Thy Word Is Truth

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Thy Word Is Truth
Preach the word be instant in season, out of
season reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will
come when they will not endure sound doctrineII
Tim 42
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Also I set watchmen over you,
saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.
But they said, We will not hearken. Jer. 616
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Word of Faith Movement
Creating Through Faith
Christ - From Divine to Demonic
Jesus Born Again in Hell Fire
God - Omnipotent to Impotent
Deification of Man
Prosperity
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Marilyn Hickey
Kenneth Copeland
Jesse Duplantis
Kenneth Hagin
Joyce Meyer
Benny Hinn
Charles Capps
Paul Crouch
Rod Parsley
Fred Price
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Creating Through Faith
By faith we understand that the universe was
formed at God's command, so that what is seen was
not made out of what was visible. Heb. 113
the faith of Abraham. calleth those things
which be not as though they were. Rom. 417
Key
Verses
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen Heb. 111
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Charles Capps "Faith is the substance, the raw
material....Faith is the substance that God used
to create the universe, and He transported that
Faith with His words....Faith is the substance of
things, but you can't see faith. Faith is a
spiritual force." (Changing the Seen Shaping
the Unseen Tulsa, OK Harrison House, 1980,
14-15.) Charles Capps "He framed the world
with His words. You can't build without
substance. He took words--faith-Filled words were
God's substance. Here, essentially, is what God
did. God filled His words with faith. He used His
words as containers to hold His faith and contain
that spiritual force and transport it out there
into the vast darkness by saying 'Light be!'
That's the way God transported His faith causing
creation and transformation." (Dynamics of Faith
Confession Tulsa, OK Harrison House, 1987,
28-29, emphasis in original.)
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Copeland - ..We're gonna be Word people and
we're gonna stay Word people and we're gonna be
wealthy Word people in the things of God, and
when you're wealthy ng in God you're content all
the time, all the time. I can do with a dollar
and a half than people out there can do with ten
thousand dollars.  Now you believe that?  All
right, reach out here like there's a big ol'
lever stickin' up there in front and git ahold of
it, and I mean you git it in your hand.  You got
your teeth gritted, you got a good grip on it? 
Rip it down some more.  And say this ... money
come out to me now! (Audience shouting with
Copeland.) Money come out to me now! Third time
... money come out to me now!  Now you shout
about it. Fred Price "If you keep talking
death, that is what you are going to have. If you
keep talking sickness and disease, that is what
you are going to have, because you are going to
create the reality of them with your own mouth.
That is a divine law." (Fred Price, Realm, 29).
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With the God Kind of Faith You as little
gods can create, health and wealth.
"What do you need? Start creating it. Start
speaking about it. Start speaking it into being.
Speak to your billfold. Say, 'You big, thick
billfold full of money." Speak to your checkbook.
Say, 'You checkbook, you. You've never been so
prosperous since I owned you. You're just jammed
full of money" Marylyn Hickey
Kenneth Copeland "What you are saying is
exactly what you are getting now. If you are
living in poverty and lack and want, change what
you are saying.... The powerful force of the
spiritual world that creates the circumstances
around us is controlled by the words of the
mouth." (The Laws of Prosperity, Kenneth
Copeland, Ft. Worth Kenneth Copeland
Publications, 1974).
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Kenneth Hagin "Jesus used the fig tree to
demonstrate that He had that God-kind of faith,
then He said to the disciples--and to us--'You
have that kind of faith.'...Jesus said He had the
God-kind of faith He encouraged His disciples to
exercise that kind of faith and He said that
'whosoever' could do it. . . . That is why Jesus
said, 'whosoever shall say . . . and shall not
doubt IN HIS HEART.' " (Having Faith in Your
Faith Tulsa, OK Kenneth Hagin Ministries,
1988, 3, emphasis in original.) Charles Capps
"God filled His words with faith to cause the
things He said to come into manifestation. There
was an image inside Him. He expressed it in
words." (The Substance of Things Tulsa, OK
Harrison House, 1990, 19.)
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"Say to your body, 'You're whole, body! Why, you
just function so beautifully and so well. Why,
body, you never have any problems. You're a
strong, healthy body.' Or speak to your leg, or
speak to your foot, or speak to your neck, or
speak to your back and once you have spoken and
believe that you have received, and don't go back
on it. Speak to your wife, speak to your husband,
speak to your circumstances and speak faith to
them to create in them and God will create what
you are speaking." (Claim Your Miracles
audiotape, 186, side 2)
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"God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to
reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of
Himself. And in the garden of Eden He did that.
He was not a little like God. He was not almost
like God. He was not subordinate to God even. And
Adam was as much like God as you can get, Just
the same as Jesus when He came into the earth, He
said "If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father."
