David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. 
Ashley Smith exemplifies everthing glorious about the white woman savior image. She is a Christian woman, and she encountered the intrusion of a violent, murderous black man. She showed herself a monarch of self-control, compassion, and justice. America has produced no finer woman, and no finer patriot. Let this be noted, forever. This modern, Southern white woman, this Christian woman, in all her simplicity, humility, and sincerety, showed the character of a conqueror, and, in unutterable contrast to someone like Amber Frye, Ashley Smith truly deserves to be known and emulated. In a state of nervous exhaustion, she was still able to hold herself together, and to present herself nobly on national media. She has the fortitude of the mightiest men of earth. She cannot be praised highly enough. (Of course, her response will be, ‘To God be the glory.’)
Ashley Smith, modern saint of the South
I have written on the subject of the “white woman savior” for some time. While I have rejected the kind of professional racist white woman who, without religion or faith, presumes superiority to the dark peoples of the world, and sets herself up as their social manager, I commend Ashley Smith as an example of a true white woman savior, a simple Christian woman, with indefagitable integrity.
I’ve also written on the strange, yet obvious and powerful psycho-sexual dynamics that exist between white women and dark men. Many people are offended by this subject, or rather my opinions about it. I’ve posted different aspects of the dynamic as they have appeared in news stories, such as the Koby Bryant case, or the Janet Jackson episode. However, in the case of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols, I believe the truth of what I have said is most clearly manifested.
Ask the simple question: Would Brian Nichols acted the same way if Ashely Smith was a young black Christian mother with a child? I say, No. It wouldn’t have done the trick. The desires of a dark man, in the presence of white woman, are particularly strong and the fact that Ashley was sincerely Christian–pushed those desires over the top. Nichols would either rape and murder her, or submit to her. He chose the latter. It is an unanswerable strength, Christianty, in the face of terror. This, combined with the fact that Nichols was himself exhausted, enervated, and ready to break, all spelled the end.
Ashley said she wanted to gain his confidence (a standard concept among evangelical Christians, by the way), but the truth is, Brian also wanted her confidence. “And angel of God,” he called her. In his distorted emotional state, it no doubt did definitely seem as though she was the savior he needed. She was the person to make it end, as peacefully as possible. She didn’t make a deal. She didn’t give in, an inch. She told him, quietly, confidently, he needed to end this. She offered nothing but the truth to him. From her, he accepted it. He wanted to be accepted by her. He wanted her understanding, he wanted some kind of positive regard. She gave him the truth, with sincere compassion and integrity. Nothing could have been more noble on her part. Nothing, on anyone’s part.
Indeed it was providential that Ahsley was a white Christian woman. The murderous rampage was over. Had it been someone else, perhaps anyone else who wasn’t female, young, white, attractive, Christian, and completely sincere, the story wouldn’t have ended the way it did.
I have an understanding of Mr. Nichols. I feel for him, with sincere pity. The difference between me and him, as dark men (that is, “medium complexion”), is I have racial pride. He doesn’t. He missed it. He wasn’t taught about it. He doesn’t have the understanding. In this case, his immaturity proved his salvation, or, I should say, the salvation of the public.
The emotional frustrations that can fester in the dark male are well known in psychological clinics, and in literature. Eldridge Cleaver knew all about them, and wrote about them in Soul on Ice (1968). I say, however, that the solution is racial pride, not slavery to Siren seductions of the white woman’s beauty. Ahsley was nothing but herself, in all her glory as a white Christian woman, of the modern South. But, Brian Nichols was not fully himself. He bowed in servile desperation. I do pray that his ‘self’ will come to him, in time. I pray that he can come to accept himself.
Eldridge Cleaver, in the earlier days. He
was a minister in the latter days of his life.
There are many dark men in the world who have still slaves to anger, sexual frustration, and rage. Perhaps the media market, which plasters the white female, in provocative manner, in everyone’s face constantly, ought to think about the effects. I’m not saying blame, but explantaion, is due here. Dark men need to be men, in the sense of self-control. They need to love and honor the women of their own races. This is the manly thing to do.
