2. You presented a prophecy given
by the late Ruth Heflin to the TBN viewers
on 4/20/2000. She said that Jesus "will
appear physically on the platform in one of
our crusades. . . and the crowds will see
him on the platform." "Dear God,
my hair is standing up," you add. You
also said, "In a service somewhere, I
don't remember where now . . . the lord
appeared right in the service and the
cameras caught it. We have it on tape
(10/22/96). Last year you had on a guest, D.
G. S. Dhinakaran of "Jesus Calls"
ministry in India on your program and also
on Praise the Lord who claimed to have been
visited physically by Jesus and also visited
him in heaven. You told your viewers to
expect Jesus to physically show up at one of
your upcoming crusades. After she died and a
year went by, we don't hear you saying that
anymore. How can you believe such things and
promote this when we're told by the angels
in the first chapter of Acts that "this
same Jesus, who was taken up from you into
heaven, will so come in like manner as you
saw Him go into heaven." And we're told
that when He returns, "every eye shall
see Him." If you point out a physical
Jesus in your meetings, under the Bible's
standards it would be an antichrist, not the
real Christ. Jesus said, "If they say
he's in the inner chambers, do not believe
them." Please explain yourself.
3. You said years ago that you
would not pronounce anyone healed without
first having a doctor substantiate that. Yet
as seen on the HBO expose and elsewhere you
are taking the people's word for it and
presenting them as healed. You admitted on
Behind-the-Scenes the other day that some
healings are merely psychosomatic and people
get right back in their wheelchairs after
leaving your crusades. Why have you broken
that promise?
4. Read the attached article
written by Jackie Alnor about the Pat
Robertson prophecy that you presented as
trustworthy to the entire TBN audience. You
told them if they did not double their
giving in 1999 they would not survive the
year 2000 since global disasters would hit
America. HBO showed you repeat those
warnings as you took up your offering. Now
that 2000 has come and gone and even the
non-givers are no worse off, are you going
to do a public apology to TBN viewers for
using a false prophecy to increase pledges?
If not, why not?
5. In reference to the same article
cited above, you shared a dream you had of
Elijah handing you his rod and proclaimed
Mark Chirona a prophet after he interpreted
that to mean that your ministry would
fulfill all the prophecies concerning the
coming of Elijah (referred to as the spirit
of Elijah by Chirona). Do you see the
danger, prophetically speaking, of accepting
such a designation and presuming Elijah's
authority upon yourself, considering the end
times prophecies of a false prophet who will
speak for the antichrist? The false prophet
presents the antichrist as Christ according
to Bible prophecy. And as noted earlier, you
anticipated presenting a physical being as
Christ in your meetings.
6. On Behind the Scenes the other
night (4/17/01) you seemed to contradict
yourself. You said, "When God does it,
it's definite (claps hands). When God heals
them, they can't go right back in that
wheelchair again because then God did it.
And God doesn't do it and then take it
back." And towards the end of that
special 1-hour program you said, "You
know, one more thing I would like to do
because I think there are questions about
why people lose healings. And I think a lot
have probably questioned this since this and
I'm sure even in other cases they have.
Paul, I'm doing a whole teaching on what
I've never done before on how to keep your
healing and also why some people lose.
Because I've seen this happen over the last
20-some years" Explain the
contradiction.
7. You placed a curse on any man or
woman who would criticize your
"anointing." You found some
obscure Old Testament verse to justify this.
Yet on the Behind the Scenes the other night
you said that the Lord was telling you to
forgive your opponents and you quoted the
New Testament to prove that should be your
attitude. Do you now admit that you did not
really hear from the Lord when you placed
that curse on people in the low, gravely
voice that didn't even sound like you?
8. You speak much of your personal
relationship with the Holy Spirit. Yet you
and your wife have both used His name in
vain. You threatened your critics with a
"Holy Ghost Machine Gun" and your
wife smeared the Third Person of the Trinity
with her comments of a "Holy Ghost
Enema." How can you slur Him and claim
you're in fellowship with Him at the same
time?
9. In your books, especially
"He Touched Me," you say that you
feel the Holy Ghost outside of yourself in
the room or elsewhere. Since the Bible
teaches that He fills us and is
"in" the believer, why does your
"Holy Ghost" appear to you as an
apparition, which is popular in Catholic
mysticism and the occult?
10. Why don't you follow the New
Testament's injunction about how to pray for
the sick among us as is given in the epistle
of James? We're told the sick are to call
the elders to come and anoint them with oil
and pray the prayer of faith and then they
would recover. We do not see any
"healing ministries" in the New
Testament.