The New IFB movement is marked by a violent spirit that is visible in just about every aspect of the group, as well as the individuals within the group. Even in their verbal interactions with others, the violence is present. During a recent YouTube live streaming even with Benjamin Naim where he and a few other New IFB adherents spoke about the so-called “Reprobate Doctrine” and what they call “infiltrators”, Ben had some interactions with people who had signed in and were participating in the accompanying live chat1. One of these people, who used the screen name “Vigilant Marksman” made some comments that were critical of the Steven Anderson and the New IFB movement. Not nasty comments, no foul language, and contained no untrue comments. But Ben did not care, and he responded in what could charitably be called an unchristian manner.
Vigilant Marksman: God will judge you Ben.
Ben the Baptist: Jump in a lake
Vigilant Marksman: Pastor Anderson violated the biblical order and placed his puppet in control of a church he did not build.
Ben the Baptist: Keep crying loser. No one likes you.
Vigilant Marksman: Ben the Baptist speak for yourself.
Ben the Baptist: Nice comeback. Go back to Law of Leprosy*. Out Doug oneness! Out!
Vigilant Marksman: Pastor Anderson stepped into an internal church problem what wasn’t his.
Ben the Baptist, block me then.
Ben the Baptist: Bozo Fanninite
Vigilant Marksman: Ben the Baptist, I believe the Trinity the same way Pastor Anderson did for 10 years of ministry.
Ben the Baptist: Haha no you don’t loser
*a reference to Adam Fannin’s church, Law of Liberty Baptist Church. Law of Liberty is from James 2:12
In this part 3a of this article series, we will examine some of the violence aspects of the New IFB movement.
Part 3A:
Reprobates, Theonomy, and Violence – An Introduction to the Vitriolic, Vindictive, and Violent Nature of the New IFB
The Reprobate Doctrine
The so-called “Reprobate Doctrine” embraced by Steven Anderson and the New IFB movement teaches that there are certain individuals who have so hardened their hearts against God, that they are beyond any hope for salvation. While this doctrine does have some basis in Scripture (see Romans 11:7; 1 Peter 2:8 among others), the version embraced by Anderson and the New IFB is a bastardized version of it, wherein Anderson and his followers tend to view themselves as the final arbiter of who is or isn’t a reprobate.
While Anderson and his followers seem to have a penchant for labeling anyone who critically disagrees with them as reprobates, there are apparently two primary groups of people who are labeled as reprobates by the New IFB. The first are those who are ejected or excommunicated by the group. Anderson has stated repeatedly that anyone who attends his church and is not saved as a result is a reprobate. This label had been placed on virtually everyone who has been excommunicated by the New IFB.
The second group of people whom are labeled as reprobate by the New IFB are homosexuals. According to the New IFB, all homosexuals are beyond any and all hope for salvation. They base this on Romans 1:18-32, specifically verses 26-28, which state, “26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”
They then turn to Jeremiah 6:30, “Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them” and conclude that reprobate is a synonym for rejected, therefore someone with a reprobate mind, is a reprobate themselves and is therefore rejected by God. They look at passages such as Ecclesiastes 1:15, “That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered” and Ecclesiastes 7:13, “Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?” and interpret these combined scriptures to mean that homosexuals engage in homosexuality because they have been rejected by God and are unable to be saved. They are beyond any hope of salvation. They are doomed to hell for all eternity. Because of their version of reprobation, or the reprobate doctrine, Anderson and his followers have become infamous for the violent hatred of homosexuals
Since December 2005, Anderson and his followers have made a name for themselves in their vocal condemnation not simply of homosexuality, but of homosexuals themselves, almost always calling for their death2.
Benjamin Naim, a New IFB YouTube “celebrity” known as Ben the Baptist, recently held a live stream hate fest which he advertised as a “Live Reprobate Doctrine Roundtable”3, and not long after this it was revealed that New IFB “pastor” Grayson Fritts, who is also a Knox County Tennessee Sheriff’s Office detective, has come under fire for a sermon he delivered on June 2, 2019 wherein he called for the arrest and execution of homosexuals4.
Meanwhile, over in Clermont, Florida, a suburb of Orlando, New IFB “pastor” Patrick Boyle was preparing for his church, Revival Baptist Church, to host an antihomosexual conference he calls the “Make America Straight Again Conference.”5
The antihomsexual hate rhetoric from New IFB pastors, began with Steven Anderson and Roger Jimenez, the founders of the movement, in 2016 after the deadly shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida where shooter Omar Mateen shot over 100 people, killing 49 of them. Within days Steven Anderson and Roger Jimenez went public praising Mateen for killing so many homosexuals. Both Anderson and Jimenez said the only thing they regretted about the shooting was that more homosexuals were nor not killed.6
Not surprisingly, Steven Anderson has found himself banned from several countries – 31 in all, because of his hate speech. What is surprising, however, is that while these countries have banned Steven Anderson, they have allowed the other New IFB “pastors” that Anderson sends in his place, thus ensuring his hate speech has an international audience.7
Steven Anderson claims he learned the Reprobate Doctrine from his father, sometime after Anderson was bullied by what he calls “gangs of sodomites” that terrorized him and others during his time at the Citadel of Faith Christian Academy8 when he was in the seventh grade.
