My mother used to drag me to those healing revivals, she used to get so mad at me because I wasn’t impressed. I have a real problem with getting the giggles when I see some preacher emoting and play acting like he’s in some Broadway play and then they can just shut it off like a light switch.
We have a priest in town that emotes like crazy, he’s a soft spoken man until he starts the Mass and then his whole tone and demeanor change, it is like he’s play-acting and I always giggle, I can’t go to his Masses because I know I shouldn’t be laughing but I can’t help it. He’s a nice guy but I feel like I’m in lala land. These guys make me think that they went to acting school instead of seminary. Except that most of the faith-healers were self-taught and I think self-ordained.
I just looked up one that I remembered from back in the 70s and found this, it cracked me up. I know he’s also been in prison.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news2/an020112-10.html
And here is the Google results.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS224US224&q=leroy+jenkins+faith+healer
The healers would get everybody high on adrenaline and then he’d touch certain ones and tell them they were healed.
I’d always tell my mom to wait a few days and see if they were still healed.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe God can and does heal, Jesus did and we live by His example. If it is God’s will there will be healing and if not then not. I don’t understand it but I trust God knows what He is doing even when He isn’t doing it the way I want Him to.
Thanks for those links....
I hear what you are saying...I also believe the miraculous cures can and do happen...I just dont happen to believe that the likes of this Bentley fella or the likes of Benny Hinn, are the ones carrying out these cures....those guys are just as fake as it can get...
I will give you a link to another scam artist, that I used to see during the late 1970’s and the early 1980’s when I lived down in North Carolina...this guy’s name was Jim Whittington, and he was based out of South Carolina, I believe...he had his Sunday Morning Revivial meeting on TV, and had some singing and such, and then he would start into ‘healing folks’.....this guy also went to jail, here is a Wikipedia article about him...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whittington
That was so many years ago...we moved from North Carolina to Washington State, and I had not thought about Whitting for many years...then once, in the middle of the night here, I was channel surfing and good grief, there appeared Whittington, accompanied by one of his daughters, with their schtick...so I decided to google Whittington, and found out that Whittington spent time in jail..Naturally as soon as they get out, they go back to the business they know best...
Anyway, here is Whittingtons latest website...
http://www.jimwhittington.com/index-old.htm
This guy in one slick con artist...