The Bible That Oozed Oil
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In the summer of 2016, God gave Johnny Taylor a prophecy. It wasn’t a specific vision, but something more like a promise. After the presidential election that fall, so the prophecy went, God would begin to “position” Johnny and his group of friends to do great things. Months later, when Donald Trump won—no surprise to Johnny—God provided another message: After the inauguration, he said, “I’ll show you what I’m doing.”
Trump was inaugurated on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. On Monday night, as they did most evenings, Johnny and a small, informal prayer group met to pray in the backroom of a small Christian gift shop called Grace 251. Johnny’s girlfriend, Leslie, was there, along with her father, John Barker, and their friend Jerry Pearce and his wife, Joyce. They usually broke up by 8:30, but on this night they kept praying until after midnight. At one point, Jerry fell down on the floor for 45 minutes in a kind of catatonic state that he describes as being “out in the Spirit.” Within a few days, he told me, he opened his Bible to Psalm 39—an uneasy poem of both praise and gloom that includes the words “every man at his best state is but vapor”—and noticed a small spot of oil. Joyce assured him the grandkids hadn’t been near the book. It could only have come from God.
From then on, more oil appeared almost every time Jerry picked up the Bible, a leather-bound copy of the New King James translation. The oil moved to the back of the book, saturated the endpapers—a heart-shaped splotch appeared over a map of Israel—and then started at the beginning, in Genesis 1. Eventually Jerry had to put the book in a Ziploc bag, and then in a large plastic bin he bought at Tractor Supply.
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Morons.
Yet they would have ridiculed us for not believing...
Remember, false grace is less than no grace at all.
why would god ruin a bible by covering it in oil?
i think there would be more practical miracles
at least he uses lube
Lol your comments crack me up all the time; but, damn,,, that’s just too funny,
i try to be wrong,
in all the right ways.
I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya
I know right?!
Hard to believe!
And people wonder how ancient men could believe such stories. They believe that the Bible must be true because of the eye-witness testimonies of ancient people were written down by ancient men. It is 2020 with all the science and knowledge available to us and still we have people finding miracles in ordinary mysteries.
And the stories grow and grow and grow ...
Good grief.
The nonsense some human beings spew.
Praise Grilled Cheezus!
Exactly. WTH people? Ain’t ya got even half a brain?!
Short answer: no
A brain sans critical thinking is just a machine.
Like an idle computer in power save mode.
Say it ain't so!
He scoffed like, "This is crazy, this is stupid." Perhaps truer words have never been spoken.
But--------"They prayed well past midnight." Okay, prayed for what?
So this is the Trump base? Without a vaccine?
I have to go to Tractor Supply and get dog food, I am going to look for this magic oil while there
look right next to the ouija boards and the magic 8 balls
If you find it, can you pick up some for me? Seems like a great way to make a little $ on the side.
they said it had all been recalled because of a bad batch in Georgia
Georgia? What a coincidence.
Just another in a long line of snake oil salesmen.....and the people that believed this nut job are just as bad.
Not snake oil...baby oil! :D
LOL
And, the moral of the story is that all those fakeass christians now claiming that Trump was somehow ordained by God are lying sacks of shit selling lousy no good snake oil. Wake Up People! This is 2020...
That is for sure one of the lessons pulled outta this little gem.
Can't wake the brain dead.
I do have to wonder if any of the believers/followers of this "miracle" will reexamine their beliefs after learning it was faked (or even believe the truth).
I’ve seen this sorta disillusionment before, up close. It does start creating cracks, some to fruition.
No. Like the Trump they will be revitalized.
My cookbook is covered in oil, but I first noticed it during Manhattan Hedge. Am I blessed?
Why yes, yes you are. Indeed, you can now start your own religion. God has provided you the Internet for that very purpose. Start your new cyber-ministry and collect dollars for God to feed the hungry.
And don't forget, only yours is the "correct" religion with the "one true" god and all others are fake. Anyone who disagrees is just part of the worldwide conspiracy caused by godless scientists.
I thought I achieved that here on NT, LOL!
JOKING GUYS!!!
As far as I'm concerned Perrie, you are NT God!
Well she is the sentient creator of NT.
Exactly. And unlike some of "god/s" we can name, Perrie actually exists and can be proven so.
Good grief Gordy, that would make you a theist.
But a theist who can provide evidence of the existence of his goddess is a rational being. And since the goddess Perrie is a kind and rational creator...it's all good.
Unheard of! Gordy has achieved something truly extraordinary.
So now we're all going to have to go spill oil on our cookbooks to show our devotion to Perrie.
If she creates her cyber-religion the appropriate gesture would be to send money. All Gods seek money.
Hey, you're the one who went and proved there's a goddess.
I think that means YOU need to pay the woman
Well, I do like proof. Or at the very least, some evidence.
D'OH
Kinky
Quintessential iggy!
TiG, you do know that R A actually stands 4
! Ravaging Adulteress !
Naah, in this case it is 'rational analyst'.
umm, ok
Blessed? Probably not. You probably were hasty and spilled some on it on the cookbook instead of into the recipe you were working on.