Title: Dancing with Angels
Author: Kevin Basconi
Date: 2010
Publisher: Destiny Image
ISBN: 978-0-7684-9024-4
Quote: "Do angels actually intervene in the lives of ordinary people today?"
It depends on what the meaning of "angels" is. The word comes from Greek words for "message" and "messenger." Even on the most ordinary level, messages and messengers obviously do intervene in the lives of ordinary people today. To what extent messages are conveyed by a special kind of supernatural messengers, spirit beings with individual lives but without bodies, and whether such beings might be created as spirits or post-incarnated from departed human souls, are two very divisive questions. Kevin Basconi claims to have performed miraculous healings with help from angels, a few of whom he and his associates have "seen," or at least vividly visualize; one seemed to be a gigantic White man, one seemed to be a Black man, one seemed to be an eagle...
My faith tradition differs from his, so I tend to be skeptical, but I claim no revelation authorizing me to say that Basconi is either lying or delusional. Some people have livelier visual imaginations than others. Basconi might be sincere. Messages from God don't depend on visual effects but may be visualized by some minds, for all we know; they may even move people, or animals, or even objects, to behave in ways that human eyes can see.
Nevertheless, when people list Oral Roberts among the founders of their groups or churches, I think it's a good idea not to send them money. (Oral Roberts was a very well known preacher whose life overlapped with mine enough that people my age remember him for having prophesied events that did not come to pass.) People who are on familiar terms with angels should not need much money and should be able to get what they need from sources other than us. This book is available online free of charge. Its sequels are not on my Wish List of books friends who want to buy gifts for me should order.
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