However, in a society of forced integration, everyone has to suffer the consequences of the beauty of the white female. The problem is, these women are not all Christian, like Ashley Smith.
29 responses so far ↓
1 David Yeagley // Mar 14, 2005 at 12:18 pm
There is something deeply heartwarming about this story. Ashely was a mother to this ‘motherless child,’ Nichols. She appealed to his conscience, not only for her own sake, as a young widow with child, but also for societies sake. She pleaded with him to care about other, to care about the people! What a patriot she was.
Now, Nichols was a manipulator, a quick-footed sneak, and perhaps he wanted to go down with just an inkling of humanity in him. Perhaps this is just a desperate ploy, too. But, at least, he chose it. He could have chosen to do otherwise.
2 Wendy Johnson // Mar 14, 2005 at 1:20 pm
“There are many dark men in the world who have still slaves to anger, sexual frustration, and rage. Perhaps the media market, which plasters the white female, in provocative manner, in everyone’s face constantly, ought to think about the effects. I’m not saying blame, but explantaion, is due here. Dark men need to be men, in the sense of self-control. They need to love and honor the women of their own races. This is the manly thing to do.”
“However, in a society of forced integration, everyone has to suffer the consequences of the beauty of the white female. The problem is, these women are not all Christian, like Ashley Smith.”
Comment 1: The media is about the dollar, not thinking and self-searching. Sin sells. You know that!
Comment 2: I work in a city and live in a town that is AT LEAST 50 percent not-white-like-me. Somehow, I’m not picking up the sense that all of these men are angry, full of rage and in a pique of personal frustration because I am there in their face in all my white beauty (hah!)! Perhaps I’m oblivious; which, if all this is true, is a mercy.
Comment 3: Christians don’t always get away physically unscathed. I am glad she did!
3 David Yeagley // Mar 14, 2005 at 1:33 pm
For the record, I was at a pow-wow this week-end, and saw one of the most beautiful Indian women I’ve ever seen, anywhere. She was in white buckskin, with a blue theme. And, she was “medium complexion” (Ha!) She was deeply tanned. How shall we say this?!
Anyway, races have their own beauty. I’m just trying to be objective, and say that it looks like the white woman weilds an awesome power over the darker male. It runs really deep.
Of course, she’s often attracted to him, as well. This is what integration creates: sexual exoticism, psychologically. People get into the personal exploration, and neglect the larger picture, the larger concerns.
4 Wendy Johnson // Mar 14, 2005 at 3:52 pm
Oh, just for the record, I always look at the larger picture–I’m a worst-case type person (women call themselves “persons” alot). And it’s up the the individual to put the kabosh on the sense of exoticism that strangeness can evoke. I have seen long-term awe in white people toward dark people (e.g., indians) that I thought was long overdue for an overhaul, but, infatuations can last a long time if left unexamined. For my part, I can do without the dead weight!
5 Don Miguel // Mar 14, 2005 at 8:17 pm
“This modern, Southern white woman, this Christian woman, in all her simplicity, humility, and sincerety, showed the character of a conqueror, and, in unutterable contrast to someone like Amber Frye, Ashley Smith truly deserves to be known and emulated.”
David, I couldn’t agree more. I saw her this morning recounting what had happened and all I could think was what an impressive person!
6 David Yeagley // Mar 14, 2005 at 8:31 pm
Miguel, I’m hoping that her honor is kept pure. Already, however, the news media people, liberal and conservative alike, are talking about how great her skills were, how she was able to do what the professionals couldn’t do, etc. In this they are being inaccurate, or implying things are not true, while ignoring things that are:
1) she is a Christian woman. Her faith is the source of her character.
2) she was a white female, in the hands of a desperate black male.
If they lose track of these two critical factors, they will misinterpret the story altogether. It will not do Ashley honor at all. It will just be a “high” for the media people. They’ll just get off on some miracle woman. Ashley won’t like that… She is a Christian woman. She knows Whom to honor.
