That's a good question, and an original question. So I did a little digging.
Here's what we have:
The thread "VP's visit to India" discusses this.
https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/23050-vps-visit-to-india/page/2/
"When wierwille went to India......he was propped in front of church groups, the Hindu convention, dignitaries by
Dr. I.S. Williams. It was Williams who OPENED all the doors for wierwille to speak. And, when wierwille left India
he "designated" Williams to continue to oversee his (vp's) work.....of which, Williams did NOT accept."
"Most likely williams opened doors for vpw so that he could use vp as his puppet. They could show off an American who was spouting the same anti-colonial line many Indians were using. VP was getting fed a line and used and didn't know it. I'm sure it stroked his ego to be the lone voice of "truth" over "tradition." "
"I got hold of a copy of Dilemma of Foreign Missions in India shortly after I disassociated from TWI in 1986/'87, and was horrified to see how closely the Corps training duplicated the practices Wierwille decried in Dilemma."
"Like Dilemma, most of VP's "books" were transcribed sermons he gave, a method which captured his sloppy, extreme, offhanded, and inaccurate manner."
"There were some incidents concerning vpw's visit to India that we've discussed before.
There's what vpw SAID, and what HAPPENED.
For example, vpw said something about there never before having been a minister who
traveled there with his whole family- saying he was the first.
Supposing there were none before him, he wasn't the first because he left his
youngest son separated from his entire nuclear family for several months when
he was tiny.
vpw also claimed he had entre to all sorts of things there. This is true.
His host, Dr Williams, had entre and walked vpw through everything.
vpw responded by swallowing Williams' line of talk about missionaries-
which vpw later spoke on and had someone transcribe into "his book"
"The Dilemna of Foreign Missions."
vpw claimed that his entre into things all over India was the result of
some miraculous healing he performed. The truth is that Dr Williams opened
all the doors- as Mrs W's account clearly stated in her book.
vpw told us all that it was all because he supposedly was standing on the
back of a train as it was preparing to pull out, and there was a man with
a withered arm there, who was not a Christian. He asked the man if he wanted
vpw to pray for him and if he believed he would be healed if vpw prayed for him.
The man supposedly replied 'yes' to both, but was clear he did not believe in
Jesus. vpw supposedly prayed and the man received a miracle of healing, his arm
suddenly becoming whole and strong in a few seconds, just as the train was pulling
out. Supposedly, vpw was shouting to him about him receiving his healing in the
name of Jesus. Then someone came up to vpw on the train, said he was representing
some official who saw the entire incident that happened back there, and was
responding to such a healing, gave him the keys to his city, and said the doors
to "the East" would always be open to him as a result.
Mrs W's account of the train incident said he was asked to perform a special
blessing for the people there, Christian and non, and he prayed publickly.
Then a man came up on the train and said he represented an official who saw
the prayer, and was impressed a Christian minister would pray for non-Christians.
Later, Dr Williams arranged for vpw to get a key to a city and speak at the
convention.
Mrs W's account skips this entire supposed miracle. No surprise, since a poster
who knew her and saw her notes said there was no such miracle in her notes of the
time.
The entire supposed incident was ridiculous, and cinematic. vpw supposedly is on
the back of a train, and is permitted to hang off the back as it's prepared to
move, and a crowd is allowed to surround the back of the train. As the train begins
to pull out, vpw is in physical contact with someone on the ground, and the train
is beginning regardless. Furthermore, he's with NO support, standing at the back
of a train, bent over the back as it's moving, and he is immune to the laws of inertia
and general physics because he's shouting slogans rather than struggling to stay
onboard a train.
So he obviously lied about what happened, and Mrs W refused to include that lie in
her notes and in her book.
An interesting side-note is that one poster who knew her claimed she pointed to a man
in photos and said that was the man- but there's no such account in her notes and her
OFFICIAL accout of what happened skipped over it. Does that mean she told ONE person
the truth, and hid the truth from the rest-who wanted to believe it?
Or did she lie to one person and tell the truth to everyone else even though it would
have been easier to just give the lie they expected?
I think we all would draw the same conclusions."
Some threads that discussed related points:
https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/16710-wierwilles-stories-in-pfal/
https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/13609-the-indian-that-was-healed-on-the-train-by-vp/
https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/21689-keys-to-the-city/
"Wierwille's stories in pfal." "The Indiand that was healed on the train by vp." "Keys to the city."
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We get that vpw dragged his family along- except for JP- to India for months. We get that his denomination seemed to be against it, and made it clear he was not being sent as a spokesperson who could speak for them. But why was he so insistent on going?
Looking at it right now, it looks like Mr "I want to be special and have special knowledge" got played by Dw Williams and those who played ball with him. vpw wasn't very intelligent. If they were playing him and offering secret knowledge and entre, he would go along. (He's not the only one- it's been said that, if you put a velvet rope in front of a toilet, people would begin lining up for it. )
That's why HE went. Why was it so important to bring his family?
I have NO idea. Anyone got anything?
