FAKE HEALERS

EXPOSED

Dr. Simon Bar Soundingbrass

  EDITOR’S NOTE  

This book is a comic satire on various books that attempt to expose Pentecostal claims that miracles are available for believers today. The same logic found in these books is applied to the miracles of Christ with the obvious illogical conclusion and results. Watch now as we observe & note the inevitable results of such teaching. (The points of Simon Soundingbrass are actually modeled after points taken out of real captured documents written by ministers who said they were representing the Church of Christ. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. That is if we may assume there are any!)     Paul Ferguson

 PREFACE

By  Caiaphas, the High Priest 

I heartily recommend Dr. Simon Bar Sound­ingbrass^’s book. Brother Soundingbrass has been very courageous in his fight against this cult. He has had more debates than any of the brethren. Among his debates includes the famous debate on the resurrection from the dead with Mr. Christ himself. SOLID ROCK PUBLISHING HOUSE publishes a booklet, “Highlights of the Soundingbrass - Christ Debate on Resurrec­tion”. 

All those who read Bro. Soundingbrass’s book will be heartily convinced that there are no mod­ern day miracles, but that all miracles ceased shortly after the book of Malachi was written.

INTRODUCTION 

A fake, fraudulent and disgraceful healing cult has been operating in this area. Since many of the less stable souls have been taken up in this movement, we have arisen to meet the need of the hour with this daring, documented expose’. 

Its leader, a Mr. Christ as most of as know, has been tried by due process for his crimes and received his just sentence. Nevertheless some persist in the cult claiming a possession of Divine gifts not only for Mr. Christ but also for I themselves. 

This book is not printed out of any ill will toward anyone in this phony cult, but it is hoped that they may be saved from this error. I wish Ito acknowledge the kind help of many of the brethern without whose help this book would not be possible.

 Capernaum, 60 ADI

Hardclang College

  TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Part One

 Fake Healers Exposed 

THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT MR. CHRIST’S CLAIMS TO FAITH HEALING ARE FRAUDULENT: 

I. His healings were psychological.

 At one healing meeting I attended Christ laid hands on a poor blind man and asked him if he could see. The poor man was so confused that he said he saw men as trees walking. Now it is well known that blind men can often see shadows in bright light. This was such a disgraceful, dis­gusting performance that I left as soon as he had said that to go write this book. (Mark 8:24-26. If Mr. Christ really had the gift of divine healing, his cure would have worked immediately!!!

 II. Sometimes those who were healed have mysterious relapses.

 Last Spring Mr. Christ prayed for a flax work­er from Joppa. Two weeks later the man died from a worse attack of the same disease! (John 5:14 “Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee.”)

 III. Fake healer picks and chooses clients.

 When a real blind man slipped into Mr. Christ’s healing line, he immediately got rid of him in an ingenious fashion. He actually spat on the ground ladies and gentlemen! I was amazed! He then rubbed spit and clay on the man’s eyes and sent him in a pitiful condition stumbling out of the service to wash in the pool of Siloam, a convenient three miles away! (John 9:6-7). 

IV. His own brother’s testimony.

 Testimony by his own brothers indicated that in reality he was not even accepted by his own family. In an exclusive interview they told us that Mr. Christ possessed absolutely no miraculous powers. In fact we learned that his brothers, a little while ago had openly challenged him to hold the same healing meetings he had held in private a few days before in public in Jerusalem. Of course he refused to go presumably because he didn’t have time or it wasn’t time yet. He rather told his brothers to go themselves. He had said he did not have time yet he was seen at the same feast (John 7:3-9).

V. Meeting in healer’s own hometown a flop.

Everybody was waiting for great miracles. It had been advertised far and wide. But all that he did was put his hands on a few people whom he said were healed.  (Presumably under his pay). His excuse for not taking the harder cases was that there was too much unbelief there. Now just let me tell you, lad­ies and gentlemen, none of the old prophet in the Old Testament failed to work a miracle because of anyone’s unbelief! (Matt. 13:58).

 VI. Fake healers own disciples fail.

 Mr. Christ publicly stated that he had given his disciples power to freely cast out demons and heal the sick. He even went so far as to say that he had given them power over ALL demons. Yet it was reported by authentic witnesses, eyewitnesses, ladies and gentlemen, that when a young epileptic child was brought to them they were as powerless as you or I to help the poor wretched child. Witnesses said that they were deeply moved that the father was so grieved because of the failure of these charlatans. It is indeed disgraceful that such misguided souls are sometimes the prey of these false cults. (Matt.17:14-20). 

When asked later about this it was reported that Mr. Christ stated it was because of the unbelief of his disciples and because they had not prayed and fasted enough rather than because of anything he had done! Yet he had previously told them that he had given them power over all kinds of demons! Obviously when a hard case came along, it was plain that he had not given them anything! 

