Pray for my grandfather

[LambofChrist]

My grandfather has just celebrated his 89th birthday (praise be to Jesus!) and is, for the most part, healthy-physically at least. Around 10 years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's (I know, I know, God doesn't give us anything we can't handle and I'm sure there is a reason for this...) and has recently suffered the loss of his wife of 50 years, my grandmother (God bless her). He lives all the way down in Texas and while we have hired several nurses to care for him there is a slight problem...they're Catholic. I'm terrified that they'll convert him and, seeing as how my God-fearing Baptist family is a thousand miles away, we won't be able to do anything about it. There is also another problem...he's beset upon by Jehovah Witnesses who are constantly at his door every other week trying to get him to read pamphlets or give them money! He's far too polite to tell them to go away (though there was one spectacular incident I was lucky enough to witness where, in a dementia fueled rage, he started to yell at them for trying to cheat an 89 year old man out of eternal salvation by forcing their fake religion on him).

His mind is frailer than ever and he needs all the prayers he can get to give him the strength to hold out for Jesus just a little longer!

Please pray for him!

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Pray for my grandfather

Does your Grandfather read the NIV? Deuteronomy 18:9 The Jehovah's Witnesses are all going to Hell and want to take as many with them as possible. Their brainwashing methods are unlikely to work on your Grandfather from what you've said, but they might try to kidnap him.

II PETER 2 ©1611
18 For when they speake great svelling words of vanitie, they alure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonnesse, those that were cleane escaped from them who liue in errour.
19 While they promise them libertie, they themselues are the seruants of corruption: for of whom a man is ouercome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

[LambofChrist]

Re: Pray for my grandfather

I'm not sure what version my grandfather reads, I'll be sure to check next time I visit.
Kidnapping?! Surely not...well, thank God for Texas's conceal and carry laws! Anyone stupid enough to threaten my grandfather will get to meet our maker pretty quickly!

[ExGay Alex]

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You are absolutely correct to be concerned about your grandfather. 1 Peter 5:8 warns us of the dangers of Jehovah's Witlesses, Catholics, and even homosexual male "nurses" who might be doing heaven knows what to your grandfather's "property" during sponge bath time.

But I am concerned about Gramps also when I read 1 Corinthians 6:19. This verse means that Gramps's mental illness is a result of his rejection of Christ. You live far away from him. What has he done to anger Jesus down there in Texas? You may never know, but he has certainly let Satan into his heart? Remember Matthew 17:15-18, the story of the boy with degenerative brain disease cured by Jesus casting the devil from his heart.

Gramps will have Alzheimer's until he lets Jesus back in. Revelation 3:20. As long as he has dementia (which is derived from "demeon," the Old English word for "demon") he cannot get to heaven. You can gauge his risk of going to Hell by his mental sharpness: the more confused he his, the more he has rejected Christ and the more certain it is that he will go to Hell.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Pray for my grandfather

I'm not sure what version my grandfather reads, I'll be sure to check next time I visit.
Kidnapping?! Surely not...well, thank God for Texas's conceal and carry laws! Anyone stupid enough to threaten my grandfather will get to meet our maker pretty quickly!

(of course, not only JW's do this sort of thing)

Yes, there are quite a lot of versions of The Bible out there.
This one:

King James Version ©1611 [there was a spelling/grammar update ©1769]

is reliable.

These:

Alba House Gospels
American Standard Version – ASV
American Translation
Amplified Bible – AMP
Complete Jewish Bible – CJB
Contemporary English Version – CEV
Douay-Rheims – D-R . . THIS ONE DONE BY SATAN
Emphasized Bible – EBR
English Standard Version – ESV
English Version for the Deaf
Geneva Bible New Testament
God's Word – GW
Good News Version – GNT
Holman Christian Standard Bible – HCSB
Jerusalem Bible – JER . . ©1966 PARTICULARLY UNRELIABLE
Jewish New Testament – JNT
Lamsa Bible
Richmond Lattimore Translation of the New Testament
Living Bible – LIV
The Message – MES
Modern Language Bible — Berkley Version
Moffatt Bible – MNT
Montgomery New Testament
New American Bible – NAB
New American Standard – NASB
New Century Version – NCV
New English Bible – NEB
New International Version – NIV
New International Readers' Version – NIrV
New Jerusalem Bible – NJB
New Jewish Translation – NJV or NJPS
New King James Version – NKJV
New Life Bible – NLV
New Living Translation – NLT
New Revised Standard Version – NRSV
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures – NWT . . INTENTIONALLY CORRUPT
J. B. Phillips' New Testament in Modern English
Revised English Bible – REB
Revised Standard Version – RSV
Revised Version – RV
Simple English Bible
The Extreme New Testament
The Schocken Bible Volume 1: The Five Books of Moses
Twenty-first Century King James Version – KJ21
Tyndale New Testament
Weymouth New Testament – WNT
Worrell New Testament – WAS
Wuest Expanded Translation New Testament – WET or Wuest
Young's Literal Translation – YLT

are demonic. Even if the translators were well intentioned, and most of them probably were, (subject to confirmation from the Pastors) Satan used them to come up with a different "bible" - if it were not so they would all be the same, of course.

But they are not all the same.

[Lisa H]

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...
English Version for the Deaf

Why would deaf people need a special bible. Deaf people can still see.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Why would deaf people need a special bible. Deaf people can still see.

Thank-you for noticing that Lisa. I was going to add a special note buy was not sure whether this included deaf people.

Leviticus 21
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

Deuteronomy 23
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever.

I did notice that disabled, unclean or handicapped people of many descriptions profane the sanctuary & would therefore not be reading anything, in this context:

Leviticus 21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

It seems to include visual defects, in which case I suppose that God made the person short-sighted, crosseyed or whatever because He didn't want them in His sanctuary. Defects of that type seem to include deafnesses.

Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

So they wouldn't need a Bible at all, would they?

A N. A M M O N I T E



A. M O A B I T E


Is there any hope for people who do not happen to present themselves exactly as God wants them to be?

Matthew 21:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Pray for my grandfather

Does your grandfather still work and tithe?