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February 9th, 2012
04:28 AM ET
Virginia Beach preacher dies after giving sermonA 62-year-old preacher from Virginia died immediately after giving his final sermon on Sunday morning. WAVY reports. |
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Didnt his sermon save him? Snicker...
He most likely ended up the play thing of some low ranking quasi deity from the lower planes.
If you fear death then you have not come to the full assurance of what your beleif is established on. If you fear death and claim a beleif then that beleif is only manifested outwardly and not planted inwardly. If you claim a beleif and fear death your a coward and the truth of your beleif is not in you. If you fear death simply because you don't know what will happen – ask, seek, and study to show yourself approved as one rightly dividing the truth!
Whatever one believes in the fact is and goes without saying that we will all die and then the truth will be made known. By that time it will be too late to change your mind. One life – one death – one answer. Are you willing to die for what you believe in?
Believe in the Easter Bunny or you will burn in everlasting fire! But that's ridiculous you say?! Absolutely not!!! You just have to have blind faith. Maybe all evidence you come across every day appeals to your common sense that the Easter Bunny does not exist, but ignore common sense; such evidence is the work of Leprechauns, who are here to lead you astray from your faith in the Easter Bunny. Believe, and you shall be rewarded. No, there is no evidence of any reward. Rather, your reward is given to you in your afterlife so of course there is convenient no evidence, nor anyone being able to confirm to you it's true. No living person can tell you what happens after death; only the Easter Bunny, which is why you must have blind faith. Belief. Faith. The Easter Bunny.
It obvious the righteous and unrighteous will never live together in peace. This is why they will need to be separated.
Usually the most unpeaceful among us are those who claim to be righteous. God believers like to force people to do as their god supposedly commands. Most of the righteous people I see are agnostics and atheists; most of the unrighteous people I see are those who claim their god is going to punish and burn people who don't have the same non-provable OPINIONS as they do.
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are exciting.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer is completely ineffective.
Prayer wastes time.
In my own life, yours is a compiled list of completely false statements! God bless!
@Nii,
“If you love your neighbor as yourself and prove it by your actions then you are righteous. “
You mean like Lott was a righteous man?
Hippypoet science will admit the Bible as evidence so let go the legal arguments and start the experiments.
Now that was the silliest statements that I've read all day.
What a delusional comment!
Is there supposed to be some implied meaning here?
I sympathize with the family, but this appears to be the reason for the "morbid" in morbidly obese.
Another thought, it would be interesting to see what the believers would be saying if someone dropped dead immediately after denouncing God. I bet the implied meaning would be spun in an entirely different direction.
Preaching or denouncing God is not the problem. If you love your neighbor as yourself and prove it by your actions then you are righteous. Our God does not look at your religious persuasion either ways.
Nii, ther are many passages in the Bible that clearly state that salvation is by faith alone. There are as many passages that state that faith alone is not enough, and that acts must occur for salvation. The one thing that is NOT in the Bible is what you said, that acts alone without the correct faith will get you in heaven.
And there is yet another reason we don't believe. Your Perfect God in His Perfect Book gave you two totally contradictory and incompatible positions on how to achieve salvation. That is a core question for believers, and God answered it like that?
That is very obvious evidence that the Bible was written by many men over many years and in different places, then put together later. It is just too contradictory to be the unified text of an all-knowing supreme being.
Salvation is by faith alone. Faith is internal the external evidence of which is obedience. Religious observance is not evidence of faith. Faith works by love. If you have faith you will love. Conversely if you love then you have faith. This is the theme of Romans n not a scattered theme as you say.
As to religious observance not being faith. The Parable of the Good Samaritan, The Parable of Sheep n Goats, The Parable of the Two Sons, Romans 1&2. In Christianity being religious is not necessarily being spiritual. Spirituality is faith evidenced by love. Faith is trusting n obeying God not rites
Religion is to promote spirituality. And for this reason there is no right religion. Religion is an advert. Spirituality is the product. The advert being bad may affect sales but product quality remains the same. This is why we make the distinction between churchgoer and true christian.
Lot or Lott. If you mean Lot. Yes he was righteous for the fact that his daughters did not inform him of what they were going to do and he was unsuspecting of their motives. If you mean Lott, I do not know.
Meant for jiimtanker above.
Prayer changes things!
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs."""~~~~~~~~~~~~~""
So this man prayed for God to take his life?
Great News!
Thanks CNN!
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are really exciting.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
Those without faith have no basis to judge those who do find prayer to be effective. If it were so ineffective, people would have abandoned it long ago. "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."
I get a kick out of the Atheist talking about how religious people try and ram their faith down throats...and then you see clowns like hippypoet and the prayer is not healthy kook...guess they are hypocrits just like everybody elese.
So what you are saying is that no one can disagree with you or ask for proof of religious assertions. How can folks who say we do not believe in a god until you produce proof be ramming things down your throat.. put up the proof of god..thats all we ask.. you can't of course so .....
Who the fuck is 'the Atheist'?
su.ck it lol
god is an idea.!
Until you have evidence for the existence of god, the notion of god remains in the realm of ideas.
And thats a factual statement!
Prayer changes things,
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.""""""`
I prayed to become a moron, and it worked!
I prayed to become a pathetic little internet troll, and presto zippo, it worked!
I prayed that people would shun me for being a creep, and it worked!
The trick to prayer is to pray for things that will already happen whether you pray for them or not.
Don't pray for world peace or an end to birth defects or a cure for cancer, because God does not do those sorts of things.
demon opposes prayer while trembling with fear
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer makes you fear demons under your bed.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are exciting.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
Prayer gave me arthritis! Screw you guys!
yeah, remember that Response Rally in Texas-those mustard-seed Christians praying for rain? What happened there? Too many atheists in America; did they clog up the prayer gun?
this has nothing to do with being religious or not, just some respect and empathy to the man's death and his family's grief
I give them the same consideration they give me. None.
God is an idea. Such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguable, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so by doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth based on an idea. How is that different from being delusional? You hold fast to an idea of an improbable, incomprehensible, and untouchable nature as if it is fact!
Until you have evidence for the existence of god, the notion of god remains in the realm of ideas.
And thats a factual statement!
Plz don't go down that copy/paste road of Reality...you're too young of a man to end up like that.
lol, use of another's tactics is not living there life nor walking in there footsteps... its just use of another's tactics.
to copy and paste is not (btw) reality's own!
"Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you." This is hilarious. I pray and still spend time with ma and pa.
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how very stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
Rude much?
The Bible says tells that one day, EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. I hope, for your sake, that you confess this before you die. Your email was very sad. I actully feel sorry for people who think that this is all there is. Someday, when you are sick and your body is wracked with pain, I'll bet you'll cry out to God (pray) and hope He hears you!
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer makes you so dimwitted that you think a comment post is an "e-mail".
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are exciting.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
Peridot..Your god sounds like a real monster.. I am glad he is not like all the rest humans have invented...happy dreams... I hope you enjoy eternity with your particular megalomaniac ..do you know how long eternity is by the way...will it out last the evaporation of diamonds? or the evaporation of the smallest black holes?