Question:
Why are people so vulnerable to false prophets?
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:10:55 UTC
I'm talking about Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, the Roberts family, and people like that. I have lost three friends and one family member to the brainwashing from the Oral Roberts ministry. One of those friends was my best friend for quite a long time, then they got brainwashed. It makes me sick to my stomach. How can I get the word out about false prophets, i.e, how can I warn people? I just feel an urge to warn people not to listen to these false prophets. (Yes, I am a Christian, too, but I know a false prophet instantly when they loom on the horizon)
Twenty answers:
anonymous
2009-12-19 13:14:11 UTC
DESPERATION
Big Bill
2009-12-19 06:27:31 UTC
The majority of person in the world today cling desperately to the material nature of life and, at best only have a vague idea as to any spiritual dimension of the same.



The material world has never brought them happiness or fulfillment, peace of mind or any sense of oneness with all that is.



Their understanding of the spiritual is tied to and mixed with the material so that it has become a commodity that is bought and sold so as to try to purchase "salvation".



They are then desperate for that which they do not have yet crave without being willing to put in a sincere effort so as to attain such.



Then when a manipulative persons comes along and makes promises that correspond to their desires they blindly follow as a lie is often easier to accept than the truth.



This happens within all of the various faith practices of humankind as every such system has produced these proverbial "wolves in sheep's clothing" just as every spiritual, faith system has produced saints and sages, holy men and women.



namaste
Tardacus
2009-12-19 06:24:50 UTC
I think people are vulnerable to false prophets because it is so easy to mimic the signs of a true prophet. If the signs of a true prophet were much more spectacular it would very difficult or impossible to mimic those signs and everyone would know without a doubt who the true prophets are and who the false prophets are.



in difficult times like this, recession, incompetent untrustworthy leaders, wars and terrorism etc etc people feel the need to find something bigger to put their trust in and false prophets are waiting for them.
JP (Jan)
2009-12-19 06:19:57 UTC
All you can do is try to show them in the Word of God that what these men teach does not line up with Scripture. I think the people that are vulnerable to this are the ones who want health and wealth and they support these ministries because that's what these men promise. They make me sick too. They are nothing but con men and prosperity pimps!
LucidDreamer
2009-12-19 06:20:18 UTC
People are stupid.



Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they're afraid it might be true.



Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.



Religion, especially the Abrahamic religions, is especially adept at using peoples stupidity against them. By applying both the carrot (heaven) and the stick (hell) they utilize both hope and fear to motivate belief.
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:19:18 UTC
2 John 1



Warning Against False Teachers



1:5 But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another. 1:6 (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it. 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!1:8 Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward. 1:9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son. 1:10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting, 1:11 because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.







1 John 4



Testing the Spirits



4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, 4:3 but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. 4:4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 4:5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them. 4:6 We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.
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2009-12-19 06:17:36 UTC
2Timothy 4:3

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"



Each false teacher you named offer personal and physical gain for money. People fall for those things because they are promised some sort of personal gain. They want those things out of lust (see verse 3)
Brandyanne
2009-12-19 06:19:39 UTC
Everyone wants something to believe in and it is so easy to be mislead. You should know common sense does not often play a part in filling a spiritual void.



Has this made them bad or dangerous people?
-
2009-12-19 06:17:37 UTC
If people would search the scriptures instead of trusting men to lead them they would recognize false teachers when they see them, if we would just live by the Word of God.



"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." - Matthew 4:4
John
2009-12-19 06:37:59 UTC
god are not real the one true almighty being is the dollar go become communist if yous don't agree







pics or it didn't happen(re-ferring to el biblico)



anyone named Thomas H could be a trouble maker
Objection
2009-12-19 06:22:25 UTC
Christians of different denominations call each other heretics and false. Apparently you religionists are so close-minded you can't see the implications of this.
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:18:22 UTC
For the same reason you are vulnerable to a prophet that you think is true.
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:34:04 UTC
It's not supposed to be about the prophets. It's supposed to be about the message.
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:14:05 UTC
Sin
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:39:20 UTC
The Bible says, itching ears.
An old Star Blazers fan
2009-12-19 06:27:20 UTC
Encourage people to read the Bible which tells of such people.
GoddessALaMode
2009-12-19 06:19:53 UTC
Like P.T. Barnum used to say, "There's a sucker born every minute."
anonymous
2009-12-19 06:14:25 UTC
Because real ones don't exist....
tweetyme3
2009-12-19 06:24:43 UTC
sin and satin. satin is behind all that to mislead.
anonymous
2009-12-19 07:16:21 UTC
Have you ever thought on the possibility that you are also brainwashed with religion? Have you ever taken a sober look at Christianity?



