<TITLE>07. Par 46-53</TITLE>L-46 As being a doctor of theology, and well posted in Scripture, as the great evangelist is, and a mighty man he is, I believe that I would have challenged him upon the Word, whether Jesus was the Christ or not, or whether Mohammed was the prophet, and had proved him by his own Bible. If that would have been my call in the Bible, as it is the evangelist to explain it, I would have taken that stand instead of just running from it and backing up. That showed... That don't show that real Christian courage that'll stand there live or die; God's able to deliver. I believe I would've called the hand of him on that.

L-47 But they forget to think about Bombay when the blind man there, the Mohammedans, that night they received his sight in the meeting. They wouldn't mention that.
But, however, on these people, they are not hypocrites. They are sincere people, just as sincere as you and I--and sometimes more than we are here in America. They are not hypocrites. They truly believe that, and practice it with all that's in them.

L-49 Let me give you a little something on idolatry. I forget the name of the god that is the god of the fire-walkers, but it's a huge statue with great, big, something similar to a human face, a kind of a cameo-like face, with huge, big ears to hear all their sins and so forth. And great big rubies as earrings in their--in his ears here, that would probably cost a half a million a piece, maybe. That might be over-estimated; it may be underestimated. But, oh, such great costly jewels in this idol.

L-50 And the priest of the temple brings the poor farmer, he doesn't have to be... just an ordinary; don't have to be some special person. He's just an ordinary man, a farmer that wants to give thanks to his god for a good crop. And in doing that he shows his faith in god as he comes to the temple and is blessed by his priest.
And then to... getting ready to walk through a pool of coals that's many feet deep and many feet wide, and fanned with fans until they're white hot... Now, that's no put-on; it's truth. He goes before the idol, confesses his sins to this priest, and they pour water on him--holy water, and so forth, that the priest has blessed.

L-52 And then, many times, they take a large hook, fish hook, great, big, maybe a half inch to three quarters across the--the diameter, across from the--the point to the back staff of the hook. And they put a little ball of water on that, like a little Christmas tree ornament, and a little ball, and fill it full of water to make it heavy. And they take, literally thousands of those, and hook them in their flesh, pull them out. As they go in, in their flesh, pull them--to go through the torture to please their god, the idol. They're not hypocrites.

L-53 Then many times they stick their tongue out and have a lance with a fork on it to go through their tongue, and up through their nose and hold it together: take stitches of thread and sew their mouth together if they've said things wrong. And such torture...
And then set down by this great pool of fire. They kill a goat, to appease the idol, to offer a life for their sins. And you ought to hear the--the rumble when that goat is killed. They confess their sins on it, and kill the goat, throwing the--taking the blood as an atonement.


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