Message #42985

[Psalm 51:17]

While Pinto may have put out some good stuff - at the same time, he's said some things recently that have raised some eyebrows.

1) While he promotes the KJB, at the same time he tends to mock the KJB-only crowd(saying it's the best bible, but he promoted the ESV as OK. He also promotes the Geneva Bible, which has some issues).

2) He goes overboard promoting the Protestant Reformers - people have to realize that Luther and other PRs just MERELY PROTESTED the Catholic Church. Otherwise, they brought some RCC baggage with them(which is why you see a lot of works-based Catholic stuff in these Protestant Churches). It's a lot like the "truth" movement which just MERELY PROTESTS the Illuminati(and nothing more).

3) The whole thing exposing David Barton a couple of years ago - the truth to this matter was that it was some atheist "truther" woman(who has an account on YT) that first exposed Barton in 2008. Not that I endorse her, but again the truth of the matter is that it was this woman that exposed Barton initially. Otherwise, Barton has had ties to Calvary Chapel, including with the likes of Brannon House, Pinto, Chuck Smith, Markell, etc. It wasn't until this expose when House, Pinto, etc started distancing themselves from Barton.(and "Hidden Faiths of our Founding Fathers" in 2010 was the first time Pinto and others exposed him)

4) He, like these other internet "discernment" ministries, tend to get political instead of consistently exposing the entire system - yeah, they expose the Jesuit Order and their agendas. But nonetheless after the 2012 election, Pinto came out on his radio show mulling how Democrats may have stole the election for Obama. Uhm...he forgot about how the Ohio electronic voting machines were rigged for Bush Jr in 2004(otherwise Kerry would have been President). He also forgot about how Bill Clinton was groomed by the Elder Bush in the early 80's, the same Elder Bush he "defeated" in 1992. IOW, it's been like this throughout history.

5) I always found it interesting he promoted Charles Spurgeon quite a bit - apparently, both Rick Warren's and Ray Comfort's great-grandparents were evangelized by Spurgeon. Spurgeon was very "influential", and he too believed you can take the mark and still get saved. It just seems like all of these "influential evangelists" are somehow connected to each other one way or another.