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Opinions conflict on Front Campus

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Voices raised in Biblical backtalk echoed across Front Campus this past Wednesday as Brother Jed Smock, a traveling preacher from Columbia, Mo., made a stop at GCSU to spread the word about Jesus Christ and to rail against the college lifestyle.

Smock, like many other evangelists who make the rounds at colleges nationwide, chose to shout the word as loud as he could, and several students decided to shout back, including sophomore Khaliah Shaw....

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Tennyson Mosher

posted 11/24/09 @ 8:50 PM EST

Freedom of Speech? First Amendment? Think again.

According to Georgia state law, I would define Brother Jed's conduct as "disorderly conduct". His conduct was similar to one of the descriptions of disorderly conduct in the O.C.G.A.:

"Without provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person's presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the peace, that is to say, words which as a matter of common knowledge and under ordinary circumstances will, when used to or of another person in such other person's presence, naturally tend to provoke violent resentment, that is, words commonly called 'fighting words'...Any person who commits the offense of disorderly conduct shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

Disorderly conduct is listed in the O.C.G.A. 16-11-39.

ted

posted 12/12/09 @ 5:11 AM EST

Originally posted by

Tennyson Mosher

Freedom of Speech? First Amendment? Think again.



Obviously you do not agree with the Constitution of the U.S. so why don't you go to a nice free country like Iran or Syria and tell them that they should put the Christians in jail. They will gladly work with you to stop all those people that would dare to speak words from the Bible in your presence.

You communists take the cake, this is America and we will never buckle under to your desire to take away our legal rights as prescribed in the Constitution of the United States of America.

Tennyson Mosher

posted 11/24/09 @ 9:02 PM EST

Why does he say that he is sinless?

http://www.answers.com/topic/brother-jed

According to this, he used to be a partier, heavy drinker, and probably much more. He had written on his board, "If you are any one of these - partier, drinker, hypocrite, etc. you are going to hell. So, he basically just condemned himself to hell, because he's a hypocrite saying that he's perfect. According to the article about him online, he defineatly is not.

I encourage you to read your Bible if you want to know what Jesus says, because it is basically the opposite of what this man was saying. I'm sorry you had to listen to him on our campus, but look at it this way; Now you know what Jesus isn't when you look at him! Who knows, maybe he'll get saved one of these days! He defineatly isn't leading anyone to Jesus preaching what he's preaching. It's not the Gospel written in the Bible.

ted

posted 12/12/09 @ 5:21 AM EST

Originally posted by

Tennyson Mosher

Why does he say that he is sinless?

http://www.answers.com/topic/brother-jed


When you get that Bible out and actually start to read it you might find that your preconceived ideas about God and Jesus don't hold up to what the Bible actually says.

You see in the Bible God hates sinners, that means you. In the Bible it says God will take vengeance on those that persecute His saints. You may note that in the Bible some people are going to Hell, who are those people if god loves and forgives everyone automatically.

you need to get that Bible out and study before you end up in Hell. The way of life is Jesus Christ, but not the Christ of your imagination, you must know the Christ of the Bible to be saved.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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