You remember a certain Pastor Sean Bonitto who opined about my book recently? Well, so that he could have a more informed opinion, I sent him a free copy of my book Jesus Needs Help. He read it all the way through and now his approach to the book reads thusly:
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18).
Hello David. Greetings in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible (Acts 4:12).
Thank you for the opportunity to read and properly evaluate, critique and judge your book not according to my opinion, but according to the clear teaching of Holy Scripture(Matthew 4:4).
First of all your book gives false information and lies concerning the teaching and evidence of the Holy Bible when it says, "That book is a collection of essays written by various zealots who interpreted my words several hundred years after my existence. Some of them even manipulated my words or even added their own words just to support their own agendas." You either have not done your research concerning this matter or you do not care to investigate the truth to verify your claim in order to promote your false claim, and to justify the lust of your flesh, that will tragically, if you do not repent and trust the Lord Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible by faith alone for your salvation, lead you to an eternity in hell(Luke 13:3; John 3:16-21,36). It is a fact that the whole New Testatment was written in the first century, and that many early Bible translations of the second century, manuscripts, along with the writtings of second century early church authorities like Justin Martyr, and even first century authorities such as Ignatius and others that testify to the authenticity of the sacred text of the Holy Bible(http://www.truthnet.org). Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny the younger and other non christian historians have documented and verified many historical facts of the New Testament, along with archeological findings such as The Pilate Stone. Your have promoted lies against the truth of Holy Bible, and it is you my friend that has manipulated and perverted the Word of God by making the Lord Jesus reject the clear teaching of God's Word, which He most certainly did not and would never do (Matthew 4:4), in order to justify your sin.
This is blasphemy of the worst kind, and a most dishonest attack against the truth of God's Word the Holy Bible without any evidence or justification of the false statement made.
The book is full of clear Satanic blasphemy against the Lord Jesus Christ, that reduces the sinless Lamb of God(2 Corinthians 5:21), who is God in the flesh (John 1:1,14), to one how rejects His own words (Matthew 4:4), agrees with sin, lies, and complete perversion that would make wicked and ungodly programs such as south park, family guy, and the Simpsons, blush with shame.
God the Father is promoted by Mr. Germain to embrace such wicked sin, and perversion such as pornography, violence, and every ungoldy, evil, and wicked ideology by saying, "There is no censorship in heaven." There is pictures of nudity in Mr. Germain's Heaven, and even God Himself curses at the censorship Monkey's who are banished to a cage where they are ironically "censored" and no longer able to have freedom of expression of there own, which is a clear contradiction of Mr. Germain's rant. Mr. Germain clearly is fulfilling the Bible prophecy that says, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (1Timothy 4:1-2).
It is clear from the teaching of Holy Scripture "...that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God"(1 Corinthians 6:9-10). However, if one repents of their sin, and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour by faith alone they will be forgiven of their sin, escape the damnation of an eternity in hell, and be given everlastino life in heaven (Luke 13:3; John 3:16; Acts 20:21; Romans 10:9-10; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1-2).
Mr.Germain expresses no fear of God or any sense of conviction of his sin by the Holy Ghost, although he has at one time been convicted of his sin and has been proved by the Holy Ghost of his need to escape an eternity in hell (John 16:8-11), to repent of his sin, and to receive God's love, mercy, forgiveness, and salvation through the true Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible(not the false jesus promoted by Mr. Germain and others*2 Corinthians 11:4,14), before it is too late (Hebrews 9:27).
The god that Mr. Germain promotes is not the God of the Holy Bible, nor the Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible who is God in the flesh or second person of the one and only true God(Matthew 28:19; 1 John 5:7), because the Bible says, "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5), but he promotes a false christ and false god (2 Corinthians 11:4), that is really the god of this ungodly world (2 Corinthians 4:4), who the Bible identifies as Satan, who "...is transformed into an angel of light"(2 Corinthians 11:14), that old lying serpent who beguiled Eve into rejecting God's Word for the lie of fulfilling the lust of the flesh, and to receive the wages of sin which "...is death..." (Romans 6:23) and eternal damnation of precious souls in hell forever (1Peter 5:8), unless they repent and trust the Lord Jesus by faith alone for salvation (Luke 13:3; John 3:16).
The Lord Jesus Christ will never need help, but Mr. Germain does, as well as all mankind who are sinners (Romans 3:23), that need to repent of their sin and receive the only remedy for sin, the only way to heaven, and and escape from an eternity in hell, the Lord Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible (Luke 13:3; John 3:16; John 14:6).
