What is the Word of Faith Movement?

I’m often asked to assess what others teach. I do not do this lightly, but it is necessary. Before reading this page, or any of the pages about specific people, I recommend that you read What is a False Teacher?, which explains what the Bible says about false teachers, and why I would bother to research who they are and what they say.

The Word of Faith movement is a pseudo-Christian cult. While there is no central authority in the Word of Faith movement, and no official set of beliefs, adherents share a set of basic unbiblical beliefs about God, the nature of the universe, the nature of humanity, and more. At the bottom of this article is a list of Word of Faith teachers. Based on their stated beliefs, each should be considered a false teacher.

Word of Faith theology is strongly connected to the New Thought metaphysics movement of the 1800s. Among other things, Phineas Quimby taught that illnesses could be cured by right thinking. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, was his patient. They both taught that humans are divine, and taught the “law of attraction,” which are foundational doctrines of Word of Faith teachers.

E. W. Kenyon, considered the father of the movement, studied Quimby’s teachings, as well as Science of Mind, Christian Science, and Unity School of Christianity (all non-Christian cults). Kennith Hagin studied under Kenyon, Kenneth Copeland studied under Hagin. These three men are primary to the movement.

Word of Faith teachers combine a variety of unbiblical ideas. Because each teacher is independent, they might teach things slightly differently, but they all share the same foundational errors. Some of these false ideas include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Faith is a force, and words are the containers for that force
• Being made in God’s image means that we share in His divine nature
• Salvation brings health and wealth as the right of all believers
• God speaks to Word of Faith leaders directly

We should acknowledge that every Word of Faith teacher also says many things that are true. It would be unwise, however, to look the other way when lies are mixed with truth. To make their claims appear coherent, these teachers must twist Scripture and distort its obvious meaning… and go beyond what God has said to fanciful ideas about the spiritual realm.

False teaching leads to confusion about God, disappointment when misplaced expectations aren’t met, and – at worst – never actually being saved. While we should be very careful about labeling anyone a false teacher, the dangers of false teaching should not be minimized or ignored. The Bible warns again and again about false prophets and false teachers, so no believer should take such things lightly. The goal is not to say bad things about anyone, but to correct errors and teach clearly what God has said. Biblical teaching leads to increased trust in God, peace, joy, and new life.

Word of Faith is generally considered a branch of the Charismatic movement. Not all Charismatics are in the Word of Faith movement, but virtually all Word of Faith teachers are Charismatic. Unfortunately, these false teachers have become so prominent that they are, in essence, the public face of charismatic Christianity.

Faith is a force?

The name “word of faith” comes from the most basic belief of all Word of Faith teachers. Faith, they claim, is a force. Words are the containers of that force. When we speak faith-filled words, we release the power of faith and we get what we speak.

This is the same unbiblical claim made by all who teach the law of attraction. The idea is that speaking positive words brings success, health, and prosperity, while speaking negatively brings trouble, failure, sickness, and disease. This “law” has been promoted by self-help gurus and positive-thinking adherents from Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret to Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and beyond. Napoleon Hill taught that “whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Common expressions include “name it and claim it” and the tongue-in-cheek “blab it and grab it.”

Kenneth Hagin is usually considered the father of the Word of Faith movement. His ideas have been adopted, repeated, and expanded by most Word of Faith teachers. Some call him “Dad Hagin.” Here are a few quotes from Hagin that express this ‘positive confession’ idea:

• Kenneth Hagin: “Faith changes hope into reality.”
• Kenneth Hagin: “Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.”
• Kenneth Hagin: “It used to bother me when I’d see unsaved people getting results [miracles], but my church members not getting results. Then it dawned on me what the sinners were doing: They were cooperating with this law of God – the law of faith.”

Quotes from some other Word of Faith teachers:

• Joyce Meyer: “Words are containers for power.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Words bring things to pass. Whether they bring to pass things that work for you, or against you, depends on what you confess.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “God cannot do anything for you apart or separate from faith. Faith is God’s source of power.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.”
• Joel Osteen: “Your words have creative power. And one of the primary ways we release our faith is through our words.”

