Trending News|September 03, 2015 09:50 EDT
'19 Kids and Counting' Cast News: Ben Seewald's Dad Slams Josh Duggar in Blog Post
The family of the Duggars from the hit TLC reality series '19 Kids and Counting' have been in a tough spot lately as the eldest of the children, Josh Duggar, had been previously involved in a scandal about a deed done in his teenage years and about his recent admission of cheating on his wife Anna Duggar.
And to put the family in an even more in an intense situation, Michael Seewald, the father of Jessa Duggar's husband, Ben Seewald, recently spoke about the whole situation involving Jessa's brother, Josh. While some may speculate that the blog post will be in defense of Josh, it was the exact opposite.
Josh, in Michael's opinion, is completely on the wrong side and his blog post explained why. Being Christian has been a strong aspect in the lives of the Duggar family and the recent cheating admission of Josh apparently pushed Michael to say something.
In Michael's latest blog post titled, "Grief, Shame, and Taking the Lord's Name in Vain," he spoke of the situation that Josh is currently in. "It distresses me to say that Josh Duggar's greatest sin is a byproduct of the sum total of his secretly sinful lifestyle. That is, that by his hypocrisy, he blasphemed the name of God," Michael wrote.
"He claimed to be a Christian, but by his deeds he has suggested otherwise. With the name of God on his lips he lived a covert and extensive lifestyle of evil," he added. "The thing that is so hurtful is that he was a loud voice endorsing Christian ethics and he has been shown to be a fraud. I am profoundly grieved that he attained such a platform only to bring shame on God's holy name and the Christian faith."
Michael even went on to direct the post to the readers and stressing that Josh pretended to be what he previously claimed to be. "To the person reading this, I want to caution you. Josh was a pretender," he continued. "True Christians fail often, but their lives are truly being conformed to the image of Christ. Do not look at Josh and justify your own sins by dismissing the reality of genuine faith and a holy God."
The post was apparently to vindicate the name of God according to Michael clarifying everything writing, "Though I have never gotten to know Josh very well, I have great respect for his sorrowing parents and immense sympathy for his dear wife Anna and their four children," he wrote. "I myself have been mourning over the irreparable damage that has been done to many by this whole circumstance, yet the reason I feel obliged to make these remarks is an overwhelming desire to vindicate the name of God."