Posted on 12/15/2009 2:22:10 PM PST by DBCJR
Television evangelist Oral Roberts ... has died after suffering a weekend fall. He was 91.
The Oral Roberts Ministries site Tuesday stated Roberts had been admitted to hospital on the weekend after a fall and had been suffering symptoms of pneumonia.
"Oral Roberts was the greatest man of God I've ever known," his son Richard Roberts, who leads the ministry, said in a statement.
"A modern-day apostle of the healing ministry, an author, educator, evangelist, prophet, and innovator, he was the only man of his generation to build a worldwide ministry, an accredited university, and a medical school. His name is synonymous with miracles. And he came along when many in Christendom did not believe in God's power and goodness."
... Granville Oral Roberts was one of the most famous and influential Christian leaders and was renowned as an evangelist, author, educator, and television personality.
When he was 17, Roberts was told he had tuberculosis, but recovered after months in bed.
Roberts established the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association in Oklahoma in 1947 and conducted healing crusades across America and around the world in a great "tent cathedral." Each night, thousands who were sick and dying came for healing prayer.
Through the years, he conducted more than 300 healing crusades in more than 35 countries on six continents. It's estimated that Roberts personally laid hands on more than two million people for healing prayer.
The son of a preacher started out with revival meetings in tents, but later went to the airwaves of radio and television.
The university he founded now has nearly 4,000 students and follows Roberts' guiding principle of "educating the whole person."
"God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person," Roberts once said.
Roberts was no stranger to controversy.
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I guess he didn’t reach his fund raising goal.
Ping for later
He’s died at least a half dozen times today...
You beat me to it.
I learned a great deal from him. I was blessed because of his teaching no only spiritual, but financially. If God can send another man just like Oral Roberts the next generation will be blessed.
THank you LORD for Oral RObert’s obidience as unto you and his good work on. I know that he is walking on the streets of gold and YOU have said to him “Well done thou good and faithful servant, come into my fold”
I hope you have the guts to say that to God when you face HIM face to face.
Be careful, you pay here and the world to come. Your sins will find you out.
God say: “do not touch my annointed ones”
Lighten up Francis.
If I had 1 billion dollars, I would offer it to the first person who could provide proof of being healed by this man’s laying on of hands.
Unfortunately, I cannot make the offer. Fiduciary responsibility prevents me from making a false award promise. It seems it never slowed Mr. Roberts down.
A rich man gave a large sum of money to Mr. Roberts in response to Mr. Roberts claiming that if he did not get the funds he needed, “God would call him home”. The rich man told Mr. Roberts to never say or do such a thing again as a condition of giving the ransom Roberts demanded.
This is true, he is what he is, a shameless Elmer Gantry charlatan. What he is up to now is not for anyone to say or to judge, but what he did then is available to anyone interested in learning of it.
Oral Roberts is a prime example of the evil side of religion.
Well, he claims to have raised the dead. Maybe he can raise himself.
Don't worry antiRepublicrat. This "anointed one" and his devoted followers have no more power to harm you than dear brother Oral had the "power" to heal.
The following doctrinal errors are part of Oral Roberts' teaching:
Over fifty years of false claims, and the Christian world still holds Oral Roberts in esteem, considering him a great man of God.
FALSE PROPHECIES & OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS
How does Oral Roberts claim that God would kill him if he failed to raise 8 million dollars for the City of Faith, which at the time was failing because of a lack of funding. Since when is failure to raise a specific amount of money part of a capital offense in the law of God? That is not found in the Scripture. How convenient is it to receive a revelation just when the funds were needed the most? In his original claims, Oral Roberts said that God wanted the 8 million dollars to be used in order to send medical missionaries throughout the world. The money was used to keep the City of Faith operational in the face of failure, instead of being used as God had wished.
But the real question is in relation to Oral & Richard Roberts' support of the City of Faith and the claims that were made about it. Oral Roberts stated that he received a revelation from God (when he claimed to have seen the 900 foot tall Jesus Christ), and that Jesus Christ specifically told him to build the City of Faith and that it would be successful. The revelation was received in 1977 and by 1989 the City of Faith was closed as a financial failure. Employees and students were dismissed and the entire facility (never completed or completely occupied) was abandoned.
Oral Roberts claims to serve the God and Jesus Christ of the Bible, but if he received a revelation from God and Jesus Christ that the City of Faith would be successful, then his claims about Them make Them out to be liars. Since it is impossible for God or Jesus Christ to lie (Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18), then either Oral Roberts lied about receiving a revelation or he was mentally impaired or deceived by a vision from Satan and did not know the difference. In any case, he is denied credibility as a prophet or revelator.
Oral Roberts also said that God told him to find a cure for cancer, through the research facilities of the City of Faith, but the cure was never found before the City of Faith failed and was abandoned. How is it that God told Oral Roberts to find a cure for cancer when He knew that the cure would not be found?
In the face of the failure of the City of Faith, Oral Roberts had to find a reason to explain the result, and far from the failure being the fault of Oral Roberts, amazingly he received a revelation from God, in which God stated that He had precipitated the failure as a testimony to all people of the world, that "this concept of merging My healing streams [is] to be known to all people and to go into all future generations."
"I had you build the City of Faith large enough to capture the imagination of the entire world, about the merging of My healing streams of prayer and medicine. I did not want this revelation localized in Tulsa, however, and the time has come when I want this concept of merging My healing streams to be known to all people and to go into all future generations,"
--- Claimed words of God given to Oral Roberts in a revelation
"It is clearly in my spirit, as I have ever heard Him, the Lord gave me an impression, 'You and your partners have merged prayer and medicine for the entire world, for the church world and for all generations.' And then He said, 'It is done.' And then I asked, 'Is that why after eight years you are having us close the hospital and after eleven years the medical school?' And God said, 'Yes, the mission has been accomplished in the same way that after three years of public ministry, my Son said on the cross, ""Father, it is finished!""'"
--- Oral Roberts
Oral Roberts claimed that God told him that the demise of the City of Faith is equated to be on the same level of importance as the finish of the ministry of Jesus Christ and his statement on the cross, "It is finished." That is simply an outrageous statement to make by Oral Roberts, because it equates his buildings and medical training center as being of the same value as the atonement accomplished on the cross by the death of Jesus Christ.
Failure and success are redefined by Oral Roberts to mean just the opposite of what they actually are, and the building of hospitals, training centers and research centers is for a much different reason than their stated purpose. Oral Roberts' claim is that God's definition of success is failure and the merging of His "healing streams" into the world is to build and then close down hospitals, medical training and research centers. God's command to send out medical missionaries is to send out none and his command to find a cure for cancer is to abandon the search. And then it is claimed that the secular world is to be impressed? The secular world was not impressed and laughed at the impudence of Oral Roberts. It was only the undiscerning religious world who gave their millions to the City of Faith, only to see it squandered on a failed speculation and finally lost to history by the demise of the project. Still, the undiscerning numbers believe the backward reasoning provided by Oral Roberts and ignore the reality that the god of Oral Roberts fails to keep his promises and uses the avenue of the lie in order to obtain money for his failed projects.
Oral considered himself to be a prophet?
And just what have you done for advancing the cause of Christ? Who are you to judge the man so harshly? Moronic Liberals spew such nonsense accusations like this..Are you one?
Oral Roberts was a charlatan that swindled old ladies their needed money. He was a thief, nothing more.
See the post directly above yours.
Obama’s Fault.
Oral was told to raise that ten million, and then Obama devalued the dollar.
“Lighten up Francis.”
That was the best line from “Stripes”
Or was that profit?
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