Paisano

No I did not misspeak. I am aware of JE STiles Book but BG's and VPW are two peas in a pod. JE Stiles if memory serves me right did not have 'definitions' of the manifestations as do vpw and leonard. And as to your snide remark of looking things up on our own, hell man all you have to do is read. You people can poke at dead men's ministries all day, but when people who have received true deliverance because these men believed God (of course you will dispute this as well but John G. Lake was investigated by the feds and they could not refute the healings that were done. Again I will take faith as opposed to snide arrogant self proclaimed theology any day. I think Paul spoke of these things too regarding the simplicity of faith in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I do not know of anyone who brought deliverance to a soul because of their theology. It has only brought religion and has kept people under bondage. If understanding God's Word takes a theologian's mind then we are all screwed. But I think not because Gift ministries are never aquired in universities but are given as the Lord sees fit. Every man of God in our time has suffered from armchair christian quarterbacks like John Judas. Dowie, Branam, Wigglesworth, Lake, Leonard, All these men raised the dead and the little finger pointers like J. Judas yack and yack because all that bastard wants to do is lable everything and everyon as a cultist. He would no doubt attack the Lord himself if he lived 2000 years ago. So pick away boys. I pray to God that thousands rise up who would be 'marked' as word of faith tea chers and preachers. Hannegraff can have a party with Judas because in 30 years I have seen great deliverance on the faith side of the coin but none on the other. Christianity is about deliverance it always has been and always will be. What a sad day when all you do is pick apart people and yack about their degrees and where they went to school Who gives a damn, I bet they all are doing a lot more than you bone picking buzzards. Wierwille went the way of John Dowie and that is preciesely why the ministry fell. That by the way happened in the late 70's. If you are curious about it you can read about Dowies ministry in a book called God's General's by Roberts Lairdon.

I would find us hard pressed to find a theologian more brilliant than was Bullinger. My premise is that when we say that "Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy spirit", and that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God.'" I believe this and I never heard it before PFAL. I have since read it in Bullingers works as well as Kenyon's and even Smith Wigglesworths, so there is a thread that is common to those of us that believe that the bible is the inspired Word and Will of God. I am not saying Wierwille was right in everything he taught but again I remember him saying that we were to check it out for ourselves and I took him up on that. I am very thankful to see the many other works of men of God who even though people accuse VPW of plaguirism, at least you see that a lot of this stuff was 'worked by other people. I can say that reading PFAL is close to 'How to enjoy the bible' by Bullinger. Or RTHST is like reading BG Leonards 'Gifts of the Spirit', sure there are difference in some of the terminology but the gist is there. I guess I feel good about what Wierwille did because I do not know if I would have had the experience to study some of what these other men put down on paper. To get ba ck to the 'theologian' stuff. Some of the most incredible 'sermons' I have ever read have been by Wigglesworth and that man had absolutely no formal theological training, so I would wonder where he got it? But I know because it is the same source where I get it.

I have met several 'scholars' and have been rather shocked at how little they really understood. First of all I guess not one of them even thought any part of the bible is God's Word. I can understand the frustration people have when ministries self destruct. But I got to give Wierwille some credit in how much he hammered that the Word of God is the Will of God. As did Bullinger as did Kenyon. Truth is truth and I do not care who conveys it so long as it is promoted. Most so called biblical theologians have less than 12 semester hours of biblical greek. So what makes a scholar anyway?