OK OK......I've read enough. This has GOT to be the stupidest, most small-minded, ignorant bunch of replies I've ever read on a single thread in six years on FR.
Stick your arrogance, people. If you think God can't or doesn't talk to people.......ever..........get it over with and renounce any connection to Christianity and become a f**king Muslim.
Did Robertson hear God on this one? I don't know; he says he did. Maybe he really did, maybe not. That's not the point.
The point here is that I'm SICK of smartasses on FR denigrating Christianity, especially of the evangelical side of the house.
It happens. Deal with it. If you don't believe it can, change churches. You're in the wrong one.
correction to the above............EIGHT years on FR..................
"OK OK......I've read enough. This has GOT to be the stupidest, most small-minded, ignorant bunch of replies I've ever read on a single thread in six years on FR.
Stick your arrogance, people."
Wow! I'm so sorry. I take it all back. I've seen your photo on your FreepPage, and I know when I'm whipped. I'll say no more. Pat Robertson IS the Prophet of the 21st Century. Every word out of his mouth is straight from his deity.
Please accept my sincere and humble apology. Please don't come and beat me up!
I thoroughly agree with your very accurate rant.
Alas, I'm skeptical that anything will come of it besides more derision.
Some folks seem to lie in wait for such opportunities as though they have no other thrills or happiness in life other than castigating, assaulting, denigrating, demeaning, mocking etc. evangelical and particularly Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity.
Pat doesn't claim to be a prophet. But, like all New Testament believers called to be daily refilled with God's Spirit--and to seek to hear God above all other gifts . . . he has impressions and on occasions even words or phrases he is convinced come from God. I don't doubt him.
But in my own life, it's often difficult to tell what is from God WHEN GOD CHOOSES TO SPEAK EXTREMELY SOFTLY IN HIS STILL SMALL VOICE as He so often chooses to do. Must be something about training our hearing and paying attention.
Sometimes God seems to almost yell within my mind/spirit/heart. But those times are rare.
And, many times, I have to wait to see how accurately I really heard God's voice by what transpired related thereto.
I think God will be drawing all His true kids closer to Him and enabling them to be more sensitive and hear more accurately at some point in these end times. But I haven't seen that time yet.
This website has a lot of good prophecies many folks from all walks of life get ongoingly. Some ring more true and some more urgent than others. But I am disappointed in the track record of the whole of the modern Christian prophetic. I'm sure God is, too. But we have to crawl before we can walk. Learning is a challenge in any such role.
Enabling someone to hear 100% perfectly from the beginning would be a huge hazard to their pride.
Here's one of the best prophetic websites that collects a diversity of prophecies from mostly no-name common folks--housewives, laborers, farmers etc:
http://www.etpv.org/whatsnew.html
THE ELIJAH LIST is another good one but has an outrageous and really offensively bothersome amount of advertising. The founder believes it's a ministry for him to support many single parents etc. thereby. But it's really to an obnoxious degree so I no longer subscribe.
No, that's precisely the point.
The idea that God talks to Pat Robertson is the point of these jokes.