A Beautiful Mind!

A thought occurred to me while watching this movie. If Crowe was having regular conversions with Jesus or talking to angels, we would make him a celebrity, talk about how spiritual and anointed he is, and he would be filling stadiums sharing his experiences with the faithful instead of seeking help and dealing with the issues.

Here's a quote from the October 2001 issue of "The Word Of Faith" (Publication of Kenneth Hagin Ministries).

Brother Hagin then demonstrated by uttering a psalm. Then he taught alternately in English and in tongues with interpretation. He told the congregation that he saw two angels standing, one on each side of him. He asked them their names and purposes, and shared those with the congregation. One was Michaelini, a messenger angel sent to carry out Rev. Hagin's words. The other was Michahnini, Rev. Hagin's guardian angel. After that, Rev. Hagin moved through the congregation ministering words from the Lord to several individuals.

Hagin has also had many conversations with Jesus. In my humble opinion, many of these conversations are way out of scope of what most consider standard Biblical doctrine (a good topic for another post).

As a graduate of Rhema, I have to say I do not doubt Kenneth Hagin's sincerity. However, one possibility is that, like Russell Crowe in "The Beautiful Mind", he really believed he was talking to Jesus and seeing angels. The question we need to ask ourselves is- was he hallucinating?