Posted on 10/23/2005 2:07:36 PM PDT by churchillbuff
I stopped reading this article after the seventh sentence:
"...she reads The New York Times every morning—"Nicholas Kristof is a hero to me..."
She reads the New York Times daily. Her conversion is not yet complete.
Call me a cynic: I suspect she's just looking to exploit another market after her flavor-of-the-month status expired and many of her vampire films tanked horribly.
Lets give her the benefit of the doubt and pray for her. If Jesus could change the apostle Paul in an instant, he can change anyone.
From what I gather, she's going to write from Jesus' point of view. She's going political and I think it's for the left.
Well .. unless she hit the motherload of all hidden docuements, there is very miniscule about Jesus' life at the age of 7 - let alone any statements he made.
As a Christian, I don't need to know what Jesus did or said when he was 7 - I already know what he did at 33 - and that sacrifice of HIS life for me is all I care to know.
I read several of her earliest vampire books. They were well written but a bit sick. Well, I thought, maybe that is only to be expected in a vampire novel. Vampires are pretty sick, after all. But as time went by, her novels got much too sick to read. They also got more and more formulaic, and more and more carelessly written. So I gave up trying to read her.
Only a couple of weeks ago she revealed her character by coming out and blaming Bush for everything that went wrong in New Orleans. I expect that if she has been born again, it is somewhat in the manner of Jane Fonda.
"Mary and Joseph
paused by the side of the road.
Preternatural
silence prevailed for
a long moment. Then Mary
grabbed Joseph's forearm.
'Oh my God! We left
Jesus alone in Egypt!'
Mary cried. Joseph
comforted his wife.
His preternatural calm
gave Mary great strength . . ."
Wonder which 'Lord' she means? :o)
A better story is how Pilate was cursed to walk the earth until the second coming.
I always interpreted (and accepted) the tale of Christ with father Joseph making pigeons as a symbolic one. But, it also seems entirely possible for a child Christ (or adult Christ for that matter) to have done, if you believe He is God. I know --I-- can't make pigeons, nor a herring, nor any of God's creation.
I realize it's in the Apocrypha, these tales, but they are believable within the presence of Jesus Christ as God made man.
I agree that the "killing men and bringing them back to life" part of the tales involved there suggests wrongly a randomly harmful, wreckless image of God in His son, Christ as a Man child, but it might just be as Christ similarly is known to have cursed a fig tree, or complained hearily to the Apostles for not remaining awake with Him in the Garden as He prayed. Christ understood (understands) and shared (shares) our humanity, as the Son of God.
As to Ann Rice, I pray for her salvation and rejoice in it.
Yes, it's a very significant question and most all of us Christians think of when we read such a statement from quite such a person.
But, as others note here, time will tell. Her conversion may be sincere but again, the truth is in the telling to come.
Yes, so he (Bob Dylan) declared back in about 1978/79.
And pastored to by the Vineyard Christian Fellowship.
Wait until you see
the sequence where Mary sends
Jesus to band camp . . .
Hahahaa, I thought the very same thing when I read the article a while ago...hahaha.
"Mom send me more of those M and M's..."
ping
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