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Television evangelist Oral Roberts dies at 91
CANWEST NEWS SERVICE ^ | DECEMBER 15, 2009 5:02 PM | BY GLENN JOHNSON

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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(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...


TOPICS: Religion & Culture; Theology
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Oral was perhaps the greatest theologian of the 20th Century. The 1700's and early/mid 1800's theologians said 1) God is a terrible God, and 2) you had better heed His word. The liberal German theologians of the late 1800's and early 1900's stated 1) God is a good God, 2) so you can't believe His word. Oral taught us 1) God is a good God, and 2) you can count upon His word.
1 posted on 12/15/2009 2:22:11 PM PST by DBCJR
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To: DBCJR

http://getvictory.net


2 posted on 12/15/2009 2:22:57 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: DBCJR

I guess he didn’t reach his fund raising goal.


3 posted on 12/15/2009 2:24:41 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: DBCJR
Oral was perhaps the greatest theologian of the 20th Century. The 1700's and early/mid 1800's theologians said 1) God is a terrible God, and 2) you had better heed His word. The liberal German theologians of the late 1800's and early 1900's stated 1) God is a good God, 2) so you can't believe His word. Oral taught us 1) God is a good God, and 2) you can count upon His word.

Ping for later

4 posted on 12/15/2009 2:27:54 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" - Job 13:15)
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To: LukeL

He’s died at least a half dozen times today...


5 posted on 12/15/2009 2:28:35 PM PST by refermech
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To: LukeL

You beat me to it.


6 posted on 12/15/2009 2:32:49 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: LukeL

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”


7 posted on 12/15/2009 2:35:33 PM PST by Lily4Jesus ( Jesus Saves)
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To: antiRepublicrat

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”


8 posted on 12/15/2009 2:38:49 PM PST by Lily4Jesus ( Jesus Saves)
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To: Lily4Jesus

Lighten up Francis.


9 posted on 12/15/2009 2:42:17 PM PST by mkjessup (Dec 15, 1941 - President Franklin D. 0bama signs our surrender on board the Battleship Yamato)
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To: DBCJR

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.


10 posted on 12/15/2009 2:46:54 PM PST by the anti-mahdi
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To: DBCJR
Oral Roberts was a quack healer. He got rich by swindling the sick. People who do that should go to prison.

Oral Roberts is a prime example of the evil side of religion.

11 posted on 12/15/2009 2:47:41 PM PST by Salman
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To: Lily4Jesus

Well, he claims to have raised the dead. Maybe he can raise himself.


12 posted on 12/15/2009 2:51:57 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Lily4Jesus; antiRepublicrat
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”

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:

  1. He teaches that God wants all believers to be wealthy, healthy and happy.
  2. He teaches that God gives him continuing direct revelations that direct his life, his ministry and command believers to support him.
  3. He teaches that the Bible reveals the doctrine of "Seed Faith" which he originated, also known as the doctrine of "Giving and Receiving" whereby God will return a multiplication of money to a person who gives money in faith, believing that they will receive a monetary reward, primarily for donating to the ministry of Oral Roberts.
  4. He teaches and embraces many and various charismatic doctrines and practices that are not Biblical, including support for the "Toronto Blessing" and its high guru and spokesman the "Holy Spirit Bartender", Rodney Howard-Browne.
  5. He teaches that he and other like ministers and believers can "bind the devil".
  6. He teaches that he has healed many people and continues to do so.
    He has never presented proof that he has ever healed any individual and has never healed a visible disease. He has never caused a missing arm or leg to appear, caused a congenitally deformed individual to become whole, healed a Down's syndrome individual or caused a quadriplegic to walk. All of his claimed healings are of the mystery type, those that cannot be seen or verified, i.e., cancer inside the body, headaches and other ailments that cannot be proven to exist. The supposed healings that occur during his crusades were paraded across the platforms, while those in the wheelchairs, the blind, the terminally ill and those with missing body parts never saw the great man perform his miracles on them.

    Oral Roberts has made his claims about healing for over fifty years, and the Christian church is still gullible and without discernment regarding his failures and absolute inability to heal. He was unable to heal, even with the help of Kenneth Hagin, his grandchild when he died two days after birth.
     

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.

13 posted on 12/15/2009 2:56:58 PM PST by streetpreacher (Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
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To: DBCJR

Oral considered himself to be a prophet?


14 posted on 12/15/2009 2:59:44 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Salman
Oral Roberts is a prime example of the evil side of religion

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?

15 posted on 12/15/2009 3:06:08 PM PST by tflabo
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To: DBCJR

Oral Roberts was a charlatan that swindled old ladies their needed money. He was a thief, nothing more.


16 posted on 12/15/2009 3:07:29 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: trumandogz

See the post directly above yours.


17 posted on 12/15/2009 3:07:37 PM PST by streetpreacher (Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
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To: streetpreacher

Obama’s Fault.
Oral was told to raise that ten million, and then Obama devalued the dollar.


18 posted on 12/15/2009 3:09:44 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: mkjessup

“Lighten up Francis.”

That was the best line from “Stripes”


19 posted on 12/15/2009 3:20:52 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: trumandogz
Oral considered himself to be a prophet?

Or was that profit?

20 posted on 12/15/2009 3:24:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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