Anderson relates some of the abuse he claims he witnessed at Citadel,
“I am not exaggerating when I say this. When I was twelve years old, when I went to Citadel Christian school, I was literally scared every day that my parents dropped me off. I was literally..as I got out of the car, I was scared getting out of the car. And I dreaded every day that I went to that school because of the horrors that were going on there. Now, one of the problems was that the school was seventh through twelfth grade. So basically, in my main class that I was in, there were about twenty some, thirty kids, and they were just seventh and eighth graders but the whole school was seventh through twelfth so we would have P.E. and Bible classes and other times where we would be basically in the same class with “children” quote unquote that were seventeen, eighteen years old. I’m twelve, they’re seventeen or eighteen. These, uh, “children” quote unquote would basically beat up on us, cause I’m a seventh grader, I mean all of us were being beaten up, tortured, having food and money extorted from us – I mean the typical, ‘hey kid, give us your lunch money’ you know? But basically we had money extorted from us every day. Money – we had to pay them off, or give them food or whatever; or, be attacked or fight them, or whatever. Try fighting an eighteen year old when you’re twelve. You say, ‘you were just a wienie of a wuss.’ No. Let me tell you something. When you’re twelve, you’re not going to fight off a seventeen or eighteen year old from the ghetto. They’re going to beat the fire out of you. Okay? And we literally..I mean..we’re not talking about, you know, I’m not talking about mild beating up. I’m talking about kicking you in the groin as hard as they can – an eighteen year old when you’re twelve. I’m talking about ripping the hair out of the back of your neck. I mean, I’m talking about slugging you in the stomach as hard as they could. I’m talking about them coming up with every way possible to torture you. Okay? This is the kind of stuff that would go on at this Christian school. I remember I would always..you know, my dad always taught me, don’t give in to bullies. Don’t give them the money. Don’t give them the food. Don’t give them what they want, they’ll just come after you more. So I’d always try to fight back and resist, you know, the attack. But honestly, there was a kid in that school he would pay them every day. He’d give them his food every day. He’d give them a twinkie or whatever, you know, out of his lunch. He’d give them money every day, and he got beat up the worst. He got tortured the worst. And I’m not using the word tortured lightly, I mean, I’m talking about extreme pain being inflicted on us [his exact words]. And again, I don’t even want to go into too much of it because of the fact that it’s gruesome. But no only that, the sodomite innuendo that came out of these “kids” mouths. I mean, they would talk sodomy all the time. Filth to young kids. I mean they would basically, an..and you know I’m not playing when I say that the sodomites aren’t reproducers they’re recruiters, and they would constantly have sodomite innuendo coming out of their mouth. Again, nothing I would repeat, but basically trying to solicit sodomite acts out of the younger children.9
“You know, I didn’t like going to seventh grade at that messed up school, but in some ways I’m glad I did ‘cause it made me so mad, that I’m still mad, and I still hate their guts! I still hate these reprobates! I still hate these sodomites! I still hate these haters of God! These VILE, PERVERTERS OF THE FLESH!!! [pounding his pulpit with each word spoken] And I’ll stand up to them! I stood up to them then and I’ll stand up to them now!...Bullies! Bullies my friend, BULLIES! [pounding his pulpit] And they would cram this stuff down your throat, and nobody, because look, a nine-year old, a ten-year old, an eleven-year old doesn’t have the guts to stand up to that kind of a bully. They want to fit in, they want to go with the crowd, they want to be cool, they want to be accepted, they don’t want to get a worse beating, they’re not going to have the guts to stand up. But you know what? Men need to stand up. But I’ll tell you this, kids, they’re just not going to have the guts to stand up. And in every Christian school there are going to be reprobates, there are going to be bullies, and kids aren’t going to stand up to them because kids just don’t have the boldness at that age to stand up to them. And I’m not faulting the kids, I’m faulting the parents, because honestly, a kid who is ten or eleven shouldn’t have to be expected to stand up to some seventeen or eighteen year old sodomite and tell them to go to hell, which is what they ought to be told. And you know, honestly, this is the problem with Christian schools, and it’s the problem with school in general, that you know, you’re basically turning your kids over to people and you don’t really know what all is happening. And they’re not going to, you say, people always ask me, ‘didn’t you tell your parents that this kind of stuff was going on?’ And I always say this, you know, it’s like when you’re a kid you don’t tell your parents. Now logically it would have made sense for me to go home and say, ‘Mom and Dad, you know, these horrible reprobate kids are there that are beating people up, and kicking them in the groin, and stealing their money, and stealing their food, and trying to get them involved in pornography, and you know, I never, honestly I never saw anybody “molested” per se, I was never molested physically at all, but verbally..I mean it’s coming out of their mouths constantly; but the reason kids don’t tell their parents is because kids have this idea, you know what, I guess this is normal. I mean, this is all they’ve known. And they think, well, I guess I just need to stand up for myself, and if I come home and tell my parents then I’m a tattletale and a wimp. You know what I mean? And obviously kids should tell their parents. And I hope that my kids, if anything bad ever happens will..will come to me and tell me because that’s what I should have done looking back.”10
Anderson claims it was his father who taught him the reprobate doctrine11, and he very well may have. With the obviously excessive obsession Steven Anderson has with homosexuals in general, coupled with his ranting about “sodomite bullies” in his junior high school, one has to wonder of something very traumatic happened to Steven Anderson at Citadel Christian Academy. Something so traumatic that it scarred him terribly. So bad that it still upsets him greatly. He takes great pains to emphasize that “I never saw anybody molested, per se” and again, “I was never molested physically.” And yet, he presents a lot of the examples of abuse in such a way that it is obvious it comes from first hand experience. And during his relating of the abuse experienced at Citadel, he makes a very interesting comment, He says, “And I’m not using the word tortured lightly, I mean, I’m talking about extreme pain being inflicted on us.” Inflicted on us. His exact words.
Steven Anderson is not a big man, although he has managed to beef up a bit over the past several years. But in his teen years he was a short scrawny kid. Standing probably somewhat shorter than his current five feet nine or ten inches, and weighing in at about 95 to 100 pounds at that age (photos of him at nineteen years old show a five foot nine or ten inch teen of about 125 pounds), he would have been the perfect victim for school yard bullies who, like all bullies and cowards, tend to pick on those who are smaller and weaker than they are. Given this scenario, it is easy to imagine young Steven Anderson coming home traumatized, possibly sexually molested or at least abused in some manner, and turning to his father for consolation and reassurance. And given this scenario, one can almost hear his dad telling him that those bullies who badly hurt young Steven Anderson both physically and emotionally, that they were going to burn in hell for their actions because they were reprobate sodomites who cannot be saved, and consoling his son with these words. Given Anderson’s current attitude toward homosexuals – an attitude and belief he has apparently held since his days at Citadel Christian Academy, it seems apparent that he very well could have received some consolation that his “sodomite bully” antagonists would spend eternity burning in hell with no hope of salvation. While this scenario is pure speculation, given Anderson’s own telling of his experiences at Citadel, as well as his long held deep seated obsessional hatred for and belief (desire) that homosexuals cannot be saved, seems to be an extremely realistic scenario.
The elder Mr. Anderson, however, did not invent the reprobate doctrine himself, and certainly not to console his abused and possibly molested son. It was Jack Hyles, the founder of the IFB, or Independent Fundamental Baptist movement back in the 1950’s who came up with this doctrine. And no doubt Steven Anderson was taught this doctrine during his time at Hyles-Anderson College. In fact, Anderson himself has posted a video of Jack Hyles teaching the reprobate doctrine on his personal YouTube channel.12
Unfortunately, many victims of abuse become abusers themselves, and this is clearly the case with Steven Anderson. He has become the very thing he loathes, a bully. He is spiritually abusive, a spiritual bully not unlike those whom he calls the “Sodomite Bullies” of his early junior high school years, whose abuse of him festered inside of him until it finally erupted into the spiritual abuse – including his “reprobate doctrine” for “sodomites” today. He is still fighting back against those same bullies today, though no longer as a small skinny 13-year old against the larger and older high school age bullies who tormented him.
