Posted on 12/16/2011 5:22:24 AM PST by markomalley
Cancer weakened, but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind’s eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.
“I love the imagery of struggle,” he wrote about his illness in an August 2010 essay in Vanity Fair. “I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.”
Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer, according to a statement from Vanity Fair magazine. He was 62.
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You are right I don't know for certain that there wasn't a “deathbed” conversion.
The scriptures say that it is appointed for man to die once, and then the judgment. None of this good works business.
I wouldn’t want to be him right now. My belief is about 1 second after he died he was having deep regrets. I feel sorry for him.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
these 2 verses should be reversed to read:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Not perfect...just forgiven...
Are you saying that God is an imaginary friend?
Merry Christmas, my FRiend! And may God have mercy on CH soul.
I do NOT believe that spreading lies in a convincing fashion will allow you entrance into the Kingdom of God. Only through the blood of Jesus.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
JOHN 3:16
If being a skilled orator gets you into Heaven, then expect Hitler to be there....
If you’re a Christian, you believe Jesus IS God. End of lesson.
Live the rest of your life in evil and you’ll get to know his oppinion.
It makes me wonder if he wishes that he could come back and warn Dawkins, like the rich man wanted to warn his family....
I believe that God's heart broken when He is rejected.
That’s been my problem all through this thread.
My Lord and Savior is not an imaginary friend.
It’s a sad thing when someone goes to Hell. even an enemy of God:
Ezekiel 18:23 “Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?”
1 Cor. 2:10-16 tells us how to know the mind of God.
I agree mom, the comment smacks of sarcasm and the commenter appears to have an emptiness inside IMHO. Seems like a response a liberal would render.
You don’t believe in God, so you don’t believe in Hell. What do you care?
Amen!
>>1 Cor. 2:10-16 tells us how to know the mind of God.<<
To know the mind of God in the sense that this scripture is speaking, tells you nothing of the last moments of this man’s life.
There is a reason why “our life flashes before our eyes”.
If CH was shown his life and still rejected God, he is condemned, plain and simple.
However, we don’t know how God’s mercy worked with him specifically. We don’t know that God did not show CH just the thing that would have him recognize how wrong he was.
I believe in God’s mercy. If you want to simply believe that you know absolutely, cool. I’m not going to make that assumption. If you were standing in the crowd by Christ and the thief in their last minutes, you would have thought the thief was condemned too, because you don’t know what went on in those last moments.
Not all of them. I personally know several bright, intelligent, competent teachers who are also caring about their students. Of course, they feel like foreign agents in the midst of the education industry and often must teach surreptitiously in officially unapproved ways to impart knowledge to their students.
Let's face it; some of the kings of the Old Testament were just as lecherous, greedy, and nasty as Mohammed. That's simply the nature of the Middle East.
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