So what really happen in Toronto 1994 20th January? 20 years ago in a airport in Canada, the world was gripped by his miraculous events. Many people claimed to experienced god and the Holy Spirit. The huge gathering displayed charismatic worship.
So what are the characteristics of this charismatic worship in Toronto, people where putting their palms on their forehead and all of a sudden some people would drop on the floor and start shaking and rolling around as if they were possessed by something maybe god? Everyone, nearly most people in the church felt they had a revelation. People felt all different emotions and due to this revelation many people’s lives have been changed forever.
Almost without exception, people fall over onto their backs, sometimes gently, sometimes as if struck by a bolt of electricity. Those who fall sometimes black out. This phenomenon has of course been around for a long time in Pentecostal and charismatic circles, and is referred to as being "slain in the Spirit." As for the inner spiritual or emotional experience, there is no reason to doubt that many people do feel an overwhelming sense of being loved, and tremendous feelings of joy and euphoria. The only question is how these emotional experiences should be interpreted, a question we will return to later.
There are always two arguments to every story and we descried to speak to Steven Pinker, a leading psychiatrist against the theory of revelation. So let’s listen is his argument. Everyone eats the same food, everyone is made the same, so why did these people in Toronto have this experience, why they are different to everyone else. It could be a change it, that day, maybe it was wet or cold and they were tired?
So after listening to Steven pinker let’s listen to someone who was there and believes in the revelation and witnessed it himself first hand. Let’s hear from Sam Glee. It was a normal day for me, I went to the church around about 6:30 in the morning. I don’t know what happened or why I came to Toronto that day but it was a blessing. My hands went all tingling and I felt really dizzy so I put my palm on my forehand and that’s all I remember. People saw me shouting and rolling around plus barking like a dog, some people said I looked drunk. Finally awoke up after 6min and I started to cry it just came out of my eyes. I felt all different emotions at the time. I don’t know how describe what happened but has changed my life forever because their something in my brain what has changed me.