Subject: cult by what definition? |
Bible Note: Inmyheart For me to get to the site I needed to go to www.tgm.org then select heresy hunters from the selection screen on the left. Let me say I pray you provided this link as a visual demonstration to IntheAndes of how really messed up WoF thinking is. The writer tries first to make the point that all anti WoF are also anti Pentecostal/Charismatic. Nothing could be further from the truth and the writer has no basis for making the statement. I’m Pentecostal! The writer goes on and further makes the assertion that anti-WoF’ist are also Calvinistic, Reformed and Cessationists again nothing could be further from the truth. The writer states to reject WoF distinctives is to reject the Arminian/Wesleyan viewpoint. I hold a Arminian/Wesleyan viewpoint and have defended it many times both here on the forum and outside. The writer begins by saying the WoF has been accused of adopting the metphysical philosophy while there is nothing metaphysical within it. First WoF comes from the teachings of E.W. Kenyon and there is no one that can honestly say, without giggling a little, that Kenyon wasn’t involved in the metaphysical. If they can they haven’t read his book “New Creation Realities”(bizarre at best). I have personally heard a WoF teacher give this an example of the power of faith or lack thereof. Their house wasn’t being cooled. They went out to check the outside air conditioner unit and when they found it not running “declared it broken”. They then taught that was their “error.” They had incorrectly exercised their “faith” and spoke the broken air conditioner into being. They went on to explain the warm house and non running unit were simply manifestations put there by Satan to deceive them into confessing the Air conditioner was broken. Satan wanted to steal from them money they could have used on other things. Had they instead exercised their faith correctly and confessed that the Air conditioner was in fact running correctly and cooling the house, Satan’s deception would have been broken and they would have realized the house was really cool. That my friends is metaphysical philosophy at it highest level. This article that IntheAndes was referred to was written by a writer that is so deceived he doesn’t realize it. However the evidence can plainly be seen. The scriptures he uses to validate WoF quotes are really revealing how very wrong the WoF teaching is. The writer gives an example: “E.W. Kenyon wrote, “We have sung ‘Nearer the cross’ and we have prayed that we might be ‘Nearer the cross’ but the cross has no salvation in it. It is a place of failure and defeat” (Advanced Bible Course, p.279) [emphasis mine]. As usual, the others merely echo Kenyon’s ideas about this. What the Bible says: “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Galatians 6:14). “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to those who are being saved it is the Power of God” “ Correct me if I’m wrong here but didn’t Kenyon say the cross was nothing more than a place of failure and defeat? And doesn’t Paul plainly declare the cross is the “Power of God” but is looked at as foolishness to those that are perishing. Can’t we conclude Kenyon has a very wrong impression of the cross? This is just one of many problems within the article. I think Inmyheart did us all a favor, by finding this article. It clearly demonstrates how very wrong WoF is and it is done by someone trying to defend the teaching. Sounds like a Holy Spirit thing to me! Didn’t Jesus say the Holy Spirit would reveal the truth? Submitted in truth and love with the payer and hope eyes will be opened and lives set free. EdB |