Todd Bentley Lying Again About His Tattoos

I wrote before how Todd Bentley has been lying to the media about when he got his tattoos here. It can easily be shown when the majority of Todd Bentley’s tattoos and piercings were done – that is in the last few years, from when Todd was 28 years old plus;- that is long after his conversion and his ordination into ministry – not on or before conversion when he was seventeen/eighteen years old as he has claimed to the media.

Putting aside for now the question, should a convert get body art, especially with the subject matters Todd has on him,  why is Todd lying about when he got his body art, and why is he lying about his motives for getting it?  For he has variously claimed that Jesus told him to get his tattoos to reach a new generation, to saying that he had them before he converted, and that’s that they’re there, and he did not get them for spiritual reasons.

Some Todd supporters who full well know when he got his tats, but cannot reconcile the fact their idol is lying to them, are claiming the media must  have misreported what Todd said in the interview I reported on. Well, as well as my having heard Todd say the exact same thing on film in other media interviews, I also heard it directly from the horse’s mouth on a Lakeland broadcast recently.

On the 23rd June meeting at Lakeland (Todd’s commissioning service), this is what Todd said about his tattoos -

Todd claimed when he was 18 he said ‘God I want to be part of a global movement.’ When he was preaching to 20 people, he said ‘God, the biggest stadiums in the world are not going to be able to hold the masses.’   Todd said he wanted to preach to stadiums filled, but claims church people at the time said of him: ‘That tattooed preacher Todd Bentley, you’ll never go anywhere looking like that!’   My leadership team said: ‘Todd, I don’t know, you go all those tattoos on your body, I don’t know, they’re gonna hurt your ministry.’    ‘How many know God wants to use you as you are?’  then said Todd.  The crowd then whistled, cheered and clapped.

Todd claims that early on in his conversion, people said he would never be anything in the church because of all his body art – inferring he looked just like he does today to the Lakeland crowd. He claims even his leadership team said he would be held back by his looks. But this was lies - the evidence shows NO visible tattoos on his body in the photos and videos from just a couple of years ago. The evidence shows Todd has recently undergone a radical new look adding the piercings and body art all over himself. So why lie – to try and detract the heat from the critics? Whatever the reason, this continued deliberate deception is evidently not the actions of a man of God, and it is worrying too that nobody in the crowd or on the stage apparently had a problem with this either. (For the record Todd and his associates have frequently lied in the past few months about other things too). In the same service Todd blasphemed  by claiming to be the king on the holy hill in Psalm 2 to take the nations for himself. And nobody seemed to have a problem with that either.

Todd said both these things BEFORE he was commissioned and prophesied over by the new apostles and prophets led by C Peter Wagner.   The people there watching on and listening to the lies and blasphemy included C Peter Wagner and his wife Doris Wagner, Che Ahn, Bill Johnson, John Arnott, Stephen Strader, Carl Strader, Jeff Beecham, Rick Joyner, Sharon Stone, Georgian Banov, Paco Garcia, Clarise Fluid, Richard Maiden, Mike Maiden, Joshua Fowler, Barrie Bouchet and Stacey and Wesley Campbell. Yet not one of them publically rebuked Todd for lying and blaspheming as they should have done. In fact they all gushed over Todd, and spoke some blasphemous prophecies of their own over Todd. Who can forget Stacy Campbell’s wild head shaking moment?  Bill Johnson has claimed to have known Todd well for ten years, so it is not as if they didn’t know Todd was lying.

This willingness to tolerate such overt lies and deception shows the new apostolic-prophetic movement’s complete lack of integrity and lack of love for truth – they will willingly allow deception to be perpetuated to further their own agenda. It also shows the lack of integrity of many Todd Bentley supporters who have followed Todd for years and also well know he was lying.  So why do they take it? Because deception feels  so good? Ooh! More Lord! ‘Lord’ who?  The father of lies?