By: Scott Adkins, Sling ‘n Stone Ministry
Carter County Times
What and where is Mansfield’s Bar? Mansfield’s Bar is not some gin mill, where liquor flows. Nor is Mansfield’s Bar an immobile, fixed location. Instead, Mansfield’s Bar is everywhere and always on the move. Next time y’all are driving behind a semi on some interstate, y’all might notice a T-shaped bar welded to the back of the semi’s trailer. It’s called a “Mansfield bar” or an “underride guard,” and it prevents your car from running-up underneath the semi’s trailer.
But why do we call this “underride guard,” mandated by federal regulations a “Mansfield Bar?” Actress Jane Mansfield, that’s why. June 29, 1967, 2:25 a.m.: Actress Jane Mansfield died a gruesome death on a lonely Louisiana country road, when her 1966 Buick Electra rear-ended a semi-tractor without an underride guard. Mansfield’s car ran clear-up underneath that semi-tractor. Legend says the impact decapitated Mansfield. Not true. Coroner’s report said the impact peeled-back Mansfield’s scalp and ripped-out the front of her brain with it—a gruesome death.
By now, you’ll all be asking, “What does this have to do with the Bible?” Answer: Plenty. So please, keep reading… Shortly before Mansfield died that gruesome death, she embarked on highly publicized and, some say, torrid tryst with Anton LaVey. Many photos of the iniquitous pair ran in magazines of the day.
Who was Anton LaVey? He founded San Francisco’s Satanic Church of; wrote the “Satanic Bible;” and performed the first “Satanic baptism” on his own daughter, then just three years old. Both LaVey and Mansfield craved publicity. To satisfy their cravings, both LaVey and Mansfield publicly defied God, and dared Him to answer. But answer God did, when at 2:25 a.m., June 29, 1967, He cast Jane Mansfield, who chose to be the devil’s harlot, into a devil’s Hell. God says, “The candle of the wicked shall be put out.” (Proverbs 24:20). He warns that “the wicked shall be turned into hell.” (Psalms 9:17).
Differently put, the Lord God Almighty does not jack around, folks. And if folks wanna jack around with Him, folks are going to find out—just like Jane Mansfield found out—Jesus does not jack around. Jesus means exactly what He says: “The wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23). And when The Lord Jesus Christ says “death,” He means a forever death in a devil’s Hell. (Revelation 2:11; 20:6, 14). If asked about Jane Mansfield’s death, the Lord Jesus would say:
Suppose ye that [she] w[as] [a] sinner above all … because [she] suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:2-3).
One needn’t bed-down with a devil worshipper to end up in a devil’s hell. One need only love this present world more than one loves Him, (Matthew 7:21), Who gave Himself for us. (Titus 2:14). Lest ye too perish as Jane Mansfield perished, “examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith,” (II Corinthians 13:5), the next time y’all pass Mansfield’s Bar.
