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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 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? Remember the editor’s message on that subject in our March-April issue? He was not quoted there because we only quoted Presidents, but Daniel Webster (1782-1852), an American statesman of considerable stature, certainly agreed with the thesis. He wrote: “Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.” Wouldn’t it be great to have a dozen or so Webster-minded men in While we don’t consider Franklin Delano Roosevelt much of an authority in religious matters, he still could read and understand history. He said plainly: “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic … [W]here we have been truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.” If you are a real and honest student of history, you will acknowledge the same. A “SAFE” CIGARETTE? A new product on the market offers to “help” folks quit smoking cigarettes. It claims it is smokeless (while providing a vapor to exhale that looks like smoke). It is called an E-Cigarette (the “e” is for “electric”; actually, battery operated). Is it real? Does it work? What we read online was really an ad for the product so we took what it said with a grain of salt. Too, as Health Consumer News pointed out: “The nicotine contained in these devices is extremely addictive.” The maker acknowledges its fake has “the same amount of nicotine” as a regular cigarette. Isn’t nicotine one of the major health problems involved with smoking? So how would that help? And addiction is also one of the main problems with quitting. Is e-cigarette good or bad? In light of the above, how could it be good? It is true the fake has no tar or some of the other dangerous chemicals a real one does. But if someone not already addicted smoked this cigarette, he would obviously become addicted. And since it comes in smoke “flavors” (for example, apple, cherry, chocolate, and mint) which wouldn’t impress those already hooked, that is obviously an appeal for youth to get started – and get addicted via the nicotine! And the one who wrote the promotional piece I read obviously has an elevator that doesn’t go all the way to the top. How do I know? He/she said the “trial-promo” deal the company was offering would end on April 31, 2010! It was already well past that date. WHEN SHOULD YOU PULL THE PLUG ON TV FOR KIDS? Probably at two or younger, or so intimates an article in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Too much TV at two can produce problems in academics, social interaction and health by age ten. Not a fly-by-night study, it involved 1,300 children born between 1997/1998 and followed by researchers afterward. For a two-year-old it was deemed over two hours was too much (we think 20 minutes might be too much). The report said more exposure at two would result at ten in being picked on by classmates, drinking too much soda pop, having a higher body mass index, and being less physically active on weekends. Much worse, Melissa Henson of Parents Television Council warned, "Even programming that is built as educational really has very little educational benefit for the youngster … The child is more likely to grow intellectually [and] developmentally at a faster pace if they're not watching television and instead are looking at books ... playing outside, or engaging with other kids or even adults." She also warned about parents letting their guard down when the kids got older. SHOULD WE ‘WHUP’ THE LITTLE DARLINGS IN SCHOOL? While most Americans think corporal punishment is no longer taking place in any of our public schools, about a quarter million “got it” during a recent year and it is still legal in 20 of our 50 states, mostly in the south. Liberal Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) wants legislators to ban the practice totally, even though it is always done by an administrator – never by a teacher – and always privately. BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT … EVENTUALLY! Back in 1997, 15-year-old Tina A_____ was allegedly raped in But her humiliation had just started. The petrified youngster was then compelled to stand before the entire church congregation and confess her immorality (she had become pregnant and it was showing). She was forbidden to tell the congregation it was Deacon Willis who impregnated her, however. Tina said later, "I was completely in shock, but too scared to go and tell anyone because I thought I would get blamed for what happened … I truly believed that it was my fault." Alas, that is a common fact when children are raped, which benefits the guilty of course. In the preparation for the church discipline as church officials crafted the speech she was to make, the pastor, who went on to become a denominational leader, told her she was fortunate not to be living in