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An in depth study on the dangers of the Word of Faith movement!\u00a0 At first glance, many would question the danger part of this “faith”.\u00a0 How can “faith” be dangerous?\u00a0 It is listed in the scriptures as one of the 9 fruits of the Spirit, and one of the 10 gifts of the Spirit!\u00a0 It becomes dangerous and skewed when any one of the gifts or fruit becomes emphasized to the exclusion of the others.\u00a0\u00a0 It then becomes a central focus by which the other gifts or fruit orbit around.\u00a0 That is out of balance, and ultimately leads to false doctrines.<\/p>\n
Many of the teachings of the Word of Faith movement I will attempt to reveal here, but for sake of time, I will dilute into 3 salient points of WOF doctrine and then break those down into minor doctrines that arose from them, many of which are not scripturally based and fit the definition of heresy!<\/p>\n
First of all, Word of Faith is not a denomination or a formal organization.\u00a0 However, it has been heavily influenced by a number of high profile pastors and teachers over the years such as Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Paul and Jan Crouch, Fred Price, Benny Hin, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar.\u00a0 The WOF movement grew out of some of the earlier 20th century Pentecostal movements.\u00a0 Its founder can be traced back to E.W. Kenyon who studied metaphysical “new thought” teachings of Phineas Quimby.\u00a0 It became known as “thought science” where name it and claim it first originated.\u00a0 This form of out of balanced interpretation of scripture, mixed with Pentacostalism, resulted in a strange mix of unorthodox Christianity and mysticism!\u00a0 Individual teachings range from outright ridiculous to blatant blasphemy and heresy!\u00a0 At the heart of ALL WOF teachings is the belief in the “force of faith”.\u00a0 It is taught that your words can manipulate the “faith force” and actually create health, wealth and prosperity!\u00a0 Laws that govern this “faith force” are said to operate independently of God’s sovereign will and that God\u00a0 himself is subject to these laws! That in itself should be enough to turn any serious minded believer away from such rubbish and back to the Word of GOD which will expose the WOF doctrine for what it is!\u00a0 Doctrines of devils!\u00a0\u00a0 This teaching on its own is nothing short of idolatry, turning our faith, and by extension ourselves, into “gods”!\u00a0 This sounds a lot like the lie that was offered to tempted mankind in the garden!\u00a0 Just one bite of that fruit and you could become as “gods”!\u00a0 Satan is always peddling the same lies, he just now tries to use perverted gospel to trick believers into thinking they are more than they really are!\u00a0 Why do you think the Apostle Paul gave this warning to believers in his day?\u00a0 Romans 12:3 <\/a><\/strong>For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more<\/mark> highly<\/mark> than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n MORE TO COME!!!\u00a0 STAY POSTED!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COMING SOON! An in depth study on the dangers of the Word of Faith movement!\u00a0 At first glance, many would question the danger part of this “faith”.\u00a0 How can “faith” be dangerous?\u00a0 It is listed in the scriptures as one of the 9 fruits of the Spirit, and one of the 10 gifts of the … Continue reading THE DANGERS OF W.O.F!!! The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-doctrine-and-another-gospel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}