He wasn? a lot like God - He's God manifested in
the flesh. And I want you to know something -
Adam in the garden of Eden was God manifested in
the flesh." (Kenneth Copeland, "Following the
Faith of Abraham 1" (Kenneth Copeland Ministries,
1989, audio tape 01-3001, side 1)
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Extra Biblical Revelation
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"Any of it teaching that is good is in the
Word of God, and any that is not in the Word of
God is not good. I am a Bible Christian and if an
archangel with a wingspread
as broad as a constellation shining like the sun
were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask
him for a reference. If he could not show me
where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him
out and say, 'I'm awfully sorry, you
don't bring any references with you'" A.W. Tozer
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The Distortion of the Cross  Four
atonement-related errors on the part of the Word
of Faith Teachers
One Christ was re-created on
the cross from divine to demonic. (To put it in
Faith vernacular, Jesus took on the very nature
of Satan himself.) Two Your redemption
was not secured on the cross, but in hell. In
fact, many Faith teachers claim that Christ's
torture by all the demons of hell was a "ransom"
God paid to Satan so that He could get back into
a universe from which He had been banished. 
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Three
Jesus was reborn ( or born again) in in the very
pit of hell
Four Christ was
reincarnated through His rebirth in hell and that
those who (like Christ) are born again
can become incarnated as well.
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IT IS NOT FINISHED!
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The Bible Says
I was constrained to write unto you exhorting
you to contend earnestly for the faith which was
once for all delivered unto the saints. Jude 3
Preach the word be instant in season, out of
season reprove , rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will
come when they will not endure sound doctrine
but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears 4 And
they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch
thou in all things I Tim. 42-5
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If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not
agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus
Christ and to godly teaching, 4 he is conceited
and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy
interest in controversies and quarrels about
words .who think that godliness is a means to
financial gain. 1 Timothy 63-5
Suckers! Hahaha..
What You Profess, You Possess!
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2 Peter 21-3 1 But there were also false
prophets among the people, just as there will be
false teachers among you. They will secretly
introduce destructive heresies, even denying the
sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift
destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow
their shameful ways and will bring the way of
truth into disrepute. 3 In their greed these
teachers will exploit you with stories they have
made up. Their condemnation has long
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1 Timothy 63-12 If anyone teaches false
doctrines and does not agree to the sound
instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly
teaching, 4 he is conceited and understands
nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in
controversies and quarrels about words that
result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil
suspicions 5 and constant friction between men
of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the
truth and who think that godliness is a means to
financial gain. 6 But godliness with contentment
is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the
world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But
if we have food and clothing, we will be content
with that. 9 People who want to get rich fall
into temptation and a trap and into many foolish
and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and
destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root
of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for
money, have wandered from the faith and pierced
themselves with many griefs. 11 But you, man of
God, flee from all this, and pursue
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance
and gentleness. been hanging over them, and
their destruction has not been sleeping.
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1 Timothy 63-12 If anyone teaches false
doctrines and does not agree to the sound
instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly
teaching, 4 he is conceited and understands
nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in
controversies and quarrels about words that
result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil
suspicions 5 and constant friction between men
of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the
truth and who think that godliness is a means to
financial gain. 6 But godliness with contentment
is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the
world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But
if we have food and clothing, we will be content
with that. 9 People who want to get rich fall
into temptation and a trap and into many foolish
and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and
destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root
of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for
money, have wandered from the faith and pierced
themselves with many griefs. 11 But you, man of
God, flee from all this, and pursue
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance
and gentleness. been hanging over them, and
their destruction has not been sleeping.
De 1820-22 20 But a prophet who presumes to
speak in my name anything I have not commanded
him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name
of other gods, must be put to death. 21 You may
say to yourselves, "How can we know when a
message has not been spoken by the LORD?" 22 If
what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD
does not take place or come true, that is a
message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has
spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
Jeremiah 2316-18 16 This is what the LORD
Almighty says "Do not listen to what the
prophets are prophesying to you they fill you
with false hopes. They speak visions from their
own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. 17
They keep saying to those who despise me, The
LORD says You will have peace.' And to all who
follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say,
No harm will come to you.' 18 But which of them
has stood in the council of the LORD to see or to
hear his word? Who has listened and heard his
word?
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Ezekiel 131-7 1 The word of the LORD came to
me 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets
of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those
who prophesy out of their own imagination Hear
the word of the LORD! 3 This is what the
Sovereign LORD says Woe to the foolish prophets
who follow their own spirit and have seen
nothing! 4 Your prophets, O Israel, are like
jackals among ruins. 5 You have not gone up to
the breaks in the wall to repair it for the house
of Israel so that it will stand firm in the
battle on the day of the LORD. 6 Their visions
are false and their divinations a lie. They say,
"The LORD declares", when the LORD has not sent
them yet they expect their words to be
fulfilled. 7 Have you not seen false visions and
uttered lying divinations when you say, "The LORD
declares", though I have not spoken?