Old Testament times when she would have been stoned. And his wife crudely inquired, “Did you enjoy it?” When her mother asked the pastor for help he suggested sending her across country to live with a Baptist family in Last February, Tina, now a 28-year-old Christian teacher living in The monster Willis has finally been arrested and charged with four felonies, two of rape and two of having sex with a minor. He is currently out on $100,000 bail. Pastor and church – take note brethren, this is serious – may be charged with obstruction of justice (if they knew Willis was involved in the pregnancy; the law requires those with knowledge of a crime like this to report it − even if the head deacon or a son of the church’s most prominent family is involved and you’d love to cover it up) and for hiding the victim by sending her away. We are not naming them now because they haven’t been charged and we do not know what they knew. Yes, sin is a serious, serious business and it eventually finds you out! Believe me! The above is based on a story by ABCNews.com, who obtained a copy of Tina’s statement to the police before reporting it. WICKEDNESS AT DISNEY! Well, the bums/perverts are still at it. And Disney gives them its annual boost with a “Gay (sic) Day” at the Gay Day annually attracts 15-to-20 thousand “reveling homosexual, lesbian, [and] transgender” perverts according to the founder of the Florida Family Association, David Caton, who called it “a very distasteful event.” While that Saturday was the ‘highlight’ day for the Sodomites, it was in the midst of a weeklong drag that draws about 150,000 annually. The perverts wear “red” that day to identify themselves to each other. It is an appropriate color because sin is described biblically as “scarlet” and “red like crimson” (Isaiah Why is this event always on the first Saturday of June? Caton believes it is because there are anywhere from 50 to 70 thousand children in the park at that time. He also said he has seen two to three thousand leaving the park when they learned it was jammed with Sodomites. (We hope they got their money back first!) Who sponsors this perversion? The chief corporate sponsor this year was the booze boys (Anheuser-Busch). No surprise there. The surprise is that one of the other major sponsors was the Florida Department of Health. I wonder how many With the latter in mind, chew on the fact that the FDA is considering lifting the ban on Sodomites donating blood (HIV flows like a flood in the veins of Sodomites). MISS SMARTY-PANTS RULES! In Consider her ramming the repeal of what is called “don’t ask, don’t tell” regarding Sodomites in the military on the eve of the Memorial Day break. She did so even though the military was conducting a survey among its constituency to see how they felt about it (the ones actually involved). She didn’t want to wait for that result. She did so although the chiefs of all four service branches wrote directly to the House of Representatives, begging them not to vote so soon. She, with her infinite wisdom (sic), ignored them. Because her crowd, at the moment, overwhelmingly controls Congress, the law was repealed, 234-194 (ten were too chicken to go on record to vote). It was another feather in the hat of Nancy “Bulldozer” Pelosi. The military be hanged! The public be hanged! Everybody be hanged – I’m running this show. Since her district is the pervert capital of America (San Francisco) she probably cannot be ousted at the ballot box. (Nancy is their kind of man!) Our only hope is for her party to become the minority party and then she will be replaced as second in line for the presidency if something happens to the president. The military feels double-crossed (and they should). They are furious. Americans feel double-crossed (and they should). Most of them are furious. Believe me, I feel double-crossed, and I am furious! WHAT ABOUT THE MOVIES? Phil Boatwright, who reviews movies for the Southern Baptists, in a Baptist Press, recalled how some of us old-timers fought movies, then remarked: "Nowadays very few preach against movie-going. Maybe they should. For at no other time in motion picture history has the medium been so glutted with profane, desensitizing or misleading content. Nor has there been a time when the scriptural dictum 'Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them' (Ephesians He noted about today's Hollywood crowd: "Not satisfied with being our modern-day court jesters, many members of the entertainment industry have taken it upon themselves to pontificate about political, social and religious issues, three subjects of which movie folk believe they instinctively know all there is to know." Boatwright then said, "Though I love movies, my main objection to them rests in the fact that they are so often used to detour us from biblical directions. Think how much time you spend being seduced by After quoting some