The Word Faith Movement Exposed

Joyce Myers, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Fred Price, Creflo Dollar, Todd Bentley etc..... This should be called "When bad apples rot the good apples" When we turn on the television, in search of a good sermon, we tend to run into these kind of preachers. While they came out of the Pentecostal movement, they have no denomination nor a formal organization nor a hierarchy. The most troubling part of this movement, comes from their new definition of the Holy Spirit. The"force" that believers can access and utilize to manifest their desires and receive blessings, including physical healing and financial prosperity. In there twisted theology, they teach that we are made in the image of God (as little gods), and so, if God said, "let there be light, and there was", we too can speak things as if they were, and they will be. From here it gets even worse. After the fall, humans took on Satan’s nature and lost the ability to call things into existence. In order to correct this situation, Jesus Christ gave up His divinity and became a man, died spiritually, took Satan’s nature upon Himself, went to hell, was born again, and rose from the dead with God’s nature. After this, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to replicate the Incarnation in believers so they could become little gods as God had originally intended. Therefore, as Christians, we must learn to test all things through scripture. The Bible "is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16). So, while we know that faith comes from God (Ephesians 2:8; Hebrews 12:2) and is not something we create for ourselves, a simple reading of the Bible places their theology as fake hersey. Instead, the Word of Faith movement seems to be pushing the same lie Satan has been pushing since the Garden: “You shall be as God” (Genesis 3:5).