Posted on 06/22/2002 6:50:44 AM PDT by aomagrat
I'd love to hear it.
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But He hadn't risen yet, had He?
Ummmm, I believe that is one of the things that the preacher was addressing.
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I'm going to have to go to confession for that one. And I'm not even Catholic.
He might have.
Perhaps this preacher should of
Perhaps this preacher should have.
Apart from that, you're quite right. The preacher preached exactly what he should have.
No - it is not.
Those people sought someone to help them give a fond goodbye to their loved one. Does the preacher tell them he is going to say this man is going to hell? No, he does not. Why? Because he knows they would find someone else. Therefore, he intends to use this family. Instead of a gentle, kind goodbye to this loved man, the family is forced to sit through an assault on them and have their loved one judged - not by God but by a paid preacher. They are embarrassed, the subject of town gossip and they will never forget the horror of that day. What gives that preacher the right to be the judge of this man? God is our judge. I think the purpose of that preacher is to show God's love and to bring people to God - not to judge where people are going on their death.
God would be better served by the preacher giving a gentle kind message to soothe the loved ones and if need be asking any in attendance to visit his congregation if they would like to make themselves right with God.
But, never, never show that LOVE by kicking people when they are grieving, by insulting the dead, by judging the dead, by giving that family a deep resentment of anything to do with God and adding to their grief and then expecting an honorariam. Then, when presented the truth of his actions, claiming he is trying to reach the living and serve God. This is not serving God - this is using the memory of a loved one as an example at the expense of the remaining loved ones who are already grieving. Very cruel.
Did he get to show the love of God during the ensuing fisticuffs?
The whole thing was a travesty. A true man of God would have given a respectful goodbye, would not have judged the man and then could ask any that need to get right with God to do so and if they need help, he would be glad to work with them.
I see no need to defend this preacher and I'm sure he is so sure he is in the right to be beyond hearing what any have to say. Yet, by his fruits we will know him. Looks like the fruits led to fisticuffs and a broken nose. Did any get right with God based on his words?
"Brutalize not the children of the recently deceased with imagery of their loved ones in eternal torment." .. Yeti
You're right. I would like to say that I wouldn't kick his ass, and would sue instead. But my personal history indicates that I would do what the family did.
Hmmm...
Do they?
If I hire you to cater my party without specifying the exact foods to be served, and you serve manure, is that reasonable. Was it honest?
I have a problem with you. You are a creep. You intentionally misstate and seem to misunderstand the matter to justify spiteful and cruel behavior.
You said that "preachers" are called to "preach the word of God." As tried to point out to you in an earlier post, wherein you also dishonestly pretended not to understand the point, "Your Daddy is a fornicator and a drunkard" is not the word of God! The bible is a large book, and there are many "words of God" that this "preacher" could have chosen to preach. He chose to issue his own judgement about an individual instead. The fact that he stood in a church while doing it didn't make "this man was a drunkard and a fornicator" the word of God. It only made the preacher a jerk, like yourself.
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