While there are hundreds more quotes just like these, you get the idea: according to Word of Faith teachers, we get what we say. This is a problematic idea, as it uses “faith” in a way that can be redefined in any way the teachers sees fit. When you combine the words of Scripture with new definitions, anything goes.

The tongue has power

A primary concept in the Word of Faith movement is that the tongue has power… that is, the act of speaking words out loud has a spiritual and, eventually, a physical effect on the universe. While Proverbs 18:21 does say that “the tongue has the power of life and death,” the Bible does not teach that our words alter reality. Proverbs is a book of divinely-inspired Scripture, but it’s a bad idea to make theology from wise sayings.

Here are some quotes from Word of Faith teachers on this subject:

• Joel Osteen: “Do you know you can cancel out God’s best plan with your own negative words? If you go around talking defeat all the time it’s going to stop God from bringing it to pass.”
• Joel Osteen: “Friends, you’ve got to change the atmosphere with your words… you and I can call in good things. Start calling in victory! Start calling in divine health! Start calling in abundant life! If you do that you will begin to see it come to pass. You can prophesy your future.”
• Benny Hinn: “You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.”
• Marilyn Hickey: “Eve had to speak wrong words before Satan could act. Hell can act only on your words, so every negative word you speak sets hell into activity.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Today, as believers, we have that same God-like ability to speak those things which be not as though they were.”
• Jim Feeney: “When you speak the Word of God, you are tapping into limitless power!”
• T.D. Jakes: “As long as Jesus was talking on the cross he couldn’t die. It was only when he shut his mouth and hung his head in the locks of his shoulder that death could come and take him because he had so much life in his mouth that as long as he was talking, death couldn’t get near him.”
• Creflo Dollar: “What do you think’s gonna happen when God Almighty declares, ‘I want you to create a universe. I want you to speak to these worlds and like I said ‘Light be,’ you say, ‘Light be,’ Like I say, let there be a firmament in the midst of the firmament, you do the same’?”
• Jesse Duplantis: “You choose when you live, you choose when you die. Death and life is in the power of your tongue, not God’s.”

God has faith?

According to Word of Faith teachers, this is how God created the universe. He didn’t exercise His own power, but activated the already-existing power of faith by speaking words that contain that power.

• Kenneth Copeland: “God did not create the world out of nothing, He used the Force of His Faith.”
• Andrew Wommack: “God actually created everything with words. He spoke creation into existence, and the substance of His faith manifested into what we can now see.”
• Joyce Meyer: “He created the world with faith-filled words.”

Because Genesis tells us that God said “let there be light” and there WAS light, they claim that God spoke faith-filled words to accomplish His goal. This unbiblical idea has a number of implications.

Redefining “faith”

First, the meaning of faith comes into question. The definition of faith is trust, or confidence, in someone or something. For example, you have faith that your couch isn’t going to explode when you sit on it. You have some level of confidence that the driver of the car coming toward you is unlikely to swerve into your path. If we trust someone who’s untrustworthy, or if our couch actually does explode, we learn that our faith may be misplaced. By these examples, we see that faith has two parts:

1. Faith has an object: the person or thing we choose to trust, like our couch or another driver. There’s no such thing as “having faith in faith.”
2. Faith includes some level of uncertainty, as our faith may be misplaced.

God cannot have faith. Why? Because God knows all things! God doesn’t TRUST that something will happen. God doesn’t have CONFIDENCE that something will happen. God has KNOWLEDGE… He already knows what will happen.

God is not the creator of everything?

Next, the unbiblical idea that faith is a force suggests that this process exists independent of God. The claim is that this is just the way the universe works; God uses it, and we can too. Hagin, as noted above, claimed that non-believers can take advantage of this universal law. It’s not God, or even faith in God, that makes things happen. To get what you want, you simply follow the formula.

