He returned yesterday and the pulpit TV pimpateers of “God TV” are all giddy, that they can continue begging for money with the name “Todd Bentley” included.
TODD BENTLEY BACK AT LAKELAND FROM THIS FRIDAY
(Video of Todd doing a God TV promo is on their site.)
After taking a short break to rest and be refreshed after nearly 100 days of back-to-back ministry, Todd Bentley has announced he will be back ministering at the Lakeland Outpouring from Friday this week.
Our coverage of the Lakeland Outpouring has continued every night, LIVE on our webstream, and we are now going to resume our LIVE on-air coverage of the Lakeland Outpouring from this Friday 18th July.
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Obviously they saw all the money leaving Lakeland and Todd is back, to try and keep the scam afloat.
And of course his leaving once he was exposed, made the whole thing more obviously a fraudulent.
The media reports still exposing the madness for the fraud that it is are still rolling in.
Rowdy revival (emphasis added)
Lakeland, Fla. — Todd Bentley believes God acts through him to cure cancer, heal the deaf and raise the dead.
So do hundreds of thousands of people who have visited his raucous revival meeting, now in its third month and broadcast nightly from a huge tent in the middle of Florida.
The 32-year-old Canadian, tattooed to the fingers and neck, puts a palm to the forehead of the sick, desperate and faithful. Bentley yells “Bam!” They collapse and he proclaims them cured. Attendees dance in the aisles, shout to heaven, laugh, shake violently and cry.
Such revivals aren’t new, but Bentley’s stage show has become a phenomenon in the religious world — for both its pull and the criticism it has attracted — in just a few months.
He claims to have medical proof of mass healings, but has not produced widely convincing evidence.
His tactics, sometimes violent, have made skeptics even of Pentecostals who believe in concepts that aren’t accepted by all branches of Christianity such as speaking in tongues, miraculous healing and spontaneous twitching from the Holy Spirit.
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Bentley gives the credit to God, but Christian critics say he rarely opens a Bible or sermonizes about Jesus Christ. They worry he is too little about conversion, too heavy on his own hype and too focused on self-proclaimed miracles.
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But the ease of Internet communication cuts both ways for Bentley. Critics circulate a YouTube video from Lakeland of him kneeing a supposed terminal stomach cancer patient in the abdomen, saying God told him to. In another clip, Bentley explains how he kicked an elderly lady in the face, choked a man, banged a crippled woman’s legs on a platform, “leg-dropped” a pastor and hit a man so hard it dislodged a tooth.
The criticism has grown so acute that Bentley addressed it directly on stage earlier this month. He said he has used those extreme methods only about 20 times in 10 years of preaching, and those cases were taken out of context. Each person was healed, not hurt, Bentley insisted.
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But Todd, the man you kneed to supposedly heal his cancer STILL HAS CANCER!
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Expecting critics, Bentley’s ministry distributed a list of 15 people it said were cured, and vetted by his ministry, with all but three of their stories “medically verified.”
Yet two phone numbers given out by the ministry were wrong, six people did not return telephone messages and only two of the remainder, when reached by The Associated Press, said they had medical records as proof of their miracle cure.
However, one woman would not make her physician available to confirm the findings, and the other’s doctor did not return calls despite the patient’s authorization.
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Supposedly thousands healed, but not a single doctor willing to confirm it and lots of bogus information given to the media. Todd Bentley is running a big scam.
Another similar article with more detail notes:
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Bentley also insists he hasn’t accepted a cent from the nightly offerings in three months at Lakeland, instead putting it into the ministry and living on his regular salary from Fresh Fire. According to records from the Canadian Revenue Agency, the ministry as a whole made $2.7 million in 2006 revenue, the most recent year available.
Bentley would not disclose donations from the revival, but said it carries a $35,000 daily operating cost. Offerings aren’t taken until four hours or so into the nightly proceedings, he notes, when all are tired and some have left.
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The most recent actual data available regarding finances is 2 years old. They’ve been collecting money for months and can’t show accounting for it.
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July 20th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I had a feeling he’d be back once he saw the money signs.
At the rate that this demon is kicking dying, weak people and knocking out old ladies’ teeth, it’s a matter of time before the multi million dollar law suits put him out of business.
I just pray he does not kill someone before he is stopped.