Yesterday we talked about Billy Graham's controversial associations and the impact that controversy

had on your dad.

Billy Graham also said some troubling things as he got older about things like they're

being more than one way to be saved.

What did he say?

And more importantly, how should we think about our heroes as they age and as they become

more likely to say things that are simply wrong?

Yeah, I hope somebody muscles me when I start saying things that I've contradicted on

my life long.

In Billy's case, I did listen to a couple of those instances.

They revolved mainly around his speaking of the possibility of being saved without hearing

of Christ.

And the possibility of funding away to God in another religion and I think those statements

were very out of character and out of sync with a lifetime of proclaiming a pretty edgy

gospel with regard to the necessity of believing in Jesus Christ in order to be saved.

And so I frankly think we should chalk up our hero's aged lapses to their weakness

rather than to their heterodoxy, at least I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think he spoke carelessly and I think it would have been wise for his friends to put their

arms around him and draw him away from those situations, which I think happened pretty

much when that happened.

He hasn't done too many interviews, I don't think since then at least not ones that couldn't

be edited.

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