Wednesday, December 10, 2014

These Evangelicals Believe They Can Raise the Dead

Praise the Lord and pass the coffee! Hey there. Great to see you. Thanks for clicking by. Fill your mug. Grab a virtual muffin or doughnut and let me fill your ears with the news...

Dead Raising Team (DRT) is a team of evangelical Christians who boast that they can raise people from the dead with their prayers. Tyler Johnson, the group’s charismatic leader, claims to be responsible for bringing 13 corpses back to life!

The DRT story was covered in the 2013 documentary film Deadraiser. It depicts various miracle stories where DRT members pray for dead people and witness them come alive. 

Some of the people who allegedly came back from the dead claimed to have seen hell and the demons who were torturing them. But they were ultimately saved and pulled back to earth.

Mark DeDio, for instance, used to be a troubled drug user who actually claims to have died in 2006 as a result of an overdose. The next thing he knew, “there was screeching, torment, screams. The smell was just like vomit, sulphur.” But he was eventually saved by DRT member TJ Aderholdt, who happened to pass by the ambulance in which Mark’s corpse lay.

Although the man had no pulse, TJ began speaking in tongues as soon as he spotted Mark. Within minutes, Mark’s eyes popped open, he stood up and started telling everybody how he went to hell and was pulled back. “It was like a grab on my collar,” he recalled. “Jesus pulled me out.”

Uh-huh. These stories surface from time to time. Whether there is any truth in them or not is one thing. Whether you choose to believe them is another. All I will say is that the world is full of strange happenings. Nice t-shirts!

See ya, eh!

Bob

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