Story Of Man Who Snubbed God & How His Corpse Was Tormented By Snakes

It is so interesting that over the years, we have seen men and women who have come out to outrightly deny the existence of God in many ways. We call them atheists in our modern language and we’ve seen many of them come and go.

Some have written books that even outlived them and some have made bold statements and there was no doubt about the fact the these people never believed in the existence of God. I’ve heard stories of very many atheists in the past and the one I would like us to talk about today is none other than the famous, Chester Bedell.

Chester Bedell was a man of influence and many people loved and hated in the same measure during his time. The none believers loved him because he was speaking their language. The Christians did not like him because he would cause chaos whenever he entered a church. While growing up, he was a man of faith but that later changed at a particular point of his life. The man had developed serious hatred for christ and the God of Christians that he would reach any extent to prove His none existence.

According to reports, the Man began to hate Christianity sometime later after marriage when it is said he was forced to say the creed of the church. By then he was a member of the Presbyterian church. From then, he developed deep passion for the hate of God and Christianity. He waged serious war against the church that lasted for almost 50 years.

He was totally against the church and wrote books to support his stand and to make himself right before the public. In his books, he denounced Christianity and termed it as a myth and all their doctrines as heresy.

He went as far as becoming a Bible student not to know God but so as to become a Bible critique. He also had a strong Jewish background that made him very good in his works and he was definitely a threat to the church and the entire christian fraternity.

The man was very smart and wealthy. He owned several acres of land and was very smart in the way he handled legal matters. He won lots of cases because he was very smart, bold and vindictive. He would go to churches not just to hear the word of God but to ridicule the Christians.

It is said that he had two Christian daughters and gave them a dollar each for inheritance and more than 2500 acres of land to his sons who did not believe in God.

Bedell challenged God is a very famous statement of his that said, “If there is a God and their is any truth in the Bible, let God infest my grave with snakes. One of the books he wrote was titled, “Universal Mental Liberty”.

When making his grave several years before his death, the man made a statue that surprised many people. It was a bronze statue of himself holding his book on one hand and a scroll representing the bible under his foot with words ‘Superstition’ written on the bible.

When one of his daughter was interviewed several years after his death, she said that, when her father was on his death bed, he was regretting a lot of things and most especially the statue he made of himself. According to the daughter, the father had wanted to destroy the statue but it was too late to do anything.

The most surprising thing is his grave. When the grave was dug years later, two huge snakes were killed. When they wanted to lower the casket again, another giant snake had to be removed from the grave. This was about 24 years after he died. Ever since, the place has been inhabited by snakes and as a matter of fact the gravesite has become a haven of snakes. There are snakes all over and anytime you visit the place you will see snakes except only when it has rained.

The grave is full of snake halls and has become one of the greatest tourist attraction sites when one wants to see different kinds of snakes. Many believe that God decided to take the dare and his word was fulfilled. Chester died on the 6th of December the year 1908. It is said he died of paralytic stroke.