Posted on 05/03/2009 6:15:12 AM PDT by spacejunkie01
The facts are unless you are Hal or his attorney, you probably are not privy to the grounds for divorce in any of the cases involved. Not only have you levied a slanderous accusation against this man without the evidence to back up your claim, but by putting “Christian” in parenthesis you have put yourself in the place of God and judged his salvation. Awful big shoes you are putting yourself in there - the kind of shoes that frankly made Christ angry.
When Jesus was with the woman at the well, did he berate her for what a sinner she was? He acknowledged it and told her to go and sin no more.
Human beings, including Christian human beings, screw up their lives frequently. Hal has apparently made some bad choices regarding his marriages. He may have sinned, he may not have. WE DO NOT KNOW. But standing in self-righteous condemnation of him is something I’m not about to do, and I would suggest to anyone that they should rethink their stance unless they specifically have the grounds for divorce for his marriages. Also, where sin abounds grace doth much more abound. Christians need to exhibit a little of the grace that they have been shown. I certainly don’t deserve Christ’s love and forgiveness, but I pray that I will live in a way that pleases Him and pray for strength to treat others as He would have me to treat them. I don’t always succeed at that. But, that’s the goal.
When Yah'shua spoke to the Samaritan woman See: NAsbU 1 Timothy 3:3Your ignorance of the Word is astounding.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
at the well, she was not a follower. NAsbU 1 Timothy 3:2
An overseer, then, must be above reproach,
the husband of one wife, temperate,
prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
not addicted to wine or pugnacious,
but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
Well, according to you, apparently neither is Lindsey.
Can you imagine what he’d be saying if he was still here?
=:/
i attended a church called Tetelestai back in the mid 90’s when Hal Lindsey was teaching there.
i don’t feel he perpetuated fear at all. in fact, in the years since then, the ONE thing i always remember that he said was, “worrying is like calling God a liar”. remembering that bit of info has helped me a lot over the years.
seems to me that if he’d wanted to promote fear, he wouldn’t have been trying so hard to explain to people why they didn’t need to worry....that they could trust God.
when i attended that church, i didn’t realize Hal had been talking about the rapture for so many years (i read the late great planet earth a few months later, but i was young and didn’t think to look at the date it was first published, lol). i know he gets criticized for trying to predict dates, but honestly, as someone who has been in the same room with him on several occasions and really watched him, i always came away with the impression that he is a man who sincerely loves jesus. perhaps his tremendous hopefulness that the rapture will happen sooner rather than later has led him to get carried away at times. i’m not condoning that, i’m just saying that nobody’s perfect, and before you judge the guy too harshly, remember that he likely loves God every bit as much as you do.
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