Edward Hendrie Responds to the Defamatory Epithets of Steve Van Nattan and Timothy Kwoh
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Exodus 20:16; see also Mark 10:19.
Steve Van Nattan and Timothy Kwoh have born false witness against this author, Edward Hendrie. I am happy to respond to their libel, because it gives me an opportunity to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ and warn Christians about the antichrist Zionist philosophy which has leavened its way into many churches.
Van Nattan and Kwoh’s calumny is actually an attack on the gospel of Jesus Christ. This response, therefore, is more a defense of the gospel than it is a defense of Edward Hendrie, and as such, it is much longer than is needed to simply prove the falsity of their lies. I will, in addition, explain how their false accusations originate from deceptive racist doctrines that have undermined the foundational truths of the gospel. I will further explain how the popular doctrines to which Van Nattan and Kwoh ascribe have blinded Americans to the treasonous Zionist conspiracy against the United States of America.
As a faithful Christian witness, I am duty bound to defend the gospel and give warning of the pharisaical doctrines now being promoted by wolves in sheep’s clothing. As a patriotic American, I am moved by my love for my country to warn my fellow citizens about the barbarians who are inside the gates and secretly working to destroy this country and enslave its citizens under the tyranny of a Zionist world government.
If you are a disciple of God’s perfect and holy Son Jesus Christ, then Satan and his antichrist hate you. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8 AV) God, however, has a means by which one can avoid becoming the prey of Satan: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7 AV) In order to resist the devil one must first know his plans and methods. This response to Van Nattan and Kwoh will inform you of the plans and methods of the devil and his minions in their antichrist conspiracy against the LORD and his anointed. See Psalms 2:1-4.
Van Nattan Admits His “Claims Cannot Be Proven”
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Evidence that Israel Perpetrated the 9-11 Attacks
Pretribulation Rapture Deception
C.I. Scofield - Accomplice in a Zionist Antichrist Conspiracy
The Wailing Wall and Fort Antonia
Confusing the Wrath of God With the Tribulation of the Saints
Van Nattan Rejects God’s Predestination and Election of the Saints
Beware the Leaven of Van Nattan, Which is Hypocrisy
On Steve Van Nattan’s website at http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/prophecy/hendrie.htm, Van Nattan stated that I am a “racist” and “vicious Jew hater.” He provided a link to my book and stated: “Browse this book, beginning at the Table of Contents, and you will read some of the most powerful hate for Jews that you have ever seen.”
(NOTE: On or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted the previous allegations from his web site. His deletion of the above allegations, is not intended by him to be a retraction of those statements. Apparently, he has suffered embarrassment when I proved his allegations to be false and exposed him as a liar. He is now attempting to cover his tracks by deleting his lies from his website. Being a liar, he could not just delete the lies, he feels he has to cover the deletion with yet more lies. He falsely states that the reason for the deletion is that the proofs for his allegations have disappeared from the web. He now states on his website: "the sites I linked to, where I proved his teachings, have mostly been dropped from the Web. There is nothing further to discuss since many of my claims cannot be proven now that the proofs are gone." This latest deception of his is easy enough to expose. He has made his false allegations against me in response to what I have written in my book. If what he has alleged about me were true, my book should be all the proof he would need. In fact, he once (but no longer) invited his readers to: "Browse this book, beginning at the Table of Contents, and you will read some of the most powerful hate for Jews that you have ever seen." Although Van Nattan once invited the readers to browse the book, he never quoted a single passage from my book or from any other source to prove his libelous allegations against me. One might wonder: why not? That is because his allegations are false and there is no support in my book or in any other source for them. Obviously, his hope was that his web visitors would not actually read my book, but instead just believe his conclusions. Now he is taking the deception a step further by attempting to get his readers to believe that proof once existed, but is now lost. When in fact, the alleged proofs have never existed. Since the day my book was first posted on the web, it has never been deleted from the web, and it remains to this day available at the exact same web address. It is available for all to read at www.antichristconspiracy.com. A lie by definition cannot be proven. There are only two possibilities with a lie, it can either be covered up by more lies, which is what Van Nattan has attempted to do, or it can be refuted and proven false, which is what my response below does.)
