uhhh....krissy...uhmm.
its not bogus either.
anyone who tells you it is either a liar, or their just genuinely decieved.
i dont say this becuase I KNOW ALOT, or becuase I LIKE TO BRING CONFLICT.
but the bible teaches their is power in touch, why? i dont know.
but the bible does set forth the doctrine of power being transfered through touch or a point of contact.
in the book of acts paul annointed clothes that had touched his body, and sent them to people he couldnt reach, and when they got the cloth, they got healed.
there was a woman who only touched the hem of Jesus garment, and was healed becuase virtue went out of him into her by the contact and she was healed, and Jesus didnt know it had happened until after it happened.
people were healed simply getting in peters shadow when he walked by, it was a point of contact.
a man was raised from the dead, when his dead body was thrown into the tomb of elisha and touched elishas bones, even though elisha wasnt their to pray or even on earth, but it was just his bones.
the bible says in james 5.14 that having the elders of the church touch or annoint you with oil while they pray for you, can heal you.
paul told timothy that timothy received his gifts when paul had LAID HANDS ON HIM.
and the bible does speak of people doing things like falling down.
the bible speaks of people who had experiences with God, like long visions and things.
paul said he was caught up into the 3rd heavon and saw things that werent lawful to speak of, what do you think your natural body does when that happens? it lays down untill God pretty much puts you back in it.
john wrote the whole book of revelations from visions were he went places and did things with angels and beasts that dont exist on earth.
what do you think his body was doing at that time? i guess it was laying on the ground untill john came out of the vision.
jeremiah had a vision of an angel and he said he fell face down to the ground and could not move.
but even more clearly said than that...
in acts 10.10 the bible said that peter FELL INTO A TRANCE... when God began to show him the vision.
it is real.
if God can make people blind for a time, like the scorcerer in the book of acts.
if God can make people mute, like john the baptists father.
if God can make people fall into trances like peter.
then yes this can happen.
its not bogus.
i do not deny that pentecostalism and charismatic churches, which i happen to be a proud member of, is the prime arena for fruits nuts and flakes, we're the biggest cereal bowl in the world. there has been alot of lies come out of it especcially during the 80's.
but it doesnt mean the foundations of it arent true. and it doesnt mean some of the preachers in it arent real true powerful men of God.
it doesnt mean that people speaking in tongues and being slain in the spirit and shaking and shouting isnt real.
it was the great John wesley, who not many people would ever dare to criticise becuase most of us are here becuase of his ministries, who would hold meetings and preach to 30,000 people with no sound systems, and say "dont sit in the trees, becuase when the power of God comes youll fall down..." HAHA, PRAISE GOD! MAN THATS WHAT MY HEART BURNS TO SEE AGAIN!
