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NASB | John 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 10:27 "The sheep that are My own hear My voice and listen to Me; I know them, and they follow Me. |
Bible Question:
Acts 17:11 may the verse you want. Word-Faith teaches some things that are Biblical, but, some are not. 'In brief, the teachings of these men may be summarized as follows: God created man in "God's class," as "little gods," with the potential to exercise the "God kind of faith" in calling things into existence and living in opportunity, however, by rebelling against God in the Garden and taking upon ourselves Satan's nature. To correct this situation, Jesus Christ became a man, died spiritually (thus taking upon Himself Satan's nature), went to Hell, was "born again," rose from the dead with God's nature again, and then sent the Holy Spirit so that the Incarnation could be duplicated in be-lievers, thus fulfilling their calling to be little gods. Since we are called to experience this kind of life now, we should be successful in every area of our lives. To be in debt, then, or be sick, or (as is often taught) be left by one's spouse, and not to have these problems go away by "claiming" God's promises, shows a lack of faith.' Source: Christian Research Institute (CRI) http://www.equip.org/free/DP075.htm Also read http://www.equip.org/free/DC755-2.htm and http://www.equip.org/free/DC755-2.htm PS I have listened to men who started teaching 100 percent from the Bible ... then they s-l-o-w-l-y twisted the Word, by adding their own flavor. I was able to see (some of) the errors. But, they refused to listen. When the elders, and the people thought I was wrong, I left. I was tempted to challange him during one message, but held my tongue. |
Bible Answer: While some of this teaching is Word of Faith not all of it is. Some of it is just junk invented to keep the ball rolling as it were, to provide fresh “rhema” word, new revelation to the audience that had developed an appetite for such. None of these guys would be doing this if there was no listeners, no one to support their junk. No one in the church world is calling them to task. The only organization that has said anything I know of is Christian Research Institute and everyone is against them. Our friend Hank in an earlier response said he hadn’t even heard of Word of Faith before now. Word of Faith claims millions in their membership that is a number too big to be ignored. We fail to take action because we don’t want to cast the first stone (maybe we need to get our lives under the blood so we are without sin). We are afraid of slandering another Christian, we feel a man’s personal life is just that, and we don’t expect a higher standard for our teachers, preachers and pastors. What does the world see? They see a church that is racked with sin, corruption, and all forms of immorality. They see a church that let’s men who are obviously in it for the money unashamedly demanding money from deceived and in some cases feeble minded believers and they are getting it to the tune of billions each year. Look at Paul he wasn’t afraid to call a bum and bum II Tim 4:14. |