Dr. Gene Scott
Dr. Scott was the catalyst that I was privy to that led to my studies and website creation which began in 1984. However, I can no longer recommend his website for reference or research. He was a multiple PHD holder, and teaching pastor for the University Cathedral in Los Angeles. You could always watch his live broadcast, or you could pick any of the many hundreds of messages that were available from his website. Before his death several years ago, he had married Melissa, and she promised to carry on his teaching and messages to the world. After his death, however, you could no longer access all of the different messages and subjects that he had allowed everyone free access to.
Now I really liked Melissa Scott, and gave her much time to get his messages back online, but this has never happened. Melissa is a smart woman, a linguist, and speaks and writes several languages. Those facts alone do not help her case. I just loved listening to Dr. Scott, he made learning fun and made you want to get into the research yourself. All Melissa seems to want to do is to break apart words from Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, to explain what the original texts are really saying. This is good for out edification and studies, but, to listen to her is somewhat like fighting off sleep while attempting to pull your own teeth. She does play one of Dr. Scott's messages on occassion, but most of her broadcasts lift up herself and not her husbands teaching. These teachings drew thousands of followers including myself to a Christianity that blew away traditions, lifted up true science and history, and challenged the listener to think for themselves.
Maybe in the future, Melissa will get it, and understand what drew Scott's listeners to a higher calling and pulled in hundreds of thousands of followers to his ministry worldwide. His uncommon ways, his pipes, cigars, cussing, hats, and dislike of televangelists, stepped on many traditions of the church. But his uncommon ways were outshined by his spectacular ability to teach on subjects that truly changed this disciple's life and called me to teach truths to all who would inquire of me.
With Love in Christ,
Patrick Robinson 10-9-2009