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In Reply to: Re: outright lies examples posted by Farmer on September 24, 2008 at 13:37:53:
Her relatives and close friends who were there said there was no healing:
"[Virginia Brandt and Hjalmer Berg] began working on their own as itinerant evangelists, with their preaching centered on Virginia's testimony of her healing—she claimed to have been injured in an auto accident, that she was paralyzed and bedridden for 5 years as a result; that she was suddenly healed one day and walked into church on the next, literally "from deathbed to pulpit.
"Members of Virginia's immediate family disputed her claims, explaining that she had in fact been injured through being dropped on a curb by her husband Hjalmer, as he slipped on an icy walkway to their house; that although she required an operation, she did not in fact suffer from paralysis; that her oldest daughter was born during the five years of her supposed invalidism.
"From 1911 to 1917, the years she claimed to be paralyzed, Virginia had in fact led an active life in church affairs, had both conceived and given birth to a daughter, and attended graduate school at Texas Christian University. An article written in 1913 reported the arrival of the Rev. H. E. Berg and his wife in Weatherford, Texas, to pastor the Central Christian Church in 1913, describing her as 'standing ready at any time to fill the pulpit.' Regardless, Virginia used her testimony of healing throughout her life, to establish herself as a woman of God. "
