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Is Pat Robertson a Sinner or a Prophet? Does your God kill? Please read this news article and you judge.
WASHINGTON - Below you will find the statement Pat Robertson actually said. You will then read statements from people around America. Then at the bottom you will read what the Bible really says.
Speaking on his Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," Did Robertson say God was punishing Sharon for dividing the land of Israel? Sharon, who engineered Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year, suffered a massive stroke Wednesday.
This is the exact quote: "Sharon was personally a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition, but I think we need to look at the Bible and the Book of Joel. The prophet Joel makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who 'divide my land,' " Robertson said.
Sharon "was dividing God's land, and I would say: Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course ... ," the 75-year-old Baptist minister said.
 | | Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie |
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said Robertson's latest comments violated "simple human decency" and were "profoundly offensive."
 | | Abraham H. Foxman |
Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it is "outrageous and shocking, but not surprising, that Pat Robertson once again has suggested that God will punish Israel's leaders for any decision to give up land to the Palestinians. His remarks are un-Christian and a perversion of religion."
Evangelical leaders said Friday that they were embarrassed and incensed by televangelist Pat Robertson's
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There really is a lot more to this story.......
assertion that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who had suffered a massive stroke, was stricken by God as punishment for ceding the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank to Palestinians last summer.
Officials of conservative Christian churches and organizations suggested that Robertson was losing religious and political influence as a result of his remarks on Sharon and other recent controversial comments.
 | | Richard Land |
"I'm appalled that Pat Robertson would make such statements. He ought to know better," said Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination.
"The arrogance of the statement shocks me almost as much as the insensitivity of it," Land said in an interview.
 | | Ted Haggard |
Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Assn. of Evangelicals, said that Robertson no more spoke for evangelicals than "Dr. Phil," the television show host, spoke for psychologists.
Haggard said that for whatever reason, Robertson "does not seem to be weighing his words." He said that Sharon's illness could be medically explained.
"Ariel Sharon is 77 years old. He's grossly overweight. He's been under pressure his whole life. So I think any doctor could have predicted he was going to have health problems," Haggard said. "I doubt that God sovereignly is punishing him."
He called Sharon "a wonderful friend" of evangelicals.
The concerns voiced by evangelical leaders Friday came as the White House sharply criticized the televangelist's remarks as "wholly inappropriate and offensive."
 | | Rev. Kevin Mannoia |
The Rev. Kevin Mannoia, chaplain at Azusa Pacific University and past president of the National Assn. of Evangelicals, was among those who suggested that Robertson's comments could have been a misguided effort to restore his once powerful standing as a religious and political voice in America by creating new controversy.
"I wonder whether, consciously or subconsciously, this is an effort on the part of an individual who has significant influence in the church and the country and recognized that influence is waning," Mannoia said.
"He continues to try to maintain that influence by increasingly controversial statements — perhaps statements out of desperation, perhaps statements out of [wanting] more attention," he said.
 | | Alan Wisdom |
Alan Wisdom,president of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy, a Washington political action group, said he was embarrassed by Robertson.
He said Robertson should have carefully weighed his words, if only because he was viewed by many non-evangelicals as the face of evangelical Christianity in America.
 | | Senator John Kerry |
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) called for an apology from Rev. Pat Robertson for comments that suggested Sharon's stroke was a punishment from God.
"At a time like this, you'd expect bigoted tin-horn dictators and petty thugs like President Ahmadinejad of Iran to attack Sharon, but no American who claims to be a leader should stoop so low,"
 | | Angell Watts |
Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of critics who challenged his remarks, "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?' "
"This is what the word of God says," Watts said. "This is nothing new to the Christian community."
Personal Note: I wonder if any of these men read the bible, including Ted Haggard, Richard Land, Kevin Mannoia and even Kerry.
Please read these bible verses before you make up your mind.
Does God Kill
1Samuel 2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
God Killed children and animals
Exodus 12:29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
God Killed the Egyptian army
Exodus 14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen." 27 .... and the LORD swept them into the sea. 28 The water ... covered the.. entire army of Pharaoh .... Not one of them survived.
God Killed Ahab and 70 of his children
1Kings 21:17 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: 18 "Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, ... 19 Say to him, ... 'This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!' " 20 ... Elijah said: ...."because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD. 21 'I am going to bring disaster on you. I will consume (kill your sons).... 22 ...., because you have provoked me to anger and have caused Israel to sin.' 23 "And also concerning Jezebel the LORD says: 'Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.' 24 "Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds of the air will feed on those who die in the country." 25 (There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD,
New Testament - God Killed two for lying to Holy Spirit
Acts 5:3 Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit ....5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. ....7About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8Peter asked her, "Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?" "Yes," she said, "that is the price." 9 Peter said to her, "How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? .... 10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died.
New Testament - God Killed Herod for Pride
Acts 12:21 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. 22They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man." 23Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Isaiah 13: 5-11 They come ... from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his wrath to destroy all the land. ...Behold the day of the Lord comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it...And I will punish the world for their evil, .....
Isaiah 66: 15 For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD'S wrath; And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, ...
In the New Testament, it is also referred to as the day of the wrath or anger of God.
Re 6: 17 the great day of their wrath has come and who is able to stand.
Revelation 11: 18 and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.
Re 15: 7 seven golden bowls that were full of the anger of God
Mark 13: 24-25 the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling out of heaven and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
Acts 2: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
What made God Kill His Own Son?
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
I have found over 500 verses in the old testament and the New that shows God moving in wrath and letting people die for their sin
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