That's yellow color isn't maize, it's brimstone!
Posted on 10/14/2009 12:34:30 PM PDT by Between the Lines
CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence.
Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible.
According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel, contemporary Christian, jazz, soul (and) oldies.
“We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham, Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa, The Pope, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning (and) William Young.
During the book burning, according to the Web site, barbecued chicken fried chicken and “all the sides” will be served.
Innagadadavida comes to mind ...
I understand preferring the KJV as being probably the best translation generally available. I understand not liking the NIV and some other translations. I understand preferring “Majority Text” bases for translations, but I have never understood the insistence that the KJV is PERFECT, and anything else...everything else is of the Devil. Even though the KJV is demonstrably imperfect (the translators themselves did not claim infallibility), and is based on the “Textus Receptus”, which is NOT strictly Majority Text (it has a few very late, fraudulent aberrations...but if you point that out you’re “taking God out of the Bible” or “attacking the Trinity”). KJV-onlyists can be VERY vehement about it being “the Perfect Word”. Woe be to anyone to suggest that it is otherwise. I have a friend which I have not seen in a while, who had fallen in with a KJV-only church, and it just tore him up to suggest that it was not perfect. I don’t know if he is still of that stripe anymore or not.
Sounds like fun.
Apparently not.
Burning symbols to vanquish what they symbolize...sounds like they’re celebrating Halloween with some good old-fashioned witchcraft. Oh, but that’s only demonic when OTHER people do it.
Reading that list gave me a little deja vu to those old Warner Brothers Tasmanian Devil cartoons where Bugs is reading about the Devil's diet. You know, "bears, boars, cats, bats, dogs, hogs, stoats, goats," etc.
Jim Croce: Roller Derby Queen
Gonna tell you a story that you wont believe
But I fell in love last friday evenin
With a girl I saw on a bar room t.v. screen
Well I was just gettin ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye and I put it back
And I ordered myself a couple o more shots and beers
The night that I fell in love with a roller derby queen
Round and round, oh round and round
The meanest hunk o woman
That anybody ever seen
Down in the arena
She was five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama
With a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle
And she knew how to scuffle and fight
And the roller derby program said
That she was built like a fridgerator with a head
Her fans call her tuffy
But all her buddies called her spike
Right. And Jesus spoke English.
You and I both forgot to note that in addition to this, people who don't read seventeenth century Jacobean English appear to be at a distinct disadvantage in spiritual matters as well.
That's yellow color isn't maize, it's brimstone!
This is nuts. I am a staunch KJV guy but burning other translations is ridiculous. I believe in using the original translation because I can handle the old English.
It might be easier, though, to list the Christian authors this guy HASN’T blacklisted.
I was thinking the same thing.
But will they burn any copies of the Koran? I guess that would be a hate crime.
I want to be the first to say I am better than them because I DON”T celebrate halloween.
So, then Ted Turner is okay for you, too? He gave an annuity valued at $1Billion to UNICEF to feed hungry children throughout the world.
“Ugh ... I can think of worse songs to have running through my head, but they aren’t “telephone songs”.
Innagadadavida comes to mind ...”
Great, thanks a lot...
I suppose it would be wrong of me to wish that he'd make a big show of tossing in a Koran, and draw the attention of some "peace-loving" Muslims who'd come and exact revenge.
I've got a better idea. Take this 'pastor' and his flock and lock them in a small room with PZ Myers and his acolytes (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362216/posts) for Halloween.
I have quibbles with Billy Graham and James Dobson myself, but calling them satanic makes that word meaningless; we might as well just declare ourselves all satanic in the sense of being imperfect and falling short of God's holiness and perfect understanding of all things.
Don’t forget the marshmallows!
LOL!
A friend of mine was taking a religion class at the local university. A classmate stood up one day and announced that the instructor and every student in the class were going to hell because they were using false Bibles - that “if the King James Bible was good enough for Jesus, it was good enough for everyone”.
Seriously!
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