I think it's interesting how many people just automatically believed when Jeff Arnold's experience happened to him and was reported. But this one? I'm hearing alot of questioning from those who've posted already.
I know I'm in the minority. But honestly, I tend to believe this one way before I believe what happened to Jeff Arnold. For one thing, this one never says he was "dead". Only that he was unconscious. Big difference. And second, this guy really has nothing to gain from this story. In another year, most people won't even remember it happened. In the case of Jeff Arnold, he can (and probably will) use that in his ministry for years and years to come. Which means he will get more bookings to come and preach. I know I sound like a skeptic. I'm usually not. But like I said before, this one just doesn't "feel right" to me. Maybe you had to be there?
I think it's interesting how many people just automatically believed when Jeff Arnold's experience happened to him and was reported. But this one? I'm hearing alot of questioning from those who've posted already.
I know I'm in the minority. But honestly, I tend to believe this one way before I believe what happened to Jeff Arnold. For one thing, this one never says he was "dead". Only that he was unconscious. Big difference. And second, this guy really has nothing to gain from this story. In another year, most people won't even remember it happened. In the case of Jeff Arnold, he can (and probably will) use that in his ministry for years and years to come. Which means he will get more bookings to come and preach. I know I sound like a skeptic. I'm usually not. But like I said before, this one just doesn't "feel right" to me. Maybe you had to be there?
Actually even folks in the medical profession have a hard time defining when a person is actually dead. Every so often we hear of someone in a morgue or funeral parlor who comes back to life or who maybe was not actually dead. We read about 3 people that Jesus raised from the dead; about one that Peter raised from the dead (Acts 9:36); about one that Paul raised from the dead (Acts 20:7-12); about Paul considered dead (Acts 14:19-20); about Elijah raising a person from the dead (1 Kings 17:17-24); about Elisha raising a person from the dead (2 Kings 4:18-37); and about a dead man reviving after coming in contact with Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:20-21).
If we accept these stories from the Bible, why not accept that Bro. Arnold and Meat Loaf were "raised from the dead"?
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
We don't know if either Meatloaf or JA were clinically or legally dead but they appeared to be and some people thought they were. Let's just be glad that they both revived and were able to continue their performances.
We don't know if either Meatloaf or JA were clinically or legally dead but they appeared to be and some people thought they were. Let's just be glad that they both revived and were able to continue their performances.
Amen.
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
We don't know if either Meatloaf or JA were clinically or legally dead but they appeared to be and some people thought they were. Let's just be glad that they both revived and were able to continue their performances.
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Master of Science in Applied Disgruntled Religious Theorist Wrangling
PhD in Petulant Tantrum Quelling
Dean of the School of Hard Knocks
I think it's interesting how many people just automatically believed when Jeff Arnold's experience happened to him and was reported. But this one? I'm hearing alot of questioning from those who've posted already.
I know I'm in the minority. But honestly, I tend to believe this one way before I believe what happened to Jeff Arnold. For one thing, this one never says he was "dead". Only that he was unconscious. Big difference. And second, this guy really has nothing to gain from this story. In another year, most people won't even remember it happened. In the case of Jeff Arnold, he can (and probably will) use that in his ministry for years and years to come. Which means he will get more bookings to come and preach. I know I sound like a skeptic. I'm usually not. But like I said before, this one just doesn't "feel right" to me. Maybe you had to be there?
Before commenting on this I will have to ask that you let me sleep on it.
Okay, so what's your verdict?
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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