About Todd Bentley--the Possessed

From Slaughter of The Sheep blog:

Here’s another update from Bentley:
2-05-09 7:00 PM – Maintaining Your Healing – Todd Bentley
Throughout this session Todd Bentley talked about how to maintain your healing. Todd shared many testimonies of people he knew who lost their healings, and explains why they did providing over thirty biblical truths of why people lose their healings. The service ended with a Holy Spirit breakout and many of the students were given opportunities to minister to people needing healing.
Aside from just how Scripturally unsound this is, it’s completely ludicrous. Oh, I know I’ll hear from people who say they know of many who have lost their healing, just as they know of many who have been healed. Not only do charismatics testify of their granny’s cousin’s best friend’s mother’s daughter-in-law who was healed, but they also know of their father’s nephew’s son’s girlfriend’s best friend who had a grandmother of the cousin of their niece’s mother-in-law who lost a healing.

Well said. If you watch videos on and about Todd, you will often see him in a trance. He is a liar. He is a false prophet. Easy to tell if you compare the plain, normal reading of the Bible to what Bentley says.

True Education

The great principle of true education is given by Paul in 2 Timothy 2:2: "The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." The great account of Christ's crucifixion, especially, is to be taught forever.
---Henry Morris

True education--do we understand this?

A New Reformation

Take one look around our world. A need for a new reformation is evident, both for our culture and for the church. We must return to the Bible as our absolute authority. Ken Ham

The greatest problem then is to read and understand the Bible in its plain, normal sense. People--Christians and otherwise--do not want to take the Bible in this way.

Waiting and Praying

Have you ever thought about why you pray and pray, and there seems to be no answer? I have, and surely you have, too.

God always answers prayer. There are 4 types of answers. First, “Yes”, and it means the way you expected. Second, “Yes” but not exactly like we expected it. Third, “No”; just plain, simple no. The four is the broadest category. It is characterized by “wait”.

Waiting is the hardest thing. Why does God makes us wait? Maybe the time is not right. Maybe someone has to do something first, or be somewhere first. Maybe we have to learn something first. Maybe we have to be chastened. Who knows except our loving savior. One thing for sure, if we quit praying, the answer will not come.

So let us wait patiently. Let us pray for each other. Let us not give up.

New Revelation?

What astounded me was the absolute arrogance that I found there, not to mention the blatant error. The first line on his site says, “In this new teaching series, Kim will instruct his students on one of the keys to hearing God’s voice – Revelation.” Okay, let me go over this one more time – there is no revelation outside of scripture. Why on earth would God give people so-called extra revelation when they still refuse to hear what He actually spoke through His Son? The holy scripture is our plumbline of truth, and if you stray outside of that, it leaves the door wide open for anything and everything a false prophet would try to introduce into the church, and there will be nothing that can stop it. The Bible has to be our first and final authority on all things. Clement doesn’t teach that the Bible alone contains God’s word to man, he teaches that we are continuing to receive revelation in this present day, and that is not scriptural.

A good reminder that those who accept new and extra revelation do not obey the revelation that they do have--The Scriptures.

Dead or Alive

The churches of today are not Biblical. Consider some of these comments from Paul Proctor and Franklin Graham.

FRANKLIN GRAHAM: 'OUR CHURCHES ARE DEAD'

Franklin Graham Begins 2010: 'I am Not Ashamed of the Gospel'

Let's start reading the Bible in its plain, normal sense and LIVING it. God help us.

Christianity VS Contemplative Prayer

Christians are being exhorted to put their minds on hold through meditation and take a step into the supernatural realm. Is it biblical to connect with the supernatural realm? In an interview with Emergent leader Rob Bell, founding pastor of Mars Hill in Grand Rapids, MI, he made the following comment: "Central to the Christian tradition, for thousands of years, have been disciplines of meditation, reflection, silence, and breathing. It was understood that to be a healthy person, to be fully connected with God, and fully centered you would spend significant parts of your day in silence–breathing, meditating–praying allowing the Spirit of God to transform you and touch you." So ordinary people spent significant parts of their day in silence, meditating?

This is from Marsha West's column, GNOSTICISM, CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER & OTHER CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS.