this and throw it off. The herd members will become even more servile and compliant. The very weakest will be pared away. The picture of Hyles with a dog collar, or a glass of water that he said may as well be poison, and his claims that he had people so loyal to him that they would wear the dog collar or drink the poison are a chilling pointer to us that in the church that Jack Hyles pastored, the rule of Church Law as laid down in the Bible was not taught or enforced. The Hyles system was what I describe as Hyles-Nietzschien: a system based on the pastor being a Superman.

5b.In the Hyles-Nietzschien system, the pastor is the Nietzschien Superman who looks within himself for enlightenment and the means to interpret Scripture. The Bible is the adjunct, not the authority: the common language by which he speaks to the herd. But he re-interprets the Bible according to his own intuitive morality and leanings. This Pastor-centered church is the reason that Hyles' teachings on the Bible (when he got to the Bible at all) were often contradictory or outright heresy. As the Superman, Hyles did not consider himself under the authority of the consensus of Christian scholarship. As he told his own people, they were expected to do what he said because he was their pastor.


5c.Under the Hyles-Nietzscheien system, victims were discarded. That which cannot survive in the Superman environment has no claim on the ethics of the Superman. So the treatment of Brent Stevens, his broken bones, his suspicious death, were never addressed in the Superman society of the Hyles-type churches. Children who were alleged to be victims of sodomy and molestations were not cared for, nor were the instances of child abuse treated with the care and concern commanded by Scripture. Instead, AV Balinger was hailed as a hero, and several "suits" from HAC went to testify on behalf of the character of the notorious and sadistic Joe Combs.

5d.To this day, the victims of these people (and the victims of the Hyles-Nietzschien system) are not accorded the respect and concern they deserve by alleged leaders in the movement. The urge is to move on, forget the past, focus on "positive" things. But the attitude of God has not changed at all. The One who heard the blood of Abel calling out from the earth still hears the cries of those who suffered in secret places. And He still demands an investigation and the exercise of justice by those who claim to hold church office in His name.
 
 
Half Magic
I have a friend at work who has a six year old daughter. Jodi reads to her daughter Andi regularly, and so I have filled her with tons of information and recommendations on great children's books. (I used to work in publishng.) On my recommendation, she read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Andi. So to encourage Jodi and keep her well stocked on great books, I went to our local non-franchised bookstore (Quail Ridge books at Ridgeway Shopping Center in Raleigh) and purchased A Wrinkle in Time and The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The sales assistant and I got to chatting about great books, and I commented that I love the Moffat series. She recommended Edward Eager's book, Half Magic, which is a story about four children who find a magic coin that grants HALF of each wish. So to get what you want, you have to wish for twice as much. I purchased a copy for myself.


While the book certainly has its charm and is highly readable, I wouldn't place it as high on my list as The Moffats, but then, children may find it far more interesting than anything by Eleanor Estes (author of the Moffat series). It does have more outright adventure and the humor is more obvious. An oddity about children's literature is that if you handed ten great books to kids and the same books to their parents, and asked them to rank the books, the children would differ from the parents every time, even if the parents were trying to think like their children. So Half Magic may be one of those books that kids will run with, because it does contain the elements that intrigue so many children: a gang of kids and magic with a slight twist to it.
 
 
Conquering Chocolate
Christmas has come and gone, and after three unsuccessful attempts to get chocolate wrapped and given away (I kept eating it), I succeeded in giving Scharffen Berger chocolates to my friends at work. The smallest bars cost $1.59. I gave them in lieu of Christmas cards. Just stuck a bow on them and passed them out. In the meantime, a friend gave me a box of Lindt Chocolate truffles, and they are incredible. Two hundred calories per truffle! Oh dear, why is Christmas so fattening? Or, as Homer says, why are all the good things so tasty? You can buy Scharffen Berger chocolates at www.chocosphere.com (This is a reference, not an endorsement. I've never bought from them.)

 
 
The Emergency Preparedness FAQ
With the terror alert now on High, you may want to check the Emergency Preparedness FAQ. I created this by means of thorough research and generous help from the survival-gurus on the newsgroup misc.survivalism. They sent information, reviewed the FAQs, and encouraged the process so that Americans could find information on the web to prepare for emergency situations. You'll find information on basic preparedness, emergency survival, the basics of chemical and biological agents, and URLs of suppliers and information sources. Many readers choose to print these FAQs and keep them in a notebook. Recommended as an info source by Time Magazine's online e-zine,On, and by salon.com.


 
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