Pat Robertson is gone. I’m not happy he’s dead, but saying I’m sad would be a lie.
Since lying violates one of the Ten Commandments, you’d think someone like Mr. Robertson would avoid lying at all costs. But lie he did.
When he was 73 years old, he claimed to have leg pressed 2,000 pounds. He claimed there were numerous witnesses but refused to name even one. He claimed he worked with individuals who taught him how to get into shape but declined to name them also. He offered a photo of him sitting at a leg press machine, but that proves nothing.
He did all of that in a feeble attempt to convince people that his God is all-powerful, and that if you pray hard enough, the biblical verse of Matthew 19:26 can become literally true. He failed. Had he invited the media to record the event, invited Guinness to verify it, and did it on live TV, he would have had a very compelling case. But he did not.
So just as we’re supposed to believe the Bible when it says Noah lived to the age of 950, and fathered children at age 600, and that Jesus walked on water, we’re now asked to take Mr. Robertson at his word that his God used him as a vehicle to perform a miracle. Instead of constantly making fools out of themselves, Christians should leave their belief to faith alone, just as their God intended.
Wes Dickson, Orland Park
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