The Manhattan Project
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Tom Courchaine is the pastor of New Life Church, a small message church in Sweetwater, Tennessee. David Courchaine is the pastor's son and occasionally speaks at the church. In an intense, emotional video posted on Facebook on May 8, 2026, David described what he calls the "Manhattan Project":
- What is the Manhattan project? I am systematically dismantling every lie ever set against the message of the hour. All of them. Too long has the forces of darkness hurt God’s people… from the liars of Rod Bergen, John Collins, Tim Humes, and the others… Jeff Jenkins. I am systematically dismantling every single lie they have ever told.
- I am eight chapters in to Bergen’s book. 407 footnotes out of 955. It’s a lie. I actually have looked at it. I’ve lost track of all the lies. That’s what the Manhattan Project is. And when I’m done, the Manhattan Project is going to produce nukes that nuke these liars words back into hell where they belong. Because they’re lies and they come from the father of lies. They pervert what Brother Branham said into their own little lies a lie. So that’s what I’m doing and that’s what I’m going to do.
- Too long have this lies of Satan hurt God’s people. And no more. When I’m done someone can look at this stuff and conclude whatever they want, but they can’t conclude that these guys are honest, because they’re not. I just spent five and a half hours straight without stopping, running a voice message, going through three-fourths of the rest of chapter eight from the Arizona Cloud from Rod Bergen. It’s a piece of hell is what it is. It’s a lie. Even by intellectual standards. That’s what I’m doing. That’s what the Manhattan Project is. So I appreciate your prayers as I take these lies and I put them back in hell where they belong. Too long has this hell hurt God’s bride. And when I am done, it would be no more.”[1]
Several people contacted us after he posted this video to let us know about it and to request prayer for David as he seemed to be on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
Premature evaluation
God and the rules of logic
God serves as the foundation of all logic, having created the reality in which we discover the rules of laws:
- From the standpoint of reality, we understand that God is the basis of all logic. As the ultimate reality, all truth is ultimately found in him. He has created the reality that we know and in which we have discovered the laws of logic. Even Jesus said, “I am … the truth” (John 14:6). He has structured the world in such a way that these laws cannot be denied; however, we did not know God first and then learn logic from him. He exists as the basis of all logic (in reality), but we discovered logic first and came to know God through it. This is true even if we came to know God through his revelation, because we understood the revelation through logic. In the order of being, God is first; but in the order of knowing, logic leads us to all knowledge of God. God is the basis of all logic (in the order of being), but logic is the basis of all knowledge of God (in the order of knowing).[2]
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