7 David Yeagley // Mar 14, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Here’s more:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050314/ts_latimes/hostagescoolcompassiondisarmedatlantafugitive
Ashely befriended Nichols, treated him as a human being. It melted him down. He was exhausted anyway, and probably very scared himself. Kindness and sincerety were key.
But, I don’t think it was a psychological trick on Ashley’s part. I think it was raw Christianity. Genuine Christian feeling for human beings. She never said she was going to try and help him escape if he wouldn’t harm her. She never offered a deal. This is the point.
She had moral integrity, all the way.
8 Alligator // Mar 15, 2005 at 6:43 am
From CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/14/national/main679837.shtml
“He eventually untied her, and some of the fear lessened as they talked. Nichols told Smith he felt like “he was already dead,” but Smith urged him to consider the fact that he was still alive a “miracle.”
“You’re here in my apartment for some reason,” she told him, saying he might be destined to be caught and to spread the word of God to fellow prisoners. She also read the bible to Nichols, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta.
“He told me I was his angel, sent from God, and that I was his sister and he was my brother in Christ,” said Smith.”
So even CBS has to admit that her faith in Christ has a role in ending this. On an interesting note, Mrs. Smith’s husband died in her arms four years ago after he was stabbed. Nichols is not going to see the outside of prison ever again, but it will be interesting to see how God (yes, the Creator) redeems this situation.
9 Betty Ann // Mar 15, 2005 at 9:41 am
“However, in a society of forced integration, everyone has to suffer the consequences of the beauty of the white female” Dr. Yeagley writes
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*The white female also suffers and suffers the consequences. Do not place all the blame on forced integration here in America. A white woman has a gift that God gave to her, the ability to say NO.
Betty Ann
10 Betty Ann // Mar 15, 2005 at 9:50 am
“He told me I was his angel, sent from God, and that I was his sister and he was my brother in Christ,” said Smith.” Posted
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*Sure the words of every criminal here in America whether they are currently felons or ex-felons. The only thing they have left in their lives is the hope that someone would fall for their words such as these above. In every penal institution here in America we find these men and women searching and searching for the God and Jesus and even preaching the word of God (bible). Yet, when they are out of prison or jail they forget about God, Jesus and the bible.
I commend Ashley for helping this man out. And I commend Nichols for not harming Ashley. It works both ways here. God perhaps was there to protect his female child Ashley and to also protect his male child Nichols. The pendulum swung both ways here. Nichols will be imprisoned the rest of his life for these murders and Ashley will be imprisoned the rest of her life with the spiritual bond that was created between the angel and the devil. You only need to look into her eyes to see the impact this black man has left on her.
Betty Ann
11 David Yeagley // Mar 15, 2005 at 10:56 am
There is a temptation to feel comapssion for the monster Nichols. We all feel terrible at the prospect of a demonic possessed person, which he apparently was. It feels better to believe that they are relieved, delivered, saved, etc. There is that element in this story, because the Christian dynamics in the conversation.
But we really can’t know exactly what happened. It IS an incredible story, however. Ashley has faced tragedy from violent men, in an unusual way.
In a way, Nichols did experience a degree of recovery. He could have forced this woman. He did not. However, he may have, later, had the circumstances turned out differently, had Ashley behaved differently.
It is indeed hard to “trust” a desperate criminal’s words or reactions to anything, however articulate he may seem in talking about it. I think you’re right about that, Betty.
12 Betty Ann // Mar 15, 2005 at 11:44 am
You did a great job on this article Dr. Yeagley and I commend you for that also. This story sends chills throughout my body. My nephew who is incarcerated right now for first degree murder and is the father of three blue eyed blonde girls is still a human being, father, son and relative to someone. He never had a chance in life as like my family grew up with violence. He had dreams of being a minister and when he was finally caught in Minnesota he had his bible with him. The day he was captured he called my cell phone number and I heard a beep on it and I often wondered if my cell message was retrieved.