VII. Fake healer long on arguments but short on demonstration. 

While he claims to preach love to all men, he in fact lacks self-control and a charitable attitude himself. When challenged to work a real bonafide miracle with his back against the wall he became very vicious and lashed out against a group of our brethren who visited one of his services!!! He called them wicked and perverse and even dared suggest that they had committed adultery!! He was obviously slinging mud to draw attention away from his inability to produce the specified sign the brethren had asked for. He then launched on, of all things, a discourse on Jona and the whale! (Matt. 12: 38-40).

 It was reported that a while ago that he was involved in a brawl over selling a few things in the holy temple, I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, did any of the prophets propagate their doctrine in this way? (John 2). 

When asked to produce affidavits from two or three doctors, Mr. Christ was only able to produce one from a doctor named Luke who was obviously one of the cult members. Upon checking, we were not able to find any evidence about Mr. Luke’s background as to whether he was a bonafide physician or not. 

VIII. Fake healer claims to raise the dead.

 But upon checking it was found that this man who was said to be dead was actually not only a close and intimate friend of Mr. Christ but also some further research revealed that Mr. Christ made frequent visits to his home. Apparently on one of these visits they arranged a plan for Mr. Lazarus to pretend to be dead and appear to be resurrected by Christ.

 Some of our brethren believe that Mr. Christ did work some miracles by the devil’s power. Of course since miracles from heaven ceased with the book of Malachi, one would have to work with them by the power of Satan. Hence, any proven miracle would of necessity be satanic. However the author would exhaust every possible natural explanation before he would say modern day miracles of this type were of the devil!!! 

IX. Fake healers behind bars.

 When we attempted to interview these cult leaders, we discovered that they could not be reached because they were in jail for violating temple ordinances during a healing service. Ladies and gentlemen, Certainly people whom we know do not obey the laws of the land cannot be of God! (Acts 3 & 4).

 X. Healing cult immoral.

 This movement has spread all the way to Corinth. One of our brethren in Corinth stated that the most immoral practices go on in this church. He has positive proof that at least one man in this church is actually married to his own mother!!! (1Cor. 5). There is a good deal of fighting and almost constant bickering that goes on there.

 Our brother states that in one service he attended there was so much babbling that he could not understand what was going on and thought they were mad! (1Cor. 14). 

This, ladies and gentlemen, we can see the plain truth about this movement. As their own cult leader has said, “By their fruits you can know them.” We can plainly see by a documented report that this movement cannot possible be any kind of move of God. We know that miracles and wonders ceased when the Old Testament was written and it was confirmed. Therefore there are no divine healings today! 

 PART II

 REAL HEALERS DEFENDED AND VINDICATED

 What you have just read was a mock facsimile of an actual book claiming to expose all people who pray for the sick and expect a direct immediate answer. An example of such a book is a pamphlet written by V.E. Howard called “FAKE HEALERS EXPOSED.” 

Only the tables have turned. Instead V. E. Howard and Co. has been exposed! Their reasoning is taken to its natural conclusion. If what the Howardites say is true, if we may grant them all their points, then the Lord Himself was a fake!! If staying with the Lord and doing what He did is going to make you a fake, then I for one will stay with the Lord and gladly bear the name “FAKE.”  You can just call me Fake Ferguson any old time! 

I am amazed, reading such books, just how close these little books come to the reasoning of various infidels who have attempted at various and sundry times to over run the miracles in the Word of God. As a student in college I studied David Hume, the British philosopher. He listed alleged proofs against miracles in the Bible, which are almost identical to books like Mr. Howard’s.

 Hume has been accused by Christian philosophers such as J. Gates of placing so many requirements for proof of an actual miracle that no human being could possible get any evidence of this kind for anything much less the Bible.

 Gates says, “The advocate of the miraculous is gagged and bound and then pointed at in derision because he had nothing to say for his cause. See PHILOSOPHT, Zondervan,” 61, p. 141.

This is precisely what Pentecostal opponents do. They write up the evidence that they themselves decide what will make them believe that a miracle took place. They must have so many affidavits from so many doctors who are Frenchmen living in Zanzibar with little red hats. They must have been sitting in little blue chairs with ivory trim when they saw the miracle, etc…

 The author can personally present doctors testimony of many miracles, which took place, but this testimony would not be accepted because the doctor had to wear his little red hat or something else. 

Now I may say at this point that not everyone who prays for the sick is straightforward and honest! As in Bible days, for each good upright man who cast out demons, there are seven sons of Sceva (Acts 19) and one Simon (Acts 8) who want to get in on the act. 

This however may be an authentication of divine healing in disguise. If it isn’t of God, then why does the devil have to whip up so many counterfeits to obscure and offset it? And I might add why do certain elements fight it so hard?