GQ Magazine apparently does not like the Bible. Neither does Jennifer Leclaire...

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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. -- 1Corinthians 2: 14 (NIV)

https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/watchman-on-the-wall/70706-where-s-gq-s-iq-men-s-rag-attacks-bible-as-foolish-ill-intentioned

It is not surprising when carnal people behave like carnal people, even those in Christian leadership. The modern church is so compromised through the mega false teachings associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, the purpose driven church movement and the seeker friendly industrial complex that most of what is seen in media as Christian is an abomination. The enemy has done a masterful job of working with Christian leadership to advance the kingdom of darkness. This is not surprising to those who discern because the Bible warns us of a great end times falling away. It is still breathtakingly stupid to watch however as leader after leader employs schemes that are obviously demonic in nature. One such scheme is to get the church to be in perpetual offense. Not on perpetual offense beloved but in. The NAR teaches a strict dominionism that makes an idol out of America. Anything to save Sodom. You must understand that in the current model, the false church leaders have all of the power and money in this system. They have created cult of personality silo churches that care about protecting the system at all cost. This is very much like the Pharisees of old who rejected their own Savior when He walked among them. Why? Were His miracles not convincing enough? Hardly. The reason was that they had all of the power in the current system and Jesus was a threat to that.

Just like He is still a threat today. So the NAR infused leadership convinces Christians to loathe the very people they are charged with bringing the Gospel to! Forget the Westboro Baptist fools as they are extremes used by the devil to make us feel better about our lessened levels of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. Don't believe me? Go to Charisma News and you will see every other story is somehow tying God to America and bashing people in the world for not behaving better. Don't lose this point beloved because that is ultimately what they are complaining about. We can hide behind wedge issues and faux outrage but the bottom line is we feel they should behave like Christians even if they are not. Consider the key verses today as a reminder of instruction from God. The unsaved do not accept what is from God -- period. The unsaved consider what is claimed to have come from God as utter foolishness. They cannot understand it beloved because they do not have the indwelt Holy Spirit to discern for them. Cue the spirit of great offense within the church and soon we will all be posting memes and retweeting just how offended we are at the latest act of grievous persecutions leveled at the church today. Except they are really not persecutions. They are just the unsaved behaving like the unsaved. As if they simply do not understand the things of God; which they do not. Linked above a short article recently posted by Jennifer "Clever Calamari" Leclaire responding to the latest great offense she has taken and needs to share that we can all be as upset as she is that the world just behaved like the world again. Come let us reason together.

"The Bible is the best-selling book of all time--all time. But the fashion-smart editors of GQ have unequivocally decided that the Good Book isn't worthy of our facetime. No, this is not a twist on words. I'll let you read GQ 's very own printed words: "The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it but who in actuality have not read it," is how the presumptuous, judgmental critical review opens. Way to paint Christianity with a broad brush." -- Jennifer Leclaire

Seriously? First of all, is GQ now considered a Christian publication? What did you expect? A glorious review of a book that makes no sense to them? Perhaps what is sadder is the fact that GQ is correct in their snarkiness. The vast majority of people who shout the loudest about establishing a theocracy here in America could not survive under one. How else do you explain the exploding biblical illiteracy rates amongst churchgoers? Lifeway Research found that only 45% of churchgoers read their bibles more than once per week. Considering that one time is more than likely the counting of Sunday service, 55% of churchgoers never read their own bibles. Further consider that the one time the 45% give themselves credit for reading the Bible they are in a church that barely reads the Bible anymore. You might get a verse fragment wrenched horribly out of context to proof-text a topical sermon point but expository preaching is bordering on extinction. Most people who attend church regularly know that God loves them, has a wonderful purpose for their lives and is waiting to throw open the windows of heaven if they would stop being greedy and selfish. Never mind that Jeremiah 29:11 and Malachi 3:10 are not even written for them or that God is equal parts wrath and love. They will simply never hear it.

Perhaps Jennifer would be better off examining why Andy Stanley says that we do not need to use the Bible to establish our faith anymore. That he now teaches that we can use historical proofs and eye-witness accounts as opposed to teach the infallibility of scripture. Or perhaps she can examine why Bill Johnson and his henchmen all teach that experience trumps doctrine. That we do not worship a "book." That's right. To Johnson the Bible is just a book and to Stanley it is just a collection of ancient manuscripts. Forget divine inspiration. Forget that Jesus said He is the Word. Maybe Leclaire should spend some time investigating why Joseph Prince teaches his adherents that they can discard the Ten Commandments. Or why Perry Noble once re-wrote those same commandments. The church and solid biblical doctrine are indeed under attack but not from the likes of GQ Magazine. The attack is coming from within and is led by people carrying a book they do not bother to read nor understand. GQ is not that far off it appears. The Squidster continues:

'"Those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall it is certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced," the review continues. Um, yeah, well, man didn't produce it. The Holy Spirit inspired Scripture. Spiritual things are spiritual discerned, according to 1 Corinthians 2:14, and foolish men can't understand them. Foolish men will call the Word of God foolish out of ignorance and the devil's blinding.' -- Jennifer Leclaire

Wow, what stunning disconnect on display here. Jennifer stumbles over the answer to her outrage, the very key verse itself! Foolish men will indeed call the word of God foolish -- so then what was the point of this rant Jennifer? Why did you feel compelled to call out GQ magazine for behaving exactly how the Bible said they would behave? Is there a point to stirring up the church against the people stumbling in the darkness? The people God said we were to bring the Gospel to? Is this your version of a shining city on a hill? You sound like the sons of thunder when they asked Jesus if they should call down fire from heaven to consume the Samaritan village that would not accept Jesus. Christ rebuked them and said they knew not what spirit they were of. If you were of the Holy Spirit then He would have convicted you for railing against people who are lost and simply know not what they are doing. He would have stopped your self-righteousness and made you act with some compassion. Princess Calamari continues:

