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The family members of those who are called, children and
spouses,
are sanctified by the believing family member. They
are made clean and holy.
jt: Sanctified in 1 Cor 7:14 means set apart
for God to work upon; the
ones who are in unbelief still need to make
their own committment; God does
not make ppl clean and holy by osmosis and
without their cooperation.
Now, that woman in Texas who murdered her children and
quoted scripture
to justify her actions had a train of thought such as you
have expressed. Her
thinking was indeed inspired by the devil. (See
Below)
jt: I agree because murder is never God's
plan, the woman was listening to the
father of lies who was a murderer from
the beginning. she had religious spirits
and sadly this is not unusual.
The mother in Houston who drowned her five
children was also a professing
believer; she and her husband were
fundamentalist Christians.
1CO 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is
sanctified by the wife, and
the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were
your
children unclean; but now are they holy.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 3:35
PM
Subject: [TruthTalk] Christian
Children
jt: Divination and deception are one and the
same. Why just assume
that demons will not work through a child?
Everyone who comes
into this world has a fallen Adamic nature and this
includes every
child. Usually it doesn't take long for it to
express itself either. judyt
The answered prayers of a child are cause to suspect
demons? I think not.
jt: Of course I can understand everyone being happy
for the family
but it's important that we understand God's ways
because right now
the Church is full of divination and nobody seems
to know or care
Some are closed to anything supernatural and the
others are wide
open to everything that comes along and looks
good.
Mom says God told her to stone sons
Associated Press
Mar. 29, 2004 06:03 PM
TYLER,
Texas - A mother who bashed her sons' heads with heavy rocks, killing two of
the boys, was so delusional she thought the Lord told her to do it, her
attorney said Monday in opening statements at her murder trial.
"Does
she follow what she believes to be God's will or does she turn her back on
her God?" defense attorney F.R. "Buck" Files Jr. asked the jury of eight men
and four women.
Deanna Laney, a 39-year-old stay-at-home mother, has
pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to charges of murdering 8-year-old
Joshua and 6-year-old Luke and causing serious injury to Aaron, 14 months
old at the time. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.
The
deeply religious East Texas woman who home-schooled her children in the tiny
town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, wept uncontrollably
and shook her head, at times burying her face in a tissue, as she listened
to testimony and prosecutors showed gruesome photographs of her slain
children.
Her husband, who has supported her, sat a few rows behind
with friends and family.
Prosecutors contend Laney knew right from
wrong when she killed her children last Mother's Day weekend, despite
opinions from two psychiatric experts for the defense, two for the
prosecution and one for the judge - all of whom said Laney was legally
insane.
"The issue of sanity is tried in the court, not the
hospitals," District Attorney Matt Bingham told the jury.
Prosecutors
played a tape of a 911 call in which Laney, in her high, dainty voice,
calmly told a dispatcher after midnight on May 10: "I just killed my boys."
She also described the color of her house and directed authorities to her
home.
"I just did what I had to do," she told the
dispatcher.
Later in the tape, she appeared to doubt whether she
should have beaten the baby, saying, "I don't think I did right by Aaron."
She later said, "I don't think I was supposed to kill him."
In his
opening statement, the district attorney told the jury: "The evidence will
show you that the last thing Josh and Luke Laney ever saw was their mom with
a rock over their head and the last thing they ever felt was that rock
crashing over their head."
Bingham said Laney attacked the baby
first, hammering his head with a 4 1/2-pound rock she had hidden under
his crib. When he began crying, Laney's husband, Keith, woke up and found
his wife standing over the baby.
"Everything's OK," she told
him.
He assumed his wife was changing a diaper and went back to bed.
Laney then struck the baby again, and after hearing a gurgling from the
blood in Aaron's throat, she covered him with a pillow and left the room,
Bingham said.
"Aaron Laney will never be the same," said Bingham,
adding that the boy's vision has been impaired and he will never live
independently.
With Aaron's blood on her pajamas, Laney then woke up
Luke, led him outside the family's rural brick home and asked him to put his
head on a large rock, the prosecutor said.
"He does what his Mommy
tells him," Bingham said.
Laney smashed the 6-year-old's skull with a
large landscaping rock. Then she went to get her oldest child,
Joshua.
He, too, obeyed his mother and put his head against a large
rock in the yard. His mother bashed his skull with a 16-pound
rock.
The boys were found in their underwear. Their bodies had been
dragged to a dark corner of the front yard.
Officers who testified
about the crime scene said the boys' father was hysterical when he awoke to
find his sons slain, yelling over and over at his wife, "What did you
do?"
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