Van Nattan further states on his website that I have “damned the Jews to God’s rubbish heap.” Timothy Kwoh is quoted on Van Nattan’s website as calling me a “classic Jew-hater.” Neither Van Nattan nor Kwoh, however, quote a single statement made by me to support their traducements against me, despite the fact that my book, Antichrist Conspiracy, (www.antichristconspiracy.com) is over 300 pages long with almost 800 endnotes and would seem to provide them with abundant material from which to support their smear job. They have not provided specific quotes to support their calumny because, after reading my book, they could not find any. Just as the Jews made unprovable claims against Paul, so also have Kwoh and Van Nattan have falsely accused me. “And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.” (Acts 25:7 AV) As I will document below, Van Nattan and Kwoh have intentionally and maliciously lied. I wrote an email to Steve Van Nattan objecting to his libelous epithets, but he did not respond.
In Van Nattan’s defamatory hatchet job he stated: “Here is a site which is hosting Hendrie’s book of hate for the Jews. The site owner must now be considered apostate and a devil.” If the site owner who hosts my book is considered by Van Nattan to be an apostate and a devil, then he certainly believes me, the author of the book, to be an apostate and a devil. Jesus predicted that those who are his disciples would be falsely accused of being in league with the devil. “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?” (Matthew 10:24-25 AV)
Like Jannes and Jambres before them, Van Nattan and Kwoh have arisen to resist the truth. God prophesied that would happen.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. (2 Timothy 3:1-9 AV)
Just as two false witnesses were found to accuse Jesus (Matthew 26:59-61), and false witnesses were set up to accuse Stephen (Acts 6:9-14) so also Van Nattan and Kwoh have arisen to accuse me. I rejoice to be the object of the libel of false witnesses like Van Nattan and Kwoh for the cause of Christ, because God will turn their curses into blessings. “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” (Matthew 5:11-12 AV)
God states: “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . . But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” (Matthew 5:39, 44 AV) I must, therefore, obey God and forgive Van Nattan and Kwoh and pray for them.
When Jesus was falsely accused, he denied the allegations and explained the falsity of the allegations. “Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.” (John 8:48-49 AV) With Jesus as my model, I will prove the falsity of the allegations made against me by Van Nattan and Kwoh. Virtually every assertion made in my response will be supported by authority so that the reader will be able to check the sources and verify that I am telling the truth.
In addition, as did Stephen (Acts 6:8-7:60), I will use my defense to the false charges as an opportunity to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I will cite to and quote from the holy scripture so that the reader can read for himself whether I am correct. Christians must be like the noble Bereans and always check the scriptures. See Acts 17:11. I will also expose the false religious doctrines promoted by Van Nattan and Kwoh, just as Jesus did with the Jews of his day:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. (John 8:44-47 AV)
Van Nattan’s misrepresentations are not due to negligence or even recklessness; they are intentional and malicious. How do I know? Van Nattan claims to have 35 years of research experience, to be a former headmaster to a training school for pastors, and a former pastor to four churches. He has authored extensive religious research contained his website. Van Nattan is not an ignorant or careless man who would make the above traducements without reading my book. In addition, on September 18, 2003, I sent an email to Van Nattan and cited for him passages in my book that proved the falsity of his defamatory epithets. I did not write to Kwoh, since I do not know his email address, nor do I have any other way of contacting him. Van Nattan did not respond to my correspondence, and he has kept the libelous page posted on his website. I therefore conclude that the defamatory obloquies made by him against me along with those he quotes from Timothy Kwoh are being made maliciously and with intentional disregard for the truth.
Van Nattan claims that I am a “Jew hater.” That is not true, and Van Nattan knows that is not true since in my email to him I specifically pointed him to chapter 63 of my book where I state Christians are commanded by God to love the Jews:
The Jews are our enemies, because they are antichrist. Romans 11:28. Jews hate Christ and Christians. We, however, are to love them and pray for them. “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.” (Luke 6:27-28 AV) God has chosen a remnant of Jews for salvation. We should preach the gospel to the lost world, including the Jews. We, however, should not think that a Jew any different in God’s plan than a Catholic, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Satanist or any other follower of one of Satan’s pagan religions. (emphasis added)
Salvation for all, is by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. If a Jew repents of his antichrist religion and believes in Jesus, then he is saved. Once saved, a Jew will not continue in his Talmudic practices any more than a Catholic will continue his Catholic practices or a Satanist will continue his Satanic practices once they are saved. All believers in Christ become spiritual Jews, which are Christians.
