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PLEASE DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO TRY AND FORCE MY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS UPON ANYONE, IT CONTAINS A FEW (3) STRANGE FACTS THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN MY LIFETIME, THE THIRD BEING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IS THE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT OCCURRED IN LATE 1991 OR EARLY 1992.
SINCE THEN AND MOST RECENTLY LISTENING TO A PROFESSOR AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY THAT SPEAKS 14 LANGUAGES, I AM TOTALLY CONVINCED IN "THE RESURRECTION" HENCE I CAN FURTHER BELIEVE IN THE VIRGIN BIRTH. 1./ Baptized a Baptist when I was around 4 years old and can remember the river in Alabama, there was a divorce that followed a little over a year later, given custody to my mother, then another marriage to a Catholic man and was Baptized a Catholic at 8 years old. I knew at one point and firmly believed that my spirit was around with Jesus, on a few occasions I saw him from about 5' away, we were walking and he was talking, he was pretty clear in that vision and it felt real. There are no more memories of all the years since the time of Christ until now, no reincarnation remembrances or anything like that.
2./ When I was 15 years old, my family which consisted of my stepfather, mother, my 3.5 year older sister was off to join the Women's Navy (the waves) and wasn't with us, my 9 year younger brother Bobby and I. We were driving to Vermont from Gloucester Mass to go skiing for a Christmas holiday weekend. I woke from a dream on the day we were to drive to Vermont, a dream that was so real, it took my family around 30 minutes to get me in the car, in my dream, there was icy snow on the roads and I saw a little hill with a telephone pole on the side at the top and a street light, we drove over the hill slowly in a 1960 3 speed Chevy Impala convertible, the car went into a spin. We spun around 3 times and wound up halfway down in the ditch and all I could remember that it was quite a while before help came and my parents were arguing over something.
Well I was in the back seat with my little brother, I saw the hill ahead of us exactly as I had dreamed and grabbed my brother and told everyone else to hold on, then everything happened just as I had dreamed, it took a couple of hours for an Emergency tow truck to come by, we were very cold, there was no traffic at all, I think that's what the argument was about, at one point earlier my mother had suggested we turn around and go back home because the roads were getting so bad, but she was overruled and we went back home after the tow truck got us out of the ditch.
3./ Date: Summer 1991, or early 1992 Time: 2 AM, Location: Jonathan's Restaurant, Lounge and Billiard Parlor, the nicest, classiest place I've ever seen to feature food and billiards in Palm Beach County, and that's been since 1964 until now, one of the co-owner's, Jeff Shearer, a dear friend and I were preparing to play some backgammon, the clean up crew had arrived as we had just finished a religious debate, he was an atheist and I've always believed in God and Christ, my rebuttal has always been. What's the date? Then I would say AD of who and how powerful was he? No money and no army, but we base our Calendar on his pre-existence (B.C.) and there is no after death proven so he still must be alive, since A.D. in Latin means Anno Domini, years of our Lord.
Relating to friends what happened next has caused me to cry on more than one occasion, we had been playing Backgammon for over an hour when all of a sudden I looked across the table at Jeff, he was deciding what to do with this roll and he usually plays very fast but he was in a spot that there were a few choices on what play to make, THEN NEXT TO HIM APPEARED AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE THAT I HADN'T SEEN IN OVER 5 YEARS, IT WAS JACK STUART, HE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID GOODBYE JIMMY, HE WAS CLEARER TO ME THAN JEFF WAS, let me preface this, Jack was the former owner of The Cue Room in Lake Worth, Florida, the last time I had seen Jack was before he sold the pool room, I had known Jack since the late 60's in California, he played in Riverside, CA, at a bar and he would gamble playing 8 ball, it took a good player to beat him playing 8 ball. In Florida I saw him again in the late 70's, he had gotten married to a lady named Kitty and they had a daughter named Brandy. He went to the 79 BCA National 8 Ball Championship with me, that I was lucky enough to win.
