SOME HOUSEKEEPING AND SOME ANSWERS

As many of you know, I’ve separated from Phil Naessens because of a constant bent to defend false teachers and spiritual charlatans. I’d hoped that would be the end if it. Naessens, though, has continued his haranguing at his blog. I’ve not read it since the separation, however, a friend of mine has and Naessens has made two accusations that need to be answered. First, he has said I refuse to answer his questions and challenges. Second, he has said that I’ve been hiding the fact that I was fired from Yellowstone Baptist College in Billings, where I once taught as an adjunct.

His claims are misleading in several ways on these issues:
1. The school where I taught isn’t an honest school. For instance, they were using a textbook for pastoral studies that promotes homosexual marriage, as well as other textbooks that approved of evolution, female pastors, and more. I wasn’t aware of all that until the end of the time I taught there. Thus, the split between the school and me was inevitable, because I won’t tolerate that sort of thing, and Mr. Naessens knows that. He also knew of the sin at YBC because we’ve discussed the situation over emails and the phone.

2. The “victim” was a fellow who calls himself “Iggy”, whom I supposedly abused, or whatever, was a self-proclaimed Emergent/Emerging nut. He also had a habit of claiming he was ordained. He wasn’t. He obtained his “ordination” from a scam website that makes a business of selling fake ordinations and diplomas, while posing as a legitimate school. I exposed Iggy with relish and continue to expose every liar I can find. Iggy got mad and wrote the school all about what a brute I was.

3. Phil N. pretends this is scintillating and new. Wrong. He’s known of this episode for some time and I’ve made it known repeatedly on a number of blogs. You can read the details of what happened between “Iggy” and me on my other blog, Zits Emerge. It’s on my blogroll. It’s a lot of reading, but you can do it if you're unemployed or a speed reader.

4. Phil N. is himself doing a very sinful (and even illegal) thing by trying to use embarrassing information about someone to get that someone to comply with his wishes. That’s what he did by threatening to unveil this. It’s a felony in the US, called blackmail or extortion depending on the jurisdiction. Yet he poses as a victim?

5. While he is currently trying to claim I refuse to answer whatever it is he’s doing on his blog, he has refused to publish my answers. That’s why I had to publish answers here on Al Tosap. So, I quit reading Naessens. The fact is he’s not contacted me with those challenges and questions. He just wants to fight even if no one else does.

6. This sort of behavior isn’t strange to Phil Naessens. He has commonly threatened others with lawsuits. I was aware of that and recently rebuked him for threatening another man with legal action over a personal issue. Since then others have come forward with stories that Phil Naessens secretly recorded phone calls and let others listen, published confidential emails without permission, and even taunted one fellow for a stuttering problem. As of now, all I have is a he-said-she-said, but if he did it, that’s childish.

7. Finally, Naessens evidently hopes no one will notice that all this started with his own dishonesty. James White admitted attending Fuller Theological Seminary in full knowledge that the school denied the reliability of the Bible on Naessens’ blog. In spite of White's admission, Naessens claimed there was no evidence White did so. And while White has publicly advertised “Christian” cruises, Naessens said there’s no evidence of that, either.

I started by recommending no one trust Phil Naessens because of his stance on many false teachers. I made no judgments about his honesty, allowing the problem may be because of a simple intellectual deficit. However, I now fear Naessens very well may be a very malicious man who will try to hurt you if you disagree with him. You decide for yourself.

I apologize for this nonsense, but I felt I owed an answer on these two accusations and a warning to others so they not be victimized by this fellow legally or otherwise. I won't revisit this topic again. You can do your own research and draw your own conclusions.

My next post will be the next installment in the series on holiness.

Phil Perkins.