Loving our enemies does not mean that we should condone the pagan practices of the Jews, Catholics, Muslims, or other pagans. Rather, we are called by God to reprove them. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” (Ephesians 5:11 AV)”
Van Nattan is maliciously lying when he states that I am a Jew hating racist. When I wrote to Van Nattan, I pointed out to him that in chapter 61 of my book I explained that the Zionist world conspiracy is not a racial conspiracy, but is rather a religious conspiracy that flows from the Jewish Talmud, and involves both Jews and Gentiles. In my book, I state: “This is not a racial issue, it is a spiritual issue. . . . Whether a Zionist is a Jew or a Gentile is of little relevance.” In my book I identified the evil as Zionism and not Jews as a race. Read below what I wrote in the book in context:
[John] Kerry’s voting record reveals him to be a Zionist; he is also a
member of Skull and Bones, the previously discussed satanic secret
society which includes among its members President George W.
Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush. Kerry’s
satanic Zionism explains more about his treasonous conduct
than does his Jewish heritage. It is not his Jewishness that is
evil, it is the Zionism that flows from the Jewish Talmud, which
he has embraced, that is evil. This is not a racial issue, it is a
spiritual issue. George W. Bush, as far as anyone knows, is a
gentile, but he also is an evil Zionist. Whether a Zionist is a Jew
or a Gentile is of little relevance. The key to understanding the
treason of Zionists is realizing that their allegiance is to Israel
first. One example of the priorities of Zionists is the statement made
by Zionist and former U.S. President Bill Clinton: "If Iraq came
across the Jordan River, I would grab a rifle and get in the trench and
fight and die."
When, however, it came time for Clinton to keep his military commitment to the United States, he wrote Arkansas ROTC Commander Col. Eugene Holmes, and explained that he couldn't serve because he "loathed the military." He did all he could to avoid fighting for “his” country but he would be willing to fight and die in the trenches for Israel. His presidency was marked by one act of treason against the United States after another. Israel, on the other hand, benefitted handsomely from the Clinton presidency. (emphasis added)
Van Nattan calls me a racist. Van Nattan’s invectives against me are intentional and malicious distortions. In my email to him I quoted for him what I wrote in chapter 55 of my book, where I explain Jews are not a race at all, but are rather members of a Babylonian Talmudic religion. How could I be a racist when I do not believe that Jews are a race? I believe that Jews are members of a religion, not unlike the Catholic religion. The book addresses the evils of Zionism, not the evils of any group by virtue of their race. It is out of love and not out of racial animus that I expose to the world the evils of Talmudic Judaism. I explain the religious origins of the Talmudic Jews in my book as follows:
Most Jews living in Israel and throughout the world today are eastern
European converts to a religion that they call Judaism, but in fact is
Babylonian Talmudism. The Europeans who later converted to this
Babylonian form of Judaism are known as Ashkenazi or Khazar
Jews. Dr. Benjamin H. Freedman, a former Jew who by the grace of
God converted to Christianity, states that the Khazars were a pagan
nation whose religious worship was a mixture of phallic worship and
other forms of idolatry. In the 7th century their King Bulkan chose
Talmudism, which most now call Judaism, as the state religion.
Today Khazar Jews are called “Yiddish.” In Revelation, God refers to these Talmudic Ashkenazi Jews as Jews who say they are Jews but are not, but rather are the “synagogue of Satan.
“I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” (Revelation 2:9 AV)
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.” (Revelation 3:9 AV)
These Ashkenazi Jews are people without any allegiance to any nation. Their primary objective is to own the entire world. To get and idea of the nefarious objective of these Talmudists, let us read an 1879 letter from Baruch Levy to Karl Marx:
“The Jewish people as a whole will be its own messiah. It will attain
world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of
frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a
world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the
privilege of citizenship. In this new world order the children of Israel
will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The
governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will
fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be
possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and
everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the
promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which it is said that when the
messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the
whole world in their hands.”
I find it odd that Van Nattan would falsely call me a “Jew-hater” and yet not also falsely accuse me of being a “Catholic hater,” when most of my book examines the evil doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Van Nattan seems to understand that exposing the evil doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, which he himself does on his website, is an act of love. Indeed, in the introduction to my book, Antichrist Conspiracy, I expressly state that I was motivated to write the book by love for Catholics:
“This book is a work of love on behalf of Roman Catholics. Millions are being deceived by the Roman Catholic Church on matters of eternal salvation. Some would prefer that I remain silent about Vatican religious malfeasance. I will simply respond as did Paul: “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16. . . . This book is written to open the eyes of those who have been chosen for salvation but have been temporarily seduced by the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Religion, and to reveal to the Christian world the ravenous wolf in sheep’s clothing who is prowling in their midst.”
