Posted on 10/30/2011 8:11:56 PM PDT by Raymann
Mona Simpson, an author and biological sister of Steve Jobs, said her brother’s final words were “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow,” in an Oct. 16 eulogy she delivered that was published Sunday in The New York Times.
Simpson remembered the man she first learned about when she was 25, living in New York and working at a small literary magazine. A lawyer had informed her that she had a rich and famous long-lost brother.
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Some days I'm sorry I ever learned to read.
“which, being translated, means that because he didn’t “receive Jesus Christ as his personal lord and savior” than slammed the pearly gates in his face, is that right?
ugh, no wonder fundamentalists are all miserable.”
Spoken from Oprah’s Winfrey’s world, were choices have no consequences, anyone with actual convictions is a pariah and everything turns out just okie-dokie in the end.
Come one, you're a grown up aren't you? Time to put away childish things.
Did God really create hell for the ignorant?
“Did God really create hell for the ignorant?”
What make you think Steve Job’s was ignorant?
“What do Buddhists do after scoring a touchdown? Light incense?”
I don’t know, but I do know they don’t believe in a Hail Mary pass.
and those last words are mystifying, and a little scary.
what about all the aborigines?
He was baptized as a baby into the Lutheran faith. As an adult he studied Buddhism. Hopefully the God of his youth called to him in the last minutes and took him home.
“what about all the aborigines?”
What about the cannibals?
What the idolaters who throw their children to the crocodiles?
My opinion matters nothing. Jesus did directly address the issue...
“And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required” Luke 12 47-46.
So which group are you in?
The group that knows or the group that knows not?
perhaps it was commentary on his life flashing by ... or he didn’t get a chance to say ‘it’s full of stars!’
This wasn't about me, iirc. This was about a doctrine that reduces the Almighty to an on/off switch.
Didn’t he say in the sixty minutes interview that he was starting to think about and develop a belief in God? But he was still searching because he thought he might just be thinking about God because he knew he was sick?
Where does a God and Buddhism come together?
Maybe he did really “see the light” at the end.
One thing is for certain. Steve Jobs went on to his reward. Whatever the almighty determines what that is...
““which, being translated, means that because he didn’t “receive Jesus Christ as his personal lord and savior” than slammed the pearly gates in his face, is that right?
ugh, no wonder fundamentalists are all miserable.”
Spoken from Oprah’s Winfrey’s world, were choices have no consequences, anyone with actual convictions is a pariah and everything turns out just okie-dokie in the end.”
I’m a fundamentalist and I’m not miserable. I’ve had joy in my heart and peace beyond understanding for the past 11 years since becoming born again. Without Christ, I think I’d be going crazy looking at the seemingly hopeless state of the world.
I think there’s a fundamental (no pun intended) misunderstanding of Bible-believing Christians. We don’t preach the exclusivity of having a saving knowledge of Jesus because we want to claim we are better or superior to the rest of humanity. We preach it cause that’s what’s taught in the Bible (John 14:6 being the most explicit supporting verse). We believe the Bible to be God’s inspired Word and we take what it says seriously.
I feel joyful and grateful every day for having come to a saving knowledge of Christ and being saved from eternal separation from God. I don’t deserve it (no one does), but I obtained it through Jesus’ blood shed at Calvary. The reason we preach this is to save lost souls from going to Hell, cause that’s what the Bible teaches is anyone’s fate that does not accept Christ. Heck, if it were up to me, I’d say everyone gets to go to Heaven. But unfortunately, that’s not what God’s Word teaches, so we’d be doing people no favors to pretend otherwise.
Exactly. We talked about this at Bible Study this evening. I just don’t care any longer who makes fun of Christians when The Word is so evident in the Bible.
And...I wouldn’t want Job’s life of success, even one day of it as he was. There are very few rich men I’d like to be associated with actually. Too much PMS- power, money, sex, haa!
“This wasn’t about me, iirc.”
You don’t have to answer. The question was for your own consideration.
“This was about a doctrine that reduces the Almighty to an on/off switch.”
There are solid reasons to believe the teachings of Jesus Christ.
His teaching, unlike the faddish, feel-good psychobabble of the current generation, is more than mere opinion.
A couple of brief notes. One, the number of people who have been revived from what was considered “death” status and who have recounted similar stories of a peaceful, enveloping light and awareness is high enough to be considered seriously. And, O2 deprivation does similar things - - so....
Secondly, your tagline indicates you may enjoy Second Samuel 22:43.
;-)
Preach it.
Fundamentalist Christians who sometimes become totally immersed in the Holy Spirit experience things not covered by mortal concepts and so “speak in tongues.”
I myself had a near death experience almost forty years ago and found the dictionary useless in conveying any meaning to some of the things I experienced.
Steve Jobs was just “on his way” and trying to say what it was and couldn't find the words.
iRosebud?
I can see St. Peter saying: “No, Steve, even you, can’t take it with you.”
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