Good and Evil are on the same tree

My street preacher friend wrote this — On November 28th, 1994 Jeffrey Dahmer was killed in prison, you remember Dahmer’s he was the homosexual with the eating disorder.

He was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, he was a serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991, most were black and I did not recall hearing Jackson nor Sharpton calling him a racist.

He was a known homosexual and his sexuality was rarely pointed out by the media as America was appalled. You can bet the farm had it been someone who went to Church and read his Bible that would have been said often.

How evil was Jeffrey?

His murders also involving necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts, typically all or part of the skeletal structure. He was a monster and many serial killers sodomized their male victims before killing them. The news media never pointed out his sexual preface, but they make sure we knew to report he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and a psychotic disorder. Once upon a time, all that was considered kin to being a homosexual.

However Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen murders he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on February 15, 1992. He was later sentenced to a sixteenth term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978.

Shortly after completing his lengthy confessions in 1991, Dahmer had requested to Detective Patrick Murphy that he be given a copy of the Bible. This request was granted and Dahmer gradually devoted himself to Christianity and became a born-again Christian. On his father’s urging, he also read creationist books from the Institute for Creation Research. In May 1994, Dahmer was baptized by Roy Ratcliff, a minister in the Church Of Christ. Following his baptism, Ratcliff visited Dahmer on a weekly basis up until November 1994. Dahmer and Ratcliff regularly discussed the prospect of death, and Dahmer questioned whether he was sinning against God by continuing to live.

For the first year of his incarceration, Dahmer was placed in solitary confinement due to concerns for his physical safety should he come into contact with fellow inmates. However it appeared he wanted to be put to death and after one year in solitary confinement, he asked to be transferred to a less secure unit, where he was assigned a two-hour daily work detail cleaning the toilet block.

In July 1994, a fellow inmate, Osvaldo Durruthy, attempted to slash Dahmer’s throat with a razor embedded in a toothbrush as Dahmer returned to his cell from Roy Ratcliff’s weekly church service conducted in the prison chapel.] Dahmer received superficial wounds and was not seriously hurt in this incident. According to Dahmer’s family, he had long been ready to die, and accepted any punishment which he may endure in prison.

On November 28, 1994 Dahmer left his cell to conduct his assigned work detail. Accompanying him were two fellow inmates: Jesse Anderson and Christopher Scarver. The trio was left unsupervised in the showers of the prison gym for approximately 20 minutes. Dahmer was later discovered on the floor of the bathroom in the gym suffering from extreme head and facial wounds; he had been severely bludgeoned about the head and face with a 20-inch metal bar.

Although Dahmer was still alive and was rushed to a nearby hospital, he was pronounced dead one hour later. Anderson had also been beaten with the same instrument, and died two days later from his wounds.

Scarver, who was serving a life sentence for a murder committed in 1990. Scarver said when he beat Dahmer he did not yell or make any noise as he was attacked. After the beating Scarver returned to his cell and informed a prison guard: ‘God told me to do it. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead’

Anyone who has ever witnessed in jails and prison will testify everyone there is innocent, I personally have never met so many blameless people as times I spoke at Chino State Prison. After a few weeks of my preaching, the prison chaplain did not want me to return. Most inmates that find religion will use that to be released, however with Jeffrey Dahmer he wanted to die for what he did, even after his jailhouse conversion.

Here were my comments:

I had heard he gave a profession of Christ but didn’t know how real it was. However, I see here what seems to be clear fruits of repentance. It reveals really how wicked man really is. The fact the guys he murdered and ate are burning in Hell while he likely is in heaven seems inconceivable unless you understand how compared to God, we are as wicked as the vilest murderer and pedophile who ever walked this earth. We think we are better, but when there are sunday school preachers and teachers and deacons and altar workers who find themselves saying, “Lord Lord did we not do many wonderful works in your name?” and men like Jeffrey Dahlmer hear “enter into the joy of the Lord” many are going to be shocked. Luke 13: 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
I had once said, if you watched Hitler help an old lady cross the street, you would not be impressed.   Hitler’s crimes are not off set by works of charity.  We know that.  But we think God is impressed because we think we are good.  However, compared to God we are as wicked as Hitler.
IT is not good or bad.  It is saved or lost.
 
To switch gears but keep riding the same bike I will now talk about my friend, “C”
This is pretty exciting. I will give customers chick tracts from time to time when a door opens and I have this one customer “C” who really loves our pharmacy. He will send his co-worker to pick up his scripts and over the past few months I have given him several gospel tracts in his bag, and later on he will call me all excited about what he read.
 
He likes that we both are Italian, and I wasn’t pushy on showing him the truth about Catholicism, steering clear from it until today.
 
Today I had one on me called “Papa” — which explains how the Popes are nothing more than the Caesars of yesterday who thought they were God. The truth is Catholicism is simply paganized Christianity. The tract was very direct, but if you are a loyal catholic you might be offended. I gave him two other good ones, Silent Night and Gold Rush.
 
He called me just now and was excited about all 3. He said he really liked Papa, and said he filled out the back of the tract and asked how I can get him a copy of the Next Step booklet and how he can become a Christian. The back of the tract shows how Jesus is the only way to heaven, and you need to reject trusting in Catholicism.
 
Amen. Not being mean, but religion damns. JESUS SAVES. I make no apologies, especially when a religion has been damning my family for hundreds and hundreds of years.
 
Religion is not the answer. Get an upgrade on your spiritual life — trade in your man made religion for a RELATIONSHIP. Religion is you doing something to try and please God. But good and evil, in the garden, were on the same tree. Good works are the frosting on a burned ginger bread cookie heart we have. We can look good, but we will taste terrible to God.
 
That is why you need to be saved, born again. Rebaked. God will put in the new heart and new desires and give you a new direction and new destiny. When instead of you waving your hands in the air and saying, “God look what I am doing to please you! I hope I am good enough!” Instead you kneel at the Cross and Jesus says, Look instead on WHAT I HAVE DONE! What I did on the Cross was enough and that is why I said it is finished.
 
John 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
 
If you could earn your way to heaven, Jesus would have stayed home.
 
MJI
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