Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The email about J.P. Holding I recently cc'd to many Indonesian churches and others




















Beware of heretic James Patrick Holding, former president of Apologetics Afield 
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.

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,

 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)

This man's unbelievably filthy mouth and pathological need to slander anybody he disagrees with,  is extensively documented at my blog too,
https://turchisrong.blogspot.com/2019/01/james-patrick-holding-is-likely.html
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)
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

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