An act of Nature...
by David and Tim Bayly on June 15, 2010 - 6:49am
(Tim, w/thanks to Michael) If John wasn't allowed to speak of the hand of God that honed in on Lutheran sodomy politics, I wonder what we're allowed to say about lightning striking this graven image that has long been a fixture visible to I-75 commuters passing Cincy's Solid Rock Church?
Well, by an act of Nature, it burned last night. But not to worry: church officials told the press the graven image will be rebuilt.
If judgment is no act of God, but only an act of Nature, it's quite a relief since Nature never calls us to repentance. Or, should I say, Nature only calls us to repent of things like a carbon footprint that's bigger than it ought to be.
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Oh, the irony that the structural steel in that thing acted as a lightning rod to ignite the foam.....
.....part of me also wonders that, had the hand of God been stayed, what would the statue/idol have looked like after a few more years. Foam is not exactly what you use to have something looking good after a few decades.
....and what on earth is this? The One who walked on water portrayed as coming out of water with the cross there? Was it supposed to be a monument to confused theology? Not entirely inappropriate for many megachurches, I'm afraid.
nobody's mentioned the song so here's a link to the Heywood Banks tribute song to the statue. It's good for a laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq01UYiMyHg&feature=related
Upon hearing it will be rebuilt the word "Dagon" comes to mind...
As you might imagine, this is the topic of the day on the airwaives in Cincy, where the scoffers have noted that God struck Jesus, but not the 40 foot tall Hustler sign across the street or the mosque 5 miles away along the same stretch of I-75.
Not that there's any defense for Solid Rock Church and their idolatry, but the church does have a robust ministry to unwed mothers for which the church has built a large hotel-like structure(which is visible in the photos of the statue) for these young women to live in and carry their children to delivery.
Ken,
It should be noted that Solid Rock openly rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
Based on other photographs of Jesus that I have seen, the stutue wasn't an accurate likeness.
Michael, I got this from the Solid Rock website, click on The Church/Guiding principles: There is one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in three manifestations: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
>>eternally existing in three manifestations...
Which is to deny the True God Who eternally exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Not three manifestations or modes. In other words, this church is heretical.
http://against-heresies.blogspot.com/2009/12/insufficient-explanatory-power-of.html
Love,
And your link also notes women as their "pastors" there, too. Itching ears, I guess, abound in Cincinnati....
Itching ears most definitely abounds in Cincinnati. In more ways than just Solid Rock. Solid Rock North which just recently purchased a building near me on the eastside boasts of their one million dollar youth center with flat screen t.v.s, xbox and all.
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