[LucianOfSamasota]

Thought provoking article!

[circlecity]

Althogh we don’t see eye to eye on everything, the Pentacostals I’ve met are good Christian folks. If I’ve got any criticism it’s that some seem to waste too much money on TV charlatans when it could go to more productive Christian ministries, but thats a minor quibble. More power to them and I hope they grow to the moon! The Kingdom will only be better served.

[Ronzo]

It’s for articles like these that I keep up with the Free Republic. Thank you for posting this.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“South Hamilton, Massachusetts”

Sometime home of General George S. Patton, Jr., and long-time home of Gen. George S. Patton, III, BTW.

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[El Cid]

I would like you to explain to an African Christian why you do not raise people from the dead in your church.” I said that the African interlocutor might go on: “Jesus did. The Apostles did. We do. Why don’t you?”.

Well, to be fair, there are a multitude of diseases in Africa, and someone might have just seemed dead, when he was merely pinin' for the fjords... But I get their point. We aren't to quench the Holy Spirit. Christianity isn't a dead religion - it is life itself, and power...

[Zionist Conspirator]

Behind all the numbers collected so assiduously by Lugo, Johnson et al. looms a vast challenge to the taken-for-granted naturalism in Europe and North America: The majority of global Christians (and, needless to say, the majority of all religious people in the world) question this naturalism, and behave accordingly.

I have always wondered why Marxism, the ultimate nineteenth century materialist European philosophy, so loudly claims to speak for the "indigenous peoples" in the far reaches of the globe.

[LadyDoc]

FYI: raising people from the dead.

In Africa, if someone is unconscious, he is often seen to be “dead”, so when he wakes up, he might be seen as coming back from the dead.

since they bury folks quickly (as do Muslims) because of the heat, one wonders if stories of Zombies etc. are simply from such premature burials, and that those who are “risen from the dead” are similarly not really dead.

One of our American teachers in Africa was a brittle diabetic who warned his student that if they found him “dead” to call the doctor or give him sugar.

And remember all those stories of ‘premature burials” in history? One reason folks are embalmed is that you are sure they are dead.

Or you could simply wait a couple days until they started to rot.

And that was why Jesus, when he raised Lazerus, waited three days until even Mary objected to opening the tomb because of the smell ...if he had done it right away, folks would have merely said Lazarus was not really dead.