Hello,
I
am concerned that you don't know about the on-going ceaseless and
egregious sins of somebody that might be trying to gain a leadership
position of some sort at your church. I'm also concerned to make sure
my name is not further libeled or defamed by somebody trying to gain a
position of leadership with you. This email was sent to you in my
attempt to, at least partially, mitigate the damages this man presently
continues to inflict on my reputation.
This man claims
to be an "apologist" and is seeking to partner with "Indonesian"
churches of the Philadelphia and Los Angeles areas.
However,
he doesn't specify which exact churches, so in my effort to obey
Matthew 18 and tell his sins to the entire church, I had to collect many
email addresses that are associated with Indonesian churches in Los
Angeles and in Philadelphia, to make sure the specific churches this man
is trying to deceive, will be properly notified.
This man is also an author of articles in the Christian Research Journal, which seems to indicate he has also hoodwinked Christian Research Institute...or...they know about all this and simply don't think slander constitutes sin. This email is being cc'd to other non-Indonesian persons because they already know some of the history.
This man is also an author of articles in the Christian Research Journal, which seems to indicate he has also hoodwinked Christian Research Institute...or...they know about all this and simply don't think slander constitutes sin. This email is being cc'd to other non-Indonesian persons because they already know some of the history.
Everything
I say about this man in this email, and in the attached libel lawsuit,
and at my blog, linked below, are factual truths, not opinion or
satire. This is neither spam nor a joke. I am quite aware Mr. Holding
will try to use this email against me the next time I sue him for libel,
so I would hardly have cc'd this to him, as I've done, if I was afraid
that anything I allege herein is baseless, misleading, or otherwise
libelous/defamatory. It is all truthful fact.
This
man is biblically disqualified, due to his extensive sins and
unwillingness to cease those sins, from holding any office of Christian
"teacher" to any degree whatsoever, at least among the conservative
evangelical churches he aligns himself with.
His name
is James Patrick Holding, formerly "Robert Turkel". Before he dissolved
the corporation, his ministry was called "Apologetics Afield".
I
have a problem with you people donating money to this person for his
"services" of "apologetics", while being ignorant that he is beset with
many presently on-going sins that he has no intentions of ceasing.
Unless you think Christian teachers have no obligation to walk in the
light, read on.
Mr. Holding has been slandering and reviling me for years. The bible obviously identifies slander as sin,
and apostle Paul requires the church to disfellowship the brother who engages in "reviling" (i.e., slander).
17 "Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?
18 "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.
20 "These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."
(Matt. 15:17-20 NAU)
and apostle Paul requires the church to disfellowship the brother who engages in "reviling" (i.e., slander).
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;
10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.
11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler-- not even to eat with such a one.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
13 But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. (1 Cor. 5:9-13 NAU)
Mr
Holding has defamed me so much that I had to file two libel lawsuits
against him. The attached pdf, is the latest lawsuit I filed against
him. You will more than likely be shocked at his foul language, his
need to use language making him sound like a closet-homosexual, and his
pathological need to slander anybody and everybody he disagrees with.
Mr.
Holding escaped having to answer the first lawsuit on the merits, with
the artifice of "lack of jurisdiction". He then escaped having to
answer the second lawsuit because the judge incorrectly held that I
lacked standing to sue. Since these two lucky wins, Mr. Holding feels
himself utterly unaccountable for his sins of slander, which he
continued to commit even after he narrowly escaped the first two
lawsuits. There is literally no reasoning with this scoundrel whatsoever.
I've
informed Mr. Holding about a year ago I'd be filing a third libel
lawsuit against him. Not only did he continue libeling me, he began to
libel and slander me even more. Telling this man to stop
committing the sin of slander not only accomplishes nothing, it makes
the situation worse by inciting him to commit those sins with greater
frequency and intensity. Worse, Mr. Holding likely realizes this third
lawsuit will be litigated all the way into jury trial, costing him at
least $50,000 in legal fees, money that he likely doesn't have...yet he
absolutely will not stop slandering me in ways that constitute "libel"
under American law, despite my numerous attempts to settle these matters
with him out of court.
Matthew
18 requires those aware of a brother's sin to confront him privately and
then do so again with witnesses to get him to repent.
I
have already tried this, multiple times, and not only does he not
listen, he rebuffs those attempts as foolish. He insists he is not
sinning, despite the fact that his lies about me including falsely
accusing me of crimes I've never committed.
He never
never expressed or even implied the least bit of genuine remorse or
sorrow for these sins, and he has never apologized to me, ever. This
man seems to have some sort of demon that causes him to mistake the sin
of slander for holy rebuke. I don't see anything wrong with holy
rebuke. But that's a far cry from this man's many sins of "bearing
false witness".
So now I must tell his sin to the entire church, as the third step in the Matthew 18 disfellowshipping process:
15 "If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
16 "But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.
17 "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
(Matt. 18:15-17 NAU)
There,
I document Mr. Holding's great sinfulness in detail. No fool would
think this homosexual scoundrel was even remotely qualified to be a
"teacher" in the conservative evangelical churches he doctrinally aligns
himself with, all of whom think slander is sin, all of whom think
homosexuality is a sin.
I would
hope you would agree with me that this man's continuing sins need to
cease, and he needs to show genuine remorse for them, and he needs to
make just and fair reparations to me for all the reputation-damages and
emotional distress he has inflicted on me, before you can consider him
to be biblically qualified to hold any office of Christian "teacher".
And he who spreads slander is a fool. (Prov. 10:18)Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. (James 3:1)
And he who spreads slander is a fool. (Prov. 10:18)Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. (James 3:1)
If you wish to contact him about this matter, Holding's email address is
jphold@att.net
All
I ask is that you first obtain his confession of these sins, and that
you are satisfied he exhibits genuine repentance over them and that you
are satisfied he has made some type of reparation to me for these
libels, before you start giving him money. he doesn't use your money
merely for his ministry, he also uses to post defamatory cartoon videos
about me to his juvenile delinquent YouTube channel,
Sincerely,
Christian Doscher
barryjoneswhat@gmail.com