I'm sure you're all familiar with the "Never, Never, Never Shake A Baby" campaign to prevent Shaken Baby syndrome (brain damage). Well, it seems like we need a "Never, Never, Never Shake a Prophetess" campaign to help prevent the same brain damage (although it may be too late!).

Here's a clip of the supposed commissioning of Todd Bentley as an Apostle:

Jim

PS, You might want to have your anti-nausea medication available!

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Upon a life I did not live; upon a death I did not die, Another's death, Another's life, I'd rest my soul eternally
Omnia dicta fortiora,si dicta Latina
Si vis pacem, para bellum

Very embarrassing. I feel very sorry for that lady.

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Jon Peters
Member, Reformation Fellowship (OPC) (Roseville, CA)
Folsom, CA

This sort of stuff seems to be predominant here in WA State where I live. I meet people all the time that are charismatic. This almost reminds me of the euphoric pagan prophecies of the oracle of delphi.

but...

When I was a boxboy at the local grociery store (I was seventeen) I helped an elderly woman out with here groceries and as I was walking here to the car, she got this glazed over look in her eye and she started shaking her head and humming. I was very scared. I asked her if she was alright several times and even offered to go in and get help (as most would during a medical emergency), but she said, while still humming and shaking, "No, Im fine Im just in the spirit!". I stayed with her for a little less than twenty minuets because she seemed to be almost unable to drive off let alone close the door to her car in the state she was in.

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC
Bothell WA
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

Is there a chiropractor in the house! My neck hurts just watching it.

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Eric
Woodgreen Presbyterian (PCA)
Calgary, Alberta CANADA

Goodness! That can't be good for her neck.

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Davidius
Husband of Emily
Member of All Saints Anglican Church - Chapel Hill (AMiA / Anglican Church of North America)
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German and Classics

One hand grenade would get them all.

"...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to "skip a bit, brother"]... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

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Why am I reminded of Jimmy Carter all of a sudden?

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Steve Butts - Former SBC-er
Three Forms of Unity - Bradenton CRCNA - Bradenton, Florida
(A conservative member in a conservative congregation)

"Turning away to false Theology is equal to turning away to false gods" — Francis Schaeffer (Death in the City)

Wow, that was odd. And Todd was the one on the ground, I'm guessing. Probably the only time he didn't kick anyone in the head or cause tumors to explode during his 'ministry'.

If they'd only left him there on the ground.

(BTW - the sound that that woman made was really bizarre, kinda like a locomotive but then again not. Interesting people, worthy of a whole team of psychologists.)

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Kevin, husband of a truly angelic woman, and father to ten.
Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield
Ontario, Canada

It is utter blasphemy every time these folks mention the name of our Lord in association with this ridiculous garbage. It sickens me.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

Can't we add an emoticon that shows shaking to emphasize a point in our posts?

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Tim Vaughan
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian, OPC,
Santa Maria
California

From "Yahoo Answers"
I thought this person did a nice job with his/her answer.

She was kinda soundin' like a rattler startin' to get riled.

I look at these, I guess, for the same reason some people stare at traffic accidents; I'm sure it's not admirable.

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Meg
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Member, Intown Presbyterian Church,PCA, Portland, OR

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No, the hand grenade was for the deadly killer rabbit. This is far more gross!

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Jonathan Hunt

Elder holding forth the word of life at:
Cheltenham Evangelical Free Church (Confessionally Based)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
-- Thomas Elsworth

Here's a weird one. Every time he says the name "Bob" he gets anointed. Conversely, every time I hear him say the name "Bob" I want to castrate him.

This man is another clear justification for the praying of an imprecatory prayer. He is blasphemous, he causes thousands to stumble, he uses the Lord's name in vain, he does great violence to worship, he steals in God's name, he bears false witness and he is covetous. He worships angels and calls on demons. He is voluntarily in league with Satan and is an enemy of God. I pray the Lord would silence this enemy soon.

I listened very carefully...and I'm sure he never actually said "Bawb"! so you're okay.

