James Patrick Holding violates Proverbs 13:5-6

I have decided to start a new series at this blog. 

James Patrick Holding is a Christian apologist, who for the last 20 years has not made himself known by anything much more than his love of slander and insulting rhetoric against anybody who disagrees with his view of the bible.

Mr. Holding lives in both perpetual and willful violation of those biblical ethics that most Christian scholars agree apply to the modern-day Christian.

The first four words for the title to each of these new blog-pieces will be  "James Patrick Holding violates", and the words that follow will describe the specific bible verse or passage that Holding lives in violation of.

Try to keep in mind, as of the date of this first post (noon, October 25, 2019), my third defamation lawsuit against Holding is still pending.  It was filed earlier this year, and despite Holding's attempt to suppress the truth by filing a frivolous motion to dismiss, the Court delayed so long ruling on it that we were required to start exchanging discovery.  But Mr. Holding's reply to my first round of discovery questions was dishonest and illegal.  I will give those documents to anybody who asks.  Email me at barryjoneswhat@gmail.com, or reply to this post here. 

Mr. Holding's lawyer is also a professing "Christian".  So you might wonder:  Even if there is no necessary contradiction between being a Christian and being a lawyer, what should we think of a "Christian" lawyer who refuses to advise his client to plead guilty, and pretends that his client's obviously libelous words justify the thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend in front of a jury, when a simple "I'm sorry, I was wrong", would more than likely save everybody the trouble?

You can answer that question for yourself.  I think it has something to do with sin and the unsaved person's reluctance to admit guilt.

Mr. Holding violates Proverbs 13:5-6:

 5 A righteous man hates falsehood, But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.
 6 Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness subverts the sinner. (Prov. 13:5-6 NAU)

Mr. Holding has been spreading lies about me since even before 2015, but it was in 2015 that he began his most concerted effort to do so.  I will send to anybody who asks the 2015 Complaint, the 2016 Complaint and the 2018 Complaint that started those three lawsuits.  These extensively document not only Mr. Holding's specific words about me, but why they were lies (i.e., libelous).

The 2016 complaint contains the most extensive documentation for my more nuanced claim that Holding is a closet homosexual and talks like a completely demented 6 year old raised by criminal gangs.

What follows is commentary on that passage from a Christian who accepts "biblical inerrancy", therefore, neither Holding nor his idiot followers can wipe them off the page as heretics (one wonders what they'd think if atheists wiped apologists off the page merely because they were apologists?):

Type: Parallel, Catchword (13:5–6). 13:5–6 These two proverbs are set in parallel on the basis of “righteous” and “wicked” in v. 5 and “righteousness” and “wickedness” in v. 6. The NIV translation of v. 5b is flat; it ought to be rendered, “But a wicked man makes a stench and causes shame.” The tie between the two cola of v. 5 is that whereas the righteous are concerned for the truth (over against malicious gossip), the wicked promote scandal. By itself v. 6 is a rather colorless proverb. In context with v. 5, however, it implies that disregard for truth and the spreading of scandal is ultimately self-destructive. Those who care about the truth, however, are preserved by their integrity.

Garrett, D. A. (2001, c1993). Vol. 14: Proverbs, 

Ecclesiastes, Song of songs (electronic ed.). 

Logos Library System;The New American Commentary

(Page 135). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

The "Word Biblical Commentary" might not be "inerrantist" in ideology, but is still conservative "evangelical" for its strong promotion of Christianity.

5–6 These verses are united by the catch words just/wicked. 5 The “word of deceit” is simply plain lies, whatever might be the particular situation. V 5a could refer either to the harm caused to a community by the wicked person, presumably through lies or even calumny, or it may be simply descriptive of his character. In any case, a high premium is placed on honest speech.

Murphy, R. E. (2002). Vol. 22: Word Biblical Commentary :

Proverbs. Word Biblical Commentary (Page 96). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

For obvious reasons, Holding does little more in life than manifest his love of spreading scandal and lies, and clearly loves controversy and spreading of salacious gossip far more than "honest speech".  It's sad that it was only due to being sued multiple times for libel that he conveniently starting "choosing" to stop being quite as rambunctious about it as he was in 2015 and before.

Read v. 5 again...the Proverbs-author thinks the opposite of the person who hates falsehood, is the person who acts disgustingly and shamefully.  That is, if what Mr. Holding said about me, which justified the lawsuits, was in fact false, his own bible would condemn him as a person who acts disgustingly and shamefully.

This is a strong reason to suppose Mr. Holding is not morally qualified to hold the office of Christian teacher, an office that his own bible cautions most people against holding, James 3:1.  Yet Holding bandies about his teaching-duties as if he isn't doing anything more solemn or grave than showing the kids where extra water balloons are being stored.