You probably heard the name of "SLAUGHTER HOUSE RELIGION" given to Christianity. ALL Christians need to snack God the Son Jesus Christ in some way as part of the “salvation” package.



It is a scientifically proven fact that RELIGION is a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception and/or expression of reality. Distortions in perception may affect all five senses. It is a serious social disorder. In most severe cases, those affected are willing to kill and die, or SUPPORT THOSE WHO DO. They can’t help to behave very silly in public on behalf of their religion. Among religious people of like faith and practice, they are the champions in their own delusion!



John 6:53 (KJV) Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you (DUCK! Hey, If he is God why does he have to keep reminding everybody that he is telling the truth? WE ALL KNOW that obsessive Bull Crappers do that all the time!), Except ye eat the FLESH of the Son of man, and drink his BLOOD, ye have no life in you* (*addressing a very gullible population who are willing to take it as it comes.)



The “Holy Communion” has to be served just right, or Christians can get real sick and die! Protestants have relaxed this warning, but Catholics still believe that the Host* (*wafer) and Wine is magically transformed into the ACTUAL spit flavored Meat and sweaty Blood of Jesus Christ shed at Gethsemane, or was it at Calvary? It couldn’t be at Calvary because Jesus was comfortably talking to everybody around his Cross, not painfully bleeding to death! When a person is hanged they lose control of the bladder and they let go all the piss out! Jesus did that too only when the Roman soldier pierced his bladder. I question the value of water* (*piss?) mixed with blood for the “cleansing of sins,” but what the heck! In some parishes extraordinary measures are taken after Mass to monitor that no trace of the body of Jesus Christ is found in any spent chewing gum stuck under the Church pews, or anywhere else! They are collected and given a decent burial!



1 Corinthians 1:29-30 (KJV) For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh DAMNATION to himself, not discerning THE LORD'S BODY. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many SLEEP* (*”have died.” Holy Mafia talk! Low IQ Christians who are sick are screwing up the Holy Communion, or how else can they get sick and die?).



The Christian writers of the NT went berserk proving that in fulfillment of Bible prophecies Jesus Christ’s flesh was skillfully beaten to a pulp and heavily marinated in Roman soldiers’ spit, as the “spotless Lamb of God taking away the sins of the world” while hanging nailed totally naked to a Holy Cross. It is scientifically proven that no cross can possible hold any human body hanging comfortably in there from a nail in each hand for any length of time! BTW, in the OT God demands that all the lambs for the sacrifice be thoroughly inspected to be CLEAN AND SPOTLESS, “spiritually speaking!”



Job 17:6 (NIV) God has made me* (*Jesus) a byword to everyone* (*that is when “God the Father laid on HIM the iniquity of us all” Isa 53:6), A MAN IN WHOSE FACE PEOPLE SPIT* (*this is about the most striking prophecy about Jesus Christ that Preachers play cool for obvious reasons!). It is kinda poopy, but there is hardly any other “prophecy” in the Bible that the NT writers fit more precisely to their “crucifixion” story than this one, from the Book of Job!



Matthew 26:67 (NIV) Then they SPIT IN HIS FACE and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him.

Matthew 27:30 (NIV) They SPIT ON HIM, and took the staff* (*that a 33 year old Jesus was limping along as a “Good Shepherd!”) and struck him on the head again and again.

Mark 14:65 (NIV) Then some began to SPIT AT HIM; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy!" And the guards took him and beat him* (*the Bible writers dreamed up some BDSM games for the occasion).

Mark 15:19a (NIV) Again and again, they struck him on the head with a staff and SPIT ON HIM.



That’s almost a gallon of not Jewish, but ROMAN spit!!! Christians go wild preaching that the Jews rejected Jesus Christ, but the most humiliating spitting rejection ever put together by the Bible writers comes from the Romans, not from the Jews! Apparently there was something very repulsive about Jesus’ image that invited a lot of Roman spit, or maybe it had to do with the blood that he was sweating all over his face in prayer to God before his capture! He never took a shower after that!



