-Removed-I actually think the Bible shows the exact opposite with the power of God fortifying people, not knocking them off their feet. For example:
'But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.'
Isaiah 40:31
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In the video, faith healer Benny Hinn regularly makes people fall down, saying it's God's power doing so.
To the Christians here: do you believe in this? Is there a Biblical basis for it?
In this case with Benny Hinn I would not trust his performances. No.
I think it is in his case a display of latent soul power.
It is a demonstration of the soulical power much in the same realm as what advanced martial artists might do or Buddhist monks might be able to do.
There is in this world a "Christian" version of just about everything.
The powers of the soul and psychical energies in some men just as well take on a "Christian" dressing. These power displays develop like an advanced Buddhist or other "science of the soul" discipline. Both in the east and the west there are feats of soul power that people can develop to do strange things.
Some preachers started out with godly answers to prayers but latter drifted into latent soul power.
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@sonship saidThere is something in this.
@vivifyIn the video, faith healer Benny Hinn regularly makes people fall down, saying it's God's power doing so.
To the Christians here: do you believe in this? Is there a Biblical basis for it?
In this case with Benny Hinn I would not trust his performances. No.
I think it is in his case a display of latent soul power.
It is a demonstration of the ...[text shortened]... Some preachers started out with godly answers to prayers but latter drifted into latent soul power.
You are talking about projecting one's chi, similar in concept to a "force push".
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@suzianne saidYes, in the East and West various disciplines tap into the latent power of the soul.
There is something in this.
You are talking about projecting one's chi, similar in concept to a "force push".
The vocabulary may be different. But the principle is similar.
Unfortunately, to everything in the "heathen" world there can be a "Christian" variety also.
Though it is somewhat off the topic and related to another thread the final false prophet has the appearance of a lamb but the voice of a dragon.
"And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon." (Rev. 13:11)
This requires spiritual discernment to detect. Some false prophet may appear
related to Christ the Lamb of God. But in the speaking something is wrong. Those with discernment can detect the dragon, Satan, in what is being said.
There is no reason to be jolly or be gleeful over such deceptions.
One may not be fooled by one instant yet fall prey to another even more subtle.
So we best who are believers pray for discernment and protection.
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