Posted on 07/31/2009 10:40:52 AM PDT by NYer
Tim Tebow
LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week Florida Gators Quarterback Tim Tebow's photo may have graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, the same magazine that is best known for its annual "swimsuit issue," but the contrast between the two cover stories couldn't have been more glaring.
At 21 years of age and graced with boyish good looks, Tebow is one of the most talked about rising stars of the NCAA; but the football superstar literally left reporters speechless last week when he answered a question during a press conference about whether or not he is "saving himself" for marriage. quot;Yes I am," said Tebow briefly, who then indicated he was ready for the next question. However, in the video of the press conference, a reporter is heard stumbling over his words in the background as he tries to ask a follow-up question. Tebow then laughs, obviously reacting to the reactions of the reporters in the room.
"I think y'all were stunned by that," he says. "Y'all can't even ask a question. Wow. I mean, I was ready for that question. I don't think y'all were."
It wasn't the only controversial remark that Tebow made that day. In response to another question about whether or not people may be tired of the volume of coverage devoted to the young football star, Tebow, a devout Christian, said that the level of exposure he receives is a mixed blessing. However, he said, he looks at the positive side that, thanks to his fame, he has been able to share his Christian faith with so many people.
In addition, the football star told the reporters that he believes that the publicity given to his mother's story has helped other women choose not to abort their unborn children. Tebow's mother, who serves as a Christian missionary together with her husband, was pressured to abort Tebow following a life-threatening infection she suffered while pregnant with him. Doctors pressured her to abort her son to save her own life, but she ultimately resisted the pressure and both mother and child survived the birth.
"There has been a lot of people that have been encouraged not to have an abortion because they heard the story of my mom, or they have been encouraged because they have heard me give my faith on TV or in a report or something," said Tebow.
"You know what, although there has been a backlash, oh, well. You know what, I'll deal with it if I have to. It's not a big deal to me because of the kids and people that have been encouraged by the stories we have tried to tell and by the life that I've tried to live."
Growing up Tebow would often help his parents with their Christian mission work in the Philippines. He was homeschooled by his mother, who instilled in her children strong Christian values.
Tebow was the first home-schooled athlete to be nominated for the Heisman Trophy. "That's really cool," he said at the time. "A lot of times people have this stereotype of homeschoolers as not very athletic - it's like, go win a spelling bee or something like that - it's an honor for me to be the first one to do that.
Why is this a Catholic Ping?
Why not? Tebow is a Christian who received those morals from the Bible that was compiled by the Catholic Church.”
Wrong. The Bible followed the Christians from Jerusalem to Antioch to Bulgaria to Bosnia and across Europe, while the Pope was commanding Jerome to translate Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, two error-riddled manuscripts, into Latin, which they then chained to the lecterns and told people they couldn’t understand it - go ask a priest - he’ll tell you what’s in it.
“Maybe because he wants you to see how a thriving sect of Christianity does it?”
Thriving sect of what? Christianity doesn’t contain priests, nuns, confessionals, prayer beads, statues, magic wafers or Popes. Never did, never will.
Maybe it’s because they go where they think they are needed the most — and are allowed in — or both.
...any many others wish they had waited or at least respect those who do. The media can’t believe it, but there is a hunger out there for morality.
Freedom and faith, not financial gain.
When Protestants created the greatest country the world has ever known there were no Catholics here (far,far less than 1 percent) but we allowed Catholics and Catholic missionaries to come, it eventually led to liberalism, abortion and the 1965 immigration bill to replace the American people with Catholic foreigners but the Protestants believe in freedom so they let it happen.
You don’t want America to spread it’s religious faith to foreign lands, but many Americans hold out the hope that the people of these backward countries can learn to have a personal relationship with God and learn to start living as free men, not as sheep under the rule of an oppressive elite.
If Protestants can figure out how to get Catholics to stop voting for abortion then America can stop that abomination just as if we can make more third world hell holes Protestant then they can improve their nations and make them more like America.
Could Mexico and Italy use some missionaries to bring those people to God, of course, since we are all Americans here I think that we can agree on that.
Great...the youth need real men to look up to...especially in sports. I just showed my son this headline.
But it makes it really hard to be a nice boy...
So look, if I REALLY like ham sandwiches, but I can't have one for a few hours, and I gonna put the ham sandwich away in the fridge where I can't see it until I devour it later, or am I gonna walk around with it dangling in my face?
Not mine and not the missionaries, if we can win the Catholic vote as much as we win the Protestant vote then we could stop the domination of the Democrat Party and their abortion agenda.
Obviously, one can correct ten people’s minor errors more readily than one can correct one person’s major error, and thereby save ten times as many souls from the pit with the same effort.
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