[Blowtorch]

I for one hope it is true and steve knew the Lord and Pray for the Irwin Family.

Steve knew the Lord and demonstrated his love for God by the love he showed for God's creatures. This is not something we should speculate on. Steve's life leaves us no doubt that he loved God.

[mom4kittys]

That is beautiful

[mom4kittys]

I had been trying to find a way to articulate this--thank you.

[Rte66]

Agreed. God is Love and Stevo oozed it out of every pore.

[streetpreacher]

We should not speculate on it but no one can say whether or not he "knew the Lord". That is speculation as well. The Holy Spirit is the only one who can tell a person whether or not he or she is a Christian. Did Steve make a public profession of faith?

[Al Simmons]

"Steve knew the Lord and demonstrated his love for God by the love he showed for God's creatures. This is not something we should speculate on. Steve's life leaves us no doubt that he loved God."

Thank you for expressing my own thoughts far more eloquently and peacefully than I would have. If the 'usual suspects' who feel compelled to post stuff like 'oh gee I sure hope he knew Jesus' would get their heads out of their derrieres they might realize how patronizing and inappropriate such comments are at a time like this. They need to learn to keep their mouths shut and preach to the world through their own actions.

Anyone who claims to have definitive knowledge as to who is saved or not is full of shale, so to speak. Spoken as a Christian who does not claim to be able to read people's minds, their hearts, or God's.