As I Lay Dying Singer Admits Hiring Someone To Murder Wife

CBSLA.com/AP) ^ | February 25, 2014 4:44 PM

[BenLurkin]

The lead singer of a Grammy-nominated Christian metal band pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife.

Timothy Lambesis, 32, remains free on $2 million bond until he is sentenced May 2 on one count of solicitation of murder in Vista Superior Court, north of San Diego. He could get nine years in prison.

Lambesis, of the band As I Lay Dying, was recorded telling an undercover agent that he wanted his wife killed, according to prosecutors. The investigation began last April after Lambesis allegedly told a personal trainer at his gym that he wanted to get rid of his wife.

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According to prosecutors, the singer reportedly provided the agent with an envelope containing a $1,000 down payment, his wife’s Del Mar address and gate codes and pictures of her. He asked that the murder be done on dates when he would have custody of his children so he’d have an alibi.

Bradley said he asked Lambesis directly if he wanted his wife killed, and the singer replied, “‘Yes, I do.’

[af_vet_1981]

A miscontruction of the doctrine. If you die unrepentant, you were never saved. “Once saved always saved” refers to a true conversion, not a false one. Therefore you really do not know your conversion is true until after you persevere and meet the LORD without unrepentant sin. Is that what you believe ? You can have confidence but your faith must be tested and you must obey to pass the test that God gives you. Is that a good summary of your comment ?

[Persevero]

A reasonably good summary, af_vet.

The Bible says God knows His own, He will not lose one of them, that God knows His elect from the foundation of the world, etc.

Yet we are told to make our calling and election sure, and to persevere to the end.

So, the truth seems to be that if we are truly saved, we can never be lost. We could get really anxious about whether we are truly saved, or just humbly persevere, leaning upon Jesus every moment, which I think is the right course.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

According to prosecutors, the singer reportedly provided the agent with an envelope containing a $1,000 down payment, his wife’s Del Mar address and gate codes and pictures of her. He asked that the murder be done on dates when he would have custody of his children so he’d have an alibi.

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