good Bible passages, he offered: "But while some preach abstinence from movies, I maintain moderation is the way to go when it comes to movie-going. After all, in Ecclesiastes 3 we are told that there is a time to laugh and a time to dance. I believe that means entertainment is an elemental part of life. For example, there's nothing religious about a baseball game. It's watched for the enjoyment. Motion pictures can provide the same outlet. " Alas, talk about comparing apples with oranges! Do kids decide it would be exciting to smoke or drink by watching a baseball game? Would a small group of toughs be inspired to rob a bank from seeing a star hurler strike out ten men in a row? Are teens inclined to commit adultery in the back seat of a car after seeing someone hit a grand slam or pitch a shutout? Put me down as one who thinks it best, quoting Phil, to "preach abstinence from movies." It is the biggest waste of time Satan ever invented, as even he hinted above. While there are some exceptions offering good moral lessons, also noted by Boatwright even though he had to go way back in history to find most of them, this is a case where the exceptions don't prove the rule. David (we are quoting from the Southern Baptist translation, HCSB), had a good resolution: “I will not set anything godless before my eyes. I hate the doing of transgression; it will not cling to me. A devious heart will be far from me; I will not be involved with evil” (Psalm 101:3, 4). Or, as the KJV opens the passage: “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes …” HOW NOT TO SAVE MONEY: OBAMACARE. All the time Obama was pushing ObamaCare he insisted the facts showed it would save money. Now Doug Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, in a rare kind of ‘strongly contradicting’ a sitting president (first time ever, in fact), has spoken. He said that while it would do many things, one thing it wouldn’t do was to improve the deficit in our national budget. An NYC health care analyst, Avik Roy, summed it up like this: “At this point, there are only two camps of honest people: those who believe Obamacare will blow up the budget, and that this is a problem; and those who believe that Obamacare will blow up the budget, and that this is not a problem (because wealth redistribution is more important, and because the wealthy can be taxed more if needed).” As an honest person (hopefully), in which camp are you? SO YOU THOUGHT IF YOU HAD “HARVARD” on your résumé it would help? Maybe not. Two profs at its medical school, J. Wesley Boyd (Harvard ’49), who teaches psychiatry, and his wife, Theonia Boyd (Harvard ’46), a pathologist (both with doctorates), got busted at a prep school graduation party at a home in Weare (MA). Their daughter, Ariana, and her classmates had received diplomas earlier in the day from St. Paul’s High School in When neighbors complained about the crowd and racket, police were called and they found so many minors they promptly called for backup from four neighboring communities: Henniker, Dunbarton, Hopkinton and New Boston. The Boyds were charged with facilitating an underage drinking party and when the fog cleared, there were 70 (count ’em, seventy) teens in custody. Boyd told police he had warned against drinking and drugs (even standing on a table after the party started and repeating the ban), and that he hadn’t seen anyone drinking (maybe he can call his seeing eye dog to testify for him in court). Pretty tight alibi, right? Maybe not. After his “no drinking” defense the officers showed him photographs of large numbers of beer containers in the yard, taken after the bust. He had lots of fault for the police, of course. He said they made bad remarks about the children and the police had his handcuffs on so tight some of his fingers were still numb the next day. Poor boy. A DISCLAIMER FOR A PUBLISHER OF THE CONSTITUTION. A Wilder Publications (VA) release is The Constitution, The Declaration of Not exactly. On each copy is a disclaimer: “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.” We are not too keen on book banning, but we are willing to make an exception for “publisher banning” in this case. Don’t buy Wilder Publications books. CONTROL IS THE NAME OF THE GAME. The party in control of Congress decides, by appointing the Speaker of the House, what bills are brought up, right? Almost. There is a little known “discharge petition” whereby a Congressperson who has a bill the Speaker refuses to bring up for a vote can get 218 signers and the Speaker is compelled to bring the legislation up for a vote. A congressman from Urge your representative in the House of Representatives to sign it! IT’S REALLY NOT FUNNY! The last time I was on the road the free (motel) USA Today had an editorial cartoon. The first panel showed two Middle Ages men screaming at each other, “A boat sank,” and the reply, “We have to stop