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TimV · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 09:18 AM

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Heb 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

I think it more than a little presumptuous of that Pastor to think he had the kind of power to raise the dead. When even Elisha had to go to this much trouble

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2Ki 4:29 He said to Gehazi, "Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child."
2Ki 4:30 Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.
2Ki 4:31 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, "The child has not awakened."
2Ki 4:32 When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
2Ki 4:33 So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD.
2Ki 4:34 Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.
2Ki 4:35 Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

then I just can't see how an unknown Pastor in his right mind would think that a simple prayer from a distance of his could be so powerful that he could afford to plaster a grin on his face and announce to everyone that the person had been raised from the dead.