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"Results can never be the criterion by which
the truth of an idea is proven. If that were the
case, charismatics would have to admit that Mary
Baker Eddy is a prophetess and that Christian
Science is true gospel. Likewise, the numerous
healings and miracles occurring in the Faith
movement are not necessarily signs from God that
the Faith gospel is the Gospel of the New
Testament. Charismatics who naively assume that
healings vindicate truth are overlooking the fact
that almost every major religion and cult the
world has ever known has produced healings. For
every god there is a religion, and in every
religion there are healings." D.R. McConnel -
A Different Gospel
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Gods Direction to the church concerning
false teachers and teachings We must not
partake of their deeds Eph 56-14 we must have
no fellowship with them if they do not repent
(Eph. 511), We must try them (I John 4
1) we must rebuke them (Titus 113) we must
withdraw from them (2 Thes. 36), we must
separate from them (2 Cor. 617), we must turn
away from them (2 Tim 35,7), we must mark them
and avoid them (Rom. 1617), we must not receive
them into our house (2 John 10). We are to
reject heretics (Titus 310).
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History Bad Root makes For Bad Fruit
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ESSEK WILLIAM KENYON
Evangelist, Pastor, Bible teacher and
Author
The true father of the modern-day
Faith movement. 1867-1948
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Kenyon attended the Emerson college of Oratory
in Boston, a veritable breeding ground for New
Thought philosophy. The major doctrines of New
Thought should be very familiar to Faith movement
devotees Health or healing, abundance or
prosperity, wealth and happiness. These ideas are
evidenced in Kenyon's writings and by his
students. Dan McConnell explains the New Thought
system
"...New Thought was a system of cultic belief
that taught that true reality is spiritual, that
the spiritual is the cause of all physical
effects, and that the human mind through positive
mental attitude and positive confession has the
power to create its own reality either health
and wealth or sickness and poverty." 84
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The founder of New Thought philosophy,
Phineas P. Quimby, whose ideas gained prominence
toward the close of the 19th century, was also a
student of spiritism, occultism, hypnosis and
other expressions of parapsychology. It is also
interesting to note that Quimby, the man whose
ideas Kenyon studied and embraced, and who, in
turn, was copied by Hagin.
Kenyon's own daughter, Ruth Kenyon Houseworth,
easily recognizes her father's message upon the
lips of Faith leaders. She says "They've (Faith
teachers) all copied from my dad. They've changed
it a little bit and added their own touch....but
they couldn't change the wording...These that are
coming along now that have been in the ministry
for just a few years and claiming that this is
something that they are just starting, it makes
you laugh a little bit. It's very difficult for
some people to be big enough to give credit to
somebody else."87
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A man who, on occasion, ministered with Kenyon
was one long time friend John Kennington, pastor
of Emmanuel Temple in Portland, Oregon. He has
this to say concerning the plagiarism of Kenyon's
teachings "Today Kenyon's teachings are in the
ascendancy. Via the electronic church or in the
printed page I readily recognize not only
Kenyon's concepts, but at times , I recognize
pure plagiarism, for I can almost tell you book,
chapter and page where the material is coming
from. Kenyon has become the 'father' of the
so-called 'Faith' movement." Later, in the same
statement he made this comment "At one time I
was a blind follower of E.W. Kenyon....Now with
the passing of a little time and with a little
more understanding I have come to realize that
E.W. Kenyon has simply 'baptized' many concepts
from Christian Science. In so doing, he became a
source for a form of 'Pentecostal Christian
Science', even though Kenyon himself was not a
Pentecostal." 88
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Many have identified certain Faith teachings
as being carbon copies of Christian Science
dogma. Kennington was often puzzled by the
similarity in what was being taught by Kenyon and
Christian Science. On one occasion, he remembers
Kenyon admitting the connection and saying, "All
that Christian Science lacks is the blood of
Jesus Christ." Kenyon also admitted that he,
"...freely drew the water of his thinking from
this well." 89 Due to the Faith movement's
unbiblical ties with Kenyon and his association
with the Metaphysical cults, we may conclude that
Hagin, Copeland and co., however unknowingly, are
in fact espousing teachings which are neither
Biblical nor orthodox. If the root be cultic, so
must be also the fruit. Although there is strong
evangelical and Pentecostal theology throughout
the Faith movement's teachings, it's cultic
origins are readily seen at key points. It has
been said that the Faith movement is, in fact, a
cultic infiltration of the Pentecostal and
Charismatic movements.
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Kenyon sought to forge a synthesis of
metaphysical and evangelical thought, "...in
order to help the traditional Church provide for
its members the missing supernatural element that
caused many to defect to the cults. The resultant
Faith theology is a strange mixture of Biblical
fundamentalism and New Thought metaphysics. Alth
ough proponents of Faith theology have attempted
to sanitize the metaphysical concept of the
"power of mind" by substituting in its stead the
"force of faith," for all practical purposes they
have made a distinction without a difference.
The plagiarism of Kenyon's teachings by Kenneth
Hagin is proof that the Faith teachers are not
getting their doctrine directly from God, but
merely from human beings. Hagin's widespread use
of Kenyon's material fits into the pattern of
many movements. History shows that leaders of new
religious movements/factions often take on ideas
made popular by a preceding group, mold them into
a new form and add on a few new ideas of their
own. Solomon wisely said, "There is nothing new
under the sun" (Eccl. 19).