Mr. Germain I am praying for you and others that you will repent and be saved in the Lord Jesus Christ to escape hell before it is too late(Hebrews 9:27).
God Bless (John 3:16).
"...except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3).
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
Wow! Ok. I probably should just let this go, but he said some things in that text that I really must respond to. There'll be no snarky sarcasm like there were in the last post. This will be a straightforward response to the more accusatory aspects of his rant.
I guess I'll get things started by addressing this statement right here:
First of all your book gives false information and lies concerning the teaching and evidence of the Holy Bible when it says, "That book is a collection of essays written by various zealots who interpreted my words several hundred years after my existence. Some of them even manipulated my words or even added their own words just to support their own agendas." You either have not done your research concerning this matter or you do not care to investigate the truth to verify your claim in order to promote your false claim, and to justify the lust of your flesh, that will tragically, if you do not repent and trust the Lord Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible by faith alone for your salvation, lead you to an eternity in hell(Luke 13:3; John 3:16-21,36).
No research, eh? NO RESEARCH??!! How about an hour and forty three minute Channel 4 documentary hosted by noted Professor of Theological studies at Oxford, Dr. Robert Beckford, there's some research for you.
The basic gist of Beckford's findings is that even from the beginnings the Bible's creation was
fraught with curious translations and people sneaking in their own opinions. The first book of Moses was actually written by 4 anonymous authors labelled J, E, P, and D. They're the ones who assembled all the oral traditions into the first 5 books of the Bible, Genesis to Deuteronomy. Then, after the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BC, Hezekiah altered those books to reflect a new found belief in monotheism. And then, when the Jews were being held captive in Babylon, the books were altered again to add a feeling of hope to help everyone through their despair.
And, of course, the book of Isaiah predicts a Messiah which we now all know was Jesus Christ.
(To all the Jewish readers of this blogpost, the Messiah that Isaiah was actually talking about was Cyborg Rabbinowitz who will be born of a virgin manufacturing plant in the year 2318 A.D. or the year 6079 on the Jewish calendar. He is going to kick some gentile ass.)
But back to Jesus. Soon after his crucifixion, a man named Paul was one of the first "Nerds for Jesus". He walked all over the biblical world writing letters to various civilizations telling all about the miracles of Jesus with a school girl enthusiasm that would make bobby-sockers for Frank Sinatra, Beatlemaniacs, and Justin Bieber fans roll their eyes and say, "dude, get a grip". Paul was eventually jailed in 60 A.D. So, it was the first gospel writer Mark who picked up the task some 10 years later. After another 10 years, gospel writer Matthew took Mark's writings and made some of his own "improvements" on them. The came Luke with his straightforward approach, followed by John at around 100 A.D. who circumlocutorated much poetic prose to his version of the gospel. And, many other gospels, including one written by Mary Magdeline, were rejected simply because they didn't fit the single mindset that the other gospels had. (Hmmm, rejecting text that does not fit an organization's mindset. That looks familiar.) These gospels were then all translated into Latin by Jerome in 360 A.D. and then translated into English by John Wiclef in 1360 A.D. Then, a man named William Tindle took Wiclef's translation and made some of what he felt were much needed improvements.
And then we come to the creation of the King James Bible first published in 1611 A.D., the version that everyone knows about and reads today. According to Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, Gordon Campbell in his book simply called Bible, one of the main reasons for King James to assemble his own Bible was to describe the king as "the principal mover and author of the translation; indeed, the phrase sets up a parallel with God, the first mover and author of all things, so
eliding obedience to God with obedience to the king, and ratifying the claim of James to be king by divine right." page 34-35
So, James shoehorned into the Bible some text about equalling kings with God Himself. Hey, isn't that the notion that made George W. Bush think that God ordained him to be President of the United States? Yeah! Thank you very much Mr. James (No, I didn't say 'your highness', I called you Mister). Your little act of hubris has done more damage than you'll ever know.
And then there's this little tidbit from the book as well, "Finally, the completed revision was sent to Archbishop Bancroft, who made fourteen alterations; it is not known what they were, but one might speculate that the changes were designed to buttress episcopacy." page 64
O I see. So Achbishop Bancroft added fourteen new bits expressing his bigotry against episcopacy. And noone knows where in the text they are. Isn't that nice.
