What Did He Die For?

Please Note: After a number of angry threats (on my eternal soul) for committing the unforgivable sin of mentioning the name of someone who had died, I have replaced references to this person with initials in my blog post. Unfortunately, I cannot edit the comments of others.


Too many young people die – not just the children under eighteen who make the news – also young adults. Twenty- and thirty- somethings. Having a baby can be terrifying, knowing that if something goes wrong – say the baby’s head is too big for a vaginal birth – well, hello martyrdom. There was a man, a year older than me, who was well-liked by all. He married his high school sweetheart when they were nineteen and seventeen, and had two children. When he was in his 20’s, he was injured while water skiing. I believe he hit his head. After several months of suffering, he died. The letter below is from one of his good friends, who (like most members of this group) could not sign his name for fear of retribution.

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Circa 1998

Why did Walter White (from what I hear and read in Tom Nichols’ letter) believe you need a preacher and baptism? Also you who believe the Bible and what Walter preached get your mouths open or else the gunk will take over just like what you people who are baptized are doing now. The gunk and what the elders taught you people who turned themselves over to what you see now and hear, like T.C., said you don’t need a preacher. He (T.C.) believed that faith would heal him, raise him up. It did not work. So the men in this church are wrong. He truly did to believe the men’s teaching in this church faith in God, that he would heal him. But it did not. He died.

He was sick over six months. Prayer to God to heal him and everyone anointed and laid hands on him from all ages from six years old to sixty years old. Baptized ones and ones that were not baptized. Now what do his friends and the young people do? Live some more years under this gunk and joke teaching of the elders and men in this church or get back to the truth of the teaching of Walter White and the bible? Or continue this way because when T.C. died there was no happiness of seeing him again, but a sorrow of why did he have to die and suffer and not have his faith heal or raise him up? Because he has two children and a wife.

There has to be a better way of living. This ten songs and bull shit religion that these old men have backed and taught for thirty years. We do need a preacher and baptism and why should we have to wait on God for thirty more years, because for thirty-five years he has not answered any one of these men in the church for waiting on God.

They say do not counsel God. Don’t piss God off. He might get mad. How all you big men tell us young people more of what to do. We will try and believe our faith in God and get sick and let everyone lay hands from ages one year to eighty years old and get what T.C. got by practicing and playing church. With his faith in God and the truth and he died. But now I can see after more will die while they are playing church not baptized or need a preacher. All the old men and women will still argue they are all right.

Not Jesus Christ or what Walter taught. So do we continue in sin so God may abound. Do the old men and women (forefathers) have the right to teach us and tell us young people we do not need baptism or a preacher? Who in the world or anywhere reads this in the Bible? Can anyone in this church down through time say the old preachers and even Jesus Christ say what we are doing is all right and a lie is okay? We are believing a lie. This church is wrong the way it is playing church.

Friend of T.C.

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