"Case in point, GQ speaks of the Bible this way: "It is repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned," the review reads. Kettle, do you hear the pot calling you? The Bible is none of those things. It is the Word of God which is purified seven times (see Psalm 12:6)." -- Jennifer Leclaire

Wait a minute, you just admitted that these things are utter foolishness to them so your next step is to mock them for it? GQ is not your enemy Jennifer. They are supposed to be your mission field. As the Roman soldiers were driving the stakes into Jesus He asked God to forgive them yet when GQ suggests that the Bible is sententious your response is to deride them? To the lost the Bible must seem incredibly repetitive. Remember that all Scripture ties together. All scripture is breathed out by one author -- God. It all has one purpose, one message and is about one person -- God. What we might look at as consistent, the world certainly views as repetitive. The contradictory charge is because we no longer defend the Bible as inerrant but would rather placate the Andy Stanley's of the world. Why watch an hour long apologetics debate when you can watch Todd White pull the old growing leg trick? Sententious, which by the way is an awesome word, means to be moralizing and pompous. GQ seems to be pretty close there too no? God is a moral God and his demands for holiness can certainly come off as being quite moralizing. Pompous is simply related to the fact that the Bible deals with these matters unapologetically from a position of unquestioned and absolute truth. No shades of grey allowed. You have to love the next criticism leveled by GQ -- foolish! Yes, the book that says they will think the book is foolish is then called foolish by those people. Thank you for proving God right! The larger point however is that this merely confirms what God has said all along. The things of God are foolishness to those that are perishing. As for ill intended, I can understand why someone unsaved and consigned to an eternity in hell might view that position as ill intended. Not saying GQ is right but I can understand why they might hold that view. Jennifer instead cites Psalm 12 to refute the carnal truths GQ has presented. I hate to break this to you Jennifer but Psalm12 is just as foolish to them as any other verse you might want to cite. The Squid Spirit swims on:

"What should we meditate on, then, if not the Word of God? Instead, these glitz and glam editors believe you should read "The Notebook" by Agota Kristof. "If the thing you heard was good about the Bible was the nasty bits, then I propose Agota Kristof's The Notebook, a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough. The subtlety and cruelty of this story is like that famous sword stroke (from below the boat) that plunged upward through the bowels, the lungs, and the throat and into the brain of the rower." Um, what? New-wave European fiction can never outlast, outsell or outdo the Bible. No one who has read it with an open heart could suggest so. I pray the Lord delivers GQ from the deep dark blindness. I break the Lord God Almighty breaks in with light and love and a radical encounter like unto Paul's experience with Jesus on the road to Damascus." -- Jennifer Leclaire

The world has all sorts of carnal ideas to replace having to read the Word of God. I remember last year when the church embraced The Shack and curricula were developed to accompany it. The same went for the heretical Bible and AD mini-series'. But Jennifer is not being truthful here now is she? They did not suggest meditating on the Notebook. Neither did they suggest the Notebook was going to outlast, outsell or outdo the Bible. So why all the chest thumping? Because Jennifer Leclaire has spent this entire article making GQ the enemy of the church. Perhaps realizing it, she now climbs on the nearest high road she can find to suggest prayer. After mocking them, deriding them and trying to turn the church against them, Jennifer prays for them. After sowing seeds of derision into that deep dark blindness, Jennifer prays that God delivers them from it. Right.

"One more thing, know this: The attack on the Word of God comes at a time when a California bill could ultimately lead to a ban on Bibles. It's clearly a coordinated onslaught between the government and media mountains of society." -- Jennifer Leclaire

No Jennifer. You do not get to spew your political talking points as if they are fact when they are demonstrably not. There is no California Bill that would lead to the banning of the Bible. To believe so is to be so deluded one might have to conclude that a giant squid, in the spirit realm, is sitting on top of your head. The problem is that Jennifer runs with Charisma News, which is the mouthpiece for the Charismatic NAR folks who worship this country. Just look at the language Jennifer uses here! The government and media mountains of society is verbiage straight from the seven mountains theology of the NAR. Instead of the church against the devil with the world hanging in the balance it is the church against the world with the devil laughing.

"Make no mistake, The Notebook will pass away. GQ will pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away. But the Word of God will never pass away (Matthew 24:35). The Word of God never fails. God watches over His Word to perform it." -- Jennifer Leclaire

Yes. These are all true statements. It is too bad they are preceded by sheer unbiblical nonsense. Too bad instead of relying upon the truths of Scripture you chose to wield it like a cudgel and bludgeon the unsaved folks at GQ to a bloody pulp. For what Jennifer? What was their sin? That they behaved exactly how the Bible told you they would? What purpose does this article even serve other than to feed your ego? It is useless to the folks at GQ who would correctly surmise that you are far more foolish than the Bible. Those who are truly saved will dismiss this out of hand as not being from the Spirit of God. That leaves the Charisma News crowd that has bought into the NAR deception and the accompanying dominionism. People who like blaming the lost for being lost. For mocking the blind for not being able to see. Who turn a blind eye to the heretical treatment of the Bible by renowned leaders from within the church but are quick to eviscerate secular magazines like GQ for daring say something critical about a book God says they will find as foolishness. The church against the world. That squid spirit sure is sneaky"

Reverend Anthony Wade -- April 24, 2018

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.