The purpose of the book was to expose the antichrist conspiracy behind false religious doctrines and to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Van Nattan and Kwoh, however, desire to give immunity to Talmudic Judaism. They use the epithet of racism as a bludgeon to dissuade others from learning the truth and to retaliate against me for revealing the evils of Talmudic Judaism.
(NOTE: On or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted the previous allegations from his web site. His deletion of the above allegations, is not intended by him to be a retraction of those statements. Apparently, he has suffered embarrassment when I proved his allegations to be false and exposed him as a liar. He is now attempting to cover his tracks by deleting his lies from his website. Being a liar, he could not just delete the lies, he feels he has to cover the deletion with yet more lies. He falsely states that the reason for the deletion is that the proof for his allegations has disappeared from the web. He deceptively suggests that previously there was proof for his allegations, which has suddenly disappeared. His deception is easy enough to expose. He has made his false allegations against me in response to what I have written in my book. If what he has alleged about me were true, my book should be all the proof he would need. He now claims that his proof has been deleted from the web. However, since the day my book was first posted on the web it has never been deleted from the web, and it remains to this day available at the exact same web address. He has never quoted a single passage from my book or from any other source to prove his claim. The reason he has not quoted from my book or anything else for that matter is that he could not find anything to prove his allegations. He is attempting to deceive his readers into believing that proof once existed but is now lost. When in fact, the alleged proofs have never existed. A lie by definition cannot be proven. There are only two possibilities with a lie, it can either be covered up by more lies, which is what Van Nattan has attempted to do, or it can be refuted and proven false, which is what my response here does.)
Van Nattan Admits His “Claims Cannot Be Proven”
As explained above, on or before April 17, 2004, Van Nattan deleted from his website some of his statements. Apparently, he has had difficulty explaining to his followers how he, who holds himself out as a minister of the gospel, could engage in such open and obvious dissimulation. While Van Nattan has deleted some of the lies from his web site, the substance of his libel is still posted in the remaining sections on his web site, and nowhere does he retract any of his previous statements. He may be hoping that by deleting some of the most obvious falsehoods he can deceive those who read my response and then do not find Van Nattan’s correlative statements on his web page.
The revealing thing about Van Nattan’s recent retreat is that he continues in his pattern of prevarication even when explaining the reason for deleting some of his falsehoods. He now states on his website:
“Hendrie has attacked me on his site, which is fair enough. It is
a free country. But, the sites I linked to, where I proved his
teachings, have mostly been dropped from the Web. There is
nothing further to discuss since many of my claims cannot be
proven now that the proofs are gone. I guess some things are so
over the edge that we must expect the sane seeker to figure
them out for himself. Simply examine Edward Hendrie with the
Word of God and God's promises to Israel.”
His statement that “the sites I linked to, where I proved his teachings, have mostly been
dropped from the Web”
is patently false. He has never cited any information, web sites or
otherwise, at any time anywhere on his web site to prove his allegations against me. He states that
“There is nothing further to discuss since many of my claims cannot be proven now that the
proofs are gone.”
Van Nattan admits that his “claims cannot be proven.” He, however, attempts
to mislead the reader by implying that there were once proofs posted on his web page. The truth is
that he has never posted any proofs on his web site, ever! He cannot prove his claims because there
is no proof, and there never has been. There is no proof, because his allegations are false, not (as he
alleges) because the proofs have disappeared. Van Nattan’s dishonesty knows no limits. My book
remains posted on the internet, and I have openly challenged him to cite any part of my book that
supports his claims. It would seem that if his claims were true it would be a simple matter for him to
quote from my book to prove his case, yet he has not done so. My book is over 300 pages long with
almost 800 endnotes and would seem to provide him with abundant material from which to support
his claims, if they were true. The obvious reason he has not quoted from my book is that he could
not find anything in my book, or apparently anywhere on the web, that supports his baseless libel.
While Steve Van Nattan falsely accuses me of being a racist, he himself is demonstrably a
racist. On his web page at http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/believe.htm he states: “I
believe that God does not want the races confounded, but if a man and woman do marry
outside of this ideal, it is no longer any of my business-- ‘One flesh’ is higher law than racial
bounds of habitation.”