But anyway, I felt that if he was not caught he would kill again and again as he had nothing to lose. He surrendered only because the American Indian woman companion he was with told him too. So in reality it doesn’t matter what color of skin a woman is, she still has the power over a man who is in trouble and in desperate, again it was not the American Indian woman but the hidden power my nephew carried with him, the bible and in that bible was God. He may or may not have killed, but even God loves him.
Also, there was a human bondage between Nichols and Ashley as he tied her up and there was another bond created when she cooked pancakes for him. I would love for her to write about her experience and perhaps from this, others can learn how important not the white woman savior is, but how powerful God is when he sees two of his creations in danger. This is the real story not the criminal or the white woman but God, Jesus and the faith in the belief that He can create miracles. My deepest blessings to Ashley, her daughter and to Nichols and his family and young daughter who is now asking questions. My deepest blessings to you Dr. Yeagley.
Betty Ann
13 David Yeagley // Mar 15, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Well, Betty, you hit the nail on the head. ALL women have that power to save. When a man is desperate, the woman’s touch can save like no other earthly influence. This is her glory, even according to the Bible. She is redeemed through child bearing. Every man is born of a woman. Every man has that place in him, which finds comfort in a woman. There is no other such place in the world, for a man. We don’t have to read Sigmund Freud to know this!
I’m glad you brought the larger perspective in on this story. It is a male/female story, not just the black/white dynamic. Nichols, after all is a man. Whatever peculiarities or uniqueness that dwells in an American black male, he’s still a male. Ashley was a woman. That’s the formula. While I think the white/black element was critically influencial here, there is in fact something deeper, and it is the male/female dynamic, as you have said.
14 Wendy Johnson // Mar 15, 2005 at 1:10 pm
“He told me I was his angel, sent from God, and that I was his sister and he was my brother in Christ,” said Smith.”
Here is where I would reassert that real angels don’t factor into our everyday lives and the crises that come along. It was most definitely God’s own intervention, through the living faith of Ms. Smith, that such a miraculous deliverance could be had. It was not in the man Nichols. And, see how easy it is to learn the language of an evangelical Christian? How do you determine the truth of his statement? “By their fruits you will know them,” said Jesus. Let me further state that I am aware that it is possible for a true, born-again Christian to fall into sin so great that it surpasses even the typical unsaved person’s tendency to sin (and it is great, to the point it cannot be comprehended, according to the Bible). If that is Nichols’ condition, and he is indeed a saved man, it was God’s providence through the Christian Ms. Smith that his life was spared, and her person not violated, and NOT by the fact he was carrying a Bible. The Bible is not a magic charm. And given the fact that he had committed violence on a woman (for which he was on trial), it was not the “charm” of a woman that saved the day, either. I really disagree with that idea. If you’re going to praise a person for giving God the glory, let it follow that you give God the glory, too. It actually reminds me that God uses weak things to display His strength, and sovereignty. “His strength is made perfect in weakness.”
15 Wendy Johnson // Mar 15, 2005 at 1:16 pm
I see I made a mistake in relating some of the facts. It was Betty Ann’s account where her nephew was carrying a Bible. My bad! But the rest of what I said, is what I mean to say. Thanks.
16 David Yeagley // Mar 15, 2005 at 1:35 pm
Well, it was a complex situation, emotionally, circumstancially, etc. I believe all of these factors were involved.
Now, the Bible clearly says that angels have appeared in human form before men and women. But I don’t see that Ashley’s case is an argument for or against that. No angel appeared in this case. (I’ll bet you they were there, however!)
I’m not saying I’m superstitious, entirely, but, the presence of a Bible in the room does work a power on anyone who has any idea of what’s in it.
