Originally posted by D28guy:
And all of that by people whith an agenda that is clearly to seek out those who werent healed and to publicise that in order to discredit these people.
Not true. You may thing that some IFB's have an agenda simply because they believe differently than you. Even that is not necessarily true. Putting that aside, CBC has done documentaries on individuals such as Benny Hinn and others. What do they have to lose? Nothing. They do documentaries on many individuals. If they are a success story on their own merit they publish their findings. If they are a fraud they publish. They are completely objective. They have nothing to gain or lose. They followed Hinn around for more than a week. They documented where he stayed, how much he spent, the response of his crusades, interviewed individuals at his crusades, who was not permitted to be "healed," returned to those who were "supposedly healed," etc. The found that not one of the individuals interviewed that Hinn declared was healed were ever healed. Hinn can't heal. He has never healed anyone. He is a complete fraud. They went to his $87 million dollar mansion looking off the coast of the Pacific Ocean in California, and made the comment how Hinn promised that every penny of his followers would go the ministry of the furtherance of the gospel. Not one cent would he keep for himself. What happened? Did this mansion just happen to fall out of the sky? Hinn does not make his financial records public as do other charitable organizations. He is a fraud.
What about Oral Roberts, another self-proclaimed faith-healer. Ever been to Tulsa Oklahoma? Oral Roberts claimed that God had called him to build a massive hospital. He was going to combine faith healing with conventional healing. You would be astonished at the facility that he built. It is a sixty-story building, and it sits in a lot over-grown with weeds. beside it sits another lagre 30 story building, completely vacant. Most of it is unfinished on the inside. What happened? Did God change his mind?
The fact is that these frauds, and others like them are a stench in the nostrils of the world, a blight on true Biblical Christianity, turning off the unsaved so that they would never go near Christianity nor touch it with a ten foot pole. Their constant beggary is a fiasco on TV, and the unsaved can see right through their three-ring circus. God help the poor deceived individuals who help to pack the wallets of these mercenary wolves who come as sheep to slaughter gullible Christians.
"It is sad that people like Peter Popoff is still on the air, night after night, selling his miracle water from Russia.
Peter Popoff is a phony. No doubt about that. But not all are like that. [/qb][/quote]
One of many, maybe hundreds.
"Those poor souls are sending money because they are being deceived. People are so gullible."
I personally know some people who have experienced 100% complete healing through having hands layed on them by those gifted in that area, and one while having her exact sickness literally disappear as it was spoken of by Pat Robertson. These people whom I know personally where not plaqued with some psychosymatic non-disease or anything like that.
God is able to heal through prayer and according to his will. I don't deny that. Are the people that you
know personally (not just anecdotally), healed from organic diseases. Have you ever seen a lame man's leg restored. A man with a leg cut off grow back, a man who lost his hand restored with just a touch, a word of faith? Have you seen these type of miracles of healing take place? I doubt it.
They were literally very sick, and they were healed by faith in Jesus Christ. You can disbelieve to your hearts content, but I know these people, they are credible, they were sick, and they were miraculously healed.
Many people are very sick and get healed. I don't doubt that. But are they healed of organic diseases? Can you see broken arms instantly healed without time. It takes time to set the bones in an arm, and then the arm is healed. But Christ and the apostles healed instantly, with a word. Are organic ailments and people confined to wheelchairs: quadrapalegics for example healed?
DHK