Anderson constantly rails against homosexuals from behind his pulpit, during interviews, and has even made it a point to meet some of the pro-homosexual protesters at his church and speaking venues where he tells them all to “get AIDS and die!” He has thrown homosexuals out of his church telling them they are not welcome (and thus denying them the gospel), he has told them he wants them to contract brain cancer and die, he has emphatically stated over and over and over again from his and other pulpits that all homosexuals deserve to die.13
Hatred is both contagious and consuming, and Steven Anderson’s New IFB is a textbook example of this. His reprobate doctrine and hatred has spread throughout the New IFB and among the like-minded preachers and adherents. After the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting where 49 people lost their life, Anderson was quick to find a spotlight and begin spouting his hate, praising the self-professed Islamic terrorist, but complaining that more homosexuals were not killed. Soon after Anderson’s public rants, both Roger Jimenez and Donnie Romero (both New IFB pastors) made the evening news spouting the same rhetoric, almost verbatim. It was as if Anderson had handed them both a prepared hate speech. A recent check of New IFB YouTube channels revealed more than one hundred seventy-five different videos relating to Anderson’s reprobate doctrine spread across only twenty of the thirty-one New IFB related channels. In addition to these, the New IFB recently held a “Make America Straight Again” conference, “dedicated to the proclamation of the reprobate doctrine”14, and featuring three days chock full of anti-homosexual hate sermons with titles such as “The Sodomite Infiltration and Infestation,” “Waging War Against The Sodomites”15; in addition to the more than two dozen news and other videos resulting from the conference16 with each of them allowing the New IFB haters even more video time to spew their hatred; and, at least nine news reports featuring interviews and video of New IFB pastor Grayson Fritts who just days before the conference preached a sermon calling for the death penalty for homosexuals17.
While some people might look at this as a “contained” situation, in that these hate filled people are all part of the same group – the New IFB movement. While this is true, we must also remember that these people do have jobs outside of their religious group, and some of them hold positions where they are able to wield a lot of influence over the public. For instance, how many of these people who want homosexuals put to death are school teachers, and able to influence their students? How many are employees at a bank or other lending institution? Would they be inclined to turn down people for needed loans because they are part of this group? More importantly, how many are in law enforcement? Grayson Fritts who is mentioned above is a detective and 20-year veteran with the Knox County Tennessee Sheriff’s Department.18 How many of his cases are now in question because of his publicly expressed hatred of homosexuals? At least one case investigated by Detective Fritts involved the murder of man with a homosexual son.19 Did Fritts perhaps look at this case or others with a bias based on his intense and violent homophobia?
Another individual who is fairly well known among the New IFB is both a firefighter and an EMT. According to a former New IFB member,20 this individual gave a “sermon” on psychopathy (an odd choice for a sermon to say the least) and during this so-called “sermon” named several well known gay celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres that he would like to see put to death. Given this intense hatred for gays, one must wonder if this New IFB firefighter/EMT might hesitate to save the life of a homosexual victim? Would he perhaps not try as hard to save their home if it was on fire, or rescue them if they were trapped inside? Would he refuse to perform CPR or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a homosexual victim, and thus allow them to die (which would be according to his publicly stated desires).
Given the their outspoken and virulent hatred for homosexuals, does the New IFB pose a greater threat to the homosexual community that the rest of the population? These are legitimate questions and concerns that should be addressed when it is discovered these individuals are in positions where they are able to wield a great deal of influence – even a life or death influence, over the homosexual community.
When looking through the various New IFB related websites, one thing above all others quickly becomes crystal clear. That is their hate. It runs deep, and they are eager to express it, and they’ll take any steps to justify it, even twisting Scripture. At the recent New IFB “Make America Straight Conference,” Bruce Mejia, resident pastor at Faithful Word Baptist Church in El Monte, California, gave a sermon he called, “Waging War on Sodomites.” In it he said,
“Now look. When is a time, when is it a time to love? At our church it’s Sunday afternoon. It’s on Thursdays, it’s on Saturdays. What is that? Preaching the gospel. Spend a good amount of hours out there, you know, talking about the love of God. Look, the Bible tells us, ‘Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee, and that I gree* with those that rise up against thee, I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies.’ Now don’t miss this. The Bible tells us here that David – this is a very bold statement – he hates them with perfect hatred. What does perfect mean in the Bible? It means complete. Now look. I’ve known preachers of times past, they hated some things. But their hatred was incomplete. You know why? Because we’re supposed to hate sin, amen? Supposed to hate sin. We’re supposed to hate what sin does to people. But you know what? A perfect hatred also includes hating those who hate the Lord. And what David’s basically saying here is, he has a complete mature hatred! He hates sin. He hates evil. He hates those who hate the Lord. ‘[you say] I don’t believe God hates.’ Have you heard of hell? You think it’s like just all roses and daisies, it’s just, the heater’s turned on. It’s hell. We need to recognize and stop, you know, having this weird perception that God is only love but He’s no hate. Hey, God is love and heaven is the expression of that. Everlasting life is the expression of that. Jesus Christ coming to die for us is the expression of that. But you know what? God also hates! Hell’s the proof! God also hates! Damnation is proof! The Bible says in Psalm 97, verse 10, ‘Ye that love the Lord hate evil. He preserveth the souls of th..the saints, He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.’ Romans 12:9 says ‘let love be without dissimulation! Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good.’ You know what this is telling us? That a hypocritical love is a love that claims that it don’t, that they don’t hate. That’s what that’s saying. You know, I forgot what preacher said, he’s like, ‘Oh, you can’t say that you love everyone, if you love everyone, if you said you love everyone, you love nobody and that’s fact. Because in order to love someone, there has to be an equal amount of hatred for those who would even desire to harm them.”
Throughout his rant, the New IFB folks that were in attendance were repeatedly saying things such as, “That’s Right!” “Amen!” and laughing, although it is unsure where the comedy was. They did seem, however, to laugh the loudest and longest when Mejia would say homosexuals were going to go to hell.
This extremely unbiblical hatred of homosexuals has led New IFB pastor Manly Perry to condemn “Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap.” In a video he has titled, “Say No To Sodomite Soap!”22 Mr. Perry relates that he has used the Dr. Bronner soap for some time, and how he thinks it is a very good product. “But,” he says, “have you ever taken time to read one of these?” (referring to the label) “It’s all kinds of New Age nonsense, mumbo jumbo on there. Let me just read the first line here: ‘As taught by The Moral ABC, the real Rabbi Hillel taught Jesus to unite all mankind free.’ Now look,” he continues, “Ain’t nobody teachin’ Jesus anything, amen?” Later he says that although he really liked the product, he never felt good using it.
Now that’s all well and good, if he is uncomfortable using it because of the New Age messages printed in impossibly small print all over the label, then he should not violate his conscience by using it. No problem. However, he doesn’t stop there. He goes on to explain that his family also used to use Dove brand soap, but then he discovered that Unilever, the company that makes Dove soap, produced a commercial with what he called “a transvestite” using Dove. He then asks, “Where can you find a good soap these days?” His rant against what he calls, “New Age friendly, sodomite friendly” soap soon becomes an advertisement to buy a homemade soap produced by another New IFB pastor, Michael Johnson and his wife. He concludes his video by encouraging his viewers to “stop giving New Ager sodomites your money for soap!”