What an astounding statement! There on his website for all the world to
see is Steve Van Nattan’s racist philosophy in his own words! Yet, this racist hypocrite has the
nerve to falsely accuse me of being a racist! God prophesied that lying hypocrites such as Steve Van
Nattan would arise. “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron.” (1 Timothy 4:1-2 AV) What does it mean to speak lies
in hypocrisy? It is to falsely accuse another of the very sin of which the accuser is guilty. Steve Van
Nattan is an example of one who speaks lies in hypocrisy!
(In case
Van Nattan, in accordance with his established pattern, tries to delete that
belief page from his website, I have downloaded and saved it.)
On Van Nattan’s resume page, where he advertises himself and states his supposed
qualifications to be a pastor, he proudly proclaims his racist character: “I will not do interracial
marriages because they break "the bounds of habitation" set by God- Acts 17:26.”
(Note:
On January 9, 2006, I happened to notice that Van Nattan removed from his
website his resume page
that contained proof that he is a racist. I, however, had previously
downloaded and saved his resume
page. I saved that page, because
by that point he had established a pattern of covering his tracks by deleting
incriminating statements from his website. I correctly anticipated
that he would try to conceal his racist character by deleting that page.
You can now read for yourself the proof, in Van Nattan's own words, that Van
Nattan is a racist.)
It is preposterous for Van Nattan to suggest that Acts 17:26 supports his racist view. That passage reads: “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation” Acts 17:26. That passage expressly states that all nations are made of “one blood” and that God has provided for them to dwell on “all the face of the earth.” It is the height of depravity for Van Nattan to twist God’s word to say that because God sets the boundaries for the habitation of nations that he somehow prohibits interracial marriage. It takes a reprobate mind like Van Nattan’s to use a passage that states that all men are of one blood to support a claim that men should maintain a separate racial identity. Race is not even a biblical concept. God, in the bible, does not once catagorize different people according to race. He distinguishes different people by their tongues, families, nations, and countries. See Genesis 10:5, 20, 31; Revelation 10:11; 17:15.
In order to fully understand the completeness of Van Nattan’s nescience, we must examine
what is meant by the term race. Race is simply defined as a group of persons who have a common
lineage.
Prior to the 1800's, races of people were generally categorized according to their
nationality (the German race, the English race, etc.).
With the popularity of Charles Darwin’s
theory of evolution, which was first published in 1859, it eventually became the widespread practice
to define race according to physical appearance. Darwin was a racist who believed that Blacks were
closer to apes in the evolutionary process. In fact, the liberal humanists don’t want the general
public to know that the full title of Darwin’s seminal 1859 book on evolution was: “THE ORIGIN
OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION OR THE PRESERVATION OF
FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.” Darwin elaborated on his racist views as
follows: “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of
man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the
same time the anthromorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his
nearest allies will the be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may
hope, even that the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon instead of as now between the
Negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Darwin’s racist theory of evolution is refuted by real science. Many scientists hold that
because the physical variations that are used to catagorize people into different races (skin color, eye
shape, etc.) are trivial (only .012 percent of human biological variation) and that genetically all
humans are fundamentally the same, racial distinctions based upon physical appearance are not
founded on biological reality but are in fact a social construct.
Professor of Epidemiology Raj
Bhopal, who is the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of
Newcastle, stated in the British Medical Journal: "Humans are one species: races are not
biologically distinct, there's little variation in genetic composition between geographically separate
groups, and the physical characteristics distinguishing races result from a small number of genes that
do not relate closely to either behaviors or disease.”
In addition, a panel of “scientists, including geneticists and anthropologists meeting at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science convention, said that the whole notion of
race, based on skin color and hair type, is a social construction that has nothing to do with the
genetic makeup of humans. . . . So while society busily tries to classify and reclassify races, the
researchers say, it should remember that race is an artificial way to organize and categorize and has
nothing to do with humans’ fundamental makeup.”
Those scientists maintain that it is a misnomer, therefore, to label people with different physical characteristics as being of different races. Because racial distinctions are somewhat arbitrary, there is no standardization of racial categories; in fact, the labels for the various races have changed with some frequency. There has been a recent trend in the United States to categorize races of people according to their perceived national or regional origin, such as African-American, Mexican-American, etc.
