Posted on 03/13/2005 11:02:31 PM PST by BykrBayb
You asked "why would Satan want to prevent Terri Schiavo from being with God tonight?"
She IS with God as a believer in Jesus Christ, no matter what her physical state. Christians know that. Only Satan can ask the question you ask, because he really doesn't get it.
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life..." YOU do not understand His relationship with her, what Truth is, and what life is. You don't know Who HE is. No, I'll take that back... You know, but you hate Him; you want to murder all He loves. .
I have nothing else to say to people like you.
You have all of the correct "sound bites", but never learned what God and Jesus were trying to teach you.
Oh well, this is not my job.
People who do not believe that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, who don't believe that that He is the only Mediator between God and man, who don't believe that it is HIS death alone which atones for our sins, not our works, those are the ones who should be TERRIFIED of conscious suffering for eternity.
Bump!
Terri herself is in God's grace, a true innocent. It is those who work for her death -- those who would deny food and water to a helpless, disabled woman -- who stand in danger of the judgment. Their judgment has already been pronounced. Read this.
Matthew 25...
[41] Then shall [the Lord] say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
[42] For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
[43] I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
[44] Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
[45] Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
[46] And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
God bless your efforts for Terri!
[45] Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
[46] And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Now I realize that the English language can be complex at times, and perhaps I am unable to understand these words:
"and did not minister unto thee?"
However, was this not the complaint that Jesus had?
Now, has Terri Schiavo been ministered upon?
Bump for Terri
Barbara Simpson's article is VERY GOOD! Thanks for posting it.
You're welcome.
Blah blah blah. Go away, troll. Terri is NOT suffering but she will be suffering if they start starving her to death which you would not want to happen to a dog.
Dr. Kervorkian is behind bars for taking human life, and rightly so. God Almighty made us to want to live.
Some of us still believe in miracles but this isn't about Terri getting well and jumping up and down and walking and talking. It's about NOT KILLING HER by cruel starvation. Sheeeeesh already. And as an added bonus if she were to receive therapy/rehab/proper care, her quality of life would definitely improve.
This is for all the fine people on freerepublic who helped me and stood by me, and for all the miserable newbee trolls and the longer term freeper-sleepers who have so delighted in the misery of this event that they harass any who defend Terri.
If there are these many good people and this many attackers, we must be on to something really epic in the battle of good and evil. The freeper-sleepers had no idea, I bet, how much they inspired me and how they convinced me we were on the right track and need to step up and be counted.
It all comes as people of my faith approach Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Events unfold as the torments began in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion.” At this time for all good and decent people, we are charged to stand up to evil, either that or shield our eyes from it and go about our business.
We can go into this season looking forward to Easter feasts, or contrite and repentant and determined to stand up to evil. We all have our own talents to bring to bear. People of my own faith can wear out a few sets of Rosary beads. All can pray.
Some are great at coordinating, as I have found so well. Others are great at contacting, getting out the word. Some look for credit, others work behind the scenes hardly noticed by us other mortals. We can all do something to help.
Some of us have the opportunity to go there, to Pinellas Park to confront the evil head on, to give support to Terri and her family and friends, to help out. I can. I hope in this category there are lots of us. Please join with me if you can.
I am on my way now, and hope to arrive to meet a burgeoning crowd of other freepers standing firm for Terri.
At the end of the day I pray that each of us here can say to Our Lord, today we did our best for Terri.
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I have based my statements upon my understanding of religion and life after death.
If, as I have stated so many times, Terri's body can be restored, then we should do everything possible to make that happen.
However, once it has become obvious that God wishes her to depart, it is wrong for us to prevent that from happening.
Obviously, your feelings are different, and I honestly respect that.
Good points.
You need to read a very important book, The Power of the Powerless. But I wonder if you'd understand what the author was trying to say.
Here is an excerpt of the article that starts the book:
Power of the Powerless: A Brother's Lesson
By Christopher de Vinck
I grew up in the house where my brother was on his back in his bed for almost 33 years, in the same corner of his room, under the same window, beside the same yellow walls. Oliver was blind, mute. His legs were twisted. He didn't have the strength to lift his head nor the intelligence to learn anything.
Today I am an English teacher, and each time I introduce my class to the play about Helen Keller, "The Miracle Worker," I tell my students about Oliver. One day, during my first year teaching, a boy in the last row raised his hand and said, "Oh, Mr. de Vinck. You mean he was a vegetable."
I stammered for a few seconds. My family and I fed Oliver. We changed his diapers, hung his clothes and bed linen on the basement line in winter, and spread them out white and clean on the lawn in the summer. I always liked to watch the grasshoppers jump on the pillowcases.
We bathed Oliver. Tickled his chest to make him laugh. Sometimes we left the radio on in his room. We pulled the shade down over his bed in the morning to keep the sun from burning his tender skin. We listened to him laugh as we watched television downstairs. We listened to him rock his arms up and down to make the bed squeak. We listened to him cough in the middle of the night.
"Well, I guess you could call him a vegetable. I called him Oliver, my brother. You would have liked him."
... Even now, five years after his death, Oliver remains the weakest, most helpless human being I ever met, and yet he was one of the most powerful. He could do absolutely nothing except breathe, sleep and eat; yet he was responsible for love, courage and insight.
The rest of the aricle is here and elsewhere on the internet:
Terri Schindler isn't dying. She's just forgotten how to swallow. Her handicaps do not give anyone the right to murder her. The slightest therapy improves her condition almost immediately. Let her go home with her parents!
However, once the term "murder" is used, you have lost your case. It is like the "President Bush is a NAZI!" that we so often hear.
Sorry, but that is the wrong term to use with Terri's situation.
bump
>When you use the term "murder", you loose my respect for your arguments.<
George Greer has forbidden anyone, after the removal of the tube, to "feed THAT GIRL" anything by mouth.
Let's see, if you forcibly withhold food and water from an animal, that can get you locked up in my state for a felony. It's not murder, because it involves an animal, but it's still a major offense. There are a number of people in prisons, convicted of murder, because they starved their children, or an elderly person, to death.
I think your discomfort at naming this starvation and dehydration (don't you DARE offer that GIRL jello, or you'll be in big trouble) murder, tells us you know deep down in your heart, that it's wrong.
Welcome to the human race.
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