While depicting a homosexual in their commercial may be offensive to some, it is certainly no reason to boycott Unilever. In fact I am certain that while Mr. Perry has stopped “giving sodomites money” for soap, he continues to give them a huge amount of money by purchasing some of the 400 recognizable brands of food, health, and beauty products manufactured and owned by Unilever, in addition to their Dove soap; products such as Ragu pasta sauces, Knorr pasta and sauces, Klondike ice cream bars, Lipton tea, Hellman’s mayonnaise, Vaseline, Noxema, Q-Tips, Breyer’s ice cream, and so many, many, many more. If nothing else, Mr. Perry and those in the New IFB that follow his advice to “Say No To Sodomite Soap!” have no problem saying yes to “sodomite” food, “sodomite” health products, and “sodomite” beauty products. If you are reading this Mr. Perry (or any of the New IFB folks), this is called a double standard, and hypocrisy. The Bible calls it being double minded, and I am sure you know what the Bible says about those who are double minded? “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:8). And that certainly describes the New IFB movement.
Ironically, the “Johnson Pure Soap” being promoted by Mr. Perry, is sold by New IFB celebrity Paul Wittenberger on his Framing the World website. Right alongside a wide selection of Auromère products which are produced by and which support both a Hindu ashram in Northern California and a communal Hindu community in India. What makes this so ironic is the prevailing Hindu stance on homosexuality. The Human Rights Campaign reports that,
“The Hindu American Foundation, in its policy brief on Hindus and Homosexuality, notes that Hinduism does not provide a fundamental spiritual reason to reject or ostracize LGBTQ individuals, and that, ‘Given their inherent spiritual equality, Hindus should not socially ostracize LGBT individuals, but should accept them as fellow sojourners on the path to moksha.’
“The Vedas refer to a ‘third sex,’ roughly defined as people for whom sex is not procreative, either through impotence or a lack of desire for the opposite sex. Members of the third sex are not ostracized, however, and are sometimes recognized for having divine powers or insights. The Kama Sutra, a Hindu text detailing the pleasures of sexuality, states that same-sex experience is ‘to be engaged in and enjoyed for its own sake as one of the arts.’”23
In other words, Mr. Manly Perry and the New IFB are saying, “Say no to New Age and Sodomite soap! … but buy this soap that is made by New Age homosexual supporting Hindu’s!”
Of course, the New IFB hatred of homosexuals has its foundation in Pastor Steven Anderson, and he makes no apologies for this. His rants about homosexuals, his well publicized public homophobic comments, his violent vitriol regarding homosexuals is globally known, and as a result he has been banned from entering thirty-three separate nations.24
For Anderson, however, being banned from these countries is nothing more than free publicity. Although these countries have taken a step to prevent Anderson’s New IFB brand of hate, they haven’t even slowed down its progress into their countries, for as soon as one of them bans him, he simply sends one of his New IFB clone pastors to take his place, and before long, that country has its own New IFB Steven Anderson clone and church – whether a house church or an actual church building, such as in England, The Republic of Ireland, Malawi and South Africa.25
The reprobate doctrine of Steven Anderson and the New IFB is probably the one doctrine of theirs that they are know for. They are defined by it, and they seem inordinately proud of that. But with all of the screaming, and pulpit pounding, kicking and jumping they employ to emphasize this doctrine, is it actually biblical? The New IFB bases its reprobate doctrine on two passages of Scripture, Leviticus 20:13, and Romans 1:24-28.
The Leviticus passage reads, “13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” and the Romans passage: “24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient”.
Anderson combines these two passages and arrives at the conclusion that:
1. God considers homosexuality to be an abomination worthy of death,
2. Those given over to a reprobate mind commit homosexual acts,
3. Therefore, homosexuality is evidence of reprobation, therefore all homosexuals are to be killed and God approves of this.
There are several things wrong with Anderson’s conclusion, beginning with his insistence that this doctrine and passage are essential to salvation. He insists (complete with pulpit pounding emphasis) that if you do not believe that homosexuals are reprobates that must be put to death, you are not a Christian, not saved, and doomed to spend eternity burning in hell. He states,
[indent] “Here’s what the verse says, it says in verse 20, uh, Leviticus 20:13, ‘If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.’ Now let just start out by saying this, and you can like this or lump this, if you don’t believe this verse you’re not even saved, you’re gonna go to hell when you die. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST READ YOU YOU’RE GOING TO HELL WHEN YOU DIE! YOU’RE GONNA BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY! YOU’RE NOT EVEN SAVED! YOU DON’T HAVE CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR! You say, how do you know that? Because THE BIBLE SAYS HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GOD’S WORD! And YOU therefore hear them not, ‘cause you’re not of God. And you know what? IF YOU DON’T HEAR THE WORD OF GOD THAT I JUST READ TO YOU, and you say, ‘that isn’t right, that’s wrong, that’s mean;’ you know what? YOU’RE NOT EVEN OF GOD! YOU’RE NOT EVEN OF GOD! YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE CHRIST IN YOUR HEART! YOU’RE NOT EVEN SAVED!!!” (All caps indicate those points which Anderson emphasized by screaming at the top of voice and pounding his pulpit repeatedly)26
Additionally, Anderson takes the Romans passage out of context in order to support his reprobate doctrine. The full passage would include all verses from Romans 1:15-32, not just the four verses he has cherry picked. Notice verse 21 which states, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” According to numerous other verses in Scripture including Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21; John 3:18-20, Romans 3:10-19; and numerous other passages, Romans 1:21 refers to every single unbeliever. Is Anderson prepared to say that every single unbeliever is a reprobate? Not likely (although one can never be too sure about a thing like this when it concerns Steven L Anderson).
And verse 21 aside, take a look at verse 28 which lays at the end of Anderson’s ‘supporting” verse for his reprobate doctrine. Notice how there is a semi-colon at the end of that verse? Which indicates what? That the statement is not complete. The complete statement includes verses 29-32. Let’s take a look at that complete statement and examine the obvious ramifications of it with regard to Anderson’s reprobate doctrine.
“28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
Well, now, that puts a whole new light on things doesn’t it. For not only are homosexuals worthy of death, but there is a whole list of people who are worthy of death. Note the word “worthy” as used here. The passage neither says “must be put to death,” nor “should be put to death,” but rather these people are “worthy of death.” Meaning they deserve death, as does every sinner according to Scripture which states, “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” But Steven Anderson, in order to support his “death to all homosexuals” doctrine, the “reprobate doctrine,” has redefined what God has said in order to fit what he wants the passage to say, rather than what it actually says.