That guy is a menace! I'm embarrased that members of my species are that suggestible!!

How's this for the 'end times'; the Pope is the Anti Christ and the false prophet comes out of the charasmatics?

Do you think we could persuade 'ol MacArthur to write another book?

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Jonathan
College Student
Grace Family Fellowship {SBC}
Kentucky

... yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

1 Corinthians 8:6

Nuff said.

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin
Romans 7:24,25
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These folks are worse than the old time street mountebanks and snake oil salesmen.

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Donald Jacobs
Roanoke VA.
Covenant Reformed Episcopal Church.

Cum vero infirmor tunc potens sum.

{{{looks for vomit smiley...}}}

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-JD

AMEN and AMEN!!

Hope she has ball bearings on her neck.

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John Hill
Faith Community - Woodstock, Ga
Adopted. Husband for 13 years. Father of 5 children.
http://faithcommunitychurch.org- My home church
Rocky Top, you'll always be, home sweet home to me.

This must have been a reformed bunch. I didn't see any poisonous snakes being handled.

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Bob Lynam
Deacon,
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Raleigh, NC

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James Helbert, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

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shake, shake, shake... shake your HEAD-y!

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
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"As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low."
John Flavel in Keeping the Heart



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in all seriousness, I have to agree with Bawb... (not to be confused with Bob of the anointing)

This character, whose name I am ashamed to share, looks to be one of the most awful, blasphemous shysters I've ever seen... and I will tell you my desire for him to be struck down isn't probably *entirely* righteous. He is selling stuff from the pit of Hell, and seems as far as I can see to be nothing but the spawn of Satan.

Don't be shy. Tell us how you really feel.

BTW, I agree entirely.

wow...that just strikes me as demonic

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Steven Bittle
Postulant
St. Michael's Church
Reformed Episcopal Church
OKC, OK

"Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum!"

oh... now that's funny!!

I can see him warming up his laptop.

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Ivan R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
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Can any of you tell me truly that you still want to waste your time studying Calvin, Turretin, Hodge, Bavinck, or Warfield when all you need is an unhinged C4 - C7 vertabrae and the ability to speak during violent shaking without a Doppler effect distortion to your enunciation?

Being reared in broad evangelicalism breeds a kind of "live and let live" tolerance of a fairly wide range of expressions of the faith. THIS, however, is enough to put me in Rich's camp on charismania. What does a non-cessationist like Grudem do with this kind of phenomena???

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Rebukes it as from the pits of Hell, I imagine...

"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak..." 1 Cor 14:16

"If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him." Deut 13:1-4

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Patrick
MDiv, RTS Jackson
Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church (OPC), Lisbon, NY

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.
"Let us not please ourselves that we have deep understandings, but let us shew our understandings by our practice." Richard Sibbes

I was just showing this to my wife and noticed that not only are they using His name in vain, they are 'channeling' the Spirit. The phrases "Todd, I have chosen you..." pretty much makes her the mouthpiece for the Holy Spirit by their reckoning.

We're not only talking about imprecatory prayer, but serious lightning strikes (somehow) inside the building.

This is hard core blasphemy. We couldn't finish watching it.

"Channeling" is exactly the verb that struck me yesterday when I watched the 5 minutes of this video I could stomach. Looked to me no different than J.Z. Knight channeling Ramtha.

Brother, I do not think she was the least embarrased. I do not feel sorry for her. She is an absolute crackpot.

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Stephen Welch
PCA Teaching Elder
Nova Scotia :cheers:

Is this guy for real? Give me a break. My name is not Bob and I would like to castrate him

That sound she kept making at the beginning of her theatrics reminded me of a rattlesnake or a serpent. Hmmm.

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Steve Kellam
Ruling Elder
Redeemer ARP Church (Blacksburg, VA)
Husband to Holly and father to Bethany, Susannah, and Charlotte (and one on the way!)
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life” -- Jonathan Edwards

Bob-Cat! You Slay me!

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et

I found the resemblance rather striking also. Reminds me of pagan witch doctor rituals.