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E.W. Kenyon "Man i.e., Adam was actually Born
Again when he sinned. That is, he was born of the
Devil. He became a partaker of Satanic Nature."
(The Father and His Family, 17th ed. Lynnwood,
WA Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society, 1964,
48.) E.W. Kenyon "Adam evidently had a legal
right to transfer this dominion and authority
into the hands of the enemy. God has been obliged
through the long period of human history to
recognize Satan's legal standing, and legal right
and authority, and on this ground, and this only,
can we understand the legal side of the Plan of
Redemption. . . . Adam had legally transferred to
him Satan the Authority with which God had
invested him." (The Father and His Family,
38-39.) E.W. Kenyon "Jesus was conceived
without sin. His body was not mortal. His body
did not become mortal until the Father laid our
sin nature upon Him when He hung on the cross.
The moment that He became sin, His body became
mortal, only then could He die. When this
happened. spiritual death, the nature of Satan,
took possession of His Spirit....He was to
partake of Spiritual Death, the nature of the
Adversary. . . .Jesus knew that the moment had
come, and He was to he made Sin. He must partake
of that dread nature of the Adversary. His body
would become mortal. Satan would become His
master. . . . He Jesus had been lifted up as a
serpent. Serpent is Satan. Jesus knew He was
going to be lifted up, united with the
Adversary." (What Happened from the Cross to the
Throne Lynnwood, WA Kenyon's Gospel Publishing
Society, 1969, 20, 33, 44-45.)
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• Books by Kenyon
• The Two Kinds of Righteousness The
  Blood Covenant
• The Hidden Man
  The Blood Covenant
• The Blood Covenant
  Identification
• Signposts on the Road to Success
  The Blood Covenant
• The Two Kinds of Knowledge
  The Hidden Man
• What Happened from the Cross to the Throne
• Jesus the Healer
• The Wonderful Name of Jesus
• The New Kind of Love
• The Two Kinds of Faith

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Doctrine is not important?
"To hell with you! Get out of my life! Get out
of the way!I say get out of God's way! Quit
blocking God's bridges or God's going to shoot
you if I don't "I refuse to argue any longer
with any of you out there. Don't even
call in if you want to argue doctrine. If you
want to straighten somebody out over here. If you
want to criticize Ken Copeland for his preaching
on faith or Dad Hagen. Get out of my life. I
don't want to even talk to you or hear you. I
don't want to see your ugly face. Get out of my
face in Jesus' name" ("Praise-a-thon" TBN,
recorded 04/02/91). "I want to say to all you
scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you
that are going around picking little bits of
doctrinal error out of everybody's eyes and
dividing the body of Christ and arguing over
splinters and doctrinal hairs and dissipating and
wasting all of our time when the world is all
going to hell. I say "Get out of God's way! Quit
blocking God's bridges! Or God's gonna shoot you
if I don't" ("Praise-a-thon" TBN, recorded
04/02/91).
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God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that
will lift a hand against this network and this
ministry that belongs to You, God. It is Your
work, it is Your idea, it is Your property, it is
Your airwaves, it is Your world, and we proclaim
death to anything that would stand in the way of
God's great voice of proclamation to the whole
world. In the Name of Jesus, and all the people
said Amen! (Praise The Lord Trinity Broadcasting
Network November 7, 1997)
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2 Timothy 224-25 - And the servant of the
Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men,
apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing
those that oppose themselves if God peradventure
will give them repentance to the acknowledging of
the truth (KJV) Titus 31-2 - Put them in mind
to be subject to principalities and powers, to
obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but
gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. (KJV
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Using Gamaliel
logic as authoritative Joyce Meyer "It amazes
me, and not only does it amaze me, it aggravates
me. These people who think they've got a ministry
of exposing what's wrong with everybody
else...Why is it that people think that it's
their call to go around and find out what's wrong
with everybody else and print it? Do you know
when people were try to stop Jesus, finally some
very wise man said, 'Why don't you just leave us
alone? If it's of God, you're not gonna stop it.
And if it's not God, it won't last too long
anyway.' Hallelujah! I mean, that's just the way
I feel about it" ("Like a Mighty Wind",
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Word of Faith toward their Critics Kenneth
Copeland, in a taped message entitled "Why all
are not healed" ( 01-4001), stated, "Several
people that I know had criticized and called that
Faith bunch out of Tulsa a cult. And some of 'em
are dead right today in an early grave because of
it, and there's more than one of them got
cancer." On the one hand, Faith leaders encourage
us to search the Scriptures, but if after having
done so, we dare question their interpretation,
we are threatened with an early grave, or at the
very least cancer! I feel certain that Faith
followers are astute enough in their thinking to
realize this catch-22 situation.
