Posted on 01/10/2014 12:41:43 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Walking on water is not easy. Not too many people have the ability. Let’s see, there’s Jesus, and well, that’s about it. Unfortunately for one pastor on the West Coast of Africa, his attempt to become the second man to make this impossible feat a reality cost him his life.
Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation that he was capable of reenacting the very miracles of Jesus Christ. He decided to make it clear through way of demonstration on Gabon’s beach in the capital city of Libreville.
Referencing Matthew 14:22-33, Kabele said that he received a revelation which told him that with enough faith he could achieve what Jesus was able to.
According to an eyewitness, Kabele took his congregation out to the beach. He told them that he would cross the Kombo estuary by foot, which is normally a 20 minute boat ride.
Sadly by the second step into the water Kabele found himself completely submerged. He never returned.
This is not the first incident of this nature in Africa. At Ibadon zoo in south-west Nigeria, a self-proclaimed Prophet claimed to be able to do what the Daniel of the bible did by walking into a den full of lions.
Though he was warned numerous times by zoo keepers, according to NG Newspapers, the Prophet thought of them as nothing more than enemies of progress. The Prophet, with a crowd of people watching, put on a long red robe and proceeded to enter the cage full of lions.
Within seconds of opening the door, the lions ripped the Prophet from flesh to bone. The bible should come with a warning label, “Don’t try this at home.
Source: AllChristianNews
Well there you go.
Why did he want them naked? That sounds dumb, or am I missing something?
False Prophets.
My guess is it was an incentive for them to learn to swim quickly or continue to be humiliated by "swimming" on the table nekkid in front of everybody. Didn't work.
The story of a Christian pastor walking (like Jesus) into water to never be seen again originated in 2006 in World Net Daily.
Here’s the 2006 A.D. link.
http://www.wnd.com/2006/08/37702/
Problem with it is that Pastor Franck Kabele, 35 never existed before, during or after he “drowned” in WND story. No one has ever heard of “his congregation.” Nonetheless the story keeps getting resurrected as “news” over the years. The purpose is to show the non-Christian sheeple how terribly stupid Christians are.
Hearing such story for the first time, my question would be, how do you make a single step from a beach into water and just disappear? Or, taking the original WND version from 2006, why would you keep walking deeper and deeper into water until you drown?
This guy Petered out at only his second step.
I can easily guess who it was that gave him this “revelation”. Starts with an “S”, ends with an “n”.
I guess going in with a life preserver on wouldn’t have had the same effect?
Okay, then....
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