11-22-2017, 01:21 PM
I think I will tell a story about Joe...Joe had a daughter that I was interested in.. He and his wife had 9 surviving out of 10 kids of which the particular daughter I liked was some kind of fine..
Joe was a preacher and head of the First Born church... If you were not first born you were destined to burn in hell etc etc.. Man we had some serious discussions about religion way back when.. I never changed his mine and he never changed mine but we remained friends... He was the kind of guy who could walk up and stick a knife in you and you would still like him...
I told him we were going to land on the moon and he said no we are not for god placed the moon for mankind to light the night..hummmm.. "Does god come by every night and turn it on? It has nothing to do with it's orbit around the earth and the reflection of the sun from it's surface"?
"Well I do not know but we will not be allowed to go to the moon"...
OK everyone saw it on T.V. and way back when most believed we had actually landed..
"So Joe if you were wrong about that is it possible you are wrong about other things"?
"I can not be wrong if I quote the word of god"..
Joe was a friend of mine until his death 20 years ago... He swore Jesus was coming any day and was certain it would be in his life time. (that seemed to be a popular belief in many christen churches even though no one can know the hour or the day of Christ return; supposedly).... For someone of so much faith he lived his life in fear of his loving god.. I felt sorry for him and his family. None had ever been to a doctor and if they were sick they would bring certain members of the church in to pray over the sick... If they did not get well...then it was god's will... always an out , no ? I will say they were all a very healthy bunch, teeth and all.
Joe is in the ground and his daughter married a friend of mine and had 3 kids... I am happy I dodged that daughter bullet.. but I will never forget Joe..
Joe was a preacher and head of the First Born church... If you were not first born you were destined to burn in hell etc etc.. Man we had some serious discussions about religion way back when.. I never changed his mine and he never changed mine but we remained friends... He was the kind of guy who could walk up and stick a knife in you and you would still like him...
I told him we were going to land on the moon and he said no we are not for god placed the moon for mankind to light the night..hummmm.. "Does god come by every night and turn it on? It has nothing to do with it's orbit around the earth and the reflection of the sun from it's surface"?
"Well I do not know but we will not be allowed to go to the moon"...
OK everyone saw it on T.V. and way back when most believed we had actually landed..
"So Joe if you were wrong about that is it possible you are wrong about other things"?
"I can not be wrong if I quote the word of god"..
Joe was a friend of mine until his death 20 years ago... He swore Jesus was coming any day and was certain it would be in his life time. (that seemed to be a popular belief in many christen churches even though no one can know the hour or the day of Christ return; supposedly).... For someone of so much faith he lived his life in fear of his loving god.. I felt sorry for him and his family. None had ever been to a doctor and if they were sick they would bring certain members of the church in to pray over the sick... If they did not get well...then it was god's will... always an out , no ? I will say they were all a very healthy bunch, teeth and all.
Joe is in the ground and his daughter married a friend of mine and had 3 kids... I am happy I dodged that daughter bullet.. but I will never forget Joe..