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Word of Faith Movement
Creating Through Faith
Deification of Man
The Sin of Poverty
Doctrine Diminished
Christ - From Divine to Demonic
God - Omnipotent to Impotent
Jesus Born Again in Hell Fire
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Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a
gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in
shabby clothes also comes in . 3 If you show
special attention to the man wearing fine clothes
and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to
the poor man, "You stand there" or "Sit on the
floor by my feet," 4 have you not discriminated
among yourselves and become judges with evil
thoughts? 5 Listen, my dear brothers Has not
God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of
the world to be rich in faith and to
inherit the kingdom he promised those who love
him? 6 But you have insulted the poor James
22-6
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One Christ
was re-created on the cross from
divine to demonic. E.W.
Kenyon "Jesus was conceived without sin. His
body was not mortal. His body did not become
mortal until the Father laid our sin nature upon
Him when He hung on the cross. The moment that He
became sin, His body became mortal, only then
could He die. When this happened. spiritual
death, the nature of Satan, took possession of
His Spirit....He was to partake of Spiritual
Death, the nature of the Adversary. . . .Jesus
knew that the moment had come, and He was to he
made Sin. He must partake of that dread nature of
the Adversary. His body would become mortal.
Satan would become His master. . . . He Jesus
had been lifted up as a serpent. Serpent is
Satan. Jesus knew He was going to be lifted up,
united with the Adversary." (What Happened from
the Cross to the Throne Lynnwood, WA Kenyon's
Gospel Publishing Society, 1969, 20, 33, 44-45.)
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Benny Hinn claimed that the Holy Ghost
personally told him "Ladies and gentlemen, the
serpent is a symbol of Satan. Jesus Christ knew
the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming
one in nature with him. You say, What did you
say? What blasphemy is this? No, you hear this!
He did not take my sin He became my sin. Sin is
the nature of hell. Sin is what made SatanIt was
sin that made Satan. Jesus said, "Ill be sin!
Ill go to the lowest place! Ill go to the
origin of it! I wont just take part in it, Ill
be the totality of it!" When Jesus became sin,
sir, He took it from A to Z and said, "No more!"
Think about this He became flesh, that flesh
might become like Him. He became death, so dying
man can live. He became sin, so sinners can be
righteous in Him. He became one with the nature
of Satan, so all those who had the nature of
Satan can partake of the nature of God." (Benny
Hinn, Benny Hinn program on TBN (December 15,
1990).
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Kenneth Hagin also claims that Jesus Christ
took on the nature of Satan, "spiritual death
means something more than separation from God.
Spiritual death also means having Satans
natureJesus tasted deathspiritual deathfor
every man." (Kenneth E. Hagin, The Name of Jesus
(Tulsa, OK Kenneth Hagin Ministries, 1981), 31.
Copeland says that Jesus became a sign of
Satan when He was hanging on the cross "The
righteousness of God was made to be sin. He
accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own
spirit. And at the moment that He did so, He
cried, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken
Me?" You dont know what happened at the cross.
Why do you think Moses, upon instruction of God,
raised the serpent upon that pole instead of a
lamb? That used to bug me. I said, "Why in the
world would you want to put a snake up therethe
sign of Satan? Why didnt you put a lamb on that
pole?" And the Lord said, "Because it was a sign
of Satan that was hanging on the cross." He said,
"I accepted, in My own spirit, spiritual death
and the light was turned off." (Kenneth Copeland,
What Happened from the Cross to the Throne (Fort
Worth, TX Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1990),
audiotape 02-0017, side 2.
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Your redemption was not secured on the
cross, but in hell. In fact, many Faith teachers
claim that Christ's torture by all the demons of
hell was a "ransom" God paid to Satan so that He
could get back into a universe from which He had
been banished. 
According to Frederick Price "Do you think
that the punishment for our sin was to die on a
cross? If that were the case, the two thieves
could have paid your price. No, the punishment
was to go into hell itself and to serve time in
hell separated from GodSatan and all the demons
of hell thought that they had Him bound and they
threw a net over Jesus and dragged Him down to
the very pit of hell itself to serve our
sentence." (Frederick K.C. Price, Ever Increasing
Faith Messanger (June 1980), 7.
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Kenneth Hagins version "He Jesus tasted
spiritual death for every man. And His spirit and
inner man went to hell in my place. Cant you see
that? Physical death wouldnt remove your sins.
Hes tasted death for every man. Hes talking
about tasting spiritual death." (Kenneth E.
Hagin, How Jesus Obtained His Name (Tulsa, OK
Kenneth Hagin Ministries, n.d.), tape 44H01,
side 1.
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Redemption in hell. In the words of one Faith
teacher, "Satan conquered Jesus upon the Cross."
Proponents of Faith theology say that Jesus
endured three days and nights of unimaginable
abuse at the hands of Satan and his hordes of
demons in hell. This was Gods payment to Satan
so that He could get back into a universe from
which He had been banished.
