tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post333396055163675352..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: God's orchardRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-15132248453547964092011-03-23T13:17:37.572-04:002011-03-23T13:17:37.572-04:00Thanks, Annoyed Pinoy! :-) The two books to which ...Thanks, Annoyed Pinoy! :-) The two books to which you link are instructive. I might post a link to one or both of them. Thanks again.<br /><br />I've also heard the story about Stalin, and in fact I heard Ravi Zacharias himself recount it.Patrick Chanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16095377877712197984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-34993576688920519752011-03-23T12:17:13.510-04:002011-03-23T12:17:13.510-04:00I followed the link to the dying testimonies of th...I followed the link to the dying testimonies of the saved and unsaved. I was struck by how many people back then were convinced that they sinned in such a way that the Holy Spirit had left them forever, and died in the agony of despair, wishing to but unable to repent. These days not many people have such a thought, maybe because the preaching was different back then. It seems Biblical, though...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269502909038917035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-13448118096152735052011-03-22T14:03:45.125-04:002011-03-22T14:03:45.125-04:00It is a wonderful thing to see God's people go...<i>It is a wonderful thing to see God's people go home to the Father's house; and it is a terrible thing, on the other hand, to see people go out into eternal darkness.</i><br /><br /><br /><br />"A story I heard personally from Malcolm Muggeridge (that stirred me then and still does even yet) was his account of a conversation he had with Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin. She spent some time with Muggeridge in his home in England while they were working together on their BBC production on the life of her father. According to Svetlana, as Stalin lay dying, plagued with terrifying hallucinations, he suddenly sat halfway up in bed, clenched his fist toward the heavens once more, fell back upon his pillow, and was dead." (Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God, Word Publ., Dallas: 1994, p. 26).<br /><br />I copied and pasted the above quote from a random website because it's found on various websites. But I don't know how accurate it is...ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-85438298572696812012011-03-22T13:54:06.427-04:002011-03-22T13:54:06.427-04:00Another great post Patrick. You gotta post more of...Another great post Patrick. You gotta post more often. :-)<br /><br /><br />Here are links to books on the same theme.<br /><br />Dying Testimonies of Saved and Unsaved by S.B. Shaw http://www.biblebelievers.com/dying_testimonies/index.html <br /><br />(I disagree with many things from the above website. It just happens to have a copy of this book first published in 1898).<br /><br />and<br /><br />Death-Bed Scenes; OR, Dying With and Without Religion by Davis W. Clark http://books.google.com/books?id=fy20dDbgu-MC&dq=deathbed%20scenes%20by%20davis%20clark&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=falseANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.com