Talk:Heidi Baker

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This is truly a rubbish article, an advertisement for Heidi Baker and little more. Lets go through the facts.

a. There are not 5000 evangelical churches in Mozambique total, let alone 5000 in Heidi's ministry. b. Not a single miracle has been verified. She is known for CLAIMING miracles not creating them. c. Rolland's sister describes them as bringers of spiritual harm, not benefactors and says she has never seen any evidence of an actual miracle at their hands (Ref http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/may/miracles-in-mozambique.html?paging=off)

This article is a disgrace to Wikipedia - its giving credibility where none is due, presenting a false and biased view as truth.

Disgraceful abuse of Wikipedia.

I agree. The study referenced is below par. There is no control group. The sample population is very small etc. There is also the fact that results in hearing and optical tests tend to improve with time. This would be very noticeable in a population like this where the subjecs would probably never taken such a test before. AndersG (talk) 12:52, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Hello! I am genuinely interested in finding out what is actually going on in Mozambique, and I do find it somewhat odd that Iris Ministries is not even mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Religion on Mozambique. However, 2 of the 3 "facts" presented above (apparently by someone who forgot to sign their post) don't seem too well-founded either: a. What is the source for the statement on the number of Evangelical churches in Mozambique? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Mozambique, 9.5% of the population identify as Evangelicals. With a population of more than 25 million, that makes for about 2.5 million Evangelicals. If there are less than 5000 Evangelical congregations, then the congregations must be very large indeed! b. (Probably correct. Verifying a miracle is all but impossible.) c. I have not been able to find anything on the web about Rolland's sister, and the part of the Christianity Today article that I was able to read without a subscription was very positive toward Iris Ministries. Does the remaining part really contain a damning quote by Rolland's sister - a quote that is not to be found anywhere else? Nikolaj1905 (talk) 14:16, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Mozanbican Prayer study
My edit of 2019-08-09 was reverted. The text I inserted is below. IMHO does the blog post bring up several valid points about the study and I see no reason why it should not be in there.

"The study has been criticised for not having a control group and other flaws" https://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2011/02/truly-dreadful-study-into-effects-of.html AndersG (talk) 08:28, 10 August 2019 (UTC)