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Billy Graham re: Jerry Falwell

posted by J-Walking | 5:57pm Tuesday May 15, 2007

It is always worth reading what Billy Graham has to say:

Statement by Evangelist Billy Graham
On the Death of Rev. Jerry Falwell
Charlotte, May 15, 2007

“Jerry Falwell was a close personal friend for many years. We did not always agree on everything, but I knew him to be a man of God. His accomplishments went beyond most clergy of his generation. Some of my grandchildren have attended and currently attend Liberty University. He leaves a gigantic vacuum in the evangelical world.

“I am praying for his family, and especially the university that he headed.”



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Doug

posted May 16, 2007 at 1:20 am


Perfect statement. The second sentence could be my reflection on Graham.



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Thinker

posted May 16, 2007 at 1:21 am


I have never had anything except respect and admiration for Dr. Graham. And never had any respect or admiration for Dr. Falwell. But, like us all – in our brokenness and and our beloved place as God’s children – Dr. Falwell did the best he could. Like all of us – he held both reasonable and unreasonable positions. He was obsessed with Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton and more than once made crude jokes about their daughter – who was very young at the time. He also realized that his rhetoric at times was harmful and apologized for that rhetoric. He was – in short – like anyone who is a Christian – a “practicing” Christian – it takes a lot of practice and sometimes we get it right and sometimes we get it wrong. He had a vision of what it could look like if only…… – just like all of us. Perhaps his life in Christ is one that we must examine like a mirror. We can have moments of truly understanding what it is to be a child of God and others when our need to accuse and condemn comes out. He was no more evil than I and probably a better person than I’ll ever be in some respects, but his life was as filled with paradox and contradiction as mine. I know he is with God because I believe in a merciful God and one who uses each of us as we are.



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Donny

posted May 16, 2007 at 6:10 am


Jerry Falwell got it right on the things that mattered most. Like an honest man, he could see what was evil.Unlike a dishonest man, he did something about it. It is time for the Evangelical community to shed itself of the Liberal stain on New Testament truth that the Church gave its blood for, and save those willing to follow the truth.It is time to shake the dust from the feet of those that desire the Gospel unperverted, at those, that follow Progressive doctrines that are in reality nothing more than Sodom and Gomorrah with a 21st century paint job. Jerry Falwell never tired at preaching the truth. It is time for him to be a child again and leave the defense of the Gospel to those willing to preach it unchanged. Nothing can or will stop the Church until the Lord is sent for that purpose. It was the message of Jerry Falwell that brought me from a world of liberal and progressive lies, to the Truth that endures forever.



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Trish Ryan

posted May 16, 2007 at 10:46 am


One of my prayers in life is to stay quiet long enough for God to select my words – Billy Graham is a master example of this, and it always encourages me when I see it in action, as with this quote.



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curiouser and curiouser...

posted May 16, 2007 at 5:14 pm


Mr. Falsewell made a very lucrative career out of defaming people like me – telling lies, bearing false witness, even to the point of declaring war on us (I still have my copy of his “Declaration of War”). A malevolent voice has mercifully been silenced.



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Donny

posted May 17, 2007 at 2:16 pm


How interesting curiouser and curiouser, You may want to look at an abortion for the true meaning of malevolent. You may want to try to understand that taxation has taken on Marxist communist incarnation to the point where no family can ever own thier own home or property. There are malevolant and indeed satanic forces never fasting from politics. Jerry Falwell was not in that camp. Falwell just presented the Gospel undefiled, unedited (unperverted) and not re-written for the Liberal-Progressive agenda to subvert and debauch the entire western world. Falwell failed only in that he couldn’t beat the liberal press.



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Donny

posted May 17, 2007 at 2:22 pm


Billy Graham preaches the Gospel and morality the way Peter, John, Jude, James, Paul and Christ Jesus did. He and his “evangelical” message (too) is not compatible with Liberals, Progressives, Democrats secularists, Marxists and the immorality they desire above all else. The passing of Jerry Falwell or that of our beloeved Billy Graham, will not alter one word of scripture that they both preach and preached so accurately. The Leftists are rejoicing today (literally) no differently than they did when they thought that Ahab abd Jezebel had rid the land of God’s prophets.



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Pacific231

posted May 17, 2007 at 8:40 pm


I think that Falwell’s passing is just the Lord pulling back His power of protection and letting the people “come out” and take possession of those that have this fate in their own hands. Um, no…I think Falwell’s passing is more likely just the result of one overflowing plate too many of bacon, sausage and overflowing pile of fried eggs ‘n cheese too many for Falwell’s ticker. Oh, and thanks again for sharing Donny.



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K.Bitner

posted May 21, 2007 at 6:58 pm


“The passing of Jerry Falwell or that of our beloeved Billy Graham, will not alter one word of scripture that they both preach and preached so accurately.” If, Donny, they both preached the same scripture, why the below quote from Falwell? Jerry must have felt they were on different teams, don’t you think? “Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan.” -Jerry Falwell.



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