Don't you think that commercial evangelists live by lies and falsehood and are parasitic to Christianity?

Question

To laugh out loud at my old age I see Television channels telecasting commercial evangelical soaps wherein self anointed blessings brokers through hysterical gestures, dancing eyebrows and jerking faces blare out lies and falsehood walking up and down while cameras focus on nodding heads, raising hands and crying faces. Some with dyed hair and bald plates claim of healing terminal diseases like cancer, aids etc. and parade the healed to build up credibility already boosted by the presence of modern Judas Iscariots in colourful holy robes listening attentiively and singing along. In India there are a number of professional Evangelists who live by fleecing the poor, innocent and ignorant believers. One Evangelist had the company of Lord Jesus Christ for full three hours when he was 27 years of age. At his command Jesus Christ repair worn out organs, replace some with brand new ones and palnt babies in barren wombs. They go scot-free as none dare question these professional evangelists

Answer 1

Remember when Oral Roberts said God had told him that unless people sent him $8 million he would die?

Well God spoke to me as I was reading your question, and if the true believers out there do not send me $80 million, he is going to kill off all the evangelists, and make their followers memorize your question 8-).

Answer 2

Who are you to judge? All the thousands of people sitting and listening, do they not understand the meaning of the words. Why do they sit and listen. Each and every one has one sublime quality which is called faith. They believe. If you believe, then you will receive. I am not a spiritualist. But I do know that what does not affect you, you have no need to criticize or find fault. As an example: Say you have a kidney pain. You go to the doctor who gives you a prescription. Take the following tablets. By mistake you buy Vitamin C tablets which you ingest. The next day despite your kidney pain will be healed only because you took the tablet with faith in the doctor. The same way, you can expect in your own terms that due to faith all these healings take place. I am only using this example as my argument. I definitely do believe in God and I also do believe the evangelists are doing a very good job in keeping so many people in faith and not confused with life.

Answer 3

Are there that many like that? i imagine a pastor or evangelist ought to stay more beneficial or a lot less on the conventional aspect of their congregation or of the persons they are searching for to achieve. i understand there have been some so-suggested as evangelists who've one way or the different made a killing through preaching a spread of prosperity gospel, yet that is not any longer the norm. you'll discover that variety will use expressions like "seed faith" (which means in case you sow some hundred or some hundred money through faith, God supplies you a lot more beneficial in go back - and the idea is to sow it in the route of the so-suggested as evangelist). for each solid aspect, there are fakes. There are medical doctors, and there are quacks. There are dedicated firemen and then some firemen have set fires. There are dedicated policemen, and then some policemen are criminals. There are dedicated politicians, and then there are politicians who take bribes. There are evangelists and pastors, and then a number of those evangelists and pastors are also phonies. we can not get faraway from that. Edit: keep in suggestions, too, this occurs specifically in the united states the position many people are delivered as a lot as worship wealth, and to trust they "have it coming to them". Capitalism is so solid it spreads into elements of religion. that is sickening, besides the undeniable fact that it occurs. yet I repeat, it isn't the majority. - in my view, i'm a pastor and that i purchased my first domicile on the age of fifty 4. A minimum length and cost, that is my 401-k! nonetheless belongs more often than not to the monetary company. Icontinual a 'ninety 9 Toyota Tercel. that is paid for. and that i evaluate myself to be wealthy, yet no longer fairly as a lot as lots of the persons in my congregation. maximum pastors and Christian workers i understand in my view are quite like me - per chance added alongside in figuring out to purchase their houses because they have been more beneficial solid and all started in the previous.

Answer 4

I have only one point to offer. How really should it matter if a disease actually gets cured even supposing if it is due to direct intervention of an evangelist. We any way are a perishable entiety. What we should strive to achieve is blessings of Jesus Christ. Will it be by reading Bible. No , We have to meet a personality who actually has been blessed by Christ. He is the one who will be our mentor.
Best wishes.

Answer 5

They do Christianity a horrible disservice. They spout bigotted drivel and make ludicrous claims and even host huge weekend revivals in order to teach small children how to counter evolution thereby depriving those children and Christianity in general of a pool of intelligent, thoughtful people to help religious doctrine assimilate and reconcile with continued scientific exploration. When most of us non-Christians go off about fundies, the evangelists usually rank up there in the discussion along with some other rather loud members of other denominations. The truth is, the in-your-face smokers who constantly demand their smoking rights push non-smokers into legislation, its the same with the in-your-face you'll-all-go-to-hell folks that get religion pushed out of places. I have no problem with people that think and practice differently, I respect their love for their God and the like but when they start pushing me, my children and others into doing it their way then I get ruffled as do many people of all faiths.

Answer 6

I definitely think they are frauds. If they were working for God, and were doing well, they wouldn't have to ask for money because God would bring it to them. Anyone who has to ask for money in God's name I think the same thing about. It's like tithing. Ever go to a church where they make a big deal about tithing? Before they do the offering they will have a big prayer about it, and make a big deal out if it....If you're doing God work, stick a locked box on the altar or in the back somewhere, in a place where it is seen well, and let the people give freely, on their own without coercion from Pastors and the like.

Answer 7

They're nut jobs and they're part of the reason some atheists/agnostics are hostile towards Christians. They are agents of intolerance. They radicalize anyone susceptible to their treachery. Of course they live by lies and falsehoods; but at least even many Christians can use logic, and see through their nonsense.

Answer 8

Many televangelists do mislead people. For many, it IS all a show and an act. They rehearse ahead of time how they are going to zoom in with the camera for maximum effect. Sure, this happens. Still, God sees all, and HE will judge these folks for daring to mislead others in HIS name for their own profit. The purpose of television ministry however, is to reach a broad range of people, and to reach those who would otherwise not set foot in a church. This can be a very good thing, and many homebound Christians look forward to church services on television. You can't judge all of them as a whole. You have to use a spirit of discernment to figure out who is genuinely serving God and who is serving himself (or herself). Billy Graham and Franklin Graham are famous for their crusades that fill stadiums and are broadcast on television. The message is simple, there are no dramatic productions, and there is just the simple message of Christ's love for us. There is worship and praise music, but most people who go to and watch these services WANT to hear this music. God is worthy of this praise.

To answer your question, yes these wolves in sheep's clothing are out there. The Bible even talks about people such as these who mislead others. The Bible tells of how God will judge them even more harshly for their acts. They are not representative however, of all televangelists who are merely trying to spread the Word of God to a vast audience, as their convictions call them to do.

Answer 9

Who does the most damage? Them or George Bush?



Of course, there are people who are healed by watching those programs. Things that can be healed by psycho-somatics."

Placeboes sometimes have the same affect.

See you later, at the wrestling matches.

Giving money to God would be like giving money to me here at the Zoo. I don't have any pockets and neither does God, where would we put the money and how would we spend it?

Answer 10

Some of them are intentional frauds, but others just suffer from the usual Christian delusions.