Was receiving Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, maybe doing healing if he was living a doble life, so God didn´t know that he was doing that kind of sins?
2007-02-25 15:48:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, the sin was lying, and you make a good point.
2007-02-25 15:51:50 · answer #1 · answered by Wisdom in Faith 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Or, more likely, he was only fooling his family and congregation with the double life, and all of his "super-spiritual hocus pocus" was just glam.
I have seen it all before. Tongues is extremely easy to fake. It isn't difficult to set up a fake "healing" for show. Any actor can put on a good spiritual "pep talk" and call it a sermon; Steve Martin did it several years ago in a movie!
The sad thing is, as long as people are looking for an exciting "spiritual" show, with a good front man, they are going to find one. Shysters abound, and they make their living off of taking advantage of others.
God is not fooled by makeup and babble. We shouldn't be either. The sad part is that we often are. Holiness is something that is visible without being broadcast. Those needing to broadcast it, in order to make $$$, probably don't have it to begin with.
2007-02-26 00:04:41 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All these guys do not recieve the holy spirit and do not talk in tongues, you can do that too, just blabber something and there you are talking in tongues. Healing is either stage managed or depending upon the faith of the individual who wants to be healed.
2007-02-26 00:37:02 · answer #3 · answered by Batman Simon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right on track. This should have been a wake-up call for his ffollowers. Sadly, vvery few have questioned what this false prophet (and a few others like him) have been teaching. Despite the obvious fact that he has not been acting as a man of God, it doesn't seem to have occured to them to question him; they just continue to foolow blindly.
Oh well. . ."The children of darkness are wiser in their generation than the children of light"
2007-02-26 00:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God will bless and use people who are willing to be used.
true, he was living a life of sin, but he was still being willing to be used by God.
2007-02-25 23:58:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God did know, and probably warned him many times before he was exposed publicly. God is very patient, but when you cheapen His grace, God will expose your sin.
As it is written: "For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who refuse to obey the gospel of God?" (I Peter 4:17)
2007-02-25 23:54:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