The first words were captured by a secret team of researchers as the Reverend Peter Popoff of Upland, California, stepped onto a stage at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, where he was about to start a faith healing service that would be videotaped for his weekly national broadcast. The team heard (and captured on tape) an affectionate feminine voice from above: Hello, Petey. I love you! I'm talking to you. Can you hear me? If you can't you're in trouble, 'cause I'm talking as well as I can! (Her voice suddenly becomes businesslike.) ;I'm looking up names right now. This secret team of two was located in a hidden section of the auditorium complex. It consisted of Alec Jason, an electronics expert, and his assistant Bob Steiner. Jason was giving the thumbs-up sign to Steiner as they began a number of surreptitious recordings designed to expose how Reverend Peter Popoff was able to "divinely" recite personal details about audience members and their afflictions during his popular faith-healing services.
Peter Popoff, like many faith healers, calls out the names, illnesses, and sometimes addresses of people at his crusades, then "lays hands" on them and prays for their healing. The impression given at such services is that the information comes directly from God; indeed, a magazine distributed by Popoff's organization described an audience member being "called out by the Spirit for healing". Those in the audience are so impressed by Popoff's "Gift of Knowledge" that they break into applause. The subjects picked are so overwhelmed that they often break into tears. One woman who was "healed" at one of the meetings and later interviewed by CSER stated: " know he is real from the way he talked. He actually knew my address and had no notes to look at! he is real, all right!"
2006-11-04 01:19:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are all human. We can all get corrupted by power. Ministers and even more so government officials. I put this guy in with John Edwards because when you prey on peoples hopes you are a douche bag.
2006-11-04 01:23:51 · update #1
Hi, I would not say that the sin is as much against the Holy Spirit as it is against his fellow man, it is blatant deceit, people sometimes get the concept of the sin against the Holy Spirit wrong.
the sin against the Holy Spirit that will not be forgiven is to deny the salvation ,brought by the death and resurrection of Jesus, and to live and die in denial of this,because the Spirit who cannot lie has disclosed this to the world.
2006-11-04 01:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is unimaginable for an atheist to devote blasphemy towards the Holy Spirit, due to the fact to devote that act, they might have got to witness a miracle of Jesus empowered by way of the Holy Spirit, then characteristic that miracle to the vigor of Satan. Atheists do not consider in both God or Satan, so they do not qualify for this sin. Neither does any individual else now not residing on the time whilst Christ was once acting the ones miracles, which God gave via the Holy Spirit in testimony of Jesus being the Messiah. Check the context. Edit: Note to Lion Jester. Um, I spotted you did not deliver a reference for John adding blasphemy towards Christ as an unforgivable sin. The cause for that's there's no such reference. Now, if we're to comply with your instructions not to pay attention to purveyors of falsehood, good, does not that experience implications in your message as good? As for God or Jesus now not in need of conversions, your statements right here additionally look "reality-challenged." Jesus mainly noted Peter's conversion as a fascinating factor, although he was once a well Jew already. See Luke 22:32. And if testimony to outsiders through missionaries and evangelists was once now not an authorized approach of God, what was once Jonah, chopped liver? And why did Jesus ship out the seventy with the relatively evangelistic cause of proclaiming the Kingdom? You do realize that Jesus Himself taught absolutely the necessity of conversion, don’t you? “… Verily I say unto you, Except ye be changed, and end up as little kids, ye shall now not input into the dominion of heaven.” Matthew 18:three. With such seen defects on your study, are we able to believe your evaluation of the extra tricky disorders of textual transmission and doctrinal growth? I suppose now not. But allow the reader make a decision.
2016-09-01 07:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is the ultimate con, it is government protected, tax free and the product they sell doesn't have to be delivered until you reach a place that doesn't exist. No wonder so many people jump on this manured money wagon. People like Popoff, Hinn, Tilton, and Hagee belong in jail for the crimes they commit.
2006-11-04 01:34:57 · answer #3 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like any of those TV "miracle" evangelists, Popoff is a huge rip-off artist who scams his audience. The only miracle that he can provide is the one where he can make money mysteriously disappear from the wallets of gullible people!
Here is more about him. Let's hope that all of these crooks get their just desserts.
2006-11-04 01:25:00 · answer #4 · answered by LaRue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He may have deceived people...he may be a charlatan...he may be a liar...but he has not necessarily blasphemed.
Did they get healed? God works in mysterious ways, you know. When Jesus healed people, He commonly said that their faith had healed them. Maybe THEIR faith, and not Popoff's "magic," contains the healing power.
2006-11-04 01:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
it's all smoke and mirrors to get money
2006-11-04 01:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by black orchid 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dunno who he is, but if he's blasphemied the Holy Ghost, he will not be forgiven!
2006-11-04 01:27:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