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Read it!, December 20, 2005
This review is from: Christianity in Crisis Study Guide (Paperback)
Don't take Dr. Massy's review as a review. He has reviewed 9 books and says the same thing - word for word - in all of them. Read this book to understand those who are just out to take you for everything you have and take away your faith.
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Please read this review...., August 11, 2005
This review is from: Christianity in Crisis Study Guide (Paperback)
Why does everyone who never sees miracles and healings always believe that the people who do are "of the devil" ? Just because people like Mr. Hanegraaff have not allowed God to use them to do the "greater works" that Jesus talked about, doesn't mean that everyone who does do those greater works is a "false prophet". Just because Hank and his followers have never felt the power of God hit them so strongly that their flesh couldn't stand any longer in God's presence and they fell over backwards, doesn't mean that the people who have are participating in a so-called "false revival".
I know of literally hundreds of people who have been miraculously healed (through the laying on of hands, etc). I know of thousands of individuals who magnify God by speaking in other tongues daily. I know of many people who have been prayed for and the power of God knocked them to the floor. They walked away blessed, or healed, or at least delivered from something that they were dealing with. There are videos available through the ministries of Spirit-filled, charismatic preachers who had people in their congregation to grow limbs that were previously missing (right in front of the congregation!). I have personally heard of hundreds of people who have been healed of blindness, deafness, arthritis, cancer, and even AIDS!.. all through the laying on of hands or through the minister simply speaking to their bodies in the name of Jesus. My own brother was miraculously healed through the laying on of hands by a Spirit-filled minister of the Gospel who spoke to his back and commanded it to be healed in Jesus' name. By the way, this happened at the hands of a Bible teacher that Hank Hanegraaff would crucify if he heard his "false teachings", or went to one of his "false revival" meetings.
Why do people come up with all these labels, like "health & wealth gospel" anyways? If that's how you want to label us, then so be it. I praise God that He wants me blessed. I certainly don't want to be a part of the "sickness and poverty gospel". Then again, that's certainly not the "Gospel" at all. Forms of death (disease, poverty, sin) are not "Good News". God's will is that it be on earth as it is in heaven. God displayed His perfect will for mankind in the Garden of Eden when He created it with NO sickness, NO disease, NO poverty, and NO sin. Yet many religious folks are preaching that God wants you to be sick because He's "teaching you a lesson". Or that God wants you poor so that you'll "stay humble". Nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus was the manifest will of God on this earth. What did He do? He saved ALL who would receive salvation. He healed ALL who would receive healing. He delivered ALL who would receive deliverance.
Stop believing the "Bible Answer Man" and the man-made doctrines that most of us were taught in "Sunday school" and start believing the Word of Almighty God! He doesn't want you sick and He doesn't want you poor! It doesn't matter how bad religion wants you beat up, busted, and disgusted... stop believing the lies in books like this one and start believing the GOOD News! Stop criticizing and condemning others just because you don't agree with them and get yourself into the presence of God and deal with your hatred for other men of God. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't automatically mean that they are a "false prophet", "wolf in sheep's clothing", or "demon-possessed". Just because Hank Hanegraaff, John MacArthur, Dave Hunt (or some confusion-breeding website) claim that someone is a "false prophet", doesn't mean that they really are! Until you accept this fact, you'll never be able to walk in love toward your brothers in Christ like you should.
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