Current Events > Painting of Jesus miraculously survives inferno that destroyed an entire church.

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A lightning strike reportedly ignited a massive inferno Tuesday night at the 150-year-old First Baptist Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts, destroying almost everything inside -- but amid the rubble, crews miraculously found one painting survived the hellish flames.

A painting depicting Jesus Christ standing in a white robe with hands, bearing the marks of crucifixion, extended survived nearly untouched with only a few drops of water on it. The painting hung just inside the churchs front doors.

Its a beautiful sign of hope and a reminder that Jesus is with us, church member Maria Kakolowski told Boston 25. I am personally just taking it as a sign and a reminder that the Jesus, the Christ that we serve is still alive and even though our church building is gone, our church is here. The God that we serve is still here.

Crews began dismantling the remnants of the historic building Wednesday morning. There is no official cause of the fire, however, residents nearby said they saw lightning hit the churchs steeple.

The fire was reported after powerful thunderstorms rolled through the Greater Boston area.

In a statement, church officials expressed their gratitude no parishioners were hurt and thanked the fire department for battling the seven-alarm blaze.

We know that we serve a God who specializes in restoring brokenness and who can bring beauty even from ashes, they wrote. So we move into the future with trust, hope, and gratitude.

A GoFundMe page was created to help the church.

Interim pastor Norm Bendroth told Boston 25 that he was settling down to watch the Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series on Tuesday night when he saw a fireball in the sky.

It just went up like a tinderbox. Its a building built in 1870 and its a balloon-style so one the fire starts you know the whole building just went up quickly, he said.

According to the National Register of Historic Places, the Italianate structure was constructed around 1872 and rebuilt in 1912 after a fire.

The estimated damage was more than $1 million, with the towns fire chief, Michael Sullivan, telling the Boston Globe the extent of the fire on arrival was just too great for us to stop it.

He added: Its a shame, beautiful church. We feel bad about that but theres really nothing we could do."

Full Article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/painting-of-jesus-miraculously-survives-inferno-at-historic-massachusetts-church




It's like a video game where the main character dropped an inventory item inside a burning building and the item somehow doesn't burn because it wasn't programmed to
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So Jesus wasn't powerful enough to stop the building from burning down is what I should take from this?

#blessed
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Irregardless posted...

So Jesus wasn't powerful enough to stop the building from burning down is what I should take from this?

coinstarcad posted...

Irregardless posted...

So Jesus wasn't powerful enough to stop the building from burning down is what I should take from this?

stick to one account pls
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Similarly something like this happened I Hawaii once. If you go to the visitor center at the top of the volcano on the Big Island, they have an old photo of a shrine to Pele, goddess of the volcano, on the side of the mountain. It's taken after a eruption and shows lava flowing all around the shrine but not touching it

I also heard a story where lava hit a neighborhood but the lava mysteriously avoided the house of the one person who is a devout worshiper of Pele

Bloodychess posted...

stick to one account pls

An act of God wiped a church out......

LOL
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No miracle needed.
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Rofl. Strange to see my hometown on CE. I went to preschool in that church and its where my parents got married.
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Aelia posted...

Rofl. Strange to see my hometown on CE. I went to preschool in that church and its where my parents got married.

:(

It sucks that is now just rubble.
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Yeah good thing no one was hurt.

https://imgtc.com/a/GgT9TkU
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So when packed churches in Rwanda were turned into hellish extermination centres and the Interahamwe militia were dismembering and burning small children alive under God's roof, God was too busy to answer the phone. But when a portrait of his kid is under threat, he straightaway reaches down with a protecting hand to save it and this is proof of just how much he loves humanity. I'm shaking my head.
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Firewerx posted...

So when packed churches in Rwanda were turned into hellish extermination centres and the Interahamwe militia were dismembering and burning small children alive under God's roof, God was too busy to answer the phone. But when a portrait of his kid is under threat, he straightaway reaches down with a protecting hand to save it and this is proof of just how much he loves humanity.

Please stop trying to sell me on your superstitions, because I don't think I'd feel comfortable worshipping the thing you've chosen as your deity.

You're just going to get a lot of "fedora tip/euphoric/edgy" responses to that even if it's something that should be brought up.
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Buildings burn down every day, random as shit survives every day.

Coincidences happen.
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Southernfatman posted...

Firewerx posted...

So when packed churches in Rwanda were turned into hellish extermination centres and the Interahamwe militia were dismembering and burning small children alive under God's roof, God was too busy to answer the phone. But when a portrait of his kid is under threat, he straightaway reaches down with a protecting hand to save it and this is proof of just how much he loves humanity.

Please stop trying to sell me on your superstitions, because I don't think I'd feel comfortable worshipping the thing you've chosen as your deity.

You're just going to get a lot of "fedora tip/euphoric/edgy" responses to that even if it's something that should be brought up.

I know. I edited the last bit in case UnfairRepresent took it personally, which wasn't my intention.
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Irregardless posted...

Bloodychess posted...

stick to one account pls

i know who this is....happens to be ROD.
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Probably a mere coincidence.
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Sounds more like Jesus was taking credit for the fire in the first place.
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LordMarshal posted...

An act of God wiped a church out......

LOL

maybe a different god destroyed the church and Jesus was only able to rescue the painting

Irregardless posted...

So Jesus wasn't powerful enough to stop the building from burning down is what I should take from this?

why anyone felt the need to post after this is beyond me
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the works of Lucifer
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Jesus: 1
Zeus: 0
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Im surprised no one went the Jesus did it cause of all the foul shit going on in churches route.

I feel like I seen a story of a church getting hit like a year or 2 ago too. This could be proof that religion isn't bullshit >_>
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Im surprised no one went the Jesus did it cause of all the foul shit going on in churches route.

I feel like I seen a story of a church getting hit like a year or 2 ago too. This could be proof that religion isn't bullshit >_>

maybe they should look in on the priest of that church and see if he's up to anything

Zikten posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Im surprised no one went the Jesus did it cause of all the foul shit going on in churches route.

I feel like I seen a story of a church getting hit like a year or 2 ago too. This could be proof that religion isn't bullshit >_>

maybe they should look in on the priest of that church and see if he's up to anything

That and see what the guy who handles the collection plate is driving.
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eston posted...

Jesus: 1
Zeus: 0

Zeus still fired the lightning bolt so technically, 1:1 which means
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0mBq0N9EjMU/maxresdefault.jpg
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Jagr_68 posted...

eston posted...

Jesus: 1
Zeus: 0

Zeus still fired the lightning bolt so technically, 1:1 which means
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0mBq0N9EjMU/maxresdefault.jpg

lol
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