| Author | Message | ||
| Cloudwatcher Registered user Username: Cloudwatcher Post Number: 21 Registered: 5-2009 |
Anyone catch Dr. Phil yesterday? This guy is destroying his family financially and in other ways, but he's adamant about keeping Sabbath and paying tithe. He's SDA (said so on the show). We got a good chuckle out of it yesterday...Dr. Phil and the guy's wife kept referring to his off-the-wall religious beliefs... Here's the gist (from drphil.com): Unemployment is up, home values are down and salaries are frozen. Meet one woman who says that she wants to get a divorce, but with the country's economic crisis, she can’t afford to leave her spouse. Tracy, a stay-at-home mom, says she's reached a breaking point in her 13-year marriage to David. She says he hasn’t paid the mortgage in two years, and now their home is in foreclosure. To make matters worse, Tracy says the IRS is after her for $10,000 because David filed frivolous tax returns in her name. David says he doesn’t want a divorce, and he wants his wife to trust that he’ll get them out of their financial jam. Should Tracy stay in the marriage, or should she take her kids and go? Family attorney Areva Martin weighs in. from: http://drphil.com/shows/show/1303/ | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 310 Registered: 12-2007 |
oh.... I wanna see that... can we see the show on utube or someplace ?? I would love to have that on DVD. | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 1800 Registered: 4-2000  |
Skeeter, The tape or transcript can be ordered online at the link given by Cloudwatcher. Dennis Fischer | ||
| Gcfrankie Registered user Username: Gcfrankie Post Number: 580 Registered: 1-2007 |
Cloudwatcher, I saw that show and let me tell you if that had been my husband taking out hugh loans using my ss# he would have found the feds at the door for him for fraud. She is now liable for all those loans and I don't know how she is going to pay them off with the economy being so bad and jobs so hard to find. Do I think she should divorce him? You bet! She did not say if she is a christian or not but she should seek the Lord first and then protect her children from a thief and liar so they will not learn it is o-kay to do this to others. Did you notice his stock answer: "I don't want a divorce and I will get us out of this mess." All we can do is pray for her and especially for the children caught in the middle of this. Gail | ||
| Psalm107v2 Registered user Username: Psalm107v2 Post Number: 421 Registered: 10-2008  |
I can hear the spin doctors in the Washington/maryland headquarters preparing their stock answer to distance themselves from this fellow now | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 7456 Registered: 3-2004  |
Oh, yes, the spin doctors in Washington/Maryland will have their answers and will distance themselves from this guy. I agree with Gail that we need to pray for the children caught in the middle and for the wife. I will not say what I would like to do to him. Diana L | ||
| Handmaiden Registered user Username: Handmaiden Post Number: 124 Registered: 7-2008 |
sooooooo very very sad for everyone involved. My heart goes out to this poor family. | ||
| Cloudwatcher Registered user Username: Cloudwatcher Post Number: 22 Registered: 5-2009 |
Yes, my heart goes out to her and her kids... (that's not the part that we were chuckling about, btw). I suspect this guy will be in jail soon...I don't know how you go on national tv and admit you're breaking the law and expect otherwise. | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1048 Registered: 7-2007 |
People in pseudo-Christian cults give Christianity a bad name. The Roman Catholics had the inquisition, and in modern times RCC priests have been in the news with the evil they've done to kids. I'm not surprised about this. As long as an unsaved person in a cult more-or-less keeps the check-list he's gotten in his mind as to what he thinks God requires; then as far as he's concerned, he's okay. (When I was an Adventist, I had a "check-list." Don't eat "unclean" meats. Check the labels of cans to make sure of the same. "Keep" the Sabbath. Ask forgiveness regularly. Then MAYBE be saved when Jesus comes back.) I had no idea that a real Christian is saved the moment he/she accepts Jesus. The Holy Spirit immediately starts work in that soul - so they obviously wouldn't do what that man on Dr. Phil did - but they "HAVE BEEN SAVED" the moment they accept Christ. Eph. 2:8,9; 2nd Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5. I feel sorry for not only the woman trapped in that marriage, but for the man as well. He "keeps" the Sabbath and tithes; but his spirit is dead. | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 315 Registered: 12-2007 |
I bet his branch of SDA is not happy about this program... bet they wish he'd kept his mouth shut about being a SDA. LOL |