Another implication of God creating the universe with faith-filled words is that He did not CREATE this process. He only taps into it, as you or or supposedly can… as non-believers can. That means that God is not truly sovereign because He is subject to this rule. If God doesn’t follow the process, He won’t get the results He wants. That also means that something exists that God did not create. That begs the question: where did this “law” come from? According to Word of Faith teachers, it’s certainly not from God.

We are little gods?

You and I can, they say, change reality itself by speaking in faith. This elevates humanity to the same level as God Himself. We can do the same things that He can do by using the same techniques He used. That’s a bold statement!

Let’s examine it for a moment. How is it possible that you and I can do what God can do? Why would Creflo Dollar suggest that we can create our own universe, just as God did? It’s all in their understanding of the nature of humanity.

We are, they say, “little gods.” We are, they say, in the same spiritual class as God. Many claim that Adam wasn’t “made in God’s image,” but was an exact duplicate of God. This elevates humanity far beyond what the Bible describes.

• Kenneth Hagin: “The believer is as much an incarnation of God as Jesus Christ… the church hasn’t realized yet that they are Christ. That’s who they are. They are Christ.”
• Kenneth Hagin: “Man… was created on terms of equality with God, and he could stand in God’s presence without any consciousness of inferiority… He made us the same class of being that He is Himself.”
• Joyce Meyer: “If cattle has another cattle, they call it cattle-kind. What’s God supposed to call [us]?”
• Benny Hinn: “God came from heaven, became a man, made man into little gods, went back to heaven as a man.”
• Paul Crouch: “I am a little god. I have His name. I am one with Him. I’m in covenant relationship. I am a little god. Critics be gone!”
• Creflo Dollar: “You are gods because you came from God and you are gods.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “When I read in the Bible where He says, “I AM,” I just smile and say, yes, I Am too.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “You don’t have a god in you. You are one.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “You have the same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when He created the heavens and the earth.”
• Bill Winston: “Adam is the exact duplicate of God, made in His image.”
• Earl Paulk: “Until we comprehend that we are little gods and we begin to act like little gods, we cannot manifest the Kingdom of God.”
• Morris Cerullo: “The whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself. …you’re not looking at Morris Cerullo, you’re looking at God, you’re looking at Jesus.”
• Rory Alec: “And therefore you are gods; you have been purchased by the blood of Jesus.”
• Charles Capps: “God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness. The word likeness in the original Hebrew means an exact duplication in kind. Adam was an exact duplication of God’s kind!”

This is, of course, nonsense. It panders to our desire to be important, to be competent and self-sufficient and good. We are not those things without God’s help. On our own, we are broken, and unable to even come to God on our own. The Bible is clear that there is a gigantic difference between God and man… between Creator and His creation. We are not little gods, and no amount of Scripture-twisting rationalization will make us little gods.

The Ransom Theory

Jesus’ death was an “atonement.” That is, He died to make things right between God and man. History reveals a number of theories about the nature, scope, and extent of the atonement. More could be written on this, of course… but the Ransom Theory is the favorite of most Word of Faith teachers. It’s an entirely unbiblical idea, outlined this way:

1. God only deals with people through covenants (agreements).
2. God gave Adam dominion over the earth. Adam lost dominion to Satan when he sinned.
3. That ‘locked God out’ of earth.
4. To remedy the situation, God made a covenant with Abraham to regain access to earth.
5. The culmination of that agreement was that Jesus would die to pay a ransom to Satan, who was the rightful ruler of earth.
6. After He died, Jesus went to Hell and was tortured as payment for our sins.
7. When payment was made, Jesus was born again and God regained dominion over the earth.
8. This was how God tricked Satan into getting the earth back.

Of course, none of the above is biblically accurate.

