It gets to me as well....I always thought Benny Hinn, up there on stage, waving his magical arms around, pretending to send a quarter of the audience into a dead faint, as if, “slain in the spirit” was the ultimate low point, but I can see, there is always further down to go....
That being said, I do believe that miracles, and spontaneous cures, can and do happen...I just do not place my faith, in some self proclaimed faith healers...
If this guy is legit, surely he can bring an amputee on stage, and recreate one of his limbs...I dont ask for even an arm or a leg, or a hand or foot...how about recreating a big toe or a pinky finger...that should be childs play for someone who claims he can raise the dead...
YES!
For example, the ritual of the "altar call," and the ease with which a trained stage hypnotist (excuse me, "crusade 'evangelist'") can mass-produce altered states of consciousness -- at least, temporarily. The one "crusade 'evangelist'" with sufficient integrity to do the math discovered that 96% of his "conversions" were spurious. Only 4% of Billy Graham's "converts" ever got around to living as visible Christians.
People will scream if you touch their sacred traditions -- even rituals with a 96% failure rate, rites that harden people against God, and sow a deep bitterness into the culture. Dupes who realize that they were manipulated into a meaningless humiliation (" every head bowed, every eye closed ... come forward and make my numbers look good ... ") resent having been played for fools.
The chickens have come home to roost in Lakeland. Our willingness to tolerate manipulative techniques, for more than 150 years, have heaped reproach upon the name of our Savior, and His gospel.