Wendy, I perceive thou knowest not the mind of the heathen….:)
17 Wendy Johnson // Mar 15, 2005 at 2:07 pm
“Wendy, I perceive thou knowest not the mind of the heathen….:)”
No, except for how I thought when I was 6, just before I heard and believed the gospel. Surrounded by heathen influences, certainly, but “a new creation.” And I would venture that Ms. Smith did not know the mind of this tormented man either, acting instead through the direction of the Spirit of God in the time of crisis. I am of the mind it is carnal to assign racial and gender influences/practices to her account. That is simply another spin, something a liberal might say to discount any influence God might be perceived as having on an incident. I guess I would call it a conservative spin!
If this all is too disconcerting to contemplate for some, there is a frivolous expression one of my friends uses: “God takes care of fools and babies.” Can we all agree on that? (“Can’t we all just get alongggggggg?”)
Dr. Yeagley, please, make up your mind! are you a heathen, or a redeemed man?
18 Bodvar // Mar 15, 2005 at 3:16 pm
To Wendy:
There IS a difference, demonstrable difference, between not only genders but ethnic groups…even between members of the same group separated by distance…and time. This is referred to time and again in Scripture.
God uses us to his glory AS WE ARE. We may be male or female, black or white, stupid or clever, all being sinners, and He uses us according to His plan, as we are.
We’re dissimilar in the world of the flesh, influenced to behave as women or men, black or white; and we’re only similar in the world of the spirit inasmuch as we’re all polluted sinners whose only hope is the grace of God.
Different isn’t bad. It’s natural. God can process difference. He created it.
To Dr. Y:
There were angels interacting with men in the Bible. There were also apostles. No matter what Benny Hinn or any other televangelist says, there aren’t any apostles anymore. As to angels, too many people, tending to look about for little demigods in an animistic way, tend to look for pastel-hued little imps for assistance, a’ la the pretty statues on sale in craft and candle shops.
Looking to John 15, we see the promise of help coming from the Paraclete, variously translated as “helper”, “comforter”, “counselor”, and generally understood to mean the Holy Spirit.
I don’t look for angels myself.
Betty Ann:
We needed to hear the story you told. Thanks.
– B
19 Wendy Johnson // Mar 15, 2005 at 3:54 pm
Bodvar,
Do you recall the part where it is related how a non-Jewish woman was calling to Jesus for help and appealed to him as “thou son of David”? Jesus did not finally help her until she called him “Lord” (I think she finally said, “Lord, help me.”) Also, the risen Christ was revealed first to his WOMEN followers. These two things tell me that (1) it’s not how we relate to each other, but how we relate to God; and (2) God does not have respect for how men/women (and read: black/white/red/brown/yellow and every sort of tribe in between) naturally relate to each other. The men had no regard at first for the women’s account of their having seen the risen Christ. But God determined to use these weak things known as women because they first belonged to Him; and God makes a difference between ethnicities only where it truly makes sense–in our relation to Him.
That is why I say that it is the natural approach, rather than a spiritual approach, to see this sort of event by our natural understanding of race and gender, and then work in her Christianity sideways, but then stick with our natural understanding of race and gender anyway–like God has no choice but to go along with it–and that race and gender are the finality.
20 Bodvar // Mar 15, 2005 at 4:21 pm
“…but then stick with our natural understanding of race and gender anyway–like God has no choice but to go along with it–and that race and gender are the finality.”
While the Almighty isn’t a “respecter” of difference, inasmuch as a king is to Him the same as a beggar, a woman as a man, etc., I believe that difference is part of His plan, and is as He willed it to be.
As to the non-Jewish woman calling upon Christ for help, I do remember the conversation in John 4 where Christ asked the Samaritan woman for a drink of water (sort of the other way ’round). Which instance do you refer to?
– B
21 Wendy Johnson // Mar 15, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Bodvar,
It’s not the Samaritan woman story; it’s another account. I will have to look it up at home to get it back into my head.
I agree that difference is part of God’s plan, you’d have to be an idiot to deny that…the profusion of differences and differences within differences is thankfully God’s domain to keep straight and running on time! Our ethnic differences were programmed into the First Couple’s DNA–so God planned it that way.