In order to remain consistent, however, Anderson must also call for the death of:
1. Those “filled with all unrighteousness.” (verse 29). The Greek word used here is adikia, and refers to injustice, as in contrary to God’s justice, contrary to what He approves. According to Anderson’s theology, anyone who is filled with injustice is to be put to death.
2. Those involved in “fornication”. The Greek word porneia refers to prostitution.
3. Those involved in “wickedness.” The Greek word here is ponéria, and it refers to sin.
4. Those involved in “covetousness.” The Greek word used here is pleonexia, and is used to describe avarice, greed, and an aggressive desire for things.
5. Those involved in “maliciousness.” Here the Greek word used is kakia, and refers to those with a vicious disposition marked by malice and spite.
6. Those who are “full of envy.” The Greek word translated “envy” in this passage is phthonos, and it refers to those who are happy when someone else experiences misfortune or pain.
7. Those who commit “murder.” The Greek word here is phonos, and refers to intentional, unjustified homicide.
8. Those who “debate”. The Greek word is eris, which refers to contention, strife, and wrangling.
9. “Deceit.” The Greek word is dolos, and refers to those who deal in deceit and treachery.
10. Those filled with “malignity.” The Greek word kakoétheia refers to those who are evil minded, who are spiteful, and hostile, and who have or express a desire to do evil to others.
11. Those who are “whisperers.” The Greek word psithuristés refers to those who gossip.
12. Continuing into verse 30 we see that “backbiters” is included in this list of reprobates. The Greek word here is psithuristés, the same word translated as “whisperers.” It is used here to describe the elements of gossip such as slander and defamation. In other words, it is not simply talking about others behind their backs (whisperers), but also slandering and defaming them (backbiters) when you do so.
13. Those who are “haters of God.” The Greek word theostugés is used here, and refers not only to those who hate God, but also to those who are hateful to God.
14. Those who are “despiteful.” The Greek word hubristés refers to those who are insolent, insulting, and/or violent.
15. Those who are “proud.” The Greek word is huperephanos, and it referes to those who think of and present themselves as better than others, as above others.
16. Those who are “boasters.” The Greek word here is alazón, and it refers to those who present themselves as something other than what they are, flaunting their fake achievements, boasting about fake accomplishments.
17. Those who are “inventors of evil things.” The Greek phrase epheuretés kakos, refers to those who plan evil and wickedness out of the evil in their hearts.
18. Those who are “disobedient to parents.” The Greek word is apeithés, and refers to those who are rebellious toward their parents, disobedient and refusing to obey them.
19. And into verse 31 we see those who are “without understanding.” This is the Greek word asunetos, and it refers to those who lack wisdom and discernment.
20. Those who are “covenantbreakers.” The Greek word here is asunthetos. It refers to those who do not keep agreements, and are untrustworthy.
21. Those who are “without natural affection.” The Greek word astorgos refers to those who are unloving toward others.
22. Those who are “implacable.” The Greek word here is aspondous. It refers to those who cannot be please, those who refuse to reconcile, and refuse to accept any truce.
23. Those who are “unmerciful.” This is the Greek word aneleemon, which refers to those who lack pity, mercy, and compassion. Those who are cruel.
24. And verse 32, those who knowing the judgment of God not only commit these things, but they take pleasure in those that commit these things, approving of what they do.
Anderson’s theology, specifically his so-called “reprobate doctrine,” which permeates the New IFB movement, is a self-condemning theology. It condemns and calls reprobate those within the New IFB itself who use it to justify their hate and condemnation of others, their lack of compassion for others, their cruelty toward others (especially as will be shown later), their slander and defamation of others, their refusal to reconcile with those they have harmed, their unloving manner and attitude, and the joy they experience at that murder of others. Sadly, they also condemn as unsavable reprobates those who lack the wisdom and discernment to recognize this about Steven Anderson and the New IFB movement.
The “reprobate doctrine” is clearly unbiblical. While those who do the things mentioned in Romans 1:15-32 actually are worthy of death, the list includes virtually anyone who has ever lived. And that is the intent of the Apostle Paul in writing this. He is pointing out that everyone is worthy of death. This does not mean they are to be put to death as Anderson claims. And as Paul notes in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11,
9 Know ye not 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, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
This is almost the same list as appears in Romans 1:15-32. The statement of verse 9 here, “...the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God...” is inclusive of every single element found in Romans 1:15-32. But note verse 11 here: “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” What is Paul saying? There are born again Christians who once engaged in every single condemned act noted in Romans 1:15-32, including homosexuality. Just because you engage in one of the actions, including homosexuality, does not mean you unable to be saved. Steven Anderson’s theology is contrary to God’s word, is antithetical to God and Christianity, and it should be banned from every discerning Christian’s mind.
