Todd Bentley, Drunk in the Holy… Bob?
2008 July 21
I heard this clip recently on James White’s Dividing Line and could not stop laughing. Wait a minute… uncontrollable laughter? Oh, no… Maybe I was drunk…? Perhaps, unbeknownst to White, Bentley’s anointing poured through the podcast, my MP3 player, my car speakers… and directly into my soul!
Is it possible…?
Eh, probably not.
Wow, that’s a world I’ve never been exposed to, which I suppose is why it always amazes me. I’ve heard from people who have come out of it about how crazy it is, including my last girlfriend before I met my wife (she now goes to Bethlehem and married a DGM guy, but there were a LOT of long theological discussions…). But I think unless you’ve really experienced it, the impact just must not hit home. I think I’m okay with that.
I guess I am dating myself, but for a moment, I thought I was watching Foster Brooks.
bambaboombam!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYusPRre07k
is there really any difference?
Mary B,
I had never heard of Mr. Brooks, but I definitely see the similarities. What Mr. Brooks and his audience didn’t realize was that he was under the anointing, drunk with the holy spirit, and transferring that anointing to the audience via holy laughter.
he he! … well like I said I guess I dated myself. You’re just a youngin!
Could Todd Bentley be another Jim Jones? In the early stages of his ministry there are striking similarities between Bentley and Jones. In 1955, Jones was prayed for a Latter Rain Pentecostal Conference by O.L. Jaggers who pronounced that he had a very special prophetic calling on his life. Years later when he founded the People’s Temple, Jones used faith healing to draw the masses much in the same way Bentley has in Lakeland. It may be a little premature to say Bentley is treading the same course as Jones, but I think it is a possibility we must be aware of. After all no one ever thought Jones would go to the extent he did by getting 918 people to commit suicide through drinking kool-aid laced with cyanide. Bentley’s claims show that he is very dangerous spiritually as he has placed much emphasis on angels, third heaven experiences, and has claimed experiences where his spirit left his body which is known to New Agers as astral projection. Could Bentley be even more than just a spiritual danger? Could he be leading his followers down the same course that Jim Jones led the People’s Temple in 1978 to the greatest mass cult suicide in history? I am drawing the comparisons and revealing Bentley’s false teachings at http://www.toddbentleyjimjones.blogspot.com
Quenching Discernment
Jim Jones and Todd Bentley
Bentley’s Visions and Experiences
Bentley’s Connections to the Prophetic Movement
The Voice of Healing Movement
The Latter Rain and Word of Faith Movements
Holy Spirit Breakout or Pagan Invasion