TODD BENTLEY AND SUNDAR SINGH

Who is Sundar Singh?

Deborah, over at Discerning the World, has dug deep into his background and come up with some interesting research about Sundar Singh, the Indian Hindu mystic Todd Bentley basis much of his teachings on, but tries to repackage it as Christianity. For those who may not be aware of this 'wolf'', read on.

Sadhu Sundar Singh-Hindu Mystic in Sheep's Clothing 22 May, 2008--Deborah

I have come across quite a few ‘Christian’ websites who think that Sadhu Sundar Singh was truly a man of God. I’ve spent hours and hours reading about his life and his beliefs and I will say this, if someone knocks on your door dressed in a yellow robe preaching Jesus Christ, don’t open the door!!

On the surface it would appear that Sadhu Singh was truly a man of God, he was ostracised by his family for ‘converting’ to Christianity after he had a vision of Jesus Christ in his bedroom, he was Baptised, he took on the life of a Sadhu, barefoot, roaming from village to village preaching and he spent many a month in prison or thrown into a well for preaching the Gospel, until one day he just vanished into thin air (not in a mystic kinda way, no he left for a trip to Tibet and was not seen again). continued

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Wikipedia also has an indepth background on the person of Sundar Singh, with references and anyone can research this out for themselves. Certainly this person does not remotely resemble anything that pertains to New Testament Christianity.

Take note of the reference made to "members of the Sunnyasi Mission, secret disciples of Jesus wearing their Hindu markings." There is no reference to Jesus ever having any "secret" disciples wearing Hindu markings in the Holy Scriptures. Jesus did not have any "secret" disciples, and this is most assuredly an extrabiblical/unbiblical occultic teaching.Jesus is the light of the world; he that follows him shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John's Gospel 8:12.

The word "occult" means things that are hidden, secret, mysterious or covered over. Deut. 29;29 in the Old Testament reads: The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Clearly, this is something that a Christian is to flee from.From Wikipedia

• Stories from those years are astonishing and sometimes incredible. Indeed there were those, who insisted that they were mystical rather than real happenings. That first year, 1912, he returned with an extraordinary account of finding a three-hundred-year old Christian hermit in a mountain cave-the Maharishi of Kailas, with whom he spent some weeks in deep fellowship.
  According to Singh in a town called Rasar he had been thrown in a dry well full of bones and rotting flesh and left to die. However three days later a rope was thrown to him and he was rescued. The difficulty with this account is that Singh is the sole witness to report this event. As Singh has been represented by some biographers as a suffering preacher, it is worth recalling that the three days spent down the well bears resemblances to the gospel narratives concerning the death and three days of burial for the Christ before his resurrection from the dead. [2]
  At these and at other times Singh was said to have been rescued by members of the "Sunnyasi Mission" -- secret disciples of Jesus wearing their Hindu markings, whom he claimed to have found all over India.
  One of the difficulties with the evidence to support this story of the secret Sunnyasi Mission is that this brotherhood was reputed to have numbered around 24,000 members across India.[3] The origins of this brotherhood were reputed to be linked to one of the Magi at Christ's Nativity and then the second century AD disciples of the apostle Thomas circulating in India. Nothing was heard of this evangelistic fellowship until after William Carey began his missionary work in Serampore. The Maharishi of Kailas experienced ecstatic visions about the secret fellowship that he retold to Sundar Singh, and Singh himself built his spiritual life around visions.[4]
  Whether he won many continuing disciples on these hazardous Tibetan treks is not known. Singh did not keep written records and he was unaccompanied by any other Christian disciples who might have witnessed the events.