Today at 12:42 PM Br. Max said this in Post #133
quaffer: not that I am a fan of Hank - but you might want to check out www.equip.org I'm sure they can show some of radical and foolish claims WOF healers have made and have never been fulfilled. I think they force some poor fool to watch TBN non stop 24/7 to find this stuff . . . my prayers go out to who ever has that lousy job!! I've heard myself the tape of Hinn claiming that God was going to take the lives of all homosexuals on such and such a date - which passed without event I might add . . .
Bro Max,
I belive I've already stated several times my issue with HH. I had his book and the book of one of the people he was criticizing. I looked up each ref he made and found that the quoting skills were quite inaccurate.
I believe also, that unless we've listened to the entire sermon we have not heard what we think we've heard. One can take a snippet out of any of our converstations and have us saying things we did not say.
I had someone tell me once that a pastor I knew said something in particular but when I bought the tape it was not there. I have another friend who sat through a service and as she angrily left said, "there were no scriptures used at all in that sermon", and another friend looked down at her two pages full of scripture verses.
People hear what they search for. Whatever poor fool has the job you mentioned is only listening to hear something that can be misconstrude. And that's what they find.
I one time had a new boss, who did not like me. He asked me to explain to him my job of checking reimbursement forms. We'll, according to the law of the land, I did not have to check anything that was under $25. In my talking to him I told him that.
When he fired me a week later (I had worked there for 8 yrs before he became my boss), one of the accusations was "I admitted that I don't check anything". However, that was not exactly what I had said. Everything he reported about me was twisted and a lie. But people believed it.
Unfortionately, people have itching ears. They like hearing bad things about other people. Especially, people they don't like.
Now I am not necessarily defending anybody but I believe the tactics used by HH and those like him are wrong, and I will not read it.
I don't spend much time watching TBN but I'm very carefull not to bash them either. I don't plan to spend my first thousand years in heaven apologizing to people that I ran of at the mouth about.
Even if they are wrong in their teachings, does not make the Word of God wrong. I have come to my conclusions based on what I myself have read and experienced through the Word of God. Other teachings may have influenced some, but until I read it for myself I did not believe it. Once I read it . . .I chose to believe it. To do otherwise would be calling God a lier.
Quaffer
like him or not - and I do not - there is truth to be found in the research of equip.org. Its kinda hard to refute what is said when you hear it in the words of the men themselves.