1. God does not always deal with people through covenants. For example, what covenant did God have with Pharaoh? None.
2. God has always had dominion over the earth, and shared that dominion with humanity.
3. God has always been able to do whatever He wants on earth. The Bible is chock full of examples.
4. God’s covenant with Abraham was not to regain access to earth, but to work through Abraham’s descendants to bring salvation to the world.
5. Satan is not, and has never been, the ruler of the earth… rightful or otherwise.
6. Jesus was not tortured in Hell for our sins. His death on the cross paid the penalty for our sins.
7. Jesus was never born again. That would imply that He had been destined to Hell for His own sin, and that He paid the penalty for His own sins to be born again. Jesus never sinned.
8. God did not need to trick Satan… He is not a deceiver, but Satan is.

At its heart, the Ransom Theory claims that God is not all-powerful, lost a fight with Satan, tricked him to get His creation back, and can only reach His goals with man’s permission.

• E.W. Kenyon: “God has been obliged through the long period of human history to recognize Satan’s legal standing, and legal right and authority… Adam had legally transferred to him the authority with which God had invested him.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “God’s on the outside looking in. He doesn’t have any legal entree into the earth.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of Hell.”
• Benny Hinn: “We get the mind of God about His will, we pray it. When we pray it, we give him legal right to perform it.”
• Frederick K.C. Price: “God can’t do anything in this earth realm except what we, the body of Christ, allow Him to do.”
• Myles Munroe: “God could do nothing on Earth, nothing has God ever done on Earth, without a human giving him access. So he’s always looking for a human to give him power permission. In other words, God has the power, but you have the permission. God has the authority and the power, you’ve got the license. So even though God could do anything, he can only do what you permit him to do.”
• Myles Munroe: “Heaven depends on earth for interference. If He could just find two people like you and I to agree. We agree for God to do this thing. Then God says, ‘Thank you very much for permission!’ Then He can come.”

Demoting God, Promoting Man (and Satan)

Virtually every religion, and every pseudo-Christian movement, has a different description of God and mankind. Word of Faith teachers describe God in ways that make Him less than what the Bible describes, and describe humanity in ways that far exceed both Scripture and reality.

• Kenneth Copeland: “God’s reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself… He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even… Adam is as much like God as you could get, just the same as Jesus… Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Jesus has a beginning and an end.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Jesus took on the nature of Satan when He was on the cross.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is… The biggest in all the Bible is God! 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! I mean, you figure it all, that’s a lot of real estate, brother, gone down the drain. 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!”
• Kenneth Copeland: “When Adam originally sinned he gave his god nature to Satan. God could not intervene since He had made Adam the god of the earth. God was left on the outside looking in.”
• Creflo Dollar: “Let this mind, let this attitude be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.’ So now, what mind, what attitude is it that you want me to make sure that this same attitude is in me?… ‘Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.’…Now, if I’m to take what he said here and put it on, then my whole attitude now should be I have equality with God….Now somebody says, well it’s hard to think that way. Well, keep saying it….Talk yourself into it.”
• Creflo Dollar: “Jesus didn’t come as God, He came as a man, and He did not come perfect… How many of you know the Bible says God never sleeps nor slumbers? And yet in the Book of Mark we see Jesus asleep in the back of the boat.”
• Creflo Dollar: “God needs your consent and cooperation to bring forth manifestation in the earth!”
• Robert Tilton: “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.”
• Frederick K.C. Price: “Jesus was on the earth just a man, not the son of God.”
• Kenneth Hagin: “Originally, God made the earth and the fullness thereof, giving Adam dominion over all the works of His hands. In other words, Adam was the god of this world.”
• Rodney Howard-Browne: “Take your hands off Jesus as the head of the church and trust the Holy Ghost the unseen one, that he will lead you…”

Continuing revelation

A common thread in the Word of Faith movement is that teachers often claim to have received private, personal messages from God. These revelations almost always change or distort what we see in the Bible. While God can and (I believe) does speak to believers, nothing that God would say to you or to me would contradict what He has already said through Jesus and His disciples. Unfortunately, many – if not most – of the claims to this continuing revelation from God turn out to contradict what all believers can find in Scripture.

