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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 20, 2020 19:59:55 GMT
Well, this sounds like satire, but it’s not. The world’s largest gathering of notable faith healers are canceling the grand opening of a faith-healing center because of coronavirus.
Speakers include prominent faith-healers Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, and positive thinker, Joel Osteen. Hinn claims to have even raised the dead. Heck, he’s claimed to have healed entire hospitals (those hospitals deny it, by the way). Kenneth Copeland claims to control the weather and rebukes tornados. But apparently the charismatic power to heal stops dead at respiratory viruses. Charisma reports – without a sense of irony – that the meeting is postponed, saying, “Legacy will postpone its worldwide event, scheduled for March 31-April 5, featuring renowned speakers Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Tommy Barnett, Sid Roth, Christian Harfouche, Marcus Lamb and Robert Stearns, plus many others.”
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Post by barb43 on Mar 21, 2020 16:21:21 GMT
You're right - this does sound like satire. What's sad is that it's not! I do believe in faith healing,no doubt about its existence at all. Do I think these specific people are great faith healers? Not on your life. The need to cancel this gathering of faith healers reminds me of every joke I've ever heard about the fortune teller who stepped off the curb and was run over by a bus - he didn't see that one coming!/my apologies if I have offended anyone by comparing these, in my opinion, huckstering! faith healers to fortune tellers.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 21, 2020 16:43:07 GMT
I do believe in faith healing,no doubt about its existence at all. Do I think these specific people are great faith healers? Not on your life. I agree. I have no doubt at all that God can and sometimes does provide supernatural healing, but He does it when it is His will to do so. He does not just do it on command in return for a donation to a certain TV preacher's ministry.
Most of the "healers" who were scheduled to appear at this conference are misguided at best, and many of them I would regard as out and out con artists.
I was saddened to see that Benny Hinn was involved with this group. A while back, it seemed like he was giving up the prosperity Gospel /Word of Faith stuff and starting to preach the true Gospel, but now he is back to his old tricks again.
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