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What do you think? I know it's not exactly a new topic, but the purveyors of this industry (and it is an industry) keep reinventing themselves (the latest form being the Word-Faith movement, the newest name for the already unpopular Prosperity Gospel, the belief that God (Yahuah for those who understand Hebrew) rewards signs of faith with wealth, health and happiness).
From Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Oral Roberts in the 1980s to the current crop including Benny Hinn, Paula White, Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Kenneth Copeland and others, the characters have changed but the script remains basically the same.
My take: The aforementioned people in this post and other members of their ilk are preaching a false doctrine and leading people who are desperate and looking for answers down a dangerous path. The Scriptures tell us who they are:
Matthew 7:15 -- Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
II Peter 2: 1-2 -- But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that brought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Romans 16: 17-18 -- Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Matthew 15: 8-9 -- This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
From Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Oral Roberts in the 1980s to the current crop including Benny Hinn, Paula White, Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Kenneth Copeland and others, the characters have changed but the script remains basically the same.
My take: The aforementioned people in this post and other members of their ilk are preaching a false doctrine and leading people who are desperate and looking for answers down a dangerous path. The Scriptures tell us who they are:
Matthew 7:15 -- Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
II Peter 2: 1-2 -- But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that brought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Romans 16: 17-18 -- Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Matthew 15: 8-9 -- This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