No Holy Roman authority EVER apologized to the Jews on behalf of the Roman soldiers who are on Bible record spitting on Jesus’ face, or for having nailed him on a Holy ROMAN Cross. Jesus was not just any Jew! JESUS WAS THE KING OF THE JEWS… for Christ’s sake! The Roman Christians were ruling Europe for many centuries, and they still rule the “souls” of millions of proud Roman Catholics throughout the world. Catholics and Protestants THEY ALL BLAME THE JEWS FOR KILLING JESUS! The religious Jews are so traumatized about this whole issue that they don’t want to touch Jesus, or the whole Christian religion not even with a 10 foot pole, except for those who are “converted” and are making a living out of it!



There is no historical record that the Roman soldiers ever let their victims take a shower after a heavy dose of spitting. In reality, the Roman soldiers were not known to chew tobacco, or to spit at anybody! The Bible writers had to show that this “prophecy” of Job about “spitting on his face” was actually fulfilled. They made that point several times in the Bible! There is no record in the Bible or anywhere else that the Roman soldiers dressed any of their victim’s genital area in a white diaper before nailing them to any cross no matter how Holy! The Romans were much better known to IMPALE their victims driving a thick pole into the victim’s rectum and forcing them TO STAND ON IT WITHOUT ANY FOOT REST until the pole would eventually pierce the heart or lung killing them by their own body weight! The thicker the pole, the longer it took for the victim to die! The Roman soldiers had plenty of fun that way! Jesus hardly suffered a sissy man’s death hanging his full body weight so gently from a nail in each hand. THE NAILS CAN’T POSSIBLY HOLD ANYBODY HANGING IN THERE FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. That is why the Church Fathers invented the foot rest at the right height and size so Jesus could feel cozy hanging in there. Christians deep throat the crucifixion like a charm (John 20:25-27). Some Christians look forward to see the Holy holes in Jesus Body! They are preached to believe that the crucifixion is actually the most tormenting death ever invented! Not so! Impalement would have been a real pain in Jesus’ anal cavity and still fulfill Bible prophecy about “hanging on a tree,” but the Bible writers were wise enough to come up with a crucifixion story. If Jesus were to have a pole jammed up into his Holy anus his eyes would be popping out of their orbit! He would be screaming profanities like mad at his Father in Heaven! According to the Gospel writers, Jesus Christ was able to conduct a long heated conversation with his peers nailed to the other crosses, with some of the guests at the crucifixion site, and with the Roman soldiers that crucified him, and also with his Daddy God up in the Sky, in the vernacular Hebrew. The conscripted Roman soldiers spoke only Latin (Luke 23:38)!



Well informed, non-religious people know that the whole “crucifixion” story is a hoax of historical proportions promoted by Saint Paul and later on picked up by the rest of the Bible writers (Acts 25:19). Moreover, the faithful* (*gullible) Christians expect to reign along with this same Roman spit covered JESUS CHRIST KING OF THE JEWS in Jerusalem for 1,000 years or so at his 2nd coming. If he really reconsider to be a king of the Jews… because he already recanted! (John 18:36)!



The Bible writers were very much in the spitting fetish… They have Jesus restoring the eye sight of a blind man with his Holy spit, too! (John 9:6)



Revelation 3:16 (NIV) (Jesus is saying) So, because you* (*good Christians, but in the wrong Church!) are lukewarm neither hot nor cold I am about to SPIT YOU OUT of my mouth* (*like any tobacco chewing “good shepherd” giving his life for a stupid sheep would do! Mat 18:13 -NO RANTING, but Christianity is full of Heathen mythology!



About 500 years ago, the Protestants wised up and removed the hanging corpse of Jesus Christ from the Holy Cross. Now, only Catholics still display a dead body nailed to a cross and as you look at it, just THINK if those 2 nails can possibly hold a human body so nicely! In most movies they are honest to show that the arms of the crucified victim are tied up to the cross so the body won’t fall out of it!



The Jews restrict Judaism to their own people, but Christians want to impose Christianity on the whole world, and now the Muslims are catching up! I am fully aware that my answers upset a lot of professional preachers and most members of the Clergy, but they all know that religious gullibility* (*faith) is not going to collapse overnight…


This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
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