Here is the video of Robertson’s original “Divorce your wife who has Alzheimer’s” comments:
Here are Robertson’s comments concerning him being “misunderstood” and “misinterpreted” in the above video:
So, are you convinced? Did we really “misinterpret” or “misunderstand” what Robertson said? I don’t think so. Even if Robertson was telling one person to divorce his wife who has Alzheimer’s and start all over, he still told an adulterous man to divorce his sick wife! If one man can do it, then why not other Christians who are in similar situations? Robertson, I think your explanation is a sorry cover up of your previous statements. Why don’t you simply admit that you said something blatantly unbiblical, and apologize for it? The Christian community is a forgiving community; but, if you don’t seek forgiveness, and place the blame on your audience, your “misinterpreters,” you will lose them; and rightfully so. At this point, I’m not sure what Pat Robertson believes about marriage. I guess it depends on what day of the week you ask him.
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“Even if Patterson…”
Purposeful contraction of his name, typo, or…
accidental typo.
If it weren’t for the sin of pride, I might have no sin at all.
It’s a lot easier to explain and complain, than to repent. I know first-hand, so it’s not hard to recognize.
I wouldn’t trade places with him, so I feel sorry for him.
Even if Patterson was telling one person to divorce his wife who has Alzheimer’s and start all over, he still told an adulterous man to divorce his sick wife!
Freudian slip?
Pat Robertson is a Grade A nut job. Anything he says is total blather.
Typo.
Corrected.
An eccenctric person like Robertson would be misunderstood. But I’ve read things he’s written that I find highly absurd. You just wonder how Robertson winds up always being the subject of extraordinarily bizarre insights and occurances.
it is a way of keeping people’s attention on him and his organization
Pat Robertson: still doing the devil’s work…
This strange man will continue to entertain us as long as he lives, and many others will, too. American Christians enjoy their religion as they do the circus or a ballgame. Consider Protestant programming: Somone in a weird getup with a bizarre hairdo speaks or sings, and plays the comedian, add some tacky props, and the money rolls right in. Just incredible. They’re giving us what we want. Entertainment.
Well… atleast Pat didn’t say that if you don’t like the music he likes, that you “suck as a human being” I think Pat should team up with Perry… now that’s entertainment. But please keep children out, it will make Perry mad.
In the words of a great philosopher “You can’t make this stuff up”!
No, he didn’t. I know that I can’t relate to contemporary music, myself, sacred or otherwise. But I really don’t care if others listen to it. I know that it doesn’t move me in the least. Yet if I hear Just a Closer Walk with Thee or For All the Saints, I feel suddenly uplifted. I can’t explain that. I can’t explain why people who like the new songs close their eyes and move rythmically, or why they clap. I never felt like doing any of that. Again, if I hear Amazing Grace on the organ, I feel transported to heaven. So music, while universal, is a very personal thing when it comes to choice. We develop a taste that remains pretty much througout life. I’ve been in contemporary worship services where I just couldn’t sing. The new songs and the style left me completely cold. I just couldn’t understand why people seemed so intensely passionate when the songs didn’t even move me in the slightest way. It must be preference.
And some believe contemporary praise music is more spiritual than hymns. They feel they connect more deeply with these songs and the new posture that accompanies them. I don’t believe it for a minute. I never thought styles of expression could be compared in that way. It’s just different. And you won’t get it if you haven’t been exposed to it. That’s why many churches have a traditional and contemporary service; they won’t combine the music. A seventy-year-old person wouldn’t know what to do with contemporary songs. A twentyfive-year-old may not know what to do with a hymnal. It’s gotten that way.
I hate to think that there are Churches where the beautiful old hymns are no longer sung . . .
I am a 70 year old and our church does the contemporary praise, and, fortunately, the music often has really good content. However, I almost get physically ill over the continual drum beat and guitar with a few other electronic instruments thrown in. The longing for the hymns becomes intense at such times. We do the traditional hymns on Wednesday. During one service recently we sang the hymn of the Reformation, A Mighty Fortress is our God. As to charismatics my experiences has always begun with things in their favor and have ended with things universally unfavorable. The first charismatic I heard was a Sister Mabel who pastored the Assembly of God in the town where I grew up. She had them rolling in the aisles, running up and down the pews, speaking in tongues, screaming, fainting, etc. Then one day she ran off with a deacon who had four sons. That really didn’t sit too well with me…Near where I first pastored a tongue talking church had women lay on their backs and stick their legs up in the air…I could say more, but this indicates that there is something uniformly troublesome in that camp. I think some of them are Christians. I try to treat them as such, but I feel apprehensive about what might be happening down the road in life of such adherents to the faith. My experiences in this respect have been pretty consistent over a ministry of 50+ years and a consciousness of the issues that exceed the years of my profession.
I once started to apply for a job at Robertson’s school, Regent University, but my apprehensions over the matter of the charismatic issue moved to stop. It is a grief to hear and see such things as his misrepresentations of practices of the Faith (which, unfortunately, seem to be ongoing). However, lest I seem to heavy handed, I have to remember that there are events in my own life and ministry that reflect poorly upon our Lord and Savior, Surely, this is the case with vast numbers of believers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ..throughout the history of the Christian era.
Yes, many churches have done away with hymnals and traditional hymns. They project the lyrics onto a screen and it feels strange.
Dr. Willingham, I’ve almost gotten sick hearing the beat and the loud noise, too. It’s nauseating at times.
Pat Robertson also thinks Mitt Romney is “an outstanding Christian.” See http://bit.ly/mVD50W>.
It’s interesting how the topic of Pat Robertson’s lunacy morphed into a discussion of musical styles.
I think it’s sad that people sing these new bar tunes instead of the old Gregorian chants.
I have worshiped with people in different cultures. There is something sweet about a group of Asian Indians huddled tightly in a small room singing canartic-based songs to Christ, a group of Africans raising the roof with dancing and yipping in praise to Jesus, or the odd rythms of South American Indian music being lifted up to God. Worship is not for our comfort and self-entertainment. I don’t see in the scriptures where God prefers one style or another – only the submission of our hearts to Him.
Pat Robertson seems submitted rather to his own false wisdom. That’s what I truly find sad.
Let’s not forget that he can leg press 20,000,000 pounds!
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