I mean he sells miracle spring water and miracle soap claiming it can cure ailments... even AIDS and Cancer!
I TiVo'd the guy's infomercial/show and watched it... the guy is so blatantly transparent it isn't even funny.
So, does anyone out there actually believe this guy is for real?
2007-05-23 17:43:45 · 15 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
. . . .noted skeptic James Randi and his assistant, Steve Shaw, researched Popoff attending shows across the country for months to discover radio transmissions of Popoff's wife. The transmissions were made by his wife, Elizabeth Popoff, off-stage reading information which she and her aides (Volmer Thrane, the brother of his manager Nancy Thrane, and Reeford Sherrill) had gathered from earlier conversation with members of the audience. Popoff would simply listen to these promptings with his in-ear receiver and repeat what he heard to the crowd. After tapes of these transmissions were played on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Popoff's popularity and viewing audiences declined sharply, and his ministry declared bankruptcy later that year.[1]
2007-05-23 17:51:32 · answer #1 · answered by Terri J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, there are thousands of gullible souls that do believe in him, and others of his ilk. They buy his holy nonsense, and pay exhorbitant prices for it.
Please, don't watch the Totally Blasphemous Network. Those people do not represent Christ...only their own greed.
I hesitate to use the term "true Christians", because it has been so over-used...but, honestly, "true Christians" do not get up in front of a television camera to sell snake oil cure.
I can't believe Peter Popoff is actually back on the tube...I wonder how many people know that he has done time for fraud?
Ahh, well...we can always pray that these gullible folks will have an epiphany, repent, and put a lock on TBN....
*sighs deeply*
Choose Life
2007-05-24 01:02:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not religious, but I believe.
I was told o would receive 7100.00 and some once I sent him his letter and my story.
And shortly after I gotten into an accident totaled my car got 8400.00.
Then he sent be another letter asking for 25.00. I gave him 40.00 he then told me about a monthly income increase of 400.p00
Guess what. I just got a pay raise and now recording this within a week of his letter.
I believe him. He doesn't give you money he tells you out well come and by God it does. Thank you father in heaven for your strength to post this.
2016-04-12 12:57:11 · answer #3 · answered by david s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well people are getting healed and blessed financially and for your information I don't think he sells anything. He gives the miracle spring water to people who write to him but not miracle soap,that is a Pastor. All things are possible to those who believe. Also Jesus says, why do you doubt? Read the book of James in the bible.
He is a christian and loves the Lord and He is using the water as a point of contact, just as Apostle Paul did in the bible, with an apron. When the Holy Ghost is present all sorts of miracles happen. Also the bible says, when two of you agree on anything as touching the Father in heaven it is done. As it is a point of contact., however if two of you agree on the word that says, Jesus sent His word and healed them. According to your faith, be it onto you.
2007-05-23 17:59:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a Christian and I don't believe it. Dateline or some other TV magazine did a show on him when they had his microphone and earpiece bugged. People coming into his event wrote out cards of what they hoped to gain from the experience, what they wanted to be healed of, etc. His wife was communicating to him over the earpiece telling him who to call out and what the ailment was!!! He's just a scam artist who makes the rest of us look bad. Don't judge my faith based on him, please. However, I also believe that his life could turn around and his misdeeds forgiven. We all as sheep have gone astray, but can be washed as white as snow.
2007-05-27 14:38:37 · answer #5 · answered by lulu muffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know. I think his paid program is hillarious, though. I caught it about a week ago and I was laughing so hard!
He took a man out of the crowd who he knew with his psychic inner eye to have scoliosis of the spine and he took his cane away, gave him a pat on the back and told him to walk!
Oh, I had to turn it off to catch my breath for laughing so hard.
Atheist
2007-05-23 17:49:05 · answer #6 · answered by Star 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People like the one you describe are spoken of in the Bible.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
I'm not Peter Popoff's judge, but just maybe he is one of the ones described in the above passage.
2007-05-23 17:51:21 · answer #7 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He Is A Christian For Sure.
Dunno about His Cures And Miracles Tho
2007-05-23 17:47:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Still not as bad as A A Allen... He sold Miracle beans...lol
2007-05-23 17:49:14 · answer #9 · answered by Twista Zone 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
did you know that the miracle spring is in Russia close to Chernobyl????? yeah it will give you miracles among other things!
2007-05-23 18:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by slaveof12gods 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