Dr. Robert Sumner passed away in December 2016. The Biblical Evangelist newspaper is no longer being published and the ministry of Biblical Evangelism has ceased operation.

The remaining inventory of his books and gospel tracts was transferred to The Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles and may be ordered here.

Incidents and Illustrations
D. Robert L. Sumner, Editor

FLYING WHILE DRUNK! The 60-year-old David Hans Arnston of Newport Beach (CA), an Alaska Airlines pilot (the airline we previously reported as giving special fare rates to Sodomites), was recently arrested and charged with “piloting a passenger plane while under the influence of alcohol.” United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker well said, "We cannot and will not tolerate those who violate the trust of their passengers by endangering lives."

Authorities claimed the commercial aviator was found to have “a blood alcohol concentration of 0.134 percent and 0.142 percent during two random drug and alcohol tests administered by his employer.” Federal law considers a pilot DUI when his blood alcohol content is 0.10 percent or higher. The two flights were on June 10, 2014, on a flight from San Diego to Portland, Oregon, and from Oregon to John Wayne Airport in Orange County (CA).

In short, Arnston was operating a passenger plane during a time he was “flying when legally drunk.” The good news is that Alaska Airlines banned the drunk from “all safety-sensitive activities” after the tests and Arnston later turned in his resignation. As far as I know, he no longer flies commercially for anyone.

If the ex-AA pilot is found guilty in court he could get a sentence of up to 15 years in the slammer. He is currently, at this writing, out on a $25,000 bond.

WHAT NATION IS WIPING EGG OFF its collective figurative face for sentencing to life in prison a three-year-old boy for the crime of allegedly “killing three people and sabotaging public and private property during a 2014 political demonstration,” actions committed when he would have been 16-months old?

The same country that held the Hebrews as slaves until Moses arrived on the scene!

Yes, Egypt!

In a mass verdict by a military court, the lad, Ahmed Mansour Qorany Sharara, and 115 others were found guilty on February 16^th of this year. When authorities came to arrest him and haul him off to the slammer, his father, Mansour Qorany Sharara, took his son and fled, hiding out for nearly a year-and-a-half.

The father came home with his son after a public outcry that included the court admitted it had made a major blunder based on a mistaken identity (it was a 16-year-old with the same name who had fled the authorities and was on the run). The admission included a promise that neither father nor son would face any charges or be arrested again! An aide to the interior minister, Gen. Abu Bakr Abdel Karim, made the promise.

Alas, like many government assurances, the mother and wife in the case, Hemat Mostafa, lacked confidence the authorities were telling the truth. In fact, when the local television station was carrying the broadcast of the boy’s freedom that included an interview with the dad, she called the station to say police had just been to the house looking for Ahmed Sr. and Jr. And the family’s attorney, Mahmoud Abu Kaf questioned, "If it is true that it was a mistaken identity, why did they come to arrest the boy? Why haven't security arrested the right defendant then?"

As a good evangelical, I believe in the doctrine of man’s depravity, but this case of a 16-month-old guilty of committing murder and sabotaging public and private property during a political demonstration is carrying it a little too far, don’t you think?

FLORIDA: LEAVE GOD OUT OF FOOTBALL! What happened when two Christian schools (Cambridge Christian School and University Christian School) faced off last December for the 2A State Championship in the Citrus Bowl? The Florida High School Athletic Association stepped in and prohibited both teams from publicly praying.

I kid you not! Two Christian schools and their Christian fans – the two best teams in that division in the entire state of Florida – were banned from praying before their championship game, just as both teams had done all season long. Cambridge’s headmaster, Tim Euler, said, “We train our students that prayer is foundational to their walk with Christ … Our faith is founded in prayer.”

They were told doing so “was against the law.” (How could educators be so stupid, so unknowledgeable of what the law really says?) The real lawbreaker was the FHSAA in refusing to let the teams exercise their Constitutional rights!

“This is ridiculous,” said Jeremy Dys, an attorney with Liberty Institute. “We’ve got two Christian schools being told they can’t pray.” He sent the FHSAA a letter demanding an apology and threatening a federal lawsuit should it not do so. (At this writing the chicken FHSAA has failed to respond.)

As Jeremy Dys put it: “We have the state trying to impose strictures upon the church … I think we’ve gone a long way away from who we are as a country when the state starts telling Christian schools they can no longer pray in public.”

The saints did triumph over the sinners, though. The Christian lads gathered on the field before the game and recited the Lord’s Prayer – with many in the stands joining in.

