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Oral Roberts
12/15/09
Granville Oral Roberts (January 24, 1918 – December 15, 2009)
Roberts was born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, the fifth and youngest child of Reverend Ellis Melvin Roberts and Claudia Priscilla Irwin.
After finishing high school, Roberts studied for two years each at Oklahoma Baptist University and Phillips University. In 1938, he married a preacher's daughter, Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock.
Roberts became a traveling faith healer after ending his college studies without a degree. According to a TIME Magazine profile of 1972, Roberts originally made a name for himself with a large mobile tent "that sat 3,000 on metal folding chairs" where "he shouted at petitioners who did not respond to his healing."
Roberts died on December 15, 2009 at the age of 91. He had been "semi-retired" living in Newport Beach, California.
de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est
I am a Fundamental Christian. This doesn't mean I like to blow things up - it just means that I believe Christ when he said "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)
I also believe the Bible when it says "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13:8)
God doesn't change. His will for us doesn't change. What is right and what is wrong doesn't change. Faith in Jesus is the only way to Heaven.
I don't believe I am right - I am a sinner as are all Men. I believe the Bible is right, and I endeavor to follow it as closely as I can.
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