LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73.
2007-05-15 07:22:28 · 29 answers · asked by mistaken4sane 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, no matter where he is, by now he knows if he was right or wrong.
2007-05-15 07:25:48 · answer #1 · answered by Bare B 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, he's laying on a slab in the Lynchburg, VA morgue.
As for heaven, I myself would love to live eternally in a place that is peaceful and full of love & happiness. So if Heaven is full of such hateful, intolerant and abusive spirits as Falwell's was on earth, then I certainly don't want to go there. I'd think hell would be preferable to the hatred and intolerance Falwell not only practiced, but preached.
Do you think he'll start some sort of organization in Heaven that would try to gain and exercise so much power that even God would be afraid to cross him? Maybe he'll call it the "Heavenly Majority"...
2007-05-15 07:49:15 · answer #2 · answered by Don P 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I had heard he was found in his office, but didn't know he had died, nor did I know he was 73. ...Huh.
I hope God gives his family and friends the comfort they desire, and I hope this can strengthen their faith, not weaken it.
Is he in heaven? Possibly. ...Probably. But then I'm Mormon and we tend to have a unique viewpoint when it comes to the afterlife, in comparison to Protestants at least.
2007-05-15 07:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
according to the bible no in 1 Thessal. 4:15 said For this is what we tell YOU by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord shall in no way precede those who have fallen asleep [in death]; 16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. and Jesus still haven´t arrive.
2007-05-15 07:26:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Wow. All these questions about Falwell.
Personally, I don't know where he is. But he'll definitely have some 'splaining to do.
2007-05-15 07:25:45 · answer #5 · answered by socmum16 ♪ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, God bless his soul....
I never was a fan of the man and thought he was way off base in his condemnation of others.
Bet he'll he shocked when he finds out that God let homosexuals into heaven!
2007-05-15 08:08:24 · answer #6 · answered by docscholl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one knows his heart but God...so noone can say.
But, he was fat...so never turned from his sin of gluttony....and fundamentalists say that if you don't turn from your sin, you will go to hell.
He was also a hate mongerer...told us the 9-11 attacks were because of gays and abortionists...
He does not seem like a Godly person...
I am sure, he is now answering for his deeds...
2007-05-15 07:25:29 · answer #7 · answered by G.C. 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If so, then that's all the more reason to reject it.
I tried to find a more respectful way to say that, but I also wanted to answer honestly.
2007-05-15 07:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jerry Falwell is in a 'cooler' somewhere - waiting for embalming - and then permanent, physical placement somewhere. . .
Heaven? you ask?
Isn't anywhere but here, just that?
2007-05-15 07:25:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe he can speak to the pant-loads from beyond the grave.
2007-05-15 07:26:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, if he believed in Christ being the only way to get there, then yes.
But if he believed you had to be moraly rightous, to earn your way there, then sadly no.
I don't know what his take on it was.
Didn't much care for that type of Rev.
2007-05-15 07:25:32 · answer #11 · answered by sassinya 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