Except for the grace of God goeth I.
We all need to remember that as we have all committed sins. We like to rank one sin as more egregious as another and some definitely hurt more people than others such as what he did but in the end it's all sin. Fortunately there is a remedy for sin. I can not and will not rejoice at the death of this man nor anybody that dies even though there are some that I would definitely like to see being taken out of their positions of power and influence so they can't hurt anybody else.
I have wondered in the past if I was born in Austria in 1889 in Adolph Hitler's house and to his parents and had the same early life experiences as Hitler did and his experiences during WWI would I have ended up being Adolph Hitler? Probably would of as I'm a human being just like he was and if my wiring was screwed up the way that his was I probably would of grown up to be the mass murderer that he was as I'm no better in and of myself than that man was.
With people like the O.P. here, yes what he did was terrible in more ways than one. He hurt a lot of innocent people and he paid a small portion for his crimes when he was incarcerated and eventually he will have to give account to God for the things he did in his life as we all will. Just be glad that you and I never were wired the way he was and that we never went down the path that he did to do what he did.
By the grace of God goeth I and it should humble us any of us are capable of the most heinous sins given the right set of circumstances and a weak disposition.
I wonder if this is because a lot of prisoners were abused early in life. Or if they just have the same feelings as most of us.I ran a small medical clinic in a USMC brig (ok...it was a prison). Trust me on this, there is a pecking order among prisoners....and child molesters are the lowest of the low. They usually become chaplains assistants because only God wil forgive them. They also have to keep them isolated and out of the general population.....or they end up stomped on hard....daily....or dead.
Amen!Exactly. Without Christ, man is a monster waiting to happen.
1 Cor 6:9-11, "
(9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
(10) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
(11) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
My past life, I would dare not speak of in public.
Thank God for His wonderful gift.
I didn't know Brad.A member sent me this a little while ago:
Due some activity over in the story forum (Summerthyme closed the thread) I ran across the following ...
Christian for Israel (Brad Parker) passed away back in June.
We all know the horrible things he did. His imprisonment was well deserved. I just posted this for those who knew what happened, to provide closure.
I didn't know Brad.
For once, I am thrilled to have been stuck down in the catacoombs, and unaware of all the goings on going on upstairs.
It's a scary, but timely reminder that no one that we think we know online, or even in the meat world, is guaranteed to be what they present.
Sometimes I purposely spook myself by looking at the people I meet shopping or where ever, and trying to guess what really goes on behind those eyes...then I race home and burrow under the covers till the shaking stops.
I guess there are times when death, and being reunited with the ultimate healer, is the biggest blessing and proof of the Lord's love for us. All of us. Even those of us who sin and have fallen short of the glory.
I too recall him and his sad story, as a retired hospice nurse, I am suspicious of the announcement that they were going to do an autopsy. Can think of reasons, all strange.I remember him and his later expose'... While I was shocked at his activities and the persona he hid behind while here, I was saddened at his passing. I do hope he returned back to God before he died. I would think that since he was in a hospice when he died, he must have had time to get his affairs settled with God. I hope he did do that.
WTH. Another zombie thread? This from 2020.
If I didn't think better of you all, I'd say the drinking lamp has been getting lit a lot earlier in the day and extending out a lot later into the next morning recently.