Prophesy, or Educated Guess
Here is a link to and the text of an interesting article I would like to discuss:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/3/71722.shtml?s=al&promo_code=2BA3-1
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007 7:15 a.m. EST
Pat Robertson: Major Terrorist Attack in 2007
In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."
Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.
The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.
Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president's Social Security initiative was stalled.
"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."
In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.
Alright. I have always questioned Pat Robertson. I don't know if I can trust someone who has an entire show on the good things that happen to people when they give money to him. I also seem to disagree on way too much of his doctrine.
That said, I am a person that likes to give the benefit of the doubt. Frankly, Pat is making a claim that he is a prophet. He is saying that God revealed something to him. He has done this on a national level, putting God's reputation on the line. After all, he said that the Lord has told him this.
Could this be? SURE! I have no doubt that the Lord could have told him this. But there is something that I see, in Pat's own words, that puts up a huge red flag: "I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss." "I" have a relatively good track record? Sometimes "I" miss? HOLD ON RIGHT THERE. Who is making these predictions? Is it Pat? Or is it God? Somehow I don't think God would get a "relatively good track record," or "sometimes miss." So this begs the question - where in this information coming from?
Is Pat a prophet as he is claiming? NO. Not if HE has a relatively good track record, no. Not if HE sometimes misses. We'll see about the terrorist attack. I will make no claim that in this particular instance that this information isn't from God, but with a "relatively good" track record somehow I think Pat is trying to be something he isn't. That would be called a "false prophet." That doesn't mean that everything he predicts will be wrong, but it means he is just making educated guesses and claiming prophesy for his own gain.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/3/71722.shtml?s=al&promo_code=2BA3-1
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007 7:15 a.m. EST
Pat Robertson: Major Terrorist Attack in 2007
In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."
Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.
The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.
Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president's Social Security initiative was stalled.
"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."
In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.
Alright. I have always questioned Pat Robertson. I don't know if I can trust someone who has an entire show on the good things that happen to people when they give money to him. I also seem to disagree on way too much of his doctrine.
That said, I am a person that likes to give the benefit of the doubt. Frankly, Pat is making a claim that he is a prophet. He is saying that God revealed something to him. He has done this on a national level, putting God's reputation on the line. After all, he said that the Lord has told him this.
Could this be? SURE! I have no doubt that the Lord could have told him this. But there is something that I see, in Pat's own words, that puts up a huge red flag: "I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss." "I" have a relatively good track record? Sometimes "I" miss? HOLD ON RIGHT THERE. Who is making these predictions? Is it Pat? Or is it God? Somehow I don't think God would get a "relatively good track record," or "sometimes miss." So this begs the question - where in this information coming from?
Is Pat a prophet as he is claiming? NO. Not if HE has a relatively good track record, no. Not if HE sometimes misses. We'll see about the terrorist attack. I will make no claim that in this particular instance that this information isn't from God, but with a "relatively good" track record somehow I think Pat is trying to be something he isn't. That would be called a "false prophet." That doesn't mean that everything he predicts will be wrong, but it means he is just making educated guesses and claiming prophesy for his own gain.
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