Example: biology Search The False Teachings of the Word of Faith MovementThe False Teachings of the Word of Faith Movement By Jim L. Smith Senior Pastor/Founder Battlefield Church of Faith Ringgold, Georgia Who is Jim Smith and why he felt led to write this Pastor Jim L. Smith was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in1965.

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He was raised in the First Baptist Denomination for the first 20 years of his life, but adds, never accepted Christ. While enrolled at the university in Orlando, he attended a revival at an Assembly of God Church where received exposure to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. After years of being lost (Jim was saved at the age of 33) and bound to pornography and alcohol, it was the truth of the Cross that set him Free! After moving from Orlando to Ringgold, Georgia, Jim and Lisa Smith were joined in Holy Matrimony and became members of a local Church of God ministry. Jim and Lisa were the youth pastors as well as leading the youth choir there.

In 1998, Pastor Jim and Lisa began giving away Bibles for anyone that wanted one.The False Teachings of the Word of Faith Movement By Jim L. Smith Senior Pastor/Founder Battlefield Church of Faith. Word- Faith teachers claim that God operates by spiritual law and is obliged to obey the faith. Ever Increasing Faith Messenger, June 1990. 1 The False Teachings of the Word of Faith Movement By Jim L. Smith Senior Pastor/Founder Battlefield Church of Faith Ringgold, Georgia Who is Jim Smith and why he felt led to write this Pastor Jim L. Smith was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in1965.

He was raised in the First Baptist Denomination for the first 20 years of his life, but adds, never accepted Christ. While enrolled at the university in Orlando, he attended a revival at an Assembly of God Church where received exposure to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. After years of being lost (Jim was saved at the age of 33) and bound to pornography and alcohol, it was the truth of the Cross that set him Free! After moving from Orlando to Ringgold, Georgia, Jim and Lisa Smith were joined in Holy Matrimony and became members of a local Church of God ministry. Jim and Lisa were the youth pastors as well as leading the youth choir there. In 1998, Pastor Jim and Lisa began giving away Bibles for anyone that wanted one.2 This ministry later included a radio ministry (Jesus First Ministries). The ministry grew to marriage, family and financial counseling, the distribution of food, clothes and furniture to the needy, as well as a 24-hour prayer line.

In 1999 the Lord impressed upon him to plant a church in the area and that it s purpose was to reach out to those that have fallen between the cracks of today s churches. Jim and Lisa have two girls and two boys, and what a blessing they are. As parents, they believe in maintaining a balance between the ministry and quality family time with their children. Now that you know about him, let s share why he felt led to write this book. Jim was ordained by the Word of Faith ministry in 1999 after leaving Church of God to start Battlefield Church of Faith (Interdenominational/Pentecostal). He was approached by a Word of Faith pastor of a large ministry who ordained him and helped him finance BCOF for the first few months.

After God moving BCOF into three different buildings in just three years, not only was the ministry growing in numbers, but they were growing spiritually as well (spiritual growth is really the only thing a ministry should focus on).3 One January, Pastor Jim remembers receiving such a deep and Divine Revelation of the CROSS. The Holy Spirit had begun giving him such powerful and spiritually enriching messages for the congregation (as well as for himself) on the true purpose of the Cross. By the end of that year, the Lord gave him a vision (a continued vision of what he received during a tent revival in 1999). Pastor Jim began researching the Bible and compared what those around him was preaching to what the Lord had given him. On many occasions in prayer with God, he said Lord, these men have been your under-shepherds for years, Lord, these men have Bible colleges, Lord, these men have multi-million dollar TV ministries. The Lord pressed upon his Spirit to re-read Psalms 1:1 Blessed is not the man who walketh in the counsel of the ungodly.

After hearing from the Lord, he had no other option then to resign all board positions he held on other Word of Faith ministries and surrendered his Ordination and License (for they were issued to him by men preaching False doctrine).4 Friends, Pastor Jim is just a man who is giving you a free book that ask nothing more than for you to open your Bible and compare what it says to what he has reprinted from quotes of men that call themselves servants of the most high. Chapter One What is the Faith Movement? Who are the Faith Movement Teachers? Founder/Founding date: As a Movement rather than an organized group, there is no founder or founding date, per se. The philosophical roots extend to Gnosticism. Kenyon (1860-1948) was perhaps the earliest modern exponent to blend the Movement 's eastern mystical and New Age elements with Christian teaching.

Official Publications: None. Two prominent publications are Kenneth Copeland's 'Believer's Voice of Victory' and Kenneth Hagin's 'The Word of Faith ' magazines. There are scores of books, newsletters, pamphlets by various authors Kenneth Hagin Sr., Kenneth Hagin, Jr., Kenneth & Gloria Copeland, Frederick Price, Creflo & Taffy Dollar, Kenyon, Capps, etc.5 Organizational Structure: Has no key universally acknowledged leader or central headquarters. The teachers of the Movement all have their own churches and followings. Unique Terms: The God-kind of Faith; the force of Faith; the Anointing; spirit-man; spiritual death of Christ; born-again Jesus; authority of the believer.