Jack bought the pool room in 83 I think, fixed it up and sold it in 87, the last time I saw Jack and Kitty and Brandy, Brandy was 8 years old and it was late 1986. I JUMPED UP FROM THE TABLE AND STARTED WALKING TOWARD THE PAYPHONE ON THE WALL IN THE NEXT ROOM OVER. Jeff said something like "where are you going-it's your turn" and I said "I have to call Jack Stuart" Jeff asked who that was and I told him "he's and old friend and he just said goodbye to me over your shoulder, it was too real not to be true". Then I started thinking, it's 3:30 AM, a school night and Brandy is about 14 by now and I couldn't remember the name of the little town that they lived in the last time I was around Jack. I dropped in my quarter dialed 0 and told the operator it was an emergency and all I could remember was that they used to be listed as Jack and Kitty Stuart in the phone book, well the operator looked in a bunch of cities from Lake Worth on down to Deerfield Beach and just before I was getting ready to give up she said oh wait a minute here's a listing for a Jack and Kitty Stuart in Palm Springs Florida, I said that's it, would you ring it please. It rang once and KITTY ANSWERED "HELLO" I SAID "KITTY IS JACK ALRIGHT" SHE SAID "IS THIS JIMMY REID? I SAID "YES". KITTY SAID "JIMMY I THOUGHT YOU WERE 911 CALLING ME BACK, HE JUST DIED IN MY ARMS 5 MINUTES AGO!!! I get tears in my eyes every time I tell of this or think about it. BEING DUMBFOUNDED I SAID "DON'T WORRY KITTY, HE'S GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, HE JUST SAID GOODBYE TO ME 5 MINUTES AGO", then we hung up, the emergency vehicles were just arriving.
After I hung up and looked at Jeff who overheard it all, he was as white as a sheet, I don't think he's a devout atheist anymore. __________________________________________________
It's psychologically impossible for the Resurrection not to have occurred.
All "intellectuals" and true World Historians woth their salt believe in the life, crucifiction and death of Christ, after all today is Tuesday July 8, 2008 A.D.. (Anno Domini of who?), after all before He was prophesied to be born in the flesh we based and dated our calendars on Him, B.C. (Before Christ), offhand I'd say that this had to be a very important and powerful person, penniless and without an army of invaders, He's captured more followers and belief in Him in the civilized world than any other flesh human before or since in history, but why?
All of the professors used to preach in evolution and creationism just to appease us Christians, well where's the half man half ape? Where are these fossils supporting evolutionism and its followers, Darwin did have some important facts supporting the survival of the species(fittest), they had to be the most powerful and best hunters in the animal kingdom concerning certain prey that they and not man has made extinct, or they had to eat very little for longtime sustenance, be quicker than those who preyed upon them and last but not least, they had to be smarter than the beasts of the land and sea that could make a meal out of them, enter man. Nothing outruns a 30.06 rifle.
What a shame, in my mind to hunt for sport, for food to support a truly destitute wilderness family is fine, also I don't condemn hunting varmints that destroy crops and may cause some children to starve if the patriarch is a farmer and can be financially ruined by these varmints, other than that it's "All God's Creatures, Great And Small", you'd think that God gave us this mind and subconscious to take care of this Earth and the creatures that roam it. Chaney, oh let's go shoot some birds today, I honestly don't know how they can pull the trigger without feeling like a murderer, I promise that those birds and most of the hunted animals are monogamous and very family oriented, some will die to protect their young - kill a beautiful creature and call it fun, shame on them.
"Intellectuals" huh, what a joke that is, they can't wrap their mind around the 'Resurrection', therefore the Virgin Birth can't possibly be true either, didn't see it, don't believe it. Didn't see it, don't believe it period, have their mind made up long before the subject can be discussed logically period. What I intend to do is to present the evidence of my true convictions just like you readers' are the Judge and Jury in a court of law and prove my case for the 'Resurrection' beyond the shadow of a possible doubt. It'll be great fun and I'm sure most of you will think like I do when I'm through.
I've got to go to bed now and today at 9AM, I've got a doctor's appointment and I'll probably be down for a day or two when it's over, then I promise we'll get back to this 'Resurrection' and I'll present my court case to you and let you be the jury, till then May The Good Lord Richly Bless You And Grant Your Every Need And Prayer. G-night, Jimmy Reid
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