Christian Heroes ... and Villains
What Sort of Person Would Intentionally Write False Scriptural Material … and Why?
With the help of some very good sites pertaining to the New Testament “canon,” i.e., the books accepted as legitimate works pertaining to doctrine and actual events, written honestly and for the purpose of advancing the truth about Jesus and his unique and exclusive capability as a 100 percent divine son of God, able to redeem you and me, we’re going to begin a series called Christian Heroes and Villains.
It’s important to know whose telling the truth and who isn’t about Jesus: and we keep finding people opposed to Jesus caught up in all sorts of lies, such as this Dan Brown and his Da Vinci Code nonsense, which we believe he had help in writing. As a matter of fact, The Da Vinci Code novel may have been written by committee. We’ve have some inside info on that, by the way. It is a rumor, if that’s what it is, which is beginning to build.
As the name of our series implies, there are sheep and there are wolves in sheep’s clothing. The sheep are those whom Jesus can attract with his words of truth, the wolves in sheep’s clothing are a different breed altogether. First of all, they ain’t sheep, but they want people to think that they’re sheep. We’ve had some people like that working around here. You have some people like that working around you wherever you are.
But we’re not calling names.
What we are doing, as best we can, is trying to educate people about deception, pathological liars, heretics, wolves in sheep’s clothing. And, we invoke the words of Jesus and what he said about how to tell a true person from a phony: by their fruit. And that’s how you should judge me and anyone who writes for TANATA, if we ever write anything that doesn’t absolutely ring with truth, if we can’t back up what we say … then you ought to call us on it. I mean it. If we’re blowing smoke in your opinion on this whole idea of an African writer of the Bible being hidden because of a racist agenda which is bigger than all of us, in my opinion, then you ought to say to yourself, this guy’s full of baloney, and surf away and never come back to this site.
But we can back up everything we say about John Mark … and the apparently organized, very organized effort to obscure his contributions to Christianity. We don’t know what the full agenda or plan is, but we know that if someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble to hide someone from folks who could have been helped personally by knowing who this hidden person is, well, you’re a fool not to at least draw some conclusions.
We’re not trying to be provocative and to call attention to ourselves and this website just for the sake of doing that, we just think people ought to have the truth. And if we think we have it, we’re going to say so. And if people won’t listen to us, we may have to put on a gorilla suit and jump up and down … and then settle down and lay it on you when we have your attention. Fair enough? Why do we do that? Because there are so many messages today vying for our attention, that they truth can get lost … if you don’t have a gimmick. But don’t write us off for saying that … wait until you see and read what we have to say. If you can’t buy it, write us and say so … and then move on.
So, back to true and false scripture, heroes and villains, and what would cause a person to sit down and knowingly write false material, especially if it is meant to discredit Jesus? Some people have no fear of God — I don’t mean quaking in your boots, but recognizing that he is sovereign and he exists, and he can get his will accomplished, whether we want it to be that way or not. Click on this link and take a look at this chart. You don’t have to understand it all at once, but take a look at the left-hand column and see the various writings from top to bottom, and then look across the top of this chart.
The initials or abbreviations across the top are those so-called “early Christian fathers” who determined very early only what was legitimately divinely inspired, true, no-nonsense teaching in written form … and that which was not valid or legitimate, divinely inspired teaching in written form. The notion that there has ever been any question or debate as to whether someone was writing what they knew to be the truth, the idea that someone would say that Jesus said this or Jesus said that, when he didn’t, just boggles my mind. The idea that people in a position to influence people have said to themselves, Okay I know Jesus didn’t really say this, or that one of the disciples or apostles didn’t really say or do this, but I’m going to say they did anyway, tells me something weird is going on; it tells me that there are motivations behind such deceit as that, and I want to know what it is.
So, we have these early church fathers, writing from the late first century to about the early third century A.D., who put their heads together, and said, “Okay, now, this is the real thing … I can buy this” or they said, “Who wrote this load of nonsense? Throw it out!” Thank goodness the Lord was leading them, as I believe he was.
I don’t know about you, but I detest a liar who has hurting people in mind, a deceiver, someone who will lie about Jesus, or say or do something intentionally false for the purpose of affecting someone’s salvation, or making someone else look bad who really wants to help folks. We wrestle with those sorts of people all the time — wolves in sheep’s clothing. Having a degree in psychology, I feel somewhat qualified to weigh in on what causes a person to be pathologically deceitful. That’s why we have named our website TANATA, because we exist or want to for the purpose of exposing wolves who are wearing sheep’s clothing — heretics, people who misrepresent the truth about Jesus, for whatever reason they do it. And, as we have tried to show and get people to take a look at, sometimes with very extreme measures (we admittedly do some wacky things on this website), but we do it in love, there are people out there lying about Jesus … or either they are just dumb as mud. We admit that we are often intentionally provocative and strange, and mysterious, to draw you in as the reader … because everybody loves a mystery … and it’s fun trying to figure mysteries out. But once we have you, we’re going to tell you the truth about Jesus as we see it. And if we don’t, you can say so.
To our credit here at TANATA, though it has not been pleasant, we have dismissed a lot of sources of writing here lately, a lot different, talented writers, either because they got to where they didn’t like me … or they weren’t serious about walking with Jesus. We aren’t perfect. But we will never, ever, ever lie to you about Jesus and what we believe is true and what we believe is something you ought to consider for the benefit of your salvation. (We will tell a white lie, for self preservation purposes, or to keep from hurting someone’s feelings; for instance, when and if our better half has on a new dress and wants to be complimented … even if we don’t like it, we’ve learned not to say anything but something good. If she likes it, that’s what counts. We’ve gotten in trouble telling the blunt truth. So, we will tell a white lie to help ourselves, to keep the peace, but that isn’t lying, is it?) And if we don’t know the answer to something, we’ll say we don’t know.
But if we think we know the truth, 100 percent, we’re not going to pull any punches: we’re going to say what we believe is the truth, and you can tune us out or not visit this site, if you want to. What is a very, very weird thing about the Internet is that there are anti-Christian websites that intentionally put up misinformation, false material, just to throw me and you off.
By the way, I really did have a dream about Muhammad Ali, meeting him. Does that mean anything mystical or mysterious? Is it meaningful? Only if I get to meet him and get the Champ to help me tell the truth about an African man, a brilliant man, a poet like Ali was and is, who has been hidden from us … but for what reason? White supremacists scare me, because they’re Nazis, and white boys had to go and fight them right alongside people of color, Jewish people … because a white supremacist is dangerous, because such a man is opposed to God and equality and fairness, justice, and that, in my opinion, cannot ever be tolerated. I don’t care what color you are. God bless. This ought to be a meaningful series. Tell your friends, link to us, and pray for us as we pray for the genuine body of Jesus.
By the way, lastly, special thanks to Karen Love and the good folks at NNPA.org, the Black Press of America, for cutting me some slack and recognizing that the bind I got put in was not of my doing. I don’t know what people are thinking sometimes; I swear, and I mean this, the devil will invade your thoughts, or can, and good people sometimes won’t even know it. I’ve lost some good friends, lately, younger people, some of them I called brothers.
— rcg
Janet Devlin
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