Past Hammond Baptist pastor raped girl repeatedly, federal lawsuit alleges
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But the New Testament does not justify vigilantism. Certainly one would feel angry and desire vengeance, but it isn’t justified as an individual action.
If you were to catch someone in the act, reasonable force could be applied to stop the act, protect the innocent, etc, but to go after him (or her) after the fact is as wrong as their actions are.
Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
Don wrote:
But the New Testament does not justify vigilantism. Certainly one would feel angry and desire vengeance, but it isn’t justified as an individual action.
Agreed.
Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.
advocated murder?
I said I would pop him in the face if he offered my a job to cover up two years worth of child rape!
“Vengeance is Mine” does not mean I spinelessly walk out of there with my tail between my legs… There is such a thing as righteous anger, especially, when children are involved.
[Don Johnson]But the New Testament does not justify vigilantism. Certainly one would feel angry and desire vengeance, but it isn’t justified as an individual action.
If you were to catch someone in the act, reasonable force could be applied to stop the act, protect the innocent, etc, but to go after him (or her) after the fact is as wrong as their actions are.
I think you’re going to have to do a little bit better than to simply make the claim, Don. Again, Jesus could have appealed to the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Romans regarding the moneychangers. He made a scourge of cords and used it. In the same way, in Acts 16, Paul could have quietly left and then hired an orator to get justice after being whipped and imprisoned without trial. He chose instead to embarrass the magistrate in front of his subordinates and demanded the magistrate come personally to the jail to release him.
Again, you’re more or less arguing fundagelical culture, not Scripture.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
Not even worth this brief comment. I’ll leave it at that.
Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
According to one source Dave Hyles is now in Columbia, Tennessee where he is a member of Family Baptist Church and conducts a “ministry” sponsored by that church for the restoration of fallen preachers, called Fallen in Grace.
"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan
Here’s a website for what Ron is writing about. To put it mildly, Hyles’ view of his sins differs quite a bit from that of the women he raped.
Going out on a little bit of a limb here, I’m going to suggest that part of this lawsuit might be aimed at encouraging the Hyles/FBC-Hammond wing to leave that kind of “ministry” for good. I hope they succeed.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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