Now let’s move on to the more serious topic….

TODD BENTLEY

After this, Mr. Bentley lived a life of addictions, and criminal activities. This continued until his "conversion", which after this propelled him into his type of ministry at the age of 18.

Family: Mr. Bentley is married to his wife Shonnah, and has three children: Lauralee, Esther and Elijah.

If you took the time to view this video. I hope one glaring error came to light. This Mr. Johnson, not once referred back to scriptural proof. Something that we’re taught to do in Scripture. The Berean example is not followed here. Neither is Paul’s instructions to test all things.

Instead supposedly being the man’s friend, and watching him with his family is legitimate grounds for declaring this man (Todd Bentley) a man of God. For anyone who has studied human behaviour even to a small degree knows that this type of defence is extremely weak. It is very common to have serial killers, not hurt their families. The Dusseldorf Vampire (German Serial Killer). Was extremely violent in his actions, yet loved his family. Examples like this could go on forever. The point is to not to compare Bentley to any awful person, but the point is that when judging someone on the truth of God, looking at their lifestyle is absolutely not the way of doing it. There are many cult members out there who are part of the Mormon’s, Jehovah’s Witnesses, False Messiah Followers, who are extremely upright, loving people. Yet are greatly blinded by the errors presented to them. Everything must go back to scripture, yet the Charismatic movement is very much built up on "experience", and emotionalism. Little scriptural study is found.

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If you took the time to watch this image, you would quickly find the complete disregard for the Holiness of God.

The pastor refers to Mr. Bentley’s form of baptism where he referred to God such as: "I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and BAM!"

He defends this practice, saying that it is very scriptural. That in fact BAM is the Holy Spirit. He refers to Acts 2 to the reference that people will receive Power, that it’s referring to the Holy Spirit. The translation of power is the root word for Dynamite, and on Disney Movies when Dynamite explodes it goes "BAM!"

Let’s look at the verse:

Act 1:8  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

The reference to the Holy Spirit as being power is in Luke 24:49. The context of the chapters though always refer to the ability of man to do things. God has power, and this power will be displayed through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Also scripture is extremely clear in what to say for who is being baptized. If God, the author and giver of all things instructs us to say Holy (Hagios) Spirit (Pneuma) instead of Power ( dunamis); it would be very wise to follow God’s instructions. If one wishes to teach what the power is after the person is saved and filled with the Holy Spirit then they should do so.

It’s also worth to mention that the majority of leading versions of the Bible clearly show that this power follows the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 1.

Many of the followers of Bentley have been completely sucked into his teachings. On his site is the quote below of someone attempting to defend Bentley’s use of BAM!. The not too surprising this is that Bentley posts this extremely bad presentation of exegesis on his site, as almost a trophy note from a follower. Let’s look at it….

BAM

I have heard that many people are stumbling over Todd’s use of the word BAM when he lays hands on people. I happened to tune into the revival on the internet the night Todd explained that the word just came out of him, even though he didn’t have an explanation for the word. I received that in my spirit, and I was so thankful that Papa had me tune in that night to hear that.
Now I know why that happened, and I want to share this information to you, as I believe it is a confirmation, and God is unfolding a mystery so that unbelief will be broken off of us and we will be able to receive ALL that our dear Heavenly Papa has for us!

Yesterday, I found something that you may find rather interesting. I am reading in Hebrews and have been using the Complete Jewish Bible translation by David H. Stern ISBN 965-359-015-4
As I was in Hebrews chapter 1, reading about Jesus, the Son, being the radiance of God’s Divine Presence or "the manifest glory of God".

In this translation, David Stern uses Hebrew terms many times throughout.
Well, I believe the explanation is right here in Hebrews verse 3. In this version, it says: …,he sat down at the right hand of  HaG’dulah BaM’romim. The translation is: The Greatness on High. Do you see the BaM in that Hebrew word?????

What Todd Bentley has been asked to do by God is to release the manifest Presence of God into those people he touches.
When I looked up manifest in the dictionary, the first thing it says is: struck by the hand.
Then it goes on to say near at hand, palpable, evident; apparent to the senses especially that of sight or to the mind
Interesting, isn’t it???  — Trudy

Let’s look at Hebrews chapter 1 and verse number 3

Heb 1:3  who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

The part the writer is referring to is "Majesty on High" at the end of the verse. First off, the common language used during the time of the writing of Hebrews, and what the book would have been written in would have been Greek. So if anything wonderful and mystical would come out of it, you would think that the All knowing God would have put it in the translation that people would have read at the time so that His glory would not be hid.

The word Majesty in Greek is: Megalosune (meg-al-o-soo’-nay). Indeed it is very good for the New Testament to be translated for Hebrew readers, but a proper exegesis is in order.  We could ofcourse play this game quite well, and go around yelling MEGA! MEGA!, because in the Greek if you see the first four letters is MEGA. But once we start ripping words apart they are not really what they mean anymore. BAM is not the Greatness on High in Hebrew. "HaG’dulah BaM’romim" is.

Also the definition the follower gives for manifest is very interesting. Dictionary.com mentions nowhere that manifest has to do with striking of the hand. The first definition they give is:

Adjective:

readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.

Verb:

to make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding; show plainly: He manifested his approval with a hearty laugh.

Noun:

list of the cargo carried by a ship, made for the use of various agents and officials at the ports of destination.

The only way the person can get any type of "hand" out of the translation is to trace the root of the word to it’s origin which is two words put together: "Manifestus" (Manus - Infest)

Manus: The word is used two different ways: In Anatomy it’s used of a limb of the vertebrate. Or in Roman Law it refers to power over a person.

Infest: The meaning of just this word is to live in an unwanted degree, or a troublesome manner. To be troublesome. Or the Archaic use of the word is to harass.

So perhaps if "Trudy" was to remain consistent. She would have to come to the conclusion that if she wants to go back to the root meanings of words, and break them apart, then, Bentley is a troublemaker, that likes to harrass people by kicking and punching them. But let’s not split hairs, or well in this case English and Hebrew words.

First off, Satan has the power to do marvelous things as well. So this alone is absolutely no proof of validity from God. But if anyone has studied the nature of God. I’m sure we will come to the conclusion that during the day of Pentecost and the saving of the people in the New Testament, there was no hitting people’s legs, kicking people’s faces, and jumping on people. This is blasphemy.

The healing that is performed by Mr. Bentley, is not at all scriptural. He claims in another video that all they show is him kneeing people etc. But when he admits it in one of his long discussions to his crowd, it’s hard to deny. The question has to be asked….how many people were healed in such a way in the New Testament?

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