Eleven-Year-Old Boy Ordained as Minister: Too Young... or Too Awesome?
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2012/06/22 21:00:00
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When Ezekiel Stoddard was ordained as a minister at the Fullness of Time Church in Capitol Heights, Maryland, last month it was a unique celebration -- one that turned heads and raised questions. Why? Because Ezekiel is just 11 years old. According to "Good Morning America," the son of two pastors decided to become a minister at this very young age when God spoke to him in a dream.
The young minister said, "God gave me that particular scripture [Psalm 23] because a lot of people, they try to draw you away from the Lord, trying to get you on the wrong path." When asked if people thought it was strange, he said, "People come to you, they ask you questions about why you should act like a child and not a minister. I do things like a child, but still I am a minister. I am an evangelical." But do you think Stoddard is too young to take on the role of a minister?
The young minister said, "God gave me that particular scripture [Psalm 23] because a lot of people, they try to draw you away from the Lord, trying to get you on the wrong path." When asked if people thought it was strange, he said, "People come to you, they ask you questions about why you should act like a child and not a minister. I do things like a child, but still I am a minister. I am an evangelical." But do you think Stoddard is too young to take on the role of a minister?
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Your Favorite Nerd Guru 2012/06/22 21:55:40
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
Understand the facts of the life that we normal or so called normal people live in would never take advice from an 11 missionary. Sorry i wouldn't no matter what age. I wanna see creditionals and refrences of the thing he did before his priest hood sorry experience needs to be in place before qouting the bible. With out the life of an adult the experience of the person who would believe him really. Congrats to him for being a priest or missionary of god. But i would rather experience my childhood first and then decide to become one later on. Thats my opionion
Now, am I saying God could not have spoken to him? Absolutely not! I firmly believe that God uses the simple and innocent to further his work. Wasn't Samuel described as a child/young man when God first spoke to him, while sleeping in the tabernacle? Wasn't David chosen when, but a boy? I, however, do believe the priesthood should be give to those a little older. In my church, boys have to be 12 before being given the smallest part of priesthood authority, and it is not until they are grown men, that they are chosen to be leaders of the church.
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In his book Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels, Atheist historian Michael Grant completely rejected the idea that Jesus never existed.
This sceptical way of thinking reached its culmination in the argument that Jesus as a human being never existed at all and is a myth.... But above all, if we apply to the New Testament, as we should, the same sort of criteria as we should apply to other ancient writings containing historical material, we can no more reject Jesus' existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned. Certainly, there are all those discrepancies between one Gospel and another. But we do not deny that an event ever took place just because some pagan historians such as, for example, Livy and Polybius, happen to have described it in differing terms.... To sum up, modern critical methods fail to support the Christ myth theory. It has 'again and again been answered and annihilated by first rank scholars.' In recent years, 'no serous scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.