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Date Posted: 10:04:04 10/29/02 Tue
Author: Always a New Gimmick With the PFAKE & Dakites
Subject: The Emperor's New Clothes Are On Fire - OR, God as the divine comedian

�If we quit giving you new revelations, we�re dead.� 1 Claims Benny Hinn another Dake heretic like Jack Howell.

�I�m sick and tired of hearing about streets of gold [in heaven]. I don�t need gold in heaven, I�ve got to have it now.� 2 Also from the words of Benny Hinn, a teacher of Finis Dake like Jack Howell.

Charismatic extremists keep reinventing God. Rodney Howard-Browne painted God as the divine comedian always ready to give His people belly laughs and hysteria.3

John Wimber who is recommended on sites and links connected with PFAKE heretic Howell, picturedGod as a sumo wrestler poised to knock His people around at a moment�s notice.

Always a gimmick with these persons. Schtick. Something cute. Always deviating from sound biblical teaching!

Then there was the bunch from Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Fla., who recast God as a raging river ready to knock people off their feet, dribble them like a human basketball, and sweep them into trance states and memory loss.4 The field got crowded with competing claims.

Faith healer Benny Hinn also recently resurrected the old fire theme and claims this really is of God.5 So now its �God the fireman� � a celestial pyrotechnician, if you will.

At the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (formerly the Toronto Airport Vineyard church), at least for awhile, God was a heavenly zoo keeper who delighted in hearing the barks, grunts, roaring, crowing and howling of His people, or so we were told.6

In his book, The Father�s Blessing, Toronto pastor John Arnott devoted a whole chapter to animal noises and manifestations. He called it, �The Prophetic: Animal Sounds And Insights.� How anyone could be straight-faced and shameless about these things is a mystery to me.But Re.Rev. Jack Howellween and his band of merry band of ice cream scarfers seem never at a loss to invent new gimmicks and complicated mazes of theology, compliments of Dake's Annotated Dribble.

But the old scenarios get routine and threadbare and new drawing cards are needed. Some believe that John Arnott and the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship leadership may have invented the latest draw in an attempt to bring waning crowds back to Canada and reestablish it as the undisputed Mecca and pilgrimage spot for sign-seekers and thrill-chasers. With Pensacola, Smithton (Mo.), and other �power centers� springing up, the competition is fierce. Jack Howell is involved with his own "Power" center. One resists the temptation to say it is his belly!

Now Toronto has announced �the latest move of God.� It has to do with claims that God is giving some fortunate people new gold fillings and gold crowns by miraculous means. However, the new �gold rush� is not so new, as we will see. It is an old scenario and has been linked to heresy, con artists and false teaching in the past. It is heartless for anyone to be involved with such tacky claims.

taken from these sources:

1. Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord Show, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Dec. 9, 1990.

2. Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord Show, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Nov. 9, 1990.

3. See The Quarterly Journal, �A Look at Spiritual Pandemonium � The Strange Views of Rodney M. Howard Browne,� Vol. 14, No. 4.

4. See The Quarterly Journal, �The Murky River of Brownsville � The Strange Doctrine and Practice of the Pensacola Revival,� Vol. 17, No. 2.

5. See The Quarterly Journal, �Is Benny Hinn�s �Fire� Anointing Really Just the Emperor�s New Clothes?�, Vol. 19, No. 2.

6. See The Quarterly Journal, �The Animalization of Christianity � Chaos in the Vineyard,� Vol. 15, No. 2.

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Re: The Emperor's New Clothes Are On Fire - OR, God as the divine comedian -- tamarisk, 14:24:32 10/29/02 Tue