False Church Sued

[Pastor Ezekiel]

THIS is what happens when a false church makes false prophecies!

Followers Sue Church After Doomsday Fails To Come

What do you do when you hand over all your money before a promised Doomsday, but Doomsday never comes? You go find the next best thing: a lawyer. That is the situation in Australia where a court has frozen the assets of Pastor Rocco Leo and his associates at Agape Ministries after followers demanded their money back. While there appears to have been no written contract, this appears a novel inverse of a force majeure claim: the act of God never came.

Former church member, Martin Penney, and another plaintiff are suing to get back more than $400,000 and $1 million they gave respectively to the church based on promises of a Doomsday.

It appears that Judgment Day will be relocated to a more mundane forum at the Adelaide District Court. Of course, the pastor still has time to make good on the Doomsday promise.

[Cranky Old Man]

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No surprise that these things happen in Australia of all places.

[Jo Freddie]

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The state should keep all the cash and call it a Tax on the stupid.

Sounds like a typical Elohim based scam.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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I pray every day for the restoration of Biblical law, including the following:

Deut. 18:20-22: But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

[BelieverInGod]

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I pray every day for the restoration of Biblical law, including the following:

Deut. 18:20-22: But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Yeah, that's one of my favourites.

[Dirk]

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Jesus warned us about false prophets

Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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God, in His Infinite Wisdom and Mercy knows how to deal with these charlatans:

Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

I am somewhat surprised that this punishment is not handed out to criminals in the US.

[Larry Lee]

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God, in His Infinite Wisdom and Mercy knows how to deal with these charlatans:

Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

I am somewhat surprised that this punishment is not handed out to criminals in the US.

Well, THANK GOD we still have capital punishment. It's the last safeguard between us and the vicious criminals who the liberals want us to mollycoddle.