"I had a job to go to that Monday, and I knew I was on parole, and I knew I wasn't supposed to be drinking, and I'm like 'Oh, my God, '" he told CNN.

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Most insistently, God told Mr Roberts that He wanted him to be rich.

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"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, " he told viewers.

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He held his breath and remembered what his grandmother told him, to always pray to God to forgive his sins.

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" In one recent exchange, he traded messages with former basketball player Magic Johnson, who told Mr. Dunn that "God has another important job for you.

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Abed told me that he had become religious after the crash and that the crash was an act of God.

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And inspired by a gift from a friend, he'd started writing music to accompany the 1929 wordless graphic novel "God's Man, " told through a series of wood engravings by American artist Lynd Ward.

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