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...controversy produced by those episodes, however, has been overshadowed by Roberts' latest extraordinary claim: God has used him to raise the dead. Before an audience of 6,000 at Oral Roberts University, the evangelist said, "I've had to stop a sermon, go back and raise a dead person," adding good-naturedly, "It did improve my altar call that night." Roberts provided no details. Later his son Richard, 38, expanded the revivification claim, asserting that in 50 or 60 cases Oral and other ministers had raised the dead...
Then Oral began to hedge. During a TV appearance with a physician from his university's medical school, Roberts explained that a baby he had raised "years ago" appeared to have died during a service. "Only a doctor could say" whether the infant was "clinically dead," he said, but "the mother thought it was dead, I thought it was dead, the crowd thought it was dead...
...accountability is the same thing as Jesus'," Roberts said. When John the Baptist asked Jesus through intermediaries for his credentials, Roberts was indicating, Jesus replied that he had healed the sick and raised the dead. Roberts also said that in the "world to come," he expected to return to Tulsa. He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if God did not bring me back to these 400 acres of Oral Roberts University he has built and would let me reign over these 400 acres...
Pentecostals can cite Scripture to support miraculous claims. Three raisings of the dead are reported in the Old Testament; the New Testament tells of three raisings by Jesus and one each by Peter and Paul. (The "resurrection" of Jesus is distinguished from the "raising" of persons who eventually died again.) Nonetheless, Pentecostal Scholar Russell Spittler of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., protests that "miracles are better left to speak for themselves -- Oral is the last person who should mention...
...Young Sam, on the other hand, were already behaving as if the campaign were under way and they were its front runners. On the day of his speech, Roh journeyed to a national cemetery on the outskirts of Seoul and burned incense in honor of South Korea's war dead. Then he visited a military hospital at which riot police injured in the demonstrations are recovering, and a second hospital, where he commiserated with the father of a student lying in a coma as the result of an injury suffered in the protests. For his part, Kim visited two prisons...