And then there's the matter of the Apocrypha, whose inclusion or exclusion in the Bible all depends on whether a Catholic or a Protestant got to it first.
I think this is more than enough to prove that the Christ in my book is indeed telling the truth. And really, trying to disprove anything I've said either in my book or here with Matthew 4:4 or any other Scripture reading is very much a snake eating itself. That's like the Goldman Sachs lawyers testimony being, "No, there have been no dishonest business practices here. I know this because the CEO themselves told me so and I believe them."
Ok, I should make something clear right now. Nowhere on here am I saying that the Bible and everything in it is total crap. I'm just saying that not every word is from God. The Bible had some very VERY human editors over the centuries. In fact, there is something called the Jesus Seminars whose purpose is to pick through the gospels and determine which quotes Jesus actually said and which were altered in some way. They've been doing this since about 1985 and they're still trying to determine which is which. There's certainly alot to go through.
No research, huh? Pastor, you've been served!
Oh, but that's not all. Here's something else that needs to be addressed:
The book is full of clear Satanic blasphemy against the Lord Jesus Christ, that reduces the sinless Lamb of God(2 Corinthians 5:21), who is God in the flesh (John 1:1,14), to one how rejects His own words (Matthew 4:4), agrees with sin, lies, and complete perversion that would make wicked and ungodly programs such as south park, family guy, and the Simpsons, blush with shame.
Really? My book is more Satanically blasphemous than South Park, Family Guy, and The Simpsons combined? Take that Stone, Parker, MacFarlane and Groening. If you want to cut through my cloud of dust and catch up to me, you guys have a lot of work to do.
But, in all seriousness, I actually consider it an honour to be even considered among the pantheon with these fine creative gentlemen (as well as others who came before and after them). So, Mister Pastor, I have nothing more to add on this particular segment except a big "nerts to you" on that one.
I should definitely respond to this:
God the Father is promoted by Mr. Germain to embrace such wicked sin, and perversion such as pornography, violence, and every ungoldy, evil, and wicked ideology by saying, "There is no censorship in heaven." There is pictures of nudity in Mr. Germain's Heaven, and even God Himself curses at the censorship Monkey's who are banished to a cage where they are ironically "censored" and no longer able to have freedom of expression of there own, which is a clear contradiction of Mr. Germain's rant.
Okay, God is NOT embracing pornography and violence as you assumed, sir. He is simply not being a gigantic douche by suppressing images of those things. Because really, the altering of an artist's vision by anyone is one of the biggest sins anyone can commit (as the history of writing the Bible has demonstrated). THAT'S the point of the rant. Also, the monkeys haven't lost their "freedom of expression". They've simply been put in a cage where they can't infringe their narrow ideology onto anyone or any work of art. My rant was about not having focus groups full of paranoid parents regulating what we see and don't see.
And also, would it be too much to ask for not having someone actually suing a school for celebrating Halloween? Can we have that please?
If my wish for them was complete censorship of the monkey's voices I would have had them meet a very bloody and painful demise.
Mr. Germain clearly is fulfilling the Bible prophecy that says, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (1Timothy 4:1-2).
Hey, how about that! There's a passage in the Bible all about me. What do you say to that Fred Sanford?
Jawbone of an ass. Oh, you're hilarious. Hardy har har! Thanks for standing up for me, Esther. But, I think you just learned the hard way: "Never argue with a man who keeps a baseball bat in his kitchen."
One last thing I'd like to address, it has to do with this part of the Pastor's letter:
Mr. Germain expresses no fear of God or any sense of conviction of his sin by the Holy Ghost
Personally, I feel that any God that can't laugh at Himself is no God that I want to pray to. That's my opinion anyway.
One thing I will say about Pastor Sean Bonitto is that he actually responded. He could have been a big snob and simply ignored me and my work. But, instead he actually took the time to carefully read and respond to everything. That shows that he is
very open and approachable to everyone. He will gladly answer any question you ask him. You might not like theanswer, but at least you'll get one in a timely manner. You say you're praying for me, Pastor Sean? Well, I'm praying for you too. I pray that you'll stop resembling one of the Dean Wormers of the world, because they never have any fun.
With that, I will end this blog post with an Amen because I fully believe and stand by everything I've just said.
(If you want to find out exactly what the good pastor is finding so objectionable about my book, you can order it yourself at either Createspace, Amazon, or Kindle. Does he have a point or is he a little hyperbolic? I'll let you be the judge of that.)