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Jerry Falwell Jr. Abandons Christianity For A Gun

Written by Steve on December 7, 2015

Jerry Falwell Jr. Abandons Christianity For A Gun

I’m trying to understand something, perhaps you can help me out…JerryFalwell

In 2011, when Pastor Rob Bell wrote his book Love Wins where he suggested that God’s love is so big that it was incompatible with the concept of eternal punishment in hell, he was decried a heretic.  John Piper tweeted his famous “farewell Rob Bell” quote, pastors warned their congregations about Bell’s crazy “love” idea, and youth leaders quietly removed Bell’s popular Nooma videos from their repertoire of weekly teachings.

Yet this week, when Jerry Falwell Jr. stands in front of the student body of Liberty University and says,

It just blows my mind when I see the President of the United States say that the answer to circumstances like this is more gun control…I always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walk in and kill

he is hailed by the crowd as a hero of the faith.

Bell promotes love and gets crucified.  Falwell promotes violence and is validated…

I know I asked you to help me figure this riddle out, but I think I got it.  It isn’t so hard to understand really.  It’s the same choice Pilate offered the crowd at the crucifixion.

Who does the crowd really want?

Jesus: The man of peace who wants to see compassion and mercy be extended to people of every nation, tribe, and language.

or

Barabbas: The violent revolutionary who takes a stand for Israel against the invading Roman pagans that threaten the Jewish way of life

Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus Barabbas. So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him…

…But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.

“Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor.

“Barabbas,” they answered.

“What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.

They all answered, “Crucify him!”

Matthew 27: 15-22

Jerry Falwell Jr. has gone on to say that since his remarks,“I’ve never received more support or a more positive response from anything I have ever said in Convocation before”

Falwell then goes on to encourage the students to obtain concealed weapons permits so they can be armed even as he was at the speech.

Yes, you heard that right.  A good disciple of Jesus needs to be packin’ heat!

So now have the president of a major Christian University who is supposed to be proclaiming the Good News of The Prince of Peace instead arming himself to defend against Muslim terrorists and encouraging his students to do the same.

This is what happens when you trade the Gospel for a Gun…

This is what happens when you choose Barabbas over Jesus…

Peace,

Steve

1 comment

  • L. huston

    December 8, 2015

    So I don’t think you should be too hard on these people. It really depends on how they approach violence. Someone who’s looking for trouble will rightly reap what he sows, as Jesus said, those who live by the sword die by the sword. But I do believe there are circumstances where people have the right to carry a humane weapon in the name of self defense, if necessary. I like to trust the cops, but in my personal experience, they have just let the bad guys go, in one instance nearly lost thousands of dollars of money from fraud, and the bank had everything to send these guys to jail, but the cops in our town just never called and we had lawyers and everything that called. Even the police downtown spoke poorly of these guys.
    I think there are instances where self defense and carrying a gun are permitted. I’ve been a situation where I and my family nearly died locked in a car that was going to be bombed, and we had, I know this may be hard to believe, but Somalian Islamic extremists circling us. They were actually going to kill us but my father managed to get get out of the car. He had a hunting rifle on him and all he had to do was flash it and they went running. Thank god the cops came about 10 – 15 minutes later, but they couldn’t find these criminals. this was near the airport in seattle washington. I’m sad to say this because I grew up knowing several muslims and I befriended them. I also used to live in a bad part of town and many houses in our neighborhood were robbed, these people had machine guns. So we learned how to shoot that hunting rifle and we got dogs. And thank the Lord jesus christ we were never robbed.
    Plus its important to remember Luke 22:35-38

    35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”

    “Nothing,” they answered.

    36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’[b]; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”

    38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”

    “That’s enough!” he replied.

    I don’t hate these people who have tried to kill me. I really do forgive them, but I will defend myself, but it’s the last option, not the first. And the cops don’t always show up in time. It’s up to you to decide if that’s a way you want to prepare, but violence was a reality for me, but God took me to a peaceful place where that is no longer a concern! In the end I would probably shoot these men in the knee, and avoid fatal shots, don’t kill unless you have to, but it doesn’t mean you can’t wound them. And that’s what a lot of people would do. I’m from Texas by the way

    God bless you!

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