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Paul Billheimer "Because He was "made sin,"
impregnated with sin, and became the very essence
of sin, on the cross He was banished from Gods
presence as a loathsome thing. He and sin were
made synonymousIt was not sufficient for
Christ to offer up only His physical life on the
cross. His pure human spirit had not "descend"
into hellHis spirit must not only descend into
hell, but into the lowest hellThe Father turned
Him over, not only to the agony and death of
Calvary, but to the satanic torturers of His pure
spirit as part of the just dessert of the sin of
all the race. As long as Christ was "the essence
of sin" he was at Satans mercy in that place of
tormentWhile Christ identified with sin, Satan
and the hosts of hell ruled over Him as over any
lost sinner. During that seemingly endless age in
the nether abyss of death, Satan did with Him as
he would, and all hell was "in carnival." (Paul
Billheimer, Destined for the Throne, special
edition for TBN (Fort Washington, PA Christian
Literature Crusade, 1988 orig. 1975), 83-84.
Quoted by Jan Crouch during the "Praise the Lord"
program TBN (August 20, 1987).
49
Kenneth Copeland
"When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not
speaking of the plan of redemption. There were
still three days and nights to go through before
He went to the throneJesus' death on the cross
was only the
beginning of the complete work of redemption.
(Jesus - Our Lord of Glory, Believer's Voice of
Victory Magazine 10, 4 April 1982, p. 3)
Kenneth Copeland "He Jesus is suffering all
that there is to suffer. There is no suffering
left apart from Him. His emaciated, poured out,
little, wormy spirit is down in the bottom of
that thing hell. And the Devil thinks he's got
Him destroyed." ("Believer's Voice of Victory"
program 21 April 1991. This message was
originally delivered at the Full Gospel
Motorcycle Rally Association 1990 Rally at Eagle
Mountain Lake, Texas.)
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Kenneth Copeland "The righteousness of God was
made to be sin. He accepted the sin nature of
Satan in His own spirit. And at the moment that
He did so, He cried, 'My God, My God, why hast
thou forsaken Me?' You don't know what happened
at the cross. Why do you think Moses, upon
instruction of God, raised the serpent upon that
pole instead of a lamb? That used to bug me. I
said, "Why in the world would you want to put a
snake up there-the sign of Satan? Why didn't you
put a lamb on the pole?' And the Lord said,
'Because it was a sign of Satan that was hanging
on the cross.' He said, 'I accepted, in My own
spirit, spiritual death and the light was turned
off.'" (Christianity in Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff,
Harvest House, Oregon, pp. 157-158).
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Anybody could do what Jesus did on the Cross?
Jesus had to go through that same spiritual
death in order to pay the price. It wasn't the
physical death on the cross that paid the price
for sin. Because if it had of been any prophet of
God that had died for the last couple of thousand
of years before that could have paid that price.
It wasn't physical death. Anybody could do that."
("What Satan saw on the day of Pentecost" tape
02-0022)
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Kenneth Copeland "Satan didn't realize He
Jesus is in there hell illegally. . . . This
man had not sinned. This man has not fallen out
of the covenant of God, and He had the promise of
God for deliverance. And Satan fell into the
trap. He took Him into hell illegally. He carried
Him in there when He did not sin." ("What
Happened from the Cross to the Throne" Fort
Worth, TX Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1990,
audiotape 02-0017, side 2.) Kenneth Copeland
"I can't understand Christians that refuse to
believe that Jesus went to hell. I want to tell
you something if he didn't go, you're going to
have to." (The Christian Channel Europe
"Believer's Voice of Victory" May 1998)
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Do you think that the punishment for our sin was
to die on a cross? If that were the case, the two
thieves could have paid your price. No, the
punishment was to go into hell itself and to
serve time in hell separated from GodSatan and
all the demons of hell thought that they had Him
bound and they threw a net over Jesus and
they dragged Him down to the very pit of hell
itself to serve our sentence. (Ever Increasing
Faith Messenger, June 1980.)
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Paul E. Billheimer "The Father turned Him over,
not only to the agony and death of Calvary, but
to the satanic torturers of His pure spirit as
part of the just dessert of the sin of all the
race. As long as Christ was 'the essence of sin'
he was at Satan's mercy in that place of torment.
. . .While Christ identified with sin, Satan and
the hosts of hell ruled over Him as over any lost
sinner. During that seemingly endless age in the
nether abyss of death, Satan did with Him as he
would, and all hell was 'in carnival.' "
(Destined for the Throne, special edition for TBN
Fort Washington, PA Christian Literature
Crusade, 1988(orig. 1975). 84.)
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Charles Capps " If there's any part of hell
Jesus did not suffer, you'll have to suffer it.
But, thank God, Jesus suffered it all, for you!
In the place of the wicked dead, all the demons
of hell and Satan rejoiced over the prize. The
corridors of hell were filled with joy. 'We've
done it! We've captured the Son of God! We'll no
longer be in the pit of the damned! The earth and
all that is therein is ours! Forever it will be
ours!' Rejoicing in hell had never been so great
as it was that day. But it was short-lived."
(Authority in Three Worlds, 143, emphasis in
original.) "
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Charles Capps "When Jesus was in the pit of
hell. in that terrible torment, no doubt the
Devil and his emissaries gathered around to see
the annihilation of God's Son. But in the
corridors of hell, there came a great voice from
heaven 'Turn Him Loose! He's there illegally!'
And all of hell became paralyzed." (Authority in
Three Worlds, 143, emphasis in original.)
