[T]here well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.
There may be. Or there may not be. Cute. If it happens, against the odds, Pat will claim that he predicted it. If it doesn’t happen, his prediction isn’t falsified because he only said it may happen. Well, two can play at that game. God might strike Pat Robertson dead this year for misrepresenting Him. Or He may not.
Contrast Pat’s weasel wording with that of God through the Old Testament prophets, in whose footsteps Pat is supposedly walking:
I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.
Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words. I was the first to say to Zion, “Behold, here they are!” and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
No weasel words there. God predicts something unequivocally in advance for the stated purpose of showing the difference between Himself speaking through real prophets in contrast with phony prophets making things up for their own purposes. And as I recall, the real prophets didn’t have fund-raisers either.
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