A
few years ago a prominent charismatic evangelist gained a wide following when
he said an angel was visiting him regularly during his televised revival
meetings. The angel was supposedly dispatched to unleash the next great healing
revival in the United States. One big problem: The revival didn't happen.
Yet
month after month, the tales of this evangelist's wild spiritual adventures
grew more and more incredible. At one point he wrote that he visited heaven and
met the Apostle Paul—and then said Paul admitted he was the author of the Book
of Hebrews. A 2,000-year-old theological mystery was solved!
Looking
back on these events now, it's hard to believe so many charismatics fell for
these wild claims. Anyone with the most basic level of discernment knows God
does not allow us to talk to dead people to get spiritual information. So why
are we so gullible? I call this the "oooh,
ahhh" factor.
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