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Jesus Paid the Price For Our Sins In Hell and Was
Born-Again During that time He entered hell,
where you and I deserved to go (legally) because
of our sin. He paid the price there... no plan
was too extreme... Jesus paid on the cross and in
hell (p. 35 emphasis in original.) God rose up
from His throne and said to demon powers
tormenting the sinless Son of God, 'Let Him go.'
Then the resurrection power of Almighty God went
through hell and filled Jesus... He was
resurrected from the dead - the first born-again
man (p. 36 emphasis in original). The Most
Important Decision You Will Ever Make Booklet,
1991 edition There is no hope of anyone going
to heaven unless they believe this truth I am
presenting. You cannot go to heaven unless you
believe with all your heart that Jesus took your
place in hell (p. 37).. The Most Important
Decision You Will Ever Make Booklet, 1991 edition
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Essek William Kenyon's life and ministry were
enormously impacted by such cults as Science of
Mind, the Unity School of Christianity, Christian
Science, and New Thought metaphysics. (E. W.
Kenyon, The Father and His Family, 17th ed.
(Lynnwood, WA Kenyon's Gospel Publishing
Society, 1964), 100 cf. Kenneth E. Hagin, "The
Incarnation," The Word of Faith, December 1980,
14) Many of the phrases popularized by
present-day prosperity preachers, such as "What I
confess, I possess," were originally coined by
Kenyon. Kenneth Hagin ... plagiarized much of
Kenyon's work, including the statement, "Every
man who has been 'born again' is an Incarnation,
and Christianity is a miracle. The believer is as
much an Incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth."
(E. W. Kenyon, The Father and His Family, 17th
ed. (Lynnwood, WA Kenyon's Gospel Publishing
Society, 1964), 100 cf. Kenneth E. Hagin, "The
Incarnation," The Word of Faith, December 1980,
14) "If Jesus' physical death could pay the
penalty for Sin as some contend, then why is it
necessary that a Christian die? If a Christian
dies physically, does he not pay the penalty of
his own sin? If physical death is the penalty for
sin, then why do not the whole human race pay
their own penalty, and save themselves, for all
die? But we hold that the physical death of Jesus
did not touch the sin issue at all." (Daniel R.
McConnell, A Different Gospel (Peabody, MA
Hendrickson Publishers, 1988), 23, 28 note 23)
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Jesus Was Born Again in Hell Kenneth Copeland
"That Word of the living God went down into that
pit of destruction and charged the spirit of
Jesus with resurrection power! Suddenly His
twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out
and come back to life. He began to look like
something the devil had never seen before." ("The
Price of it All," Believer's Voice of Victory 19,
9 September 19914.) Kenneth Copeland "He
Jesus was literally being reborn before the
devil's very eyes. He began to flex His spiritual
muscles. . . .Jesus was born again--the firstborn
from the dead the Word calls Him--and He whipped
the devil in his own backyard. He took everything
he had away from him. He took his keys and his
authority away from him." (Ibid., 4-6.)
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"I think they're damned and on their way to hell
and I don't think there's any redemption for
them." (Praise-a-thon, April 2, 1991.)
God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that
will lift a hand against this network and this
ministry that belongs to You, God. It is Your
work, it is Your idea, it is Your property, it is
Your airwaves, it is Your world, and we proclaim
death to anything that would stand in the way of
God's great voice of proclamation to the whole
world. In the Name of Jesus, and all the people
said Amen!
"To hell with you! Get out of my life! Get out of
the way!I say get out of God's way! Quit
blocking God's bridges or God's going to shoot
you if I don'tI don't even want to even talk to
you or hear you! If you want to argue doctrine,
if you want to straighten out somebody over here,
if you want to criticize Ken Copeland for his
preaching on faith, or Dad Hagin. Get out of my
life! I don't even want to talk to you or hear
you. I don't want to see your ugly face! Get out
of my face in Jesus' name." (Paul Crouch,
"Praise-a-thon" broadcast on TBN, recorded
4/2/91) I don't want to see your ugly face!"
(Praise-a-thon, April 2, 1991.)
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"I was shocked when I found out who the biggest
failure in the Bible actually isThe biggest one
in the whole Bible is GodI mean, He lost His
top-ranking, most anointed angel the first man
He ever created the first woman He ever created
the whole earth and all the fullness therein a
third of the angels, at least - that's a big
loss, man.Now, the reason you don't think of God
as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And
you're not a failure till you say you're one."
(Praise-a-thon on Praise The Lord, April 1988)
"You don't have a god in you, you are one." (The
Force of Love audiotape, 1987) "Now Peter said by
exceeding great and precious promises you become
partakers of the divine class. All right, are we
gods? We are a class of gods!" (Praise The Lord
TV Show, Feb. 5, 1986)
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"God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have
any legal entrée into the earth. The thing don't
belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in
the presence of God in the book of Job? God said,
'Where have you been?' Wasn't any of God's
business. He Satan didn't even have to answer
if he didn't want toGod didn't argue with him a
bit! You see, this is the position that God's
been inMight say, 'Well, if God's running things
He's doing a lousy job of it.' He hadn't been
running 'em, except when He's just got, you know,
a little bit of a chance. (Image of God in You
III audiotape 01-1403, side 1.)
