Posted on 11/08/2006 8:28:56 AM PST by stainlessbanner
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 54-year-old Florida man credits two small Bibles in his shirt pocket with saving his life when they stopped a bullet.
The man, whose name was withheld because his attackers are still at large, told Orange Park police that two men he didn't recognize ambushed him with a rifle as he carried bags of garbage to a trash bin.
He said his attackers then fled in opposite directions.
The man said the bullet was stopped by two New Testaments that he was carrying in his shirt pocket to give to friends. Police took them as evidence.
The Florida Times-Union reported that aside from a red mark and a pain in his chest, the man was not injured.
Can we do a study of how many bullets have been stopped by bibles in the pocket versus flasks in the pocket?
Must have been a .22 rifle. Those little testaments don't stop very much.
Glurge
Woody Allen used to joke that he kept a bullet in his shirt
front pocket. Someone in a building above him threw down a Bible and it hit him on the chest. "That Bible would have
gone through my chest if it weren't for that bullet!"
Ah bummer no "couldn't get through Isaiah" jokes here :(
Praise the Lord bump!
Can Bibles also stop the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, incl. darts aimed by the Democratic Party?
Must have been large print editions.
Yep, saw that.
Well, I heard they were a Gideon's Bible. So I guess Lennon and McCartney were wrong. Gideon has not checked out so Rocky may still be on with his revival? Hey a little humor today won't hurt!
Was it in the pocket of his bullet-proof vest?
Seriously though:
Kemal Ataturk was saved by a pocketwatch once. It sits in a museum today I believe.
Praise God!
Don't know, but if it has a cross on the front it may stop Nancy Pelosi.
You beat me to it. LOL.
Then let's all go full speed ahead protected by the armor of God!
Stories like this are amazing and inspiring.
Lucky Gold Coin Dixon, so the story went, had a beautiful young sweetheart in Mobile, Alabama, named Queenie Bennett. She gave him a U.S. $20 gold piece, which Dixon had in his pocket at the bloody Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee in 1862.A bullet that could have killed Dixon struck him in the thigh, but the gold coin stopped the slug. The legend said that Dixon had this lifesaving coin from his sweetheart with him the night he went down with the Hunley.
Bennett had a photograph supposedly of Dixon that was published many times after the Civil War.
A bent gold coin, inscribed "Shiloh April 6, 1862 My life Preserver G.E.D" was found in the Hunley near Dixon's remains.
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