Todd White Posts Fake Leg-Lengthening Video in 2022
Leading figures in Christian discernment like Justin Peters and Chris Rosebrough have suggested that Todd White is demon-possessed.
Charismatic evangelist and professional cold-reader and leg-lengthener Todd White has re-upped one of his greatest hits on his website, posting days ago a video of him doing a fake-miracle parlor trick.
For a brief time, many had thought the notorious heretic had repudiated his false beliefs after delivering an emotional sermon where he admitted he was not preaching the full gospel– leaving people to wonder if he’d been saved. We put on our discernment caps and explained this is how we would know he was repentant. Sadly, the next week he demonstrated that he was not. Since then, he claimed that Jesus BECAME child pornography and bestiality on the cross and sampled Aerosmith as a prophetic worship song, showing that he’s just as sketchy as ever.
Leading figures in Christian discernment like Justin Peters and Chris Rosebrough have suggested that Todd White is demon-possessed. We absolutely concur and believe strongly that, along with Kenneth Copeland and Todd Bentley, the extent of demonic possession over this man is more profound and apparent than most.
Unlike the misled youth pastor down at the Assembly of God who might get carried away with old wives’ tales of the goofy-miraculous, White is not an ordinary charismatic. White engages in parlor trickery that must be learned, practiced, and honed. His leg-lengthening stunts, his mentalism and cold-readings, and his street-level “healings” are all tricks learned and mastered by secular magicians. He has not just ignorantly bought into a Sid-Roth-Style charismaticism; he has had 100% knowledge that the tricks he regularly employs to make him famous are manufactured and manipulative.
When Todd White walks up to a person with a limp and says, “The Spirit tells me you have a hurt ankle,” and then rubs his hands together violently (to create heat from friction) and then “lays hands” on the cripple’s skin he 100% knows what he’s doing when he then asks, “Does it feel warm? It’s working! It’s working!” and claims a miracle took place.
In the case of leg lengthening, White claims that someone’s in some pain on account of their legs being different lengths, and he can fix it by having them grow. He has them sit in a chair and shows them the discrepancy, flashing the camera a closeup to prove his point. However, the con has already begun because of the way and angle he holds the legs in the first place. White then manipulates the leg, ankle, hip, and shoe, saying spiritual words and pleading ‘in Jesus name’ while pulling, tweaking, and rotating until voila, healing! The leg has been regrown. Video HERE
In short, Todd White is the worst of tricksters and miracle-hustlers. His career has been to dupe religious types and gullible people into believing he is sincere, and he does it over an dover again.
I watched a leg lengthening on the video at around 1:25 The video seems consistent with the leg actually lengthening.
1. I compared the wrinkles on the jeans on both left and right. The wrinkle on the calf of the right pant leg moved forward in relation to the wrinkle on the left pant leg. I also checked the discoloration on the pavement to see if there was sideward movement. Neither of these are consistent with the 'shoe trick' idea., that he was pulling the shoe.
I suppose someone could argue that he was pulling out her leg. That doesn't seem to fit well with his holding the shoe. One could argue that she was a plant and that she moved the leg out from the hip. Physiologically, that seems more likely. He asks her if she feels that, and she says she does. If he'd have pulled her shoe, we would have expected the wrinkle in the jeans around the shin to stay in the same place.
I don't know all the details of Todd White's theology. My impression is that he seems sincere about healing. I grew up around people who are sincere about healing, though a bit different doctrinally and culturally. I am sincere when I pray for sick people. I don't put plants in the audience. I have not been around that to my knowledge. I've heard about it and seen a video clip about some trickery. I am not saying it could not happen. But I also believe that God heals, and that God answers prayers from Christians who may sometimes even say stupid things or misstate or even misunderstand aspects of doctrine, and that critics can say stupid things and misunderstand doctrine themselves. I have not explored certain allegations I have read allusions to regarding Todd White's doctrines.
I just think here we have video evidence that is not consistent with the 'shoe trick' or shifting left to right or right to left.
Here is the video. I examined one example of leg lengthening.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=456528412984068