Posted on 01/06/2006 12:23:37 PM PST by FeeinTennessee
White House Criticizes Pat Robertson
The White House sharply criticized Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson on Friday for suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for "dividing God's land."
"Those comments are wholly inappropriate and offensive and really don't have a place in this or any other debate," presidential spokesman Trent Duffy said as Bush traveled to Chicago for a speech.
Robertson made his comments about Israel and Sharon on his TV program, "The 700 Club." He said, "God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine."'
Sharon, who ordered Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year, suffered a severe stroke on Wednesday.
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I'm going back over to order the book before it's banned and burnt.
From your link:
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
What do these major record-setting events have in common?
*Nine of the ten costliest insurance events in U.S. history
*Six of the seven costliest hurricanes in U.S. history
*Three of the four largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history
*Nine of the top ten natural disasters in U.S. history ranked by FEMA relief costs
*The two largest terrorism events in U.S. history
All of these major catastrophes transpired on the very same day or within 24-hours of U.S. presidents Bush, Clinton and Bush applying pressure on Israel to trade her land for promises of "peace and security," sponsoring major "land for peace" meetings, making major public statements pertaining to Israel’s covenant land and /or calling for a Palestinian state.
Are each one of these major record-setting events just a coincidence or awe-inspiring signs that God is actively involved in the affairs of Israel?
In this book, Bill Koenig provides undeniable facts and conclusive evidence showing that indeed the leaders of the United States and the world are on a collision course with God over Israel’s covenant land.
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:9)
About the Author
Bill Koenig is the president of "Koenig’s International News." The daily news service has readers in 50 states and 79 countries. Bill co-authored, Israel: The Blessing or the Curse in 2001. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with a B.S. in Communications. He has a M.A. in Communications from Louisiana Baptist University. Bill and his wife reside in the Washington D.C. area where he is a White House Correspondent.
For contradictions: How exactly did Judas die?"
Matthew 27:5
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
So how did he die? Both cannot literally be true. I was taught that the second one describes his spiritual death (falling from God) and the first one his physical death, but however you wish to look at it they cannot both be read literally.
For scientific inaccuracies: A bat is not a bird.
Leviticus 11:13-19
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; / Every raven after his kind; / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, / And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, / And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
A bat may resemble in some ways a bird, but it is not a bird.
Is that specific enough for you? We cannot read every word literally, or these passages contain mistakes. Either there is some poetic license for effect, or there is a translation error, or somebody just plain got something wrong.
When Libs do that, we call them America-haters, and rightly so.
What that book is suggesting is America-bashing too. Crap.
Thank you for putting all that info. up. It's important, a friend told me about that book. I think it's definitely worth the read.
Remember in the Bible? God says "whoever will bless Israel, I will bless, and those who curse Israel, I will curse?". Not exact words, but that's what He said. America better support Israel fully.
323 posted on 01/07/2006 12:21:04 PM MST by highball
You are jumping to conclusions.
Read the book before you condemn it.
b'shem Y'shua
I don't have to defend my stridently Conservative, pro-Constitutional, American Patriotism.
I don't put anything above God, Family and Country.
I am only interested in truth, above all and sometimes the truth doesn't fit into our own personal, present understanding or comfort.
I look forward to reading this book and determining if there is truth to be gleaned from it.
Have a blessed day!
I'm taking DoNotDivide on his word.
If DoNotDivide is correct, and the book is suggesting in any way that America is reponsible for 9/11, because of our policy towards Israel, the numbers of gays and lesbians in our nation, or our oil policy for that matter, it's crap.
America isn't responsible for 9/11. Terrorist scumbags are. Anyone who suggests shifting the responsibility onto our nation is full of it and I have no problem saying so.
Welcome to Free Republic
327 posted on 01/07/2006 12:52:23 PM MST by highball
You seem very irrational and not at all intellectual.
You jump to conclusions before you examine the evidence.
You must be an evolutionist taking as fact
an old hypothetical construct
and calling it scientific.
Open your mind and review Koenig’s hypothetical construct
See what he is saying and then make up your mind.
Koenig is reviewing the correlation of facts
which on their face are very disturbing.
b'shem Y'shua
I missed that verse in Sunday school. Your boy Robertson was editorializing.
Gen 12:2 - 3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. selah
KABC Radio's Al Rantel put it best a few nights ago on his evening show asking why if God would cause Mr. Sharon's stroke for giving up Israeli territory, why wouldn't he cause something to happen to Adolf Hitler when he was busy exterminating millions of Jews during the holocaust?
Bottom Line-Mr. Robertson is a total whack job and GNC needs to pull his line of diet shakes from their nationwide stores ASAP. I wouldn't think GNC would want to have ANY connection with this guy!!
Absolutely!
Now take a lesson. I have no intention of playing a running game of Biblical ping-pong with you, but I will answer your two points. And hopefully, in that answering, show you that proudly giving the benefit of the doubt to critics is one of the characteristics that separates the faithless from the faithful.
The Bible says God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him, not those that diligently impugn Him. People like you hide behind and constantly parrot the word "literally" to draw attention away from the fact you don't take the Bible "seriously."
How exactly did Judas die?" ...Both cannot literally be true.
Sure they can. No body ever claimed the Bible was comprehensive.
A bat may resemble in some ways a bird, but it is not a bird.
And I suppose the Bible has geography errors because it refers to Iran and Iraq as "Persia."
Really, I can't believe an adult can engage in such pedantry and expect to be taken seriously.
How do you claim a scientific inaccuracy based on a naming convention that came AFTER the naming convention you're calling an error? And make no mistake, our taxonomic catagories, while possessing a structure, are conventions. There is nothing in the fabric of the universe that requires us to catagorize by one characteristic and not another, nor is there anything prohibiting an ancient from placing small flying mammals in the "bird" catagory.
That's like saying a scientist can change your name to John Smith today, then have you charged with fraud for identifying yourself with a different name yesterday. Likewise, was an ancient Greek scientifically inaccurate because he refered to "man" as "anthropos?"
I learned a long time ago, the Bible is greater than the sum of its parts. To borrow a phrase: the Bible is a message system: it's not simply 66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years, the Bible is an integrated whole which bears evidence of supernatural engineering in every detail.
If you look for "contradictions" as a sceptic, God has obliged you. If you find contradictions as a believer, you will find they are flags that God has hidden an "easter egg" for those that will diligently investigate.
b'shem Y'shua
About twenty years now.
;o)
In my car going back and fourth to work.
But only for the last ten years
b'shem Y'shua
"Acts 1:18
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out."
My Bible interprets "headlong" as "swelling up". It would seem that Judas' body, whilst hanging in the sun, swelled and when it was cut down, burst.
It was the chief priest, who having removed the "blood money" from the treasury, bought the potter's field and called it the Field of Blood.
One word..retirement.
The prevailing view according to the sources I use is he hung himself, but whatever he hung himself from broke.
An interesting stretch.
Shows you how far you have to go to try and justify every single word if you insist on reading each word literally.
I did read what you wrote, and you and your buddy Robertson are both making fools of yourselves.
Comprehend that!!
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