Part 3a Sources:
1. Ben the Baptist LIVE: Reprobate Doctrine Roundtable [2:11:54]
Streamed live on Jun 7, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NE-Aof3zOQ
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2. People I Hate - Pastor Jonathan Shelley
Stedfast Baptist Church
Streamed live on Mar 31, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27G1kQB7p8
Mark 3 - Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost (6/19/16)
brothermanly316 – Manly Perry
Published on Jun 20, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XucDaB_ZB7o
Shame on Atlanta Pride and its Supporters
Strong Hold Baptist Church – David Berzins
Published on Oct 20, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DbWqeaPWjY
Can A Reprobate Get Saved
Joe Major (Faith Baptist Church)
Streamed live on Jul 29, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx7K0SCX5zo
Reprobate mask drops in church
Tim Delello – Friendship Baptist Church
Streamed live on Oct 31, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVOoX2pgl4
Reprobate Pride by Pastor Tommy McMurtry 6/12/16 PM
Liberty Baptist Church of Rock Falls, IL
Published on Jun 18, 2016
6/12/2016 Sunday Evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvxmC7z3fT4
"Sodomite Reprobates" - Sunday am 6/9/19 - Pastor Grayson Fritts
All Scripture Baptist Church
Streamed live on Jun 9, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpIOeshtasE
Importance of the Reprobate Doctrine - Matt. 13
Revival Baptist Church Live – Patrick Boyle
Published on Sep 17, 2018
www.RevivalBaptistOrlando.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbn7lXqdKS4
Steven Anderson: I Pray Caitlyn Jenner Dies Today and Goes to Hell [3:43]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlZVyJZGowc
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
Pastor Steven L Anderson Is Gonna Pray For Barack Obama To Die And Go To
Hell [1:48]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zyLRaX7jQ
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
'Pastor' Steven Anderson Says He Hates Gays and They All Should Be Killed [5:34]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFja7OosbU
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Pastor Steven Anderson HEATED Australian Radio Interview | Homosexual
Interrupts!!! [7:16]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yx07-TkZo
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
AIDS, the Judgement of God - documentary by Pastor Steven Anderson minus
patent trolled segment [54:36]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZzVQ3iAak
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Pastor Steven Anderson Tells Gay Radio Host he Hopes he gets Cancer and Dies
[CRINGE] [1:07]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmoFdCtDLg
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Disgusting Pastor Has "Discovered" A Cure For AIDs [5:13]
The Young Turks
"A Baptist pastor in Tempe, Arizona called for the mass extermination of LGBT people on Sunday in a sermon entitled “AIDS: The ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCq8jxzyW18
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
Christian Pastor Supports Killing “Sodomites" [4:45]
The Young Turks
Christian pastor Steven Anderson doesn't mind homosexuals being executed. John Iadarola
(ThinkTank), Wes Clark Jr., and ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbgT_52-OF8
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3. Ben the Baptist LIVE: Reprobate Doctrine Roundtable
Ben the Baptist
Streamed live on Jun 7, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NE-Aof3zOQ
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4. Detective Grayson Fritts defends LGBTQ comments
Knoxville News Sentinel
Published on Jun 13, 2019
The Knox County Sheriff's Office detective who came under fire Wednesday after the News Sentinel reported on his recent hate-filled sermon did not back off Wednesday on his stance that the government should arrest and execute members of the LGBTQ community. Detective Grayson Fritts, pastor of All Scripture Baptist Church, scrapped his original sermon Wednesday afternoon and spoke about his view of persecution. He said he is not alone in his beliefs, but said he’s the only one willing to take a stand for it. Read more: https://knoxne.ws/2IGahhj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua0HkCT4QV8
KCSO Grayson Fritts anti-gay sermon
WATE 6 On Your Side
Published on Jun 12, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3tXU3eEjQ
5. Florida pastor holding 'Make America Straight Again' conference
By Robert Guaderrama, Posted Jun 13 2019
http://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-news/florida-pastor-holding-make-america-straight-again-conference
‘Make America Straight Again’ conference will bring a group of anti-LGBTQ preachers to Orlando’s Pride weekend
By Muri Assunção | New York Daily News | Jun 13, 2019
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-pulse-anti-lgbtq-make-america-straight-again-pride-weekend-20190613-quhvtkdoybhanmv3z3hfmid4jy-story.html
Clermont church plans 'Make America Straight Again' conference
By: Myrt Price, Updated: Jun 12, 2019
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/clermont-church-plans-make-america-straight-again-conference/957654884
6. California pastor praises Orlando massacre
USA TODAY
Published on Jun 15, 2016
After the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub, Pastor Roger Jimenez praised the massacre, saying that it's a tragedy more "predators" and "pedophiles" didn't die.
Be Smarter. Faster. More Colorful and get the full story at: http://usat.ly/1VX2ZaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUzqi3GKD0
Christian Pastor Supports Killing “Sodomites"
The Young Turks
Published on Jun 19, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbgT_52-OF8
7. Anderson has been banned from entering South Africa, Botswana, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Jamaica.
In a YouTube video, Anderson mentioned a planned trip to Malawi in order to set up a church there. Malawian authorities subsequently made it known that he would not be welcome in the country and that he would also be banned from entering it in the future.
He has been banned from several other countries, including the United Kingdom, Malawi, South Africa, Canada, Jamaica and all other European Union countries. And Also: the Republic of Ireland, and the Netherlands. THE UK: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
Pastor Anderson Now Banned from 31 Countries [4:06]
MP4 Video downloaded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWK2rcX3mJM
sanderson1611
Published on May 2, 2019
6 Countries That Have Banned Me:
Botswana, Canada, Jamaica, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom
25 additional "Schengen" countries I am now banned from:
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
the Schengen consists of 26 countries that Anderson is banned from:
The 26 Schengen countries are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/schengen-visa-countries-list/
Steven Anderson has been banned from a total of 36 countries.
Anderson mentioned a planned trip to Malawi in order to set up a church there. Malawian authorities subsequently made it known that he would not be welcome in the country and that he would also be banned from entering it in the future.[39][40]
[39] "Govt. blocks anti-gay pastor from coming to Malawi". 2016-10-26. https://malawi24.com/2016/10/26/govt-blocks-anti-gay-pastor-from-coming-to-malawi/.
[40] Collison, Carl. "Malawi government says 'kill the gays’ pastor 'will not be received' in the country". The M&G Online. http://mg.co.za/article/2016-10-24-00-kill-the-gays-pastor-now-trying-to-infiltrate-malawi.
Govt. blocks anti-gay pastor from coming to Malawi
By Luke Bisani on Oct 26, 2016
https://malawi24.com/2016/10/26/govt-blocks-anti-gay-pastor-from-coming-to-malawi/
government through its spokesperson Malison Ndau has disclosed that they have banned controversial US pastor Steven Anderson from opening his church in the country.
Malawi government says 'kill the gays’ pastor 'will not be received' in the country
Carl Collison 24 Oct 2016
https://mg.co.za/article/2016-10-24-00-kill-the-gays-pastor-now-trying-to-infiltrate-malawi
Malison Ndau, Malawi’s government spokesperson, has said that ‘pastor of hate’, Steven Anderson setting up a church in the country “would not augur well for the people of Malawi” and that the country’s people “would not accept it”. “He would would not be received well here,” Ndau said.
Malawi bans homophobic US pastor Steven Anderson - EWN
https://ewn.co.za/2016/10/28/malawi-bans-us-pastor-steven-anderson
Oct 28, 2016 - CAPE TOWN - Malawi is the latest African country to ban controversial US pastor Steven Anderson. Local online newspaper Malawi24 is ...
Media Lies about Malawi Banning Pastor Anderson – YouTube [5:44]
sanderson1611
Published on Dec 21, 2016
[Note: In this video, Anderson shows his passport which indicates he is allowed to go to Malawi, but yet, he didn't go, and the reason he did not go is because the Malawian government banned him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVuMpcaPyI8
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Steven L Anderson: We are already in Malawi
sanderson1611.blogspot.com/2016/12/we-are-already-in-malawi.html
Dec 3, 2016 - The homos that said we had been banned must have been lying because the ... Enough people in Malawi are fluent in English for us to conduct ...
Wanted: Laborers in Malawi
December 30, 2016
http://sanderson1611.blogspot.com/2016/12/wanted-laborers-in-malawi.html
pastor_anderson_malawi_visa
Article by Roberto Igual | December 26, 2016
https://www.mambaonline.com/2016/12/26/revolting-steven-anderson-celebrates-george-michaels-death/pastor_anderson_malawi_visa/
Faithful Word Baptist Church Malawi
https://www.facebook.com/Faithful-Word-Baptist-Church-Malawi-1303136263053850/
Faithful Word Baptist Church Malawi
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8. Citadel of Faith Christian Academy, 5230 Ehrhardt Ave., Sacramento, CA 95823. The school opened July 1, 1980, and closed its doors August 12, 2004. It was a private K-12 school located within the boundaries of the Elk Grove Unified School District of Sacramento, California.
