Lucy wrote:
Absolutely not. I heard hundreds of testimonies of healings that turned out to be bogus. People testified "in faith" that they had been healed when in reality they had not. I heard stories of healings and resurrections taking place in foreign countries where people's faith was childlike (without doubts) and in different periods of time, i.e. under the ministry of Smith Wigglesworth.
If anything like that ever really happened it'd be world news faster than you can say "science project" which is what the resurrected person would almost certainly be for the rest of their (second) life. Almost certainly, every religion in the world would have an opinion, and it'd pretty much redefine the whole idea of life as we know it, because any book the resurrected person wrote about their experience would be an instant best seller and maybe the text of yet another new religion. If nothing else, everyone who'd ever asked that question "what happens to our soul when we die?" of the universe in general would now have a person they could ask...

For all their claimed answers, and resurrections, the Pentes strike me as collectively more scared of death than the average person. An awful lot of the End Times stuff about the Rapture seems grounded in Fundamentalist and Pente fear of death. If you really believe in an afterlife and that the soul is eternal and your God is good and merciful...than why be so afraid of death??

Sometimes I wonder if they really believe it all...or even any of it..at all, because their actions don't match up with what they say about the matter.

  

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