Posted on 02/20/2015 1:52:28 PM PST by drewh
A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed.
The 71-year-old cleric Father John Micheal O’neal claims he went to heaven and met God, which he describes as a warm and comforting motherly figure.
Father John Micheal O’neal was rushed to the hospital on January 29 after a major heart attack, but was declared clinically dead soon after his arrival.
With the aid of a high-tech machine called LUCAS 2, that kept the blood flowing to his brain, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital managed to unblock vital arteries and return his heart to a normal rhythm.
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I’d be wondering if this fellow “concluded” that “God is a she” or whether he was “told so” by the being he encountered.
People meeting the divine could misunderstand. On the other hand, people meeting the demonic could be misinformed.
There’s too little information given here to know what transpired.
So you say and so you, apparently believe. Better people than you died to make this free country. As such, my opinion is as valid as yours, much more so to me. I ask you again to keep what I consider a ridiculous opinion to yourself. I am not interested in it whatsoever.
LOL....indoctrinated??? Your slip of hatred is showing.
Ah yes. The Haters got to hate” interweb retort. I thought you were better than that. Confess your sins this Sunday ( or Saturday at 5pm) ;)
I call it “posting” ... :-) ...
LOL!
No evidence he actually went to heaven and not just a delusional trip through his own brain.
It was probably Mother Machree.
Again, it has nothing to do with “opinion”. The words of the Bible in that regard are absolutely clear. The best one can say about that is simply ... “I choose to NOT believe what the words of the Bible say!”
It’s not a question about what those words mean, as they are standard and clear. But I’m not saying that someone can’t take the position of ... “I don’t believe what the Bible says!” as people say that all the time.
What is not possible to say, unless someone is an OUTRIGHT LIAR is that ... “I don’t know what the Bible says!” ... after it has been made clear what it says.
When you fall asleep you don’t remember the hours spent sleeping, you remember your waking hours.
There is an excellent explanation given in 1 Corinthians 15:39-58. It says in verse 51 that we shall not all fall asleep but we shall all be changed. In 52 it says that at the last trumpet the dead in Christ will rise.
Now to your point the passage in 1 Samuel 28 seems relevant because in this passage Saul went to a medium to contact Samuel and they speak repeatedly about Samuel being brought up (out of the earth).
Given that God is pretty flexible, whereas we tend to be fixed in our perspective of how things work, I think it’s a mistake to say definitively “this is how it’s going to be, every single time” (I mean both Enoch and Elijah escaped physical death, for goodness sake!). It looks to me as though most of us will sleep until the last trumpet, then the dead in Christ will rise. There are exceptions though, just like there are exceptions to physical death. Both Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus at the transfiguration of Jesus in Matthew 17.
The Bible is the sword “of the Spirit”
— not “of your own.”
Also, can time tunneling occur. People are often rabidly married to the idea that ultimate reality has to be the perspective of the mortal coil.
Helpful bit of information.
Or that His character is so extensive that it needs both genders in which to be expressed.
In the Hebrew, some of the attributes of God are expressed in the feminine gender.
It is hard for tech heads to wrap their brains around what is not even addressed to the brain at all, but to the heart.
God created man in His own image, male AND FEMALE created He them.
Heading out to the The Knights of Columbus for our Fish Fry right now. Bless you. Lets talk after mass this Sunday.
One of the great biblical paradoxes. When push comes to shove and a gender has to be identified for the Deity, it is always “He.” And yet His attributes often span well over into what we are accustomed to think of as characteristic of a “She.”
Paul spoke of acting towards a church “as a nursing mother.”
Little geeks stamping their feet cannot erase this abiding paradox. Call God “He” and yet appreciate from the heart the more “She”-like attributes He possesses. The nurturing aspect of salvation cannot be divorced from the Lord — at least not unless we want to jettison Judeo-Christianity.
Oh really? Just who in the bible had the opportunity to sit down with God and determine that God was a male?
Any argument you may bring up is based solely on writings of men, and none of whom has ever personally met God face to face...........
But for the sake of argument, wouldn't it be logical that God would appear to whomever claims to have met HIM in a form that is most recognizable to them - a male?
To make the claim that God is a male then you have to be able to prove there isn't a female God and you can't do that. Furthermore, if God is a male then where did HE come from and why wasn't HE born as a female?
I suggest maybe both of you ought to simmer down...
We have a God of paradoxes. Paradoxes are not contradictions; they are things that range beyond the comfortable categories that our mortal minds come up with.
In the article here, it was this priest who apparently concluded God was a “she.” Now first, I suggest a healthy distrust of news articles to tell you the entire story. They tend to the perverse.
But the bible in both Testaments is clear that God, while being called He, has some characteristics that we would often more likely ascribe to a she. Because we are not even in close to a condition to grasp the entire divine. We only see rays and shadows.
The nice thing about that is that the words have already-defined meanings, and thus mean the same to all who read or hear it.
The Spirit will definitely be able to open one’s heart to accept those words, or one may reject the Spirit in its ministry of opening the heart to accept God’s Word. What the Spirit does not do is change the known meaning of the words that are written in the Bible.
Tabitha? Eutychus?
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