In Saint Francis College et al. v. Al-Khazraji, Aka Allan,
a United States citizen born in
Iraq was denied tenure at a private college in Pennsylvania. The professor made a claim under a
federal statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, alleging that he was discriminated against because of his ancestry.
The college argued that § 1981 only prohibits racial prejudice and because the professor was
considered a Caucasian under modern "scientific" theory that he could not be subjected to racial
discrimination from another Caucasian. The U.S. Supreme Court examined dictionaries and
encyclopedias from the 1800's and discovered that the theory of racial classifications has undergone
a significant change since then. It was not until the early 20th Century that dictionaries started
defining race according to physical appearance and listing the racial categories: Mongoloid,
Caucasoid, and Negroid. The Court recognized the lack of scientific authority for the modern racial
classifications and found those classifications to be inadequate to address the issue of racial
prejudice that 42 U.S.C. § 1981 was drafted to prohibit. The Court ruled that § 1981 prohibited
discrimination based on ancestry or ethnic characteristics, regardless of whether the person has the
physical appearance that places him into one of the modern racial categories.
The U.S. Supreme Court in the Saint Francis College case stated:
There is a common understanding that there are three major human
races - Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Many modern biologists
and anthropologists, however, criticize racial classifications as
arbitrary and of little use in understanding the variability of human
beings. It is said that genetically homogeneous populations do not
exist and traits are not discontinuous between populations; therefore,
a population can only be described in terms of relative frequencies of
various traits. Clear-cut categories do not exist. The particular traits
which have generally been chosen to characterize races have been
criticized as having little biological significance. It has been found
that differences between individuals of the same race are often greater
than the differences between the “average" individuals of different
races. These observations and others have led some, but not all,
scientist to conclude that racial classifications are for the most part
sociopolitical, rather than biological, in nature. S. Molnar, Human
Variation, (2d ed. 1983); S. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981);
M Banton & J. Harwood, The Race Concept (1975); A. Montagu,
Man’s Most Dangerous Myth (1974); A. Montagu, Statement on
Race (3d ed. 1972); Science and the Concept of Race (M. Mead, T.
Dobzhansky, E. Tobach, & R. Light eds. 1968; A. Montagu, The
Concept of Race (1964); R. Benedict, Race and Racism (1942);
Littlefield, Lieberman, & Reynods, Redefining Race: The Potential
Demise of a Concept in Physical Anthropology, 23 Current
Anthropology 641 (1982); Biological Aspects of Race, 17 Int’l Soc.
Sci. J. 71 (1965); Washburn, The Study of Race, 65 American
Anthropologist 521 (1963).
So, God states that he “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26); objective scientists and the U.S. Supreme Court agree with God (which is all too rare nowadays) and have concluded that man is of one blood and the racial distinctions based on physical appearance are a social construct. God does not once even use the term race in the bible to distinguish between people. God describes different people according to their families, tongues, nations, or countries. See Genesis 10:5, 20, 31; Revelation 10:11; 17:15. Steve Van Nattan, however, believes that people who are of different “races” (that is, people who have different color skin) should not marry.
Van Nattan’s objection to interracial marriage is pure and simple racism and is contrary to the commands of God. "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement." John 7:24. See also 1 Samuel 16:7 “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
Christians should understand that our war is not a carnal war where distinctions are made between races of people as defined by the pagan world system. Christians are in a spiritual war against unseen “spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12. “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-7 AV)
Van Nattan has a natural pagan view of people and judges men after their outward appearance. A Christian, on the other hand, is imbued with the Holy Spirit and does not judge a person based upon his skin color or outward physical appearance. A Christian instead has “the mind of Christ.” Van Nattan does not understand these spiritual truths.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:14-16 AV)
The racist carnal mind of Steve Van Nattan is enmity against God.
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” (Romans 8:5-9 AV)
Van Nattan’s racism causes him to misinterpret God’s word to mean that Christ will
establish a future Jewish world dominion: “I believe that the "dry bones" (Jews) of Israel and
Judah are scattered all over the world today, and shortly Messiah Jesus Christ will gather
those Jews again to initiate His literal 1000 year reign in the Middle East. Those wimps who
will not take these promises literally are treacherous scoundrels, right to the pinnacle of
their PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) pilum lapidus in Calvin Seminary.”
Van Nattan makes the above statement despite the fact that the bible states clearly: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.