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Posted on 07/01/2009 9:54:20 PM PDT by This Just In
Kidney donor cries foul when recipient ditches Christianity
TUPELO — Aleta Smith, who donated her kidney to a 20-year-old college student last year, wants it back now that the student has changed religions. Smith, a self-described "on-fire Christian," gave her kidney to Hannah Felks, a Lutheran and regular Christian camp counselor, last year after seeing Felks on the local news. "She was going to die unless she got a kidney," Smith says, sitting on the porch at her home. "They portrayed her as this nice Christian girl who works with kids. I saw it as a great opportunity to help a sister in the Lord." The surgery grabbed headlines and Smith was lauded for her selflessness. But shortly after the surgery, Felks embarked on a "spiritual journey" to try out other religions, and settled on a blend of Pagan and Hindu beliefs. "I wanted to get away from the belief system I was raised in and find the truth for myself," she says. She took a semester off to travel the world visiting spiritualists on three continents. Smith was aghast when she heard of the conversion, and she quickly wrote a letter asking Felks to re-convert to Christianity or return the organ, saying it was donated under false pretenses. "I feel helpless," she says. "Part of my body, my DNA, is stuck inside a person who's going to hell." Smith suffers nightmares of her former organ filtering "strange Asian teas, pig blood and witch doctor brews in Africa," she says. She wonders if the Lord really wanted her to donate the kidney, or if she acted on a "triple-espresso high" she had that morning. She is also concerned that when her body is resurrected, it might be incomplete. Felks frets that Smith is an "Indian giver," and says religious affiliation was never an issue. "The kidney's working fine," Felks said by phone from Thailand. "I feel bad for Aleta. She did something wonderful for me, but that doesn't mean she gets to control my life." In the meantime, Smith has alerted several dozen prayer chains, and her women's Bible study group is praying 12 hours a day for the re-conversion of Felks — and Smith's former kidney. "I'm all for spiritual curiosity," she says, "but you've got to settle these things beforehand. My kidney belongs to Christ. It will never be Pagan." •
What a piece of work this woman is. Gives God a bad name
I want one of my kidneys to be donated to a hot lipstick lesbian....
Please don’t take the verse out of context by leaving out the following verse which provides the proper context:
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
It’s not that you can never judge someone, it’s that God will judge you according to the standard you judged others.
The sentence you highlighted, is a statement of fact. It is not hypocritical judgment. People who do not trust in Jesus Christ as their personal savior are not going to be saved, because they will be judged according to what they did while on earth, and be found wanting because they did not believe that Christ’s atoning death paid for their sins.
Now, if you had instead focused on her attitude that she wants the kidney back because the person is no longer a Christian, I think you have more of a case to say her ‘gift’ is hypocritical, and that maybe perhaps she needs to spend time praying that the girl recognizes here error and embraces Christ as her personal savior.
But what this woman said about her kidney being in someone going to hell, as it stands right now, given what that girl now believes, is true. Unfortunately her RESPONSE to this FACT was to say “I want my kidney back” as opposed to “I pray she comes back to Christ.”
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Surprised your tagline isn’t something like “Future Worm Food” or something equally cheery.
It’s LARK News.
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Yea, well, if the Muslims have it right, you’ll end up in Hell as well.
Religions that began as cults always tend to have this “join or else!” clause embedded within it, for otherwise, how would the unwashed masses increase subscription to these inventions of men?
We’re all going to be worm-food. After that, you will be in the same “afterlife” that you experience when you are asleep and not dreaming, except that it will be forever.
This must be a caricature. You can’t take back a donated organ. She should just console herself with praying for the young person’s soul.
Is it technically impossible to re-fit a donated organ back into the donor?
Refer to post #26
It’s just a sad commentary that it doesn’t seem so far fetched these days.
Especially the harebrained kind that can look at the unfathomable complexity and wonder of all around them and conclude with certainty that they themselves (the apparent result of some long ago explosion of previously non-existent stuff, and meteors, or something) are here for no apparent reason, but are nonetheless the pinnacle of intelligence and creativity.
Never mind the fact that anything ever produced by these types is about one millionth as wondrous and complex as the eyes they were born with. That's just because when all that non-existent stuff exploded, extremely ordered systems were inevitable; since we all know that the best way to build complex things is to blow simple things (that don't exist) up. Talk about cultists.
The belief and trust in the sovereignty of God settles issues like these.
She shouldn't be surprised, if she ends up there, herself.
Take a dose of your own medicine even if it is flawed medicine.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
Major stages in the evolution of the camera eye.
At least the recipient didn’t become a Muslim.
There are those who say to the poor that they seem to look to be in such good health: "You are so lazy! You could work. You are young. You have strong arms."I commend Miss Smith on her initial selfless gift.You don't know that it is God's pleasure for this poor person to go to you and ask for a handout. You show yourself as speaking against the will of God.
There are some who say: "Oh, how badly he uses it!" May he do whatever he wants with it! The poor will be judged on the use they have made of their alms, and you will be judged on the very alms that you could have given but haven't.
St. John Vianney
So we're all just lottery winners. Except instead of beating odds of 1 / a few million, we beat odds of what, 1 / some number with a few trillion zeros? And part of this one in a trillion gazillion jackpot was all the conditions necessary for the development of an eye, a mind that ponders its origins, and a few million other incredible things?
Are there any examples of the primitive eyes in your graphic still in existence? And what was it that told blind organisms that there was light around them that they should think about developing a receptor for in the genes they pass down? How does a simple blind creature even plan for eventual perception of the electromagnetic spectrum they can't possibly perceive or comprehend? How did they do the math necessary to develop the cells to capture the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum without even being able to perceive the existence of electromagnetic waves? Was it just the creatures that randomly got the good genes that randomly got the frequency range right that survived, and their cousins died off? Was that some sort of cosmic lottery too; a monkey typing Shakespeare without a typewriter or paper sort of thing? Did the primordial dice just keep rolling sevens over trillions of rolls? It takes more faith to believe all that then it takes to believe in an intelligence far beyond our ability to comprehend that possibly weighted the dice as part of a plan, no?
THAILAND?
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