Which is why, since we’re on this subject, I marvel at any worry that an ethnicity (and I’m not talking about those who would murder ethnic groups to “cleanse”) be in danger of disappearing through the purposeful or inadvertent mixing of same because we’re really not charged with creating ethnicities or preserving them. God without our help directed the development of these “differences.” Ancient families of people we’ve never heard from, including their languages, and God has not chastised us for having no knowledge of them or their language or for having made no effort to “preserve” them, exactly as they were, in this present age. Why now the holy war against viable differences?
22 Alligator // Mar 15, 2005 at 6:57 pm
QUOTE “*Sure the words of every criminal here in America whether they are currently felons or ex-felons. The only thing they have left in their lives is the hope that someone would fall for their words such as these above. In every penal institution here in America we find these men and women searching and searching for the God and Jesus and even preaching the word of God (bible). Yet, when they are out of prison or jail they forget about God, Jesus and the bible.”
That is true too often Betty Ann. People do “learn the language” in order to try and manipulate the system. Nontheless, there have been genuine conversions within the prison system. But, because one accepts Christ in prison does not mean that they suddenly no longer have to fulfill their sentence. Even if Nichols did “repent” and express contrition after meeting Mrs. Smith, I think at the least he should serve the rest of his natural life in jail.
Like Dr. Y. said, we really don’t know what is in his mind and heart. If it is genuine faith, then he will have the opportunity to express it in prison (I don’t know if Georgia has a death penalty) If his faith is genuine and he is executed, then he goes to heaven earlier than most. Frankly,it is very possible that Nichols words were merely a reflection of the moment. God forgave King David for the murder of Urriah, but that did not mean that David escaped the consequences of his act. He had a lot of issues to work out for the rest of his life.
Also, when Nichols talked about about Mrs. Smith being “his angel” he was speaking allegorically. But I do not doubt that in this case, an angel or the Spirit of God was present to strenghten this woman and calm the raging beast within Nichols heart. But hers is a remarkable story and I suspect that one day we may see a book or something about this event.
23 Betty Ann // Mar 16, 2005 at 8:59 am
“Our ethnic differences were programmed into the First Couple’s DNA–so God planned it that way.” Wendy Johnson writes
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*Hi Wendy:
Can we really be sure of this? Where is it written in the bible that Adam and Eve carried every DNA of all the nations of today and the future. I myself feel Adam and Eve were pure. Pure in all aspects and were not of mixed bloods like many of us are today.
*He said He created Man in His own image. The image being the outer appearance that we can easily see. The spiritual part is the hiddenness that is kept secret in our bodies or homes and..
*I truly believe that God doesn’t keep track of us by our ethnicity, race, color, creed or nationality, but through our spirit and souls. It is our soul and spirit not our body that returns to Him…so in getting back to the story, I really believe that God seen the soul, spirit and deepest thoughts of Nichols and Ashley. And I believe a battle between the devil and Jesus was raging and once again goodness won.
She is to be commended for I seen the deepest fear in people who were at the mercy of hardened criminals. She is very, very lucky.
Betty Ann
24 Betty Ann // Mar 16, 2005 at 9:15 am
“I’m not saying I’m superstitious, entirely, but, the presence of a Bible in the room does work a power on anyone who has any idea of what’s in it.” Dr. Yeagley writes
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*Isn’t this the truth.
Betty Ann
25 Wendy Johnson // Mar 16, 2005 at 9:22 am
Hi Betty Ann,
I am at work now and would like to respond to your comments, but I will have to wait until I have my lunch hour. If Dr. Yeagley puts in a new column, look in the blogs for my response eventually. Thanks and have a good day!
–Wendy
26 Loving Bledsoe // Mar 16, 2005 at 10:56 am
Dr. Yeagley writes:
“I have an understanding of Mr. Nichols. I feel for him, with sincere pity. The difference between me and him, as dark men (that is, “medium complexion”), is I have racial pride. He doesn’t. He missed it. He wasn’t taught about it. He doesn’t have the understanding.”
