Posted on 06/25/2009 2:45:23 PM PDT by libh8er
Edited on 06/25/2009 3:27:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
[Updated at 3:15 p.m.: Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.]
Nice tagline! I love Popeye’s! :)
AGAIN: I am not professing to be GOD!
A well known case about an ATHEIST by the name of HOWARD STORM (google it)had a NDE, he did experience HELL...The place where GOD is not present, and he was able to call out to JESUS, and he was shown the way......
Like I said..I believe Jesus Christ can reach people that human beings cannot, in this life and the afterlife..
Jesus said no one comes to the Father but by me....He will be the one to direct people to the FATHER...and maybe that is in the super natual life....
Do you not think JESUS saved the people who had died on earth, before he came?
You claim to be an agnostic, so I assume ou heard the *Good News* but rejected it....That is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
On the subject of national unity: In the 1980s, Jackson was extremely popular behind the Iron Curtain. His albums were among the most prized bootleg items in Eastern Europe. He represented a very positive image of America...an ideal of optimism and individual achievement that cut across class and ethnic boundaries. It’s part of the spirit that sold the West to the peoples who overthrew communism just seven years after Thriller came out.
I know there is no place in the Bible where God says “My way or the highway.” You’re the one who wrote that, not me. I merely called you out on the audacity of you errantly quoting God.
And, nice try, but you didn’t paraphrase - you quoted, thus the quotation marks you placed around the sentence you attributed to God. Unless, of course, you are simply too dim to know the difference between quoting and paraphrasing. Which, having read your posts on this thread, may indeed be the case.
FTL, I’ve not judged anyone other than you for being audacious - in fact I personally did not judge you as a blasphemer...I said “some” might call the fact you errantly quoted God as an act of blasphemy.
But, feel free to back off the fact you errantly quoted the God of the Bible - or, more precisely, put YOUR words in HIS mouth. (”My way or the highway” - too, too, funny). I don’t blame you for scampering away from what you did, actually. Being called on it is quite embarrassing to you, I’m sure, if not downright blasphemous...
Too funny, FTL - and very entertaining in a “What the hell is this American Mullah going to say to make a fool of himself next?” kinda way.
Jesus is the Door to the Kingdom of Heaven. If you don't believe in Jesus, God does not recognize you.
For Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes before the Father but through Me".
God will not recognize those who follow Buddha or Allah or some other god.
God proclaimed that there shall be no other god before Him.
He sang one song with his back to the audience facing the donors. From the auditorium, you could hardly tell he had turned around. It was pretty amazing.
Saw Domingo in Tosca at the Met. Outstanding. Saw Cararras in The Force of Destiny at the Met in 1981.
Recently, saw Netrebko and Villazon at the Met in Rigoletto. Anyway, I wouldn't trade my interest in this kind of music for nearly anything.
This squeaking and jumping around that MJackson did never appealed to me at all.
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Tara, you do understand that we have one chance in life at getting right with the Lord and saving our souls don’t you?
Once we’re dead there is no chance to undo-or repent and be baptized for the forgivenss of sins?
I can give you plenty of Scripture to back that up if you need it.
“Does that negate his status as one of the most gifted musicians in American history?”
Absolutely.
If it was your kid Michael was having sex with you’d want him dead, or at least tried and convicted.
Would you let YOUR child sleep at Michael’s special ‘Neverland Ranch’? I mean, Michael said that it was ‘loving’ for him to sleep in the same bed with children that weren’t his own, right? Or, would you MJ-adoring fanatics be honored to have your children in a 35 year old black man’s bed????????
His talent doesn’t give him a child-raping license!
WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
No f***ing wonder so many little kids are being raped and molested if this is how most ‘adults’ react to those that perpetrate this evil.
You make me sick!
You were warned twice, you have a 3 day suspension.
As I’ve stated before, I wouldn’t let my kids spend time with anyone I didn’t know including Jackson. The child abuse allegations are simply that...allegations. I don’t know what happened and neither do you. I hope nothing did happen and frankly can’t see him as a sexual predator based on what’s known about his personality.
I had the good fortune hear Pavarotti at an outdoor concert in the UK. Magnificent. My music appreciation is somewhat eclectic, and I very much enjoyed Michael Jackson’s artistic talents through the mid-1980’s.
Heb 9:27 -
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
...so, bringing this back around to the subject at hand, namely Michael Jackson’s sad death. He had his chance while he was alive to be saved, but he chose a different god other than the Only God. So now, he will be judged accordingly.
It is very sad. We can now just pray for the health, peace and salvation of his children and remaining family members.
If crotch-grabbing is a sign of a pedophile, as so "eloquently" assumed by this post:
"You left out the bit where Jacko was constantly grabbing and fondling his crotch on stage....
It was probably the only time he had his hands or attention on his own crotch...
Hoping the dead pedophile rots in hell."
Simply making an empty comment to an empty post.
But, if you do hear of a pedophile ballplayer, be sure to let the rest of us know. It would be a public service, don't you agree?
There won't be an agnostic in Heaven.
Sorry....wrong Freeper
I agree..I am also saying Jesus can direct those, where Man has failed...
God won't permit fence-sitters into His Kingdom. Revelation 3:16 would apply in your situation:
16But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!
I hope the Father renders mercy on more souls than Jackson's.
I respectfully disagree...
I never heard MJ say he did not believe Jesus Christ was not the Son of GOD, and as much terrible influence MJ had from the start of his life to the end, I think only Jesus knows his heart..If Howard Storm a staunch Atheist was saved by Jesus Christ in a NDE, I think he will save Michael Jackson.....
Jews don’t belive in Jesus Christ, because they don’t understand the religion that has been thrown at them about Jesus...
Judaism has one religion based in *Torah* Christianity has how many versions of the Christian faith? to many to count.
I believe Jesus Christ will direct everyone to the Father, and then it will beup to them to deny or accept the gift of salvation.
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