Mr. Pitt and his organization, Whosoever Ministries, have stood apart from others in the way they have regularly drawn crowds of more than 5,000.
Although Whosoever's followers have been steadfast in their support for Mr. Pitt, his legal troubles have thrust his nondenominational ministry, which pulled in more than $1.2 million in 2011, into turbulence just as it readied plans for the preacher to go on a national tour.
Indeed, more than one excluded Christian has used the "whosoever" language of John 3 14-17 as an argument for full, unimpeded inclusion in the Christian church.
Followers of Islam are taught, "Whosoever kills an innocent human being, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind, and whosoever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind".
He concludes that "sexual passion, no matter how it's arranged is evil, a terrible evil against which one must struggle.… The words of the Gospel that whosoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery relates not only to other men's wives, but precisely — and above all — to one's own wife".
Many others have publicly denounced the attacks, just like all other French people - a group called the Muslim Students of France created a powerful video addressing the attacks, quoting a passage from the Quran, "Whosoever takes one life, it is as though he has killed all of humanity".
You can be sure that if Valmont announces, "Paradise has three entrances," he is speaking anatomically, and when he tells young Cécile, "Whosoever giveth shall receive," it's a sexual promise.
And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom, shall see it" [ 28] has not changed.
For many Christians, it has to be John 3 16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life".
The Quran describes that all creations worship God through His glorification and each creation has its own way of worshiping that is beyond mankind's comprehension: Allah [God], He it is Whom glorify whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, and the birds with wings out-spread (in their flight)?
