It was that the Maloney camp lowered the boom on me. Nicely, though.

• I was told first that an organization as busy as they are and with such little staff as they have, has no time for debating their position on Divine healing. (I asked only about his degrees). I was told that there is no purpose in trying to convince me of their theological interpretations, since no two Christians agree completely. (I only asked about his degrees).

Next, he referred to my last email and said that no proof would be sufficient for one such as I. People like us will believe that miracle workers are either misinformed or dishonest. (I only asked about his degrees).

He then mentions the service I was in, at the Korean church here. I told him I had seen no miracles, and I did not. He insisted, "we have received testimony from other attendees claiming to have received a touch from the Lord." I was not questioning that people could have been "touched by the Lord" that night. Why not? I was simply stating that I saw no physical evidence of a miracle, but did for sure see the need for at least one. (But I still only asked about his degrees this time).

On the basis of all that, he wants to know, what purpose would be served by providing this degree information? He suggests I would question the validity of the statements. No, I wouldn't. I would contact the institution to verify that these degrees were indeed awarded. Then he says, But I don't see the need to provide information that would be used only to undermine our family's ministry.

How could that happen, if it were all true?

He mentions in passing, my blog. I don't remember giving him information about that! He says that I disagree with their stance about Divine Healing. Not at all. I disagree with statements being made that cannot or will not ever be documented, giving people false hope and turning them away from the faith altogether. That is what I disagree with.

He then goes on to list an amazing assortment of miracles he has seen with his own eyes. More than a thousand:

Multiple sclerosis. Cancers "liquifying and burning on the floor", metal pins and rods dematerializing, pacemakers disappearing, deliverance from demonic oppression, witches silenced and running out of the room, blind eyes healed, growth of bodies several inches, arthritic fingers and toes straightened, and more.

He suggests that, " my words won't convince you, because you desire proof apart from my claims." Indeed I do! That is my right as a believer. I cannot trust the words of any man, even the greatest of the great believers of all time, unless I know for certain the Holy Ghost inspired them. That leaves me only with a Bible and a pair of eyes. Show me. Not that He is able, I know that! Show me that you have been an instrument in a genuine healing. Only one.

He ends his note on a very kind tone, simply assuming we must agree to disagree. He offers me his peace, and that is the end of it.

Oh, and no name was signed to that letter. My only declared eyewitness, and he has no name! I imagine it was Andrew, who wrote the first letter, but I am not sure.

I sent a similar request (first week of March) to a school in England where he taught. There has been no reply from that school as yet.

I have no plans for any further research on this project. It is obvious there is no way of breaking through the barriers that have been placed in the way of anyone who wants to know what's going on.

Oh. Today, 3-17-2015, this final note from CFNI

Good day Mr. Faulkner,

My name is ______________and I am the current registrar at Christ for the Nations Institute. You have been currently speaking to my assistant and requesting some information.

I am sorry to say that we cannot give out any information about current staff/students or past staff/students due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Door shut.

A FINAL WORD.

I was thinking the other day about how things have progressed through the decades. The Pentecostal movement may have had its problems, but Pentecostals, in the main, tried to prove everything they did by Scriptures. You could disagree, and of course many still do, and some with good reason, but they would take their stand on a certain interpretation of Scripture, and link that to an experience.

The charismatic movement moved more into the experiential realm. Scripture was not king any longer, though lip service was given to it. In the charismatic world, feelings reign, and a Bible verse may be sought to back up the feeling. Or not.

Enter now the apostolic movement. Restructuring is the word of the day. A shift from standard elder/pastor run congregations to entire zones being run by "the man of God", the apostle. And woe to that man who counters the word of the apostolic leader, be he male or female. Up with signs and wonders, down with sound teaching.

As was predicted, the time has come when most will not endure the soundness of the Scripture. They crave new ideas, new interpretations of Scripture, new experiences, new stories to tell. Thrills. Chills.

In all of these movements, praise and worship can be a plus factor. Oh that all of God's people would learn how to give themselves to worship! It is the coldness in the praise life of the church that has helped lead to the downfall of standard evangelical Christianity. People were not guarding their spirits, not longing to see God. Oh yes, there’s a void in the song/worship service.

So, enter contemporary praise and the new teachers that follow it.

May God help us to find a way to prepare people's hearts with true worship, then, when their hearts are open and receptive, to fill them with Sacred Truth from God's only inspired apostles, the Scripture writers. Not from the sometimes-entertaining views of "new apostles."

As for the man before us, I seriously question him, and have as yet no reason to believe even one of his claims. I have asked for those reasons, and, as you have seen, they have been denied me. Perhaps someone who is reading this will be able to take it a step further. I'd appreciate knowing how your search comes out.

I have proved nothing. I have not proved his claims or even his teachings are false. But I can hope to have raised, in court terminology, a reasonable doubt about what he is saying and doing. For it's a serious matter to stand before God's people and say things you can't back up. And even if the miracles are valid (highly questionable!), we must deal with the message too. Deuteronomy 13 comes to mind. There, a man who works a true miracle but speaks a false message is to be killed.