Oh, yes, one of the players, Jacob Enns, asked a question all should be asking. After noting it was a tradition with his team to pray before games (Cambridge Christian), he wondered, “It’s something we did before every game this season … It’s been our tradition ever since I’ve been on the team and our tradition was ruined. It made me wonder, is it wrong to pray?”

As Jacob said, “Prayer is something we’ve been taught to do and to do no matter what – even in public.” Yes, and even in athletics, which the Bible says “is profitable for a little” (I Timothy 4:8, ASV).

Head coach Bob Dare said, “We are raising godly young men that can make a difference in the world they live in. This is why CCS is so committed to praying before every football game.” 

Shame, shame on the FHSAA for refusing to allow these young athletes their Constitutional rights!

THE MILITARY & CLIMATE CHANGE! Orders from the Top: the Pentagon has sent word down to all in the trenches to “incorporate climate change” into almost everything they do (after all, our president thinks that is a greater threat to America than ISIS or any terrorist). It is called by the brass “actionable science.”

Titled “Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience,” the demand defines resilience to climate change: “Ability to anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to changing conditions and withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from disruptions.”

Almost immediately a climate center in Colorado noted the opposite, saying it had looked at weather reports for decades and concluded there was nothing in them that warranted concern. The United Nations came to a kindred conclusion, saying there it found insufficient evidence for alarm.

A professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Police Research at Colorado University, Roger Pielke Jr., put it like this: “Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin.”

He added, “In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.”

When Congressman Raul M. Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona, tried to muzzle him, Pielke replied, “Congressman Grijalva doesn’t have any evidence of any wrongdoing on my part, either ethical or legal, because there is none … He simply disagrees with the substance of my testimony – which is based on peer-reviewed research funded by the U.S. taxpayer, and which also happens to be the consensus of the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change],” called IPCC for short, a UN committee.

And he called Grijalva’s charges “a politically motivated ‘witch hunt’ designed” to intimidate and smear.

Hopefully, come January, there will be someone of intelligence in the White House that knows what he is talking about.

[See the editor’s article “Mankind’s Greatest Threat!” on page one of our last issue.]

WE SALUTE JOE SILK, OKLAHOMA STATE SENATOR from Broken Bow. In early March of this year Silk introduced S.B. 1118 into the Oklahoma City hopper that, if passed into law, would make abortion a crime of first degree murder! His bill says, in part, “No person shall perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion after conception … A person commits murder in the first degree when that person performs an abortion as defined by Section 1-745.5 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes.”

While we hope we are wrong, we predict the bill won’t get to first base (you know, “out” at the plate). We admire his courage and his insight into a major American problem but our age is too ungodly for any real sanity. But Joe wants to take the fact (and it is a fact) that the cutting off of any human life, in the womb or out of the womb, is murder. The PCs (politically correct con artists) probably won’t let Joe’s bill see the light of day.

Abortion is defined in Silk’s bill as “the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance or device to intentionally kill an unborn human being.” In short, S.B. 1118 guarantees the unborn child with complete protection from the instant of conception – and all the other rights and privileges any American citizen possesses.

Oh, the people of Oklahoma are behind Joe’s bill; that’s not the problem. In fact, the bill itself is a result of more than 30,000 natives signing a petition demanding the Sooner State bring a complete halt to the bloody practice in that state, which has the reputation of being the most conservative in the country. And that petition said, in part:

[W]e hereby respectfully demand that our state government stop protecting the murder of children by abortion within its jurisdiction and establish justice for all pre-born human beings in our state … We demand that our legislators stop passing laws to regulate abortion and instead outlaw all abortion as murder ...

We demand that these changes be made now – not five, ten or fifteen years down the road … In short, we the people of the state of Oklahoma demand the total and immediate abolition of human abortion as the legal, constitutional and moral duty of our elected and appointed officials.

Sounds good to us! And we especially like the repeated use of “demand” in the petition’s wording. No namby-pamby stuff for those patriotic people

Oh, yes! A companion bill was introduced by State Senator Nathan Dahm that would revoke the license of any medical doctor performing an abortion. Dahm’s bill provides that any doctor “…participating in the performance of an abortion shall be prohibited from obtaining or renewing a license to practice medicine in this state,” also declaring, “No person shall perform or induce an abortion upon a pregnant woman. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than three years in the state penitentiary.”

Maybe “our” Dred Scot decision will eventually be overturned after all – the result of “we the people” rising up to demand sanity (abortion in America has already killed some 60 million boys and girls – potential leaders – since it became “legal” in a 1972 Supreme Court decision). As if “privacy” permitted the murder of an unborn child any more than it does the murder of an unfaithful spouse!