Rock on?

Pat Robertson is spewing forth nonsense again, saying that "God told him" that a major terrorist attack would take place in the US in 2007. Stand To Reason has a good blog on this.

The short of the matter is if you claim "God told you" something, you're claiming to be a Prophet. If your prophecies don't come true 100% of the time, you're a false prophet and a blasphemer, taking the Lord's name in vain. False prophets in the Old Testament were to be stoned (Lev. 24:16; Deut. 18:20). Here's how you know if a prophet is true or false:

"And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'-- when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously" (Deut 18:21-22a).

By his own admission, a number of Pat Robertson's "prophecies" have not come true. He is therefore, by the Bible's definition, a "false prophet." Maybe Christians should start sending Rev. Robertson rocks in the mail to remind him of how seriously God regards his offense?