"Faith is a power force. It is a tangible force.
It is a conductive force." (The Force of Faith,
p. 10.)
"When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not
speaking of the plan of redemption. There were
still three days and nights to go through before
He went to the throneJesus' death on the cross
was only the beginning of the complete work of
redemption. (Jesus - Our Lord of Glory,
Believer's Voice of Victory Magazine 10, 4 April
1982, p. 3)
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"The Spirit of God spoke to me and He said,
'Son, realize this. Now follow me in this and
don't let your tradition trip you up.' He said,
'Think this way - a twice-born man whipped Satan
in his own domain.' And I threw my Bible
downlike that. I said, 'What?' He said, 'A
born-again man defeated Satan, the firstborn of
many brethren defeated him.' He said, 'You are
the very image, the very copy of that one.' I
said, 'Goodness, gracious sakes alive!' And I
began to see what had gone on in there, and I
said, 'Well now you don't mean, you couldn't dare
mean, that I could have done the same thing?' He
said, 'Oh yeah, if you'd had the knowledge of the
Word of God that He did, you could have done the
same thing, 'cause you're a reborn man too.'"
Substitution and Identification, tape 00-0202,
side 2.
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He God doesn't even draw a distinction between
Himself and usYou know what else that's settled,
then, tonight? This hue and cry and controversy
that has been spawned by the Devil to try and
bring dissension within the body of Christ that
we are gods. I am a little god!I have His name.
I'm one with Him. I'm in covenant relation. I am
a little god! Critics, be gone! (Praise The Lord,
July 7, 1986)
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I am a "little messiah" walking on earth.
(Praise-a-thon, Praise The Lord, Nov. 6, 1990)
Years ago they used to preach "O we are going to
walk on streets of good." I would say, "I don't
need the gold up there. I've got to have it down
here. (Praise-a-thon, April 2, 1991.)
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Adam was a super being when God created him. I
don't know whether people know this, but he was
the first Superman that really ever lived. First
of all, the Scriptures declare clearly that he
had dominion over the fowls of the air, the fish
of the sea - which means he used to fly. Of
course, how can he have dominion over the birds
and not be able to do what they do? The word
"dominion" in the Hebrew clearly declares that if
you have dominion over a subject, that you do
everything that subject does. In other words,
that subject, if it does something you cannot do,
you don't have dominion over it. I'll prove it
further. Adam not only flew, he flew to space. He
was - with one thought he would be on the moon.
(Praise The Lord, December 26, 1991.)
67
Benny Hinn Man, I feel revelation knowledge
already coming on me here. Life yourhands.
Something new is going to happen here today. I
felt it just as I walked down here. Holy Spirit,
take over in the name of Jesus...God the Father,
ladies and gentlemen, is a person and he is a
triune being by himself separate from the Son and
the Holy Ghost. Say, what did you say? Here it,
hear it, hear it. See, God the Father is a
person, God the Son is a person, God the Holy
Ghost is a person. But each one of them is a
triune being by Himself. If I can shock you - and
maybe I should - there's nine of them. Huh, what
did you say? Let me explain God the Father,
ladies and gentlemen, is a person with his own
personal spirit, with his own personal soul, and
his own personal spirit body. You say, Huh, I
never heard that. Well, you think you're in this
church to hear things you've heard for the last
50 years? You can't argue with the Word, can you?
It's all in the Word. (Benny Hinn, Praise The
Lord, October 3, 1990)
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The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see -
to get you out of this malaise of thinking that
Jesus and the disciples were poor and then
relating that to you - thinking that you, as a
child of God, have to follow Jesus. The Bible
says that He has left us an example that we
should follow His steps. That's the reason why I
drive a Rolls Royce. I'm following Jesus' steps.
(Ever Increasing Faith on Trinity Broadcasting
Network, December 9, 1990.)
Now this is a shocker! But God has to be given
permission to work in this earth realm on behalf
of manYes! You are in control! So, if man has
control, who no longer has it? GodWhen God gave
Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had
dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth
unless we let him. And the way we let Him or give
Him permission is through prayer. (Prayer Do You
Know What Prayer Isand How to Pray? The Word
Study Bible, 1178.)  
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how can you glorify God in your body, when it
doesn't function right? How can you glorify God?
How can He get glory when your body doesn't even
work?What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants
to live inside a body where He can't see out
through the windows and He can't hear with the
ears? What makes you think the Holy Spirit wants
to live inside of a physical body where the limbs
and the organs and the cells do not function
right?And what makes you think He wants to live
in a temple where He can't see out of the eyes,
and He can't walk with the feet, and He can't
move with the hand?The only eyes that He has
that are in the earth realm are the eyes that are
in the body. If He can't see out of them then
God's gonna be limited (Is God Glorified Through
Sickness? audiotape FP605.)