I wish I could go back in time & view her- I wasn't interested, when my mom was. I have never been one to go against Biblical teaching/scripture regarding women being over men in a church at all, whether pastors, or teachers-lesterb wrote:I just picked a couple names from my brain at random. However Kathryn was outside God's order of headship by being a public teacher and preacher.Valerie wrote:I remember my mom being a big fan of Kathryn Kuhlman who I remember always saying "I believe in miracles because I believe in God".lesterb wrote:
I suspect that Satan can do a certain amount of good if it supports evil. For instance, I suspect that the powers of "faith healers" like Kathryn Kuhlman or Bennie Hein could be Satanic in nature.
I was young, and then very young in the Lord, when she was in her healing ministry- I tend to get very afraid of falsely accusing someone who did have the gift of healing, of it being from the demonic realm, (because of what Jesus said) but I also do believe some faith healing is not of the Lord-
What in particular about Kathryn makes you (or anyone) suspect? (if I may ask) there must be some reason-
I would view anyone who does miracles for show with suspicion. Modern faith healers manage to accumulate enormous economic holdings by doing "God's" work. It seems to be mostly for their own benefit and they get a lot more glory out of it than God does.
I'm not sure if her ministry was a church, from my (bad) memory, I don't think she was a pastor/teacher- but the claim was an anointing, or gift- in this way- I am not sure how that particular spiritual gift would be different than the spiritual gift of prophesy, which was given to both genders as well.
I DID take a carload of girls to a Kathryn Kuhlman service when I was in high school because they asked me to, as one of the girls boyfriend had become paralyzed by an accident and they wanted to see her ministry- at the time, they were not Christians, and I was a young Christian, so I took them- it's been so long- I remember not feeling TOTALLY sure of it myself.