Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here
from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona
to comment on the recent video
about how Adam Fanon changed God's word.
What he basically did was he took an image of the Bible
on Exodus 20 and he added a verse to the text
that said, thou shalt not Halloween.
So this was the thumbnail for his sermon against Halloween.
Now, obviously adding to God's word in this way,
making an image of a page of God's word
with a verse added to the text
that's your personal opinion put forth as coming from God
is blasphemous and wrong.
But tons of people were just jumping to his defense
about how, well, he's clearly just kidding.
And actually Victor Tay complimented the image
as being creative.
And so everybody just seems to be jumping
to the defense of this, but folks, it's wrong.
It's blasphemous, you're adding to God's word.
I don't care if it's a joke,
it's still blasphemous and wrong.
Now, if this were the only mistake that Adam Fanon made,
I could see people saying,
hey, it was just an innocent mistake,
but you'd still have to at least admit
that it was a mistake, that it's wrong,
it's blasphemy and not praise it or say that it's fine.
But I could see if this were the only mistake that he'd made
people could say it was an innocent mistake,
but this is a person that's been proven
over and over again to be double tongued, duplicitous,
a liar, a conniving, flattering backstabber
that has shown himself to be a textbook Judas Iscariot.
If you don't understand that, then watch my sermon
called Sheba the Son of Bikrai, Adam Fanon Exposed.
And if that sermon doesn't convince you,
then you need to hear my sermon I preached last night
called Being Gullible, because that's what you are
if you actually still believe
that Adam Fanon is a good guy, okay?
But Pastor Shelley's clip that he made
about Adam Fanon changing God's Word
wasn't trying to say, well, because he made this image,
that proves that he's a reprobate.
Folks, we already know what Adam Fanon is.
Pastor Shelley's point was that Adam Fanon's
a Judas Iscariot, so therefore it's in character for him
to change God's Word.
It's not like this is just one piece of evidence
that's being used to condemn Fanon, okay?
This is just showing an example of what Fanon is like.
So it's just a symptom of the fact
that the guy is a rotten Judas Iscariot infiltrator,
so lo and behold, he's corrupting God's Word,
changing God's Word.
So people can try to defend this all they want,
but the long and the short of it is
that the image is blasphemous.
And here's an aspect that I think a lot of people
aren't even thinking about,
is that he's basically with this image,
teaching for commandments, the doctrines of men, okay?
Now, let me just say right now, you know,
I'm against Halloween.
I believe it's a sin to celebrate Halloween.
I believe it's a sin to smoke cigarettes.
I also believe it's a sin to gamble.
But I'm not gonna say that the Bible says
that smoking is a sin.
I'm not gonna say the Bible says thou shall not gamble.
I'm not gonna get up and say the Bible says
you can't celebrate Halloween
because the Bible does not mention these three things, okay?
Now, the reason why we believe smoking is wrong
is because the fact that we examine what the Bible says
about how your body's the temple of the Holy Ghost
and how we're supposed to be clean
and we're supposed to take care of our body
and not abuse the temple.
And then we extrapolate that
and come up with an interpretation that says,
therefore, we shouldn't smoke.
So that's our conclusion.
That's our interpretation.
That's our opinion.
And it's a valid opinion.
It's a right opinion that God does not want us to smoke
and that by smoking, we'd be sinning
because we are defiling the temple
and he commanded us not to defile the temple, okay?
He commanded us not to make haste to be rich.
Therefore, if we gamble, we're violating that commandment.
But you can't just take your conclusion,
your interpretation, your belief,
and claim that it came from God
or that God stated that somewhere
that God has explicitly told us that, okay?
So there's a big difference
between me getting up and interpreting God's word,
explaining what God's word means,
and applying it to our lives
than to just get up and say,
well, the Bible says don't smoke.
No, it doesn't say that, okay?
That's where you've crossed the line at that point
where you're teaching for doctrines,
the commandments of men.
You have to explain the rationale of,
hey, the Bible's telling us not to do this.
Therefore, it's a sin to celebrate Halloween, okay?
But by just taking thou shalt not Halloween
and put it into a text,
that's a mentality of a person
who wants to put their opinion,
their conclusion on par with God's word
and basically give their opinion and conclusion
the same authority that God's word has.