@rollytan
"The Lord and His apostles never walked up to people and offered to heal them in order to demonstrate the power of God or to prove He loved them."
Except when He did. As with the lame man by the pool of Bethesda in Jn 5, or the woman bent over in Lk 13. Or doubtless countless other times either recorded or not. If you're going to live by the letter, and condemn others by it, you might want to get it right.
You are missing the point, paul1149. No one is saying the Lord didn't heal. It's
why He healed and by Whom He healed that matters. Even if Torben's miracles were legitimate, it doesn't change anything about him being false. He's an entertainer of the flesh, empowered by
False Love - Satan's Last Stronghold.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 ESV
(9) The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
(10) and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
(11) Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
Deuteronomy 13:1-3 ESV
(1) "If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
(2) and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,'
(3) you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Todd and Dan have helped a lot of people.
Todd and Dan say a lot of true things. That's what makes them deceptive.
The Lord told His own disciples to do and observe what the Pharisees said, which undoubtedly would help those that heeded His command. Does that make the Pharisees true ministers? Consider, these are the same men He said were lying, hypocritical fools, children of the devil.
Matthew 23:2-3 ESV
(2) "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,
(3)
so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.