C*******t 发帖数: 766 | 1 A pastor who took payments from Latino families under the guise of helping
them with immigration issues pleaded guilty today to a felony.
Jorge Rodrigo Lopez Chinchilla, commonly known as Jorge Lopez, was sentenced
to eight years of probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $19,350
to 14 victims or face time in prison, a statement from Marion County
Prosecutor Terry Curry said.
“Jorge Lopez took advantage of members of the Latino community using his
position of trust in the church and capitalizing on the families’ legal
circumstances, providing them with nothing more than a false sense of hope
and fraudulent documents,” Curry said.
According to the plea agreement entered today, Lopez pleaded guilty to
corrupt business influence, a Class C felony. He originally was charged with
corrupt business influence, four counts of forgery and five counts of theft
. Convictions on all of those charges could have put him in prison for up to
40 years.
Lopez was charged in August 2013 after a nearly yearlong investigation by
the prosecutor’s office. The investigation revealed several instances where
Lopez took cash from friends and family members that was intended to pay
the bonds of individuals being held by U.S. Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement, the prosecutor’s office said. In one instance, a victim paid
Lopez to intervene in the deportation of her husband. The victim’s husband
was deported three days later, and Lopez refused to refund the money,
stating that it had been paid to the immigration office.
Lopez also accepted cash from an undercover officer to remove an immigration
hold on someone detained in the Marion County Jail, indicating that the
individual would be released on bond the next day, the statement from the
prosecutor’s office said. However, that individual already had been
transported eight days earlier to another location and never received a bond.
Lopez identified himself as pastor of Iglesia De Cristo Nuevo and used the
church as a meeting location for collecting money from the victims, the
prosecutor’s office said. | n********n 发帖数: 8336 | 2 不错。欢迎对基督教进行监督, 揪出基督教中的败类。 | J*******g 发帖数: 8775 | 3 对于新教来说牧师只是在神学和讲道上更擅长些,不见得在信仰上比其他信徒更强。没
必要因为一个牧师犯错就否定整个基督教。哪个人的群体不犯错呢。我们也不会因为一
个中国人犯错,就否定所有中国人吧。
看到基督徒犯错也没必要大惊小怪。圣经曾反复强调信徒要避免继续作恶,不要把耶稣给
信徒的自由作为作恶的借口。等等。
money
1 Timothy 6:10
New International Version (NIV)
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people,
eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with
many griefs.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;
live as God's slaves.
Galatians 5:13
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your
freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and
debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits
of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy;
drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those
who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
耶稣告诉基督徒要不断的完善自己,爱人如己。同时基督教还相信撒旦的存在,所以基
督徒不光要跟自己身上的罪斗争,还要抵御撒旦的诱惑。基督徒去除自身的罪是一个过
程,直到身体死亡都在进行的过程。
耶稣曾告诫过哪些不思悔改,继续作恶的人,神的国度不让他们进去。
27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away
from me, all you evildoers!’
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【在 C*******t 的大作中提到】![](/moin_static193/solenoid/img/up.png) : A pastor who took payments from Latino families under the guise of helping : them with immigration issues pleaded guilty today to a felony. : Jorge Rodrigo Lopez Chinchilla, commonly known as Jorge Lopez, was sentenced : to eight years of probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $19,350 : to 14 victims or face time in prison, a statement from Marion County : Prosecutor Terry Curry said. : “Jorge Lopez took advantage of members of the Latino community using his : position of trust in the church and capitalizing on the families’ legal : circumstances, providing them with nothing more than a false sense of hope : and fraudulent documents,” Curry said.
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