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Subject: Is the Word-Faith movement biblical ? |
Bible Note: Glory777 you have made some excellent points, let me address them not that anything you said is wrong, but let’s see how Word of Faith would twist them. First you said God spoke all of creation into existence. That is true and is exciting and wondrous, but it doesn’t apply to us, we don’t have God’s power. This however is a ploy used by the Word of Faith, in consistently bringing that up they suggest or imply that given enough faith we too could create a universe. I think the verse speak blessing and not curses can very closely be tied in with the other verse that says do unto others as you would have them do unto you. As I said before we as Christians should be the most positive people alive, because we know we have a savior! Your absolutely right faith is important and without faith we can not please God. In fact faith is what it all comes down to, but remember when we talk about Word of Faith we have a something before faith and that is “Word”. Here lies the problem they claim everything happens by the words that are spoken, either positively or negatively. They completely leave God out of the equation. And that is not really true they really make God into a parking lot valet. They do that by saying find a promise in the Bible and claim it and God has to perform it. That is simply not true. God doesn’t have to do a thing! God does make promises and God keeps every promise He makes. However some promises are conditional in that a condition or a requirement must be met by us to secure that promise. In other promises he made are specific in that they were made to one person and one person only. Now before anyone comes back and says God is not a respecter of persons therefore we can claim all the promises made to anyone. Show me how your going to claim the promise made to Abraham that out of him would come a great nation and a savior. There are also general promises and these for the most part can stand as such and we can expect to see them fulfilled in our lives. Lets’ take an example of all of this. One of Word of Faith’s favorite examples of the power of word in someone life is the story of Job. They say Job is a classic example of how someone brings disaster into their lives with the wrong confessions. They teach Job brought all his problems on himself. They use the verse Job 3:25 "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.” They teach that because Job was living in this fear that Satan was able to bring all of Job’s troubles onto him. That is total nonsense. Look at what God says about Job. Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil. Job 1:8 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil." Job 2:3 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause." Job 2:9-10 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!" 10But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Notice the last sentence in verse 2:10. In all of this Job did not sin with his lips. Other words Job did not speak any of the disaster into his life. That one verse showed me without a doubt that Word of Faith’s teaching did not hold up to scrutiny and that it is a false doctrine. For more information read “Kingdom of the Cults” by Walter Martin, pub. Bethany House, the latest edition edited by Hank Hanegraaff has a whole chapter on Word of Faith and their false teachings. It is done in a professional and academic way in that he footnotes every example or quote so you can check for yourself if what he is saying is true or not. To me Word of Faith teaching is one of the most destructive false doctrines that was ever devised and some part of it has crept into “nearly” every denomination in one form or another. |