9. [Note, this is a verbatim transcript. Scare quotes appear where Anderson would motion them with his fingers]
Horrors of a "Christian" Junior High School [7:33]
sanderson1611
Published on Sep 3, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed62uzT997g
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– or an extended version of the same –
HORRORS OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | First hand experience [26:26]
File001
Published on May 14, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e734rRcLLIo
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10. Standing Up to the Sodomite Bullies!!!!! Pastor Steven L Anderson [5:03]
Let God's word be true and every man a liar!!!
Published on Jun 24, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRn73sY9jY&feature=youtu.be
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Anderson is so rabidly homophobic (with that term being defined in the most precise terms as his hatred for them stems from his intense fear of them as a young junior high school student) that he actually went out of his way in one of his sermons to teach that Jesus wore pants. Yes, he said pants.
What kind of clothes did Jesus wear?
History suggests that Jesus would have worn the same clothes as the ordinary people of His day. He would have worn plain linens, comfortable long robes with a sash to tuck the garment in when He ran. He would have worn simple sandals on His feet. Jesus was from a poor background and His clothes would have been plain and ordinary.
Jesus probably wore a type of rope around his middle, not a "sash". It would likely be woven, but simple, with some threads at each end. Hasidic Jews, for centuries, have worn black silk woven string ropes around their waist when praying. It's to separate the upper, more holy parts of the body, the heart and mind, from the lower parts, involving waste disposal and sexual activity and lust. It's called a gartel. Jesus would not have worn a gartel made out of silk, but of humbler rope material.
First Century Clothing
Typical clothing for a man in the First Century seems pretty foreign to Westerners.
Tunic, Chaluq, Kitunna, or Colobium
Illustration from Madelieine S. and J. Lane Miller, Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Life (Third Revised Edition, Harper & Row, 1978), p. 55.
• Tunic, the Chaluq, Kittuna, or colobium, a long, close-fitting tunic made of linen or wool and worn next to the skin. It had an opening for the neck and sometimes sleeves. It was worn long, perhaps to the ankles, and fastened with a girdle or belt of linen or leather around the waist or under the breast. We know that Jesus' garment was seamless (John 19:23). http://jesuswalk.com/images/tunic.gif
• Cloak, the Tallith or Goltha. This was a square garment that bore tassels at the corners in fulfillment of the commands in Numbers 15:38-39 and Deuteronomy 22:12 as a reminder to obey the laws of the Lord. The strands that made up the tassel probably included at least one of hyacinth (light violet to moderate purple) color and several strands of white. In Luke 8:44 the outer clothing is expressed by the Greek word himation, "cloak, robe."[3]
• Head-gear, possibly a turban, or a covering for the head, back of the neck, and shoulders. There is some dispute about whether men wore these in Jesus' day, since there is no mention in the New Testament.
• Sandals[4]
Sometimes Bible commentators refer to undergarments and outer garments, but the inner garments were not like our underwear that are worn invariably under our other clothing. In Jesus' day the tunic was visible under the cloak. It was more the "layered look" that was fashionable around the turn of the Twenty-First Century.
Where Luke records, "She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak" (8:44), the word translated "edge" is Greek kraspedon, " 'edge, border, hem' of a garment." But it can also refer to the "tassel" that Israelites wore on the four corners of the cloak.[5] We're not exactly sure which is referred to in this verse.
Jesus’ Attire
There are only a couple of references to the type of clothing that Jesus wore during His time on earth and it would not have been much different from the way that other Jewish men dressed at that time, particularly rabbis. Once such reference was “When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic” (John 19:23a). The word “tunic” is from the Greek word “chiton” which is a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin so what Jesus was wearing “was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be” (John 19:23b-24.) A seamless piece of clothing was very valuable in that day because most clothing at the time was not “woven in one piece from the top to bottom” as Jesus’ tunic was.
Touching Jesus
When a woman with a disease came to Jesus it says “And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well” (Matt 9:20-21). Jesus may have been wearing what had been worn and commanded of the ancient Israelites where God told Moses “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner” (Num 15:38). These tassels were originally intended for them to “look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after” (Num 15:28-29). These tassels on the corners of their garments closely resembled what the Pharisees wore and about which Jesus said, “They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long” (Matt 23:5). The longer the phylacteries were, the more holy they thought themselves to be and the more they expected others to regard them as holy. To the Jews, it would have been an abomination to have a woman with a blood discharge touch Jesus. They believed that would have declared Him as unclean.
What Jesus Wore
Jesus certainly wore sandals.
Jesus wore a tunic underneath His garments.
Jesus wore a cloak.
Jesus wore plain linens.
A sash to tuck in the clothing if necessary.
Jesus wore comfortable long robes.
Jesus might have worn a Jewish turban while outside.