Other Names: Word-of- Faith, Positive Confession, Faith -formula, Health & Wealth Gospel. HISTORY Born in 1860, E. Kenyon is generally recognized as the founding father of the modern Word- Faith Movement. Beginning as a Methodist, he became quite ecumenical, associating with the Baptists. Some of his work even resulted in the founding of a few Primitive Baptist Churches.

Late in life, Kenyon moved into Pentecostalism. At the same time, he combined elements of the metaphysical cults, such as Christian Science, New Thought theology, and Unity School of Christianity ( McConnell, A Different Gospel, pp. 'The doctrines of correct thinking and believing accompanied by positive confession, with the result of calling a sickness a symptom (denial of reality supported by a Gnostic dualism) are not found in Christian writings until after New Thought and its offspring had begun to develop them.6 Therefore, it is not unreasonable to state that the doctrine originated and developed in these cults, and was later absorbed by Christians in their quest to develop a healing ministry' (H. Terris Neuman, An Analysis of the Sources of the Charismatic teaching of Positive Confession, p.

Though obviously not the Movement 's originator, some have also called Kenneth Hagin the 'grand-daddy of the Faith teachers' (Sherry Andrews, 'Kenneth Hagin Keeping the Faith,' Charisma, October 1981, p. In a survey of readers of Charisma (a major Charismatic magazine) concerning those ministers that influence them the most, Kenneth Hagin was 3rd, ranked behind only TV evangelist Pat Robertson, and the heir apparent to the Word- Faith Movement throne, Kenneth Copeland (Kenneth Hagin, Jr., Charisma, Trend Toward the Faith Movement,' August 1985, pp. DOCTRINE God Word- Faith teachers claim that God operates by spiritual law and is obliged to obey the Faith -filled commands and desires of believers.7 He not only reveals prosperity teaching supernaturally to the Word- Faith teachers, but personally and verbally confirms their unique interpretations of Scripture (Copeland, Laws of Prosperity, pp. They say the Abrahamic Covenant is the basis for commanding God to do His part in the covenant. Robert Tilton says, 'we make our own promises to do our part, then we can tell God, on the authority of His word, what we would like Him to do. That's right, you can actually tell God what you would like His part in the Covenant to be' (God's Miracle Plan for Man, p. Kenneth Copeland says, 'as a believer, you have a right to make commands in the name of Jesus.

Each time you stand on the Word, you are commanding God to a certain extent, because it is His Word' (Our Covenant with God, p. Copeland goes so far as to say that 'God was the lesser party and Abraham was the greater' in the covenant between them (Copeland, Legal and Vital Aspects of Redemption, 1985, Audio Tape #01-0403).8 The Faith teachers also make God into a big man. Copeland says, 'God being that stands somewhere around 6'-2,' 6'-3,' that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, and has a hand span of nine inches across' (Spirit, Soul, and Body, 1985, Tape #01-0601). Morris Cerillo, in an alleged out-of-body experience, describes God: 'Suddenly, in front of this tremendous multitude of people, the glory of God appeared. The form that I saw was about the height of a man 6 feet tall, maybe taller, and twice as broad as a human body, with no distinguishing features such as eyes, nose, or mouth' (The Miracle Book, pp. Man Word- Faith teachers say that not only is God a big man, but man is a little god. Kenneth Hagin has asserted, ' created on terms of equality with God, and he could stand in God's presence without any consciousness of He made us the same class of being that He is He lived on terms equal with The believer is called Christ, that's who we are; we're Christ' (Zoe: The God Kind of Life, pp.)9 35-36, 41).

'God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even' (Copeland, Following the Faith of Abraham, 1989, Tape #01-3001). He also proclaims, 'You don't have a God in you you are one!' (Copeland, The Force of Love, 1987, Tape #02-0028).

Morris Cerillo says 'the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself.you're not looking at Morris Cerillo, you're looking at God, you're looking at Jesus' (The End Time Manifestation of the Sons of God, Audio Tape 1, Sides 1 &;2). Christ The deity of Christ is compromised. Kenneth Copeland, in relating what Christ supposedly told him, says, 'don't be disturbed when people accuse you of thinking you are more you get to be like Me, the more they are going to think that way of you. They crucified Me for claiming that I was God. But I didn't claim I was God. I just claimed I walked with Him and that He was with Me' (Copeland, 'Take Time to Pray,' Believer's Voice of Victory, #15, 2 February 1987, p.10 9). 'Jesus was on the earth just a man, not the son of God' (Frederick Price, Tape #RP 19, May 1993).

And Kenneth Hagin says, 'You are as much the incarnation of God as Jesus Christ was' (The Word of Faith, December 1980, p. According to Word- Faith teachers, when Adam rebelled, or 'committed high treason,' he not only betrayed God by turning over to Satan what God had given him, he also took on the nature of Satan. So, to redeem mankind and creation from Satan's legal control, Jesus, as the second Adam, had to die not only physically but spiritually. This may be acceptable among some evangelicals. But where it has led Word- Faith teachers is not. They say that Jesus did not bare our sins on Calvary, but took on the actual nature of Satan himself. 'Just as Adam died spiritually, Jesus died spiritually.

The spiritual death He suffered caused His physical body to When Jesus accepted the sin nature of Satan into His Spirit He cried 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me.