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He was quoted as having said something to the effect of “I’m a soldier for my people.” He probably got this notion from one of the many rap ‘songs’ featuring lines referring to gangsta thugs as “soldiaz” and “superniggaz.”
It’s interesting that this fellow who brutally slew a justice of the peace and a court recorder can refer to himself as a “soldier for my people” in a way that makes this appear to be an act of racial warfare, and there’s nary a peep in the controlled press. They continue to ignore the silent holocaust being prepetrated by Blacks against Whites in this country.
And I still haven’t heard one word of apology from the controlled press for having falsely ‘convicted’ Matt Hale of the murder of Judge Lefkow’s family before the investigation had even begun! As a matter of fact, a number of Jewish ‘reporters’ are still harping on about the danger of a White-led race war while completely ignoring the real race war already ongoing in this country.
27 Wendy Johnson // Mar 16, 2005 at 1:46 pm
Hello Betty Ann,
“Can we really be sure of this? Where is it written in the bible that Adam and Eve carried every DNA of all the nations of today and the future. I myself feel Adam and Eve were pure. Pure in all aspects and were not of mixed bloods like many of us are today.”
I am persuaded that we can be sure that the genetic code (DNA) of humankind originated with Adam and Eve, created by God, as related in the Bible in Genesis. In the Bible, God asserts His authorship over all creation–all the secrets of the universe we have still no idea about, the secrets of this planet Earth, and right down to the secrets in ourselves–and the Bible shows His unwavering purpose for His whole creation. We can be sure He planned the races as they have manifested to this day–our words for them: negroid, caucasoid, asiatic–and all the families of nations that came from these divisions of humankind. God never called a race or mixture “impure” unless they were in rebellion against Him–a spiritual impureness–worshiping creatures and following the imagination of their fallen natures rather than the Creator.
“*He said He created Man in His own image. The image being the outer appearance that we can easily see. The spiritual part is the hiddenness that is kept secret in our bodies or homes and..”
The Bible says that God is a spirit, yet we are made in His image. The Bible teacher I listen to (and others I have heard) points out that the whole creation is geared toward threes. I would only add that an individual’s spirit inhabits his own living body, not his home, although I recognize you have a different view on spirits. A bad spirit can certainly be present at a location, but I think you were talking about one’s own spirit?
*I truly believe that God doesn’t keep track of us by our ethnicity, race, color, creed or nationality, but through our spirit and souls. It is our soul and spirit not our body that returns to Him…so in getting back to the story, I really believe that God seen the soul, spirit and deepest thoughts of Nichols and Ashley. And I believe a battle between the devil and Jesus was raging and once again goodness won.”
Yes, God “tracks” us through our relationship to Him, whether in rebellion or in belonging to Him. Right; all souls return to God (so we must be sure we are in compliance with His requirement!). The Bible certainly asserts that God knows our thoughts: Old Testment: “he knows what we say in the innermost chambers!” New Testament: “but Jesus knew their thoughts”. The devil certainly challenged the God-fearing Ashley, who overcame that evil through the leading of the Spirit of God, by her faith. However, I would say again that believers do not always come through physically unhurt; although she certainly was traumatized.
“She is to be commended for I seen the deepest fear in people who were at the mercy of hardened criminals. She is very, very lucky.”
I absolutely am in awe of anyone who has had to face extreme stress and peril and come through able to even talk about it. I sense you are a very compassionate person, from having seen this sort of thing. I hope we all soon come to the place where such things will be permanently removed from the earth. Of course, I speak of when Jesus has finally returns to reign and then the executes the judgment of all rebellious sinners, when “death and hades” are finally thrown into the lake of fire, and peace will then continue forever on this earth, redeemed and led by God Himself.
28 Betty Ann // Mar 16, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Wendy, your love for God and Jesus glows and sends warmth through your words. You too, are to be commended.
We are all here for a purpose. Thank you.
Betty Ann
29 Renee // Mar 22, 2005 at 1:01 pm
You’re very obsessed about race to be dissecting this story to this degree. Why is that? My life isn’t consumed by race. Why does yours seem to be?
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