James Patrick Holding violates Proverbs 16:27-28

 27 A worthless man digs up evil, While his words are like scorching fire.
 28 A perverse man spreads strife, And a slanderer separates intimate friends. (Prov. 16:27-28 NAU)

As documented in the Complaints that started my last three defamation lawsuits against James Patrick Holding, the exact way that Mr. Holding goes about slandering me is to "dig up evil" (i.e., he goes through my legal history to look for things he can misrepresent, or to gain quotes from third-parties who lied about me, then he gives more publicity to that information than the files ever would have enjoyed in their original state).

Furthermore, it wouldn't even matter if all of Holding's opinions about me were true.

Truth is not an absolute defense. Under this Proverb, digging up evil makes you worthless.  Nobody is asking whether the "evil" you dig up had some truth-content to it.  I'm sure there was truth-content in the court files generated by the couple down the street who got divorced.  Gee, does the fact that there can be truth in the back and forth name-calling automatically mean the person who gives further unnecessary publicity to that dispute is therefore exempt from the condemnation in this verse?  LOL.

I'm sure there was truth-content in the arrest report generated after some guy raped a woman.  But to "dig up" such "evil" makes a person worthless. 

An obvious exception must be made for courts of law; the biblical author wasn't stupid enough to think that all cases of evil need to be left alone and forgotten.  But the proverbs author is talking about the average person on the street, he isn't talking about judicially appointed fact finders. 

Unfortunately, my criticisms of the Holding's apologetics have nothing to do with putting anybody at risk of criminal harm, and Holding cannot seriously argue there is any logical connection between my legal history and the force of my counterapologetics arguments.

What dumbass thinks "Jesus' family thought him insane so they probably didn't think his miracles were real, see Mark 3:231" is fairly rebutted with "that skeptic filed a frivolous lawsuit against another person!"

James Patrick Holding, that's who.

Notice v. 28 which in Hebrew parallelism is just a new phrase the author thinks synonymous with v. 27:  a perverse man stirs up strife.  Once again, wouldn't matter if Holding's comments about me were all true, the Proverb author neither expresses nor implies that stirring up strife can be morally good if truth is at stake.  Holding didn't qualify as a judicially appointed fact-finder back when he started slandering me on the internet, so he really does qualify as the average man on the street who really IS condemned by this bible passage.

If there are situations where stirring up strife is morally good, then we have to ask:  Why did Holding think my counterapologetics arguments justified his digging up evil in my past and using it to help stir up strife?

Perhaps he thought that if I 'frivolously' sued somebody in the past for breach of contract, that might successfully defend him from the accusation that his own favorite scholars, the Context Group, have disowned him 3 times and have accused him of "perverting" their scholarship?  See here.

Yeah right. 

Inerrantist Christian scholar D.A. Garrett says:

16:27–30 Verses 27–30 describe the man who has evil schemes and are another thematic unity. Verses 27–29 concern the evil machinations of the scoundrel, the perverse man, and the violent man, and v. 30 is a conclusion or commentary on those three descriptions. The winking eye and pursed lips of v. 30 may be taken either as signals among conspirators or as a general statement of shiftiness in the facial mannerisms of scheming people. The point may be that the reader should learn to read the faces of others in order to spot the three kinds of evil men described in vv. 27–29.

Garrett, D. A. (2001, c1993). Vol. 14: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of songs (electronic ed.). Logos Library System; The New American Commentary (Page 157)

Garret obviously believes Christians should learn how to spot the kind of men this Proverb describes, so the only reason a Christian could have for overlooking Holding's horrific moral failures and pretending his "scholarship" is all that matters, are the Christians who obviously lack just as much joy, peace, patience, gentleness, meekness, kindness, that Holding does.  There is a very good reason why the vast majority of Holding's YouTube followers are safely anonymous nobodies whose individual YouTube channels dedicate more attention to worldly cartoons than to Jesus.  No, it isn't bad luck.  Try again.

You should not pay attention to disqualified "Christian" teachers like James Patrick Holding, since his love of stirring up strife will likely do nothing  more than entice you into committing the same sins:  The bible says people who dig up evil are "worthless" and people who spread strife are "perverse".  Gee, Holding has never "spread strife", has he?  If the biblical author disapproved of strife-spreading methods in ancient Israel, how much more do you suppose he would condemn the same type of person today who can use the internet to spread strife far more widely by use of the internet?

What does it mean when an allegeldy 'Christian' teacher has mistaken sin for holy conduct for the last 20 years?  No, it doesn't mean "we're all imperfect".  It means this is one of those "Christians" who would have done far better to heed the advice in James 3:1, and do something in life other than being a Christian "teacher".