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Roberts loved God and humanity
Jewish tradition affirms "tov Torah im derekh eretz," essentially, "God's word goes best with an honest living." Though never without a certain wake of controversy behind him, Oral Roberts lived this principle in his Christian context. He offered a generation of faithful followers the opportunity to combine devotional studies with the training to make their way in this world.
Obviously, the orientation of Oral Roberts University did not attract a Jewish student body. Yet, Dr. Roberts himself was a man who embraced spiritual truth wherever he found it - he was among the first to invite David Wolpe, early in the rabbi's career, to share the message of Jewish spirituality with the student body. He loved God and he loved humanity and believed in the unlimited potential of a partnership between them.
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Jack Moline
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December 15, 2009; 4:47 PM ET
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Posted by: HumanSimpleton | December 16, 2009 11:30 PM
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Hitler and the Taliban also love humanity. (At least love it in that they want to tell it how to be better) One could conclude that that love of humanity is insufficient to be meaningful. Many love their children, but some express their love with fists. We should be able to see what is what.
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Posted by: Navin1 | December 16, 2009 6:46 PM
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As the acclaim for Oral Roberts is seen all over the Internet and all media, let's not forget his true legacy. He is the man who presented the Christian television station owners with their magical spell for fleecing the flock of Christ - the seed-faith heresy. Seed-Faith is a twisted perversion of the parable of the Sower of the Seed in which Jesus identified the seed as the word of God that would multiply if sown in good soil. Oral Roberts adapted that to his prosperity message saying that anything being sown would be multiplied back, money in particularly. TBN founders Jan and Paul Crouch grabbed onto that false teaching and built their world-wide network on that false message that has not made anyone rich but them and those televangelists who wield the teaching to get riches for themselves while bilking the public.
I document this in my book, The Fleecing of Christianity. Here is a link to a portion of that book in which I spell out Oral Roberts' record on hearing directly from God:
http://www.apostasyalert.org/Oral%20Roberts.htm
While I sympathize with those who have lost a loved one, the damage to the true Gospel continues to go forth on Christian television - Oral lives on.
Posted by: jalnor | December 16, 2009 2:17 PM
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Yeah, Oral loved humanity alright. Bilking gullible, superstitious people so that he could fly around in lear jets, preaching intolerance and bigotry, he made more money.
Tell me, is this a man than Jesus would have approved?