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Robert Schuller: We’ve Discovered a Cure for Parkinson’s
Orginally published on Monday, October 20, 2008 at 9:23 AM
by Todd Rhoades
According to the OC Register, Robert H. Schuller announced recently during an internationally televised sermon at the Crystal Cathedral that his friend has discovered a cure for Parkinson's disease, sparking a backlash among those who suffer from the neurological disease and bewilderment among medical professionals.
Schuller was introducing a different guest for his "Hour of Power" sermon when he made the announcement, promising his congregation that the medical researcher would soon fly in from Pittsburgh "to share with us how God helped him to discover a cure — that's the word they use — for Parkinson's disease."
But no one else in the medical community has heard about it...
“This is giving people false hope,” said Bob Kendall, 48, who was diagnosed seven years ago. “To me this is really sad. If there was a breakthrough and a cure, it wouldn’t be a televangelist announcing it, believe me. There are a lot of people up in arms.”
Neurological experts say they’re not aware of any breakthrough. Dr. Neal Hermanowicz, director of the movement disorder program in UCI’s Department of Neurology, said it would be unusual for such a discovery to remain a secret, as promising work in progress is routinely presented and discussed at medical conferences.
“I don’t know of anybody anywhere in the world who is close to a cure for Parkinson’s disease,” said Hermanowicz, who was first asked about Schuller’s sermon by a patient on Thursday.
“Usually if something big is about to occur, there’s evidence presented at our meetings,” he said. “So if somebody has something really big it would be unusual to have no inkling of it in advance.”
Schuller told congregants that he learned about the breakthrough while at a recent conference in Toronto for members of Horatio Alger, a nonprofit group that honors community leaders who have achieved success “through honesty, hard work, self-reliance and perseverance over adversity,” the group’s Web site says.
You can read more here at the OC Register...
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Post Your Comments:It is suprising to me that anyone would be questioning anything that Robert Schuller says. Only a chosen few have been faithful to Scripture in calling this man out for what he is...a false teacher. This man is no Christian. Open your eyes and search the Scriptures. Hopefully this episode will be the answer to the prayers of the faithful and this false teacher will fall. I pray for his salvation but I hate his leading many astray.
Katrina:
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I hate to say it, but when I saw this headline about Schuller announcing a cure to Parkinsons, cynically, I thought his cure would be something like, “Elimination of low self-esteem.”
If there is a cure, I would rejoice, no matter what the forum. However, because it’s Schuller doing the announcing, with no other corroboration or voice in the medical community, I highly doubt that there is a solution as he so presents it.
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CS
Great article! Thanks for sharing good information.
Ministers should never pretend to be physicians, and vice versa.
Well, well.... the father of optimism that even ‘eliminated’ humanity’s greatest need - salvation from sin - by teaching us to think positively has only revealed the arrogance of his mind with this false promise. I was watching the program (love the music) when I was jarred by his announcement.
Were’s Robert, Jr. when we need him?
Okay, no doubt this is going to bring out many people who I normally disagree with on many things who continue to criticize Schuller and call him a false teacher and even a heretic…
...normally, I’m pretty balanced on these things…
...but I just can’t disagree with y’all on Schuller, especially when he says crackpot stuff like this.
Yuk.
What a bunch of cannibals - WERE’S Robert Jr.? (Did you mean where or was that just reflective of your accent?)
I don’t know enough to make a JUDGEMENT with this story - and from the sound of some of these posts neither do they.
It’s a typo! Where is Robert H?
He seems to have a better grasp of Biblical Christian doctrines. It was a tongue in cheek remark. Got it?
Hang on for a minute, gang.
I’m no fan of Schuller, but you need to remember who did the actual “discovering” - a medical researcher. Not Schuller. A medical researcher. The researcher is a friend of Schuller.
This may be a real cure, and it may not be. If this announcement had been made at a press conference on one of the major networks, you wouldn’t be having this reaction. But because it’s from Schuller first, you’re having conniptions.
I think you need to hold the torches and find out what this redwarcher actually says before lighting the fire under your favorite heretic.
Okay?
Someone needs to call Michael J. Fox right away.
(That was a joke!)
Ooops. I meant “researcher” not “redwarcher.” Not sure what a redwarcher is, except maybe a person who looks at things that are red. (Regional accent pronouncing “wash” as “warsh” needed to really get that...)
My heart aches for so many “Christians” who so easily find fault with one whom God has used to bring God-honoring blessing to so many.
Why not be content to pray for one with whom we disagree............yes, even theologically.....praying that God will be honored in all that they do in his name.
As one whose family has been inspired through the Schullers’ ministry over the years, I cannot keep silent on this matter.
And.............yes, we’re “born again” Christians who have sat under his ministry many times over the past 40 Years.
It should be quite revealing one day just how much we’ve each done for Jesus.
press46
Jerry, I think you mean Robert A.......if you’re referring to the son.
As with any thing like this - we must take it with a grain of salt. It is no secret that I do not hold much faith in the medical world per se. My faith alone is in God. Some may be healed - others may not even if a “cure” is found.
http://www.serve-others.com/issue19
There is a story called “The Deal of a Lifetime” - it is about a man who had Parkinson’s and the real cure.
Roger,
I don’t doubt that if you sit in the congregation of Robert Schuller that you will “feel” blessed by his tenderness, compassion and genuine concern for orthers. But to teach that all faiths worship the same god is outright heresy resulting in unconverted religious people. They don’t know the truth because they’ve never heard it. Trust me on this one...the reasion you see the explosion of “megachurches” is not because of the conviction of sin has overcome the hearers but because they are so comfortable and feel so blessed by the man-centered message they hear every Sunday. Paul Washer said it best when he indicted pew-warmers in thinking they were Christians because they wore a teeshirt after telling the story of a child in Africa who was shot in the head in public with an AK-47 after refusing to deny Jesus. If sin, righteousness and judgment to come were preached as it should be, it would be a whip of chords driving out the unconverted and these so-called megachurches would have to sell assests to make up for the reduction in tithes and offerings from the tares.
It would be nice if a cure for a major disease came by some route other than the medical insiders!
I have no expectation Schul is on the mark here. Regardless, I hope everybody ends up embarrassed for criticizing him in this instance!
Katrina,
It has been much more than being made to “feel good.” We have felt God’s presence. Have you attended a worship service at the Crystal Cathedral?
Roger:
I’ve been to the Crystal Cathedral a few times. Some of my family are opera singers and were a part of the cast of the annual Nativity and Easter performances / plays put on there. It’s a beautiful place, and is definitely impressive.
Here’s some of the basic problems with Schuller and why he is labeled as a heretic:
-He believes that man’s largest problem is with self-esteem, not sin.
-He believes that Christ went to the cross to fix our self-esteem problems, not to free us from sin.
-He denies the existence of Hell, instead saying that Hell is when we have been stripped of our self-esteem.
-He believes in universalism.
-He preaches a message of self-love, when the Bible has a message of self-denial.
There’s more to it than this; just google “Robert Schuller quotes” and see what comes out.
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CS
Katrina,
We don’t know who you are so how can we or Roger “trust you?” You seem to lump all mega churches in the same boat. While I have certainly seen a fair number of mega churches that whisper to the comfortable, most of the ones I come into contact with preach a powerful message of Truth and Spirit and do not leave confession of sin, repentence, and humility before an Almighty God at the front door. Ask Todd for a list of mega churches he is familiar with and worship at one of them and see if you still “feel” the same way. It may release you from an uncomfortable burden you seem to carry.
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