JACK COE, a healing revival during the 1950s, pt4

[martlut]

JACK COE

Another famous Pentecostal latter days healing evangelist was JACK COE (1918-1956). His ministry, too, was characterized by false teaching and outrageous and untrue claims. Though the Assemblies of God expelled him in 1953 for extremism, Coe's false teaching that healing is guaranteed in the atonement is shared by the Assemblies of God. He claimed that consulting physicians was connected with the mark of the beast (Simson, The Faith Healer, p. 164).

[radicalgrace]

@martlut - I am the moderator of this thread. I'm familiar with Eve Simson's book. She is factually inaccurate throughout the book. Very poor investigative journalism and poor scholarship. She calls Pentecostalism "strange" and had nothing good to say about Oral Roberts, Kuhlman and other notables. May I suggest you read, "THE JACKIE RHODES STORY", by noted Hollywood celebrity of that era. She was healed in a Jack Coe crusade of what doctors called an incurable disease.

[hipstermi]

@radicalgrace

"She calls Pentecostalism "strange"

I used to be Pentecostal...so I agree. You have some who say women must not cut hair and wear dresses (the Little House on the Praire look) and they have tongues/ magical powers like Coe's "healings". How is that not strange?

"nothing good to say about Oral Roberts"

spends tons of cash on lavish life, coned people by saying he would die...what's good?

and why do they ALWAYS ask for so much damn money?

[martlut]

In February 1956, at a healing crusade in Miami, Florida, Coe laid hands on a little boy who was stricken with polio. The boy's mother, Ann Clark, was told by Coe: "If you believe Jesus heals the child, take the braces off, and leave them off.

[martlut]

She immediately removed the braces from the boy's feeble legs, but as he attempted to take a step, he collapsed to the floor. Believing the false teaching that Coe and the other faith healers preached that God had promised her boy's healing through faith, Mrs. Clark determined not to put the braces back on. Soon the boy's legs began to swell and she took him to a doctor, who ordered the braces to be put back on

[martlut]

Her letter to Jack Coe, seeking his counsel, was ignored. She contacted the police and Coe was charged with practicing medicine without a license. After a highly publicized trial, the judge dismissed the case. Mrs. Clark's sad experience reminds us that the path of the Pentecostal movement is strewn with this type of heartache because it promises things which God has not promised.

[martlut]

hough he taught that healing was guaranteed in the atonement and warned his followers against using medicine and consulting physicians, Coe went to the hospital when he fell ill with polio only a few months after the aforementioned trial. He succumbed to this disease a few weeks later, and it would be difficult not to see the hand of God in such a remarkable coincidence. After Coe's death, his widow published a series of articles exposing the fraud of key healing evangelists

[Hawkinz00]

hahaha, god fearing americans and their pseudo-evangelists.

[ilililhy1]

@Hawkinz00 Not only am I a God fearing man,I am a born again,tongue talking,HOLY GHOST FILLED BELIEVER IN CHRIST JESUS,SIGNS FOLLOW THE BELIEVER IN CHRIST JESUS<THEY SHALL CAST OUT DEMONS<THEY SHALL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK AND THEY SHALL RECOVER

[Waynedog1]

Before I was born my parents went to Jack Coe's Tent Meeting in Lubbock, Texas. At the 1st meeting my Dad didn't believe....Then on the 2nd a woman rode in her ambulance from Levelland to get her healing. My father knew her personally, because she was a rich realestate lady whom my Dad had done plumbing work for. She got up off her bed pulling out the oxygen & IV's. She rode back home with her nurse leaving the ambulance driver empty handed. Praise God Forever! Her last name was Green

[sylviassuccess]

@Waynedog1 how awesome!! Praise Jesus!!!

[Denvermorgan2000]

@Waynedog1 Amen thats a real blessing to hear your testimony about that thanks

[hipstermi]

@Waynedog1

That's a great story...but what was the woman's name? You being a "guy on internet" is not the most credible source. I have also found when people claim "my dad knew her" it often turns into "my dad knew a guy who knew her" or my dad knew her cousin's friend's neighbor".

You have not provided any proof these magical healings happened as they claimed. just some stories.

It's amazing how historical research or simple journalism seems to disappear when Christians make claims.

[Waynedog1]

@hipstermi I'll find out her full name if you must know.... This event happened before I was born in July of 1955. The rich ole lady's last name was Green.... Dad referred to her as Old Lady Green.... He died on Memorial Day of 2000...so I can't ask him. I've lived in Oklahoma since May of 1970. Maybe I can find someone living In Levelland, Texas who can remember her. As I stated earlier my father was a bigger doubting Thomas than you when he attended his first service.

[hipstermi]

@Waynedog1

"Dad referred to her as Old Lady Green.... He died on Memorial Day of 2000"

So in answer to my question...YOU CAN"T PROVE ANYTHING. All you have your memory of a story from your late father... that involves magical powers. It's possible you/your dad as fallible men- misremember, believed a tall tale, was bullshitting, he was conned.

Again- just like people with "psychic powers" you Christians can never produce real proof to these matters.

[pomonapraisechapel]

What on awesome testimony how God heals people even at the store! Keep it up! Power on bro!!

Mark 11 These sign follow THE BELIEVERS!!!

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[curtis1933]

hi jonna i did a meeting back in nov 2006 with jack jr our dads did what God called them to do i ran a cross this by accdent keep up the good work Gos bless

[Markks100]

@curtis1933 who is your dad? Kenneth Hagin?

[alexmassada]

exelente!!!!