User:Truthfm

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Truthfm
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Born (1985-09-26) September 26, 1985 (age 38)
Pasadena, California, United States
Residence Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Nationality American
Education Los Angeles Pierce College
Azusa Pacific University
CompTIA (A+ Cert., 2016)
Occupation Information Technologist, Christian Biblicist, Podcast Host, Writer
Spouse(s) m. Dec. 2012 - Sun Valley, California, United States (b. 1986 Coubron, Seine-Saint-Denis, France)
Children b. D.V.

Truthfm (b. 1985) is the host of the Outlook in Review Podcast as well as an information technologist, Christian Biblicist, and writer born in Pasadena, California, United States, now living in the Thousand Oaks area of Greater Los Angeles. Truthfm contributes to multiple outlets pertaining to technological blogs, marketing information, and Christian theological articles & studies.

Early Life & History

Born in 1985, Truthfm lived several years in the Pasadena area of Los Angeles, but in 1991, the family left the Southern California area after unmasking the Biblical heresy of the Worldwide Church of God and moved to New Jersey and then subsequently south-eastern Oklahoma in 1995. Living in the somewhat rural area of Poteau and Gilmore and surrounded by farming communities and ranches, Truthfm raised goats, chickens, and farmed 5 acres of land for 6 years from 1998 - 2004. In 2004, Truthfm and his family moved to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States where he worked at several jobs in NW Washington state and attended Northwest Baptist Church in Bellingham. Moving alone to Des Moines, Iowa in 2006, he attended Grandview Park Baptist Church where his Christian faith began to materialise into a Complementarian, Biblicist theology with a worldview that was influenced by the Bible as opposed to cultural pressures. Moving to Los Angeles in 2009, he joined Grace Community Church and then in 2014, Christ Bible Church, both of which grew his knowledge and interpretation of Scripture & relationship with Christ raising awareness to the 'evangelisation of the lost'. In 2012, Truthfm married a French citisen raised in Paris and together they both live and work in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Focal Topics

Besides Christian living and beliefs, Truthfm has worked with and written extensively about business marketing, grocery store branding and real estate, media & culture, vehicle rebadging, logo design, smartphone technology, and Android. Specific topics within these categories include the expansion and subsequent bankruptcy of Haggen in 2016, weather & tornado outbreaks, & the US expansion of LIDL and California expansions of ALDI and Dunkin' Donuts. Other topics include production & TV news music such as produced by Gari or 615 Music, & corporate re-branding & new marketing such as Subway, Taco Bell[1], 365 by Whole Foods, or the localised 2017 re-brand of Los Angeles' 100.3 FM KKLQ.

Interest Spawning Events

Date Event Event Location Interest
1994 - unknown Family purchase of 1993 Toyota Tercel Lakewood, NJ cars
1996 - 21 April April 1996 tornado outbreak sequence Fort Smith, Arkansas weather
2001 - 11 September September 11 attacks New York, NY & others news
2007 - unknown Radio Transmitter Purchase West Des Moines, IA radio
2014 - 19 December Haggen Expansion Announced[2] Bellingham, Washington branding & marketing

Christian Faith

Truthfm is a self-described Christian Biblicist and believes in the inerrancy and sufficiency of Scripture to be a primary focal point of the Christian faith. Favouring the 'Doctrines of Grace', cessastionism, and young-earth creationism, Truthfm has also written several topics against the prosperity gospel and strongly advocates against Progressive Christianity, Dominionism, Charismaticism, & Christian Reconstructionism.

Christian Reconstructionism

DoulosBen maintains an adamant stance against the Christian Reconstructionist movement. He affirms his agreement with J. Ligon Duncan's viewpoint when Duncan states that Christian Reconstructionism is:

'...(I)n gross violation of Biblical patterns and common sense, ignores the context of the giving of the law to the redemptive community of the Old Testament. This constitutes an approach to the nature of the civil law very different from Calvin and the rest of the Reformed tradition, which sees the civil law as God's application of his eternal standards to the particular exigencies of his people.'[3]

Complementarianism

Truthfm subscribes to the Biblically described view of marriage roles known as complementarianism. This view essentially states that God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and human personhood, but with different and complementary functions. Truthfm has particularly written against the anti-Biblical Christian feminist movement and the similar egalitarian movement which essentially deny the inerrancy of the Bible by redefining terms and meanings to support contemporary cultural pressures, agendas, & movements.

Distinction Within the Term: Evangelicalism

In recent years, since the publicising of an inaccurate definition by American media for the term Evangelicalism, Truthfm has distanced himself from the commonly misunderstood term although in most term definitions, he adheres to the fundamental meaning and actual principles of Christian evangelicalism, such as the 'belief that the essence of the gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.' Splitting with politically charged, media defined Evangelicalism, DoulosBen affirms with fundamentally Biblical evangelicalism and echoes the words of Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in clarifying that confessional Evangelicalism refers to 'that movement of Christian believers who seek a constant convictional continuity with the theological formulas of the Protestant Reformation'. Truthfm, like others before him such as R.C Sproul, has referenced Imputationalism as a replacement for the, now lexically changed, term, Evangelicalism.

Sola Scriptura

Truthfm has taken an adamant stance on the doctrine of Sola Scriptura which states that the sufficiency of Scripture is the supreme authority in all spiritual matters for a Biblical Christian believer. This also mandates a total rejection of any other authority to be infallible other than the Bible. This includes but is not limited to the blind following of the teachings by any man, denomination, doctrine, viewpoint, world view, or interpretation. While any of the aforementioned categories may contain accurate statements, truths, or insights into Godly living, Truthfm unequivocally states that the Bible is to be the sole authority in all things as all views and beliefs must be solidly backed up by Scriptural principles before followed.

Music

With a keen interest in music and a connoisseur of such that might be considered rare or uncommon, Truthfm primarily listens to 3 genres: Christian Music, Beautiful Music, & Film Scores (Soundtracks) by artists such as Sebastian Demrey, Sovereign Grace Music, Enfield, Keith & Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell, Ronnie Aldrich, The Living Strings, Paul Pritchard, Johnny Pearson, & Carl Davis.

Distinction from Mainline CCM

Truthfm has worked to differentiate between what is known as mainline CCM music and what is becoming a larger subgenre of the Christian worship format (differentiated by distinctly theological lyric focus which blends hymns, worship music, & Biblically based songs with often contemporary rhythms & instrumentation) which has emerged, primarily in the Baptist, Reformed, and more traditional non-denominational branches of Protestant Christianity[4][5] in recent years. Artists of this sub-genre include well-known groups such as Shane & Shane, Stuart Townend, Aaron Peterson, Laura Story, and modern hymn-writers, Keith & Kristyn Getty[6] as well as others for instance Sovereign Grace Music,[7] Matt Boswell, and Aaron Keyes. This format is gaining traction in many churches[8] and other areas in culture[9] as well as being heard across many CCM collections (despite large theological differences with other music in the same category) and musical algorithms on several internet streaming services.

Wikipedia Usage Concerns

Although a Wikipedia contributor and editor, Truthfm has been somewhat vocal on the dangers of crowd-sourced data and engines such as Wikipedia, particularly when that data is treated as reliable or trustworthy. This concern primarily results from an imbalance of contributor viewpoints on crowd-sourced projects. These contributors tend to be of certain persuasions on key topics (for instance, the topic of benefits vs. the dangers of crowd-sourcing) and the medium will invariably fall wanting in certain viewpoints, worldviews, and rounded perspectives thus giving way to bias and unreliability.[10]

Church Attendance History

Residencies


References

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