sailing!” The second panel showed a couple of early twentieth century men screaming, “A car wrecked,” and the reply, “We have to stop driving!” The third one featured a couple of mid-twentieth century men screaming, “A plane crashed,” and the reply, “We have to stop flying!” The final panel showed two men – probably It showed the Washington mentality about as well as anything I had seen lately. DID I HELP YOU PAY FOR YOUR FIRST HOME? Hey, wasn’t Obama’s First-time Homebuyers Tax Credit a great idea! If you had never bought a home before, In fact, it was such a good idea 1,300 of our prison inmates were reportedly rejoicing that they were able, falsely and wrongly, to benefit, receiving a total of $9 million through that giveaway of our tax dollars. They weren’t the only crooks, however. The Associated Press reported 14,100 folks wrongly received the cash – at an expense to taxpayers of some $26,700,000. One thing is for sure: the Obama administration is “spreading the wealth” around, just as he promised he would before being elected. He is taking it from the taxpayers and giving it to the deadbeats. WHAT’S WITH THE On her staff is a man who denies both! We refer to Tom Boicourt, a leader in the And The Way International is the anti-scriptural, non-Trinitarian, Jesus-deity-denying cult about whom I wrote my rebuttal book to Victor Paul Wierwille, Jesus Christ IS God! So what gives? Our friend, James Kieferdorf wrote Mrs. Meyers a few months ago asking her. She didn’t answer. He eventually wrote her again on July 1. She still has refused to answer. We suggest readers who listen to and/or support her ministry write and kindly demand an explanation. PLAYBOY REACHES NEW LOW! Even for Playboy. Its July Portugal edition (where the name is spelled Playboy, you know just like our English word) features our Lord Jesus Christ on the cover, with a young female nude in His arms. Inside the magazine, He is associated with other nudes. It seems the only citizen of Portugal to win a Nobel literature prize, José Saramago, had just died the month before and Playboy wanted to honor him. After all, good old José was especially noted for writing The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, a novel featuring a very “flawed and human Jesus.” The Portuguese spelling of his novel title was engraved on the headboard of the bed on the cover where the nude was sprawled. The pornographers wouldn’t want anyone to miss the connection, now would they? Did we mention Saramago was an atheist? I guess that adds ‘color’ to the issue. THOSE POOR FOLKS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) seem hopelessly lost in today’s cultural storms. During its annual meeting in Minneapolis last July a committee voted overwhelmingly to approve a report urging the denomination to do further study on the issue of "gay marriage" and a constitutional change that would define marriage as "between two people," instead of the biblical "between a man and a woman." A minority report that "only marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God" was defeated 40-15. The Church Orders and Ministry committee also offered a recommendation (36-16) to lift the ban on ordaining noncelibate homosexuals as pastors, elders or deacons. When it appeared before the whole body, it passed by a majority of 53%. So if you are a member of that denomination, you may have a Sodomite telling you how to live and love Jesus. Sickening, isn’t it? The vote on changing the definition to make marriage “between two people” failed by a single percentage point. One pastor/pervert, Rev. (sic) Ray Bagnuolo, who is paid a nice stipend to lead the Janhus Presbyterian Church in NYC away from God and the Bible, called the negative vote "… acts of desperation by those who feel their way of life is slipping away." He added, "Progress takes time. But to gay and lesbian people, it says their relationships, who they are, does not matter to this church. I don't call that Christian or loving." Maybe not in his evil eyes, but it is standing up for God and the Bible! and doesn’t the great “love” chapter insist love “rejoiceth in truth” (I Corinthians 13:6)? That is real love. One of the bizarre things about the whole joke was that a guest speaker – Rev. Aiarhei Hardun, an Orthodox Church theologian who had been invited to speak to the group – lambasted them for their immoral actions. He said it appeared to him they were trying to “invent a new religion – a sort of modern paganism,” adding, "Christian morality is as old as Christianity itself. It doesn't need to be invented now." Wow! He also told them, "When people say that they are led and guided by the Holy Spirit to do it, I wonder if it is the same Holy Spirit that inspired the Bible." The denomination elected, on the fourth ballot, “Elder” Cynthia Bolback as its new Moderator of the General Assembly. (There were slightly over 700 delegates