Angels.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 0 comments link this postThe Todd Bentley circus.
Yeah. Not much to say there, except I wouldn't take kindly to some minister beating the crap out of me in order to heal me.
I get really displeased with the angel stuff. There was a magazine out a few years ago dedicated to the topic of angels (I don't think it's around any more, but I could be wrong). It was solely on angels, which seems to me to be a kind of chancy and limited stockpile of material from which to write. This led to, understandably, a kind of smarmy Guideposts take on "angels" doing things like answering prayers for lost recipes and rescuing kitties from trees. It always had notoriously bad art on the cover. It's hard to churn out "real-life" angel stories every month, I guess.
J. Lee Grady has some good things to say about that whole Bentley mess, and about angels. It's just too bad that at the bottom of his excellent article we find an advertisement for a book entitled "Angelic Encounters." It's hard to be a purist when you have bills to pay.
Assembly of God General Superintendent Dr. George Wood had a an interesting take on angels:
I made an off handed comment that in the book of Acts angels did two things: jail breaks and confirmations (Acts 27:23). They did not bring doctrinal truth. Of course, in the nativity and passion, they are present for specific reasons.
Jail breaks.
That's something.
Labels: angels, christianity
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 9/08/2008 03:57:00 PM
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