I have always been a fan of house. Now Wilson’s getting into the act. Well, he has been for quite some time, but this one I just loved. Quite frankly I’ve never seen the attraction to people like this. I’ve always equated them with the WWF. It might look cool, but how gullible do you have to be?
Let’s see, it’s a post from July and I’m just now reading it??? I’ve got to start doing a better job of posting.
http://housemdiv.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-faith-healers-suck.html
Perhaps I should repent for such crude language, but my vocabulary leaves me when I see articles about faith healers.
When asked to present evidence of the healings, (Todd) Bentley promised to give "Nightline" the names and medical records of three followers who would talk openly about his miracles. He never delivered. Instead, his staff gave "Nightline" a binder filled with what he says are inspiring miracles, but with scant hard evidence. It offered incomplete contact information, a few pages of incomplete medical records, and the doctors’ names were crossed out.
The saddest thing about our poorly catechized populace’s desire for temporal miracles is that these kind of miracles are not the greatest thing Christ has done for us.
And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven." And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming." But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he then said to the paralytic—"Rise, pick up your bed and go home." And he rose and went home. – Matthew 9:4-7Never mind that the "miracles" Bentley offers don’t even work. To dust our bodies will return, so why seek to fix your body at the expense of your soul?
We are all broken. Sinful. Undeserving of eternal life. The forgiveness of our sins by the death of Christ is much more valuable that fixing what ails us, no matter how much we suffer right now. Our suffering is temporary, a blink compared to the time we will spend with our Father in heaven.
Our pain and our sin has been borne on the cross. At the last day the dead will be raised, incorruptible. Our ailments will be gone. God will have no part of imperfection, and we will be perfect, clothed in righteousness. That’s something Bentley could never offer.