Revelation 19:13
And he was clothed with a vesture [himation = 2440. himation. an outer garment, a cloak, robe
Usage: a long flowing outer garment, tunic.] dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
John 19:23-24 (KJV)
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments [himatia = 2440. himation. an outer garment, a cloak, robe. Usage: a long flowing outer garment, tunic.], and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat [chitōna = 5509. chitón]: now the coat [chitōn = 5509. chitón. a tunic, garment, undergarment.] was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment [himatia = 2440] among them, and for my vesture [himatismon = 2441. himatismos. a collective word: raiment, clothing.] they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Jesus wore pants, not a dress!!! Baptist preaching Bible [5:31]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta9LSx8-9Vc
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Did Jesus Wear Long Clothing [3:04]
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Published on Jul 11, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5uuaup4EsM
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11. How My Dad Taught Me the Reprobate Doctrine [6:10]
sanderson1611
Published on Feb 14, 2019
He takes this from Hebrews 6, saying those who have come to church, and “tasted” the Holy Spirit, i,e. heard the sermon, etc., but stop coming to church, they have been rejected by God, they are reprobate, they cannot be saved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luv-pGS7Wik&feature=youtu.be
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13. Steven Anderson: I Pray Caitlyn Jenner Dies Today and Goes to Hell [3:43]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlZVyJZGowc
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Pastor Steven L Anderson Is Gonna Pray For Barack Obama To Die And Go To
Hell [1:48]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zyLRaX7jQ
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
'Pastor' Steven Anderson Says He Hates Gays and They All Should Be Killed [5:34]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFja7OosbU
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
Pastor Steven Anderson HEATED Australian Radio Interview | Homosexual
Interrupts!!! [7:16]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yx07-TkZo
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
AIDS, the Judgement of God - documentary by Pastor Steven Anderson minus
patent trolled segment [54:36]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZzVQ3iAak
MP4 Video and MP3 Audio have been downloaded for this video
Pastor Steven Anderson Tells Gay Radio Host he Hopes he gets Cancer and Dies
[CRINGE] [1:07]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmoFdCtDLg
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
Disgusting Pastor Has "Discovered" A Cure For AIDs [5:13]
The Young Turks
"A Baptist pastor in Tempe, Arizona called for the mass extermination of LGBT people on Sunday in a sermon entitled “AIDS: The ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCq8jxzyW18
Audio MP3 and Video MP4 have been downloaded for this video
Christian Pastor Supports Killing “Sodomites" [4:45]
The Young Turks
Christian pastor Steven Anderson doesn't mind homosexuals being executed. John Iadarola
(ThinkTank), Wes Clark Jr., and ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbgT_52-OF8
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14. Roger Jimenez in his conference opening sermon, “Make America Straight Again Conference - Pastor Roger Jimenez Sermon,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlncJw7VXtw&t=5s
MASA Conference Set 1, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNJtltw2kZr2bava4-Q_6VucHnRcbW1NX
15. Make America Straight Again Conference - Pastor Aaron Thompson, “The Sodomite Infiltration and Infestation,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwZ6LhJNcns
Make America Straight Again Conference - Pastor Bruce Mejia, “Waging War Against The Sodomites,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kma7wIP81ZI
16. YouTube Search for: “Make America Great Again Conference”
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Make+America+Straight+Again+Conference
Archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190623005955/https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Make+America+Straight+Again+Conference
17. YouTube Search for: “Grayson Fritts”
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Grayson+Fritts
Archived here: https://web.archive.org/results?search_query=Grayson+Fritts
Google Search for: “Grayson Fritts”
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&channel=cus&q=Grayson+Fritts
Archived here: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&channel=cus&q=Grayson+Fritts
18. File shows anti-gay detective's work history
WBIR Channel 10 NBC Knoxville, TN
Published on Jun 13, 2019
“Fritts, a 20-year KCSO veteran, is also a pastor at the All Scripture Baptist Church, which identifies itself as an "independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning church."
In two sermons delivered this month to his congregation, Fritts said he hated gay people and that their sexuality constituted a "capital crime."”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-zUGb3lncw
Knox Sheriff: Grayson Fritts won't be fired because of fear of free-speech lawsuits
Knoxville News Sentinel
Published on Jun 14, 2019
Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler said his fear of First Amendment lawsuits is keeping him from firing a detective who called for the killing of LGBTQ community members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgLRSJvREkU
19. Detective's sermon of hatred hurt homicide victim's gay son
WBIR Channel 10 NBC Knoxville, TN
Published on Jun 13, 2019
The son of a homicide victim is outraged after the detective who worked on his father's case said gay people should die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-0RPGOvDQ
20. The former New IFB member spoke on condition on anonymity. Because of this, although the individual who called for the death of Ellen Degeneres is known, they will not be named.
21. Hell is proof God hates [2:39]
sanderson1611
Published on Jun 19, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NREhKg0VlhY
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This is an excerpt from “Waging War Against The Sodomites” [32:21]
Faithful Word Baptist Church
Published on Jun 19, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kma7wIP81ZI
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22. Say no to sodomite soap! [3:53]
brothermanly316
Published on Jun 5, 2017
(note that Manly promotes soap made by fellow NIFB pastor Michael Johnson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu2PBDwJoPY
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23. The Human Rights Campaign, Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ Issues: Hinduism, Last revised: 8/1/2018, https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-hinduism
24. Steven Anderson has been banned from entering: Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, The Republic of Ireland, and The United Kingdom [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland].
Pastor Anderson Now Banned from 31 Countries
sanderson1611
Published on May 2, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWK2rcX3mJM
Govt. blocks anti-gay pastor from coming to Malawi
By Luke Bisani on Oct 26, 2016
https://malawi24.com/2016/10/26/govt-blocks-anti-gay-pastor-from-coming-to-malawi/
Malawi government says 'kill the gays’ pastor 'will not be received' in the country
Carl Collison 24 Oct 2016
https://mg.co.za/article/2016-10-24-00-kill-the-gays-pastor-now-trying-to-infiltrate-malawi
Malawi bans homophobic US pastor Steven Anderson - EWN
Lauren Isaacs, 28 October 2016
https://ewn.co.za/2016/10/28/malawi-bans-us-pastor-steven-anderson
Anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson banned from Ireland
BBC News, 13 May 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48252527
Far-Right, Anti-Gay Arizona Pastor Becomes First-Ever Person Banned From Ireland Under Exclusion Powers
By Christina Zhao On 5/13/19
https://www.newsweek.com/far-right-anti-gay-arizona-pastor-becomes-first-ever-person-banned-ireland-1423359
Jamaica bars anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson
BBC News, 30 January 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42873266
Anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson banned from Ireland
By Tim Fitzsimons, May 13, 2019
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/anti-gay-preacher-who-applauded-pulse-shooting-banned-ireland-n1005031
Botswana to deport anti-gay US pastor Steven Anderson
BBC News, 20 September 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37418875
South Africa bars anti-gay US pastor Steven Anderson
BBC News, 13 September 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37349683
Anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson banned from UK
Andy Walton Fri 16 Sep 2016
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/anti-gay-pastor-steven-anderson-banned-from-uk/95585.htm
‘Death to gays’ preacher Steven Anderson banned from Netherlands
Dutch News, May 1, 2019
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/05/death-to-gays-preacher-steven-anderson-banned-from-netherlands/
Anti-gay preacher is first-ever banned from Ireland under exclusion powers
Controversial pastor Steven L Anderson has already been banned from most EU countries
Harry McGee – Political Correspondent, May 12, 2019
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/anti-gay-preacher-is-first-ever-banned-from-ireland-under-exclusion-powers-1.3889848
25. A global New IFB “Soul Winning” event took place in 2018 which incorporated affiliated New IFB home churches, local churches, and New IFB sympathizers, in the United States, England, Scotland, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Togo West Africa, Croatia, France, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. (New IFB churches are located in those areas that are italicized)
2018 Soul-Winning Mega-Marathon
https://www.soulwinningmarathon.com/
26. from video “The New IFB Cult, Believe us or you are not saved” Need to find the actual video and download it.
The New IFB Cult: Believe us or you are not saved [2:12]
Ex Andersonite
Published on Mar 1, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilpcegqFTNI
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"Cleaning House" preached by Pastor Steven L Anderson [53:45]
sanderson1611
Published on Jun 10, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krLIbNgUCuo
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"The Works of the Flesh" (independent fundamental Baptist sermon) [1:10:24]
sanderson1611
Published on Jun 11, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwXYyT-23Zg
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