Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University Wednesday that he did not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but he did so because God insisted.
God told him on Thanksgiving that he should resign the next day, Roberts told students in the university's chapel.
"Every ounce of my flesh said 'no'" to the idea, Roberts said, but he prayed over the decision with his wife and his father, Oral Roberts, and decided to step down.
Roberts said he wanted to "strike out" against the people who were persecuting him, and considered countersuing, but "the Lord said, 'don't do that,'" he said.
Apparently Roberts has frequent conversations with God. And surprisingly God may have a problem with ethics.
Roberts has previously said that God told him to deny the allegations. The week the lawsuit was filed, Richard Roberts said that God told him: "We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not. This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion."
And what we learn from the above statement is that God has no trouble encouraging his people to lie, but that makes total sense as it is also clear that God is a lawyer. And that is further reinforced by the fact that God made the following plea deal.
On Wednesday, Roberts said God told him he would "do something supernatural for the university," if he stepped down from the job he held at the 5,700-student school since 1993.
Something supernatural huh. I am going to guess rain of toads. Or maybe the earth will open up and swallow the whole damn school. Now that would almost make me a believer!
Nice.
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