attending the conclave.) Cynthia (we are not sure she wants to be known as “Cyn”) is an “elder” in the National Capital Presbytery and the only one of six candidates for the position who supported “same-sex marriage.” The depth of Moderator Bolback’s biblical intellect was seen in her statement, "Who poses the greatest threat – Larry King, who's been married seven times, or a gay couple [friends of hers] in Washington, D.C., who have been together for 62 years and who got married two weeks ago?” We do not know if King offered a rebuttal. The only good news – if such it may be called – is that local presbyteries must approve this nonsensical, nonbiblical malarkey before it can become church law. (They have blown kindred proposals out of the water in the past, proving Presbyterian lay folk are smarter than Presbyterian leaders – at least in this denomination.) ROMAN POLANSKI, YOU’LL STILL MEET “THE” JUDGE! This sex pervert and society scum who was convicted in this country for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 – then fled the country on the eve of his sentencing – has been declared a “free” man by the Swiss government. Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf declared about the 76-year-old Polanski the Pervert, an Oscar winning director of “ Alas, Roman, your real Court Case will take place on the Great Judgment Morning, when you stand before a Holy God from whom you cannot flee. Laughter then will turn to weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. It won’t be funny, believe me. “DO YOU THINK YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?” is a sermon in our book, Hell Is No Joke! (available from us for $12.00, postage paid). In it we gave the responses six people reported to the “Inquiring Fotographer” of the New York Daily News to it. Not a one got it right – or even came close. In going through our files the other day we found another “Inquiring Fotographer” column that Tom Olson reported in LeTourneau’s little Now paper, in which six more people were asked the same identical question. Those answers were as pathetic as the other half-dozen. This time the occupations of the interviewed were not given, but get a load of the answers! The first one said she didn’t have a chance but her father was a good man! She felt he would put a good word in for her and that meant she had “a great chance.” Talk about trying to go to Heaven on someone else’s coattails! The second played the fool trying to make a joke of it, saying his chances were “pretty slim because I can’t play a harp.” The third offered an opinion, without explaining, that her chances were “about one out of twelve.” The fourth, also apparently trying to make a joke, said she had to spend so much time in taxis with myriad close calls, her chances of being hit and going to Heaven “seem to be excellent.” Another said, “How can I possibly tell? Why not ask my husband?” And the husband said she had “an excellent chance because she joined the church of her own accord.” How pathetic. The other one came close (but “no cigar,” as the pitchman on the midway would say). This man responded that his chances were “not so good” because the requirements were beyond his “poor human limitations.” Then he went on, “However, the Bible holds out one big hope for all us poor sinners, and that is if we do go to Heaven, we will get there by the grace of God.” Did you notice that not one of these six sinners – and it was true of the six in my sermon – even mentioned the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ? Yet the Word of God insists “… there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts And Jesus said, in the passage about Heaven in John 14, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Vs. 6). Now let me ask you, do you think you will go to Heaven when you die? Why? (If you are not sure, write the editor and let him help you.) WE ARE EMBARRASSED! In addition to being “a serious blow” for opponents of the Sodomite agenda, “[Obama] has thumbed his nose at all of the nations around the world that embrace sexual morality – and the president, in the name of the His complaint was about an unprecedented move for an American president (never before in the proud history of our country) in helping a Sodomite group (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) take a run around normal procedures [a favorite ploy of the president of late to win points he can’t gain legally] obtain status as a nongovernment organization in the United Nations, thus insulting moral nations fighting to keep the Sodomites out of world government. While he called it an "important step forward for human rights," he could have called it an advance for the criminal element of the world since IGLHRC, a radical group, has “publicly supported criminal sanctions” for its opponents. |
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