Smith Wigglesworth used to hit people and knock cancers off their bodies. He was the real thing. You don’t know for sure how God is going to move in healing. He may ask very foolish sounding things of any one of us.
Todd Bentley does not need to brutally kick old ladies in the head to heal them in the same manner in which we do not need to scream at Satan in order for our prayers to be heard.
In light of the fact that Todd’s own family did not believe his story that it was demons beating his mother up at night (because of Todd’s previous beating up his own mother), methinks Mr. Bentley would do much better laying off the “brutal” fake machismo act.
In fact, he should lay off the whole act completely as that’s what it is. The seeds of unbelief this cult has already sown are bitter fruit, indeed.
Please hold off on that old charismatic excuse that we have to look foolish in order that God’s will be done.
The whole Toronto Blessing was built upon this lie that it is Christian to bark like a dog, shake your head in prayer so it looks as though you might actually shake it off your neck, scream banshee screams as if God is deaf, roll on the floor and be drunk in the spirit — these were all put down in that classic book on false manifestations during Evan Roberts time.
Even Semour had a problem with these counterfeit manifestations at Azusa: true humility doesn’t look “foolish” it looks humble and does not draw attention to itself.
Delighting in punching colon cancer patients in the stomach in the name of healing (when no healing occurs) is the sign of a brute beast, not Christ.
It certainly isn’t love.