It’s easy to conclude that these teachers claim to hear directly from God so that what they say will be accepted and believed… especially when the claims contradict God’s Word. It’s very common to hear Word of Faith teachers complain that those who criticize them are, by extension, criticizing God Himself… as though their words are God’s words.

A little truth mixed into a big fat lie

A lot of folks will point out that the words we speak do have an effect on how our lives turn out. This is true, but it’s only half of the story. For example, telling a child again and again that they not artistic is likely to discourage them from engaging in artistic activities. Telling someone over and over that you love them is likely to convince them that you do. We can all agree that what we say, and how we talk to others, can be a great encouragement or do incredible damage to one’s self-confidence. Our words often turn into self-fulfilling prophecies.

However: the other half of the story is that Word of Faith teachers turn this basic principle of psychology into a pseudo-spiritual principle. Rather than simply pointing out the effect our words can have on ourselves and others, they teach that words, when spoken in faith, create reality. This is, of course, nonsense.

First, if that were true, then God would not be truly God. Instead, God would be operating by rules He did not create. Picture this: God wants to create a cow, so He tries to speak a cow into existence. According to the outlines of Word of Faith teachers, His success rate would depend on 1) the amount of faith He has, and 2) speaking the words out loud. If He doesn’t meet the requirements, He would fail in His efforts.

Second, it that were true, then we really could have anything we want. All we have to do is “manifest” our faith by speaking the right words with the right mindset. Pretend for a moment that this is true… why then have Word of Faith teachers failed to manifest peace on earth, or a cure for cancer, or teleportation devices? Imagine all of the good they could do if they didn’t need to travel by private jet… they could arrive at their destination in minutes, with no pollution, and be home in time for dinner!

No, the law of attraction is nonsense… and dressing it up in spiritual clothes makes it spiritual nonsense. This teaching is entirely incompatible with biblical Christianity.

The prosperity gospel

While there may be exceptions, virtually all Word of Faith teachers teach a “prosperity gospel.” Salvation, they claim, includes more than forgiveness of sins and eternal life… it includes prosperity in every area. Some boldly claim that God wants us to be rich, while others couch their claims about money in a more general statement like “God loves His children, and wants them to prosper.”

There’s no question that God wants His people to prosper. The question is what God means by prosperity. Jesus offers us abundant life (John 10:10), but that does not mean that every faithful Christian will be financially prosperous. Jesus Himself had no home. He told His disciples to go out without money, relying on the hospitality of those they met on the way.

The apostle Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to take up a regular collection for the church in Jerusalem. Why? Because Christians in Jerusalem often lived in poverty. The churches in Thessalonica and Philippi were poor. Word of Faith teachers would, based on what they teach, have to conclude that these believers were lacking in faith. You know, Peter and James and John (leaders in the church at Jerusalem)… they somehow missed the lesson on speaking faith-filled words, and had trouble making ends meet. Paul – against the advice of folks like Kenneth Copeland – learned to be content whether he was well-fed or hungry, whether he was living in plenty or in want.

These promises of financial gain are very common among Word of Faith teachers, and they extend this idea to Jesus and His disciples as well.

• Creflo Dollar: “Jesus bled and died for us so that we can lay claim to the promise of financial prosperity.”
• Creflo Dollar: “Some people come to me and say, well I came here to get some peace, not money, and I tell them, you need money otherwise you ain’t gonna get no peace. Some people say it’s about peace, joy and love. No! It’s about money!”
• Creflo Dollar: “What’s the Gospel to those who are poor? Prosperity!”
• Leroy Thompson: “The Lord told me, this is the end time message. He is coming to look for His church without spot or wrinkle. But one of the biggest wrinkles the church has is being broke!”
• Jesse Duplantis: “The very first thing on Jesus’ agenda was to get rid of poverty!”
• Jesse Duplantis: “If I give $50 you mean God will give me $5,000? Yes! If you give $1000 in the offering this morning, will God give you $100,000 by tomorrow? Yes!”
• Joel Osteen: “If you are struggling financially, then you have not got the victory.”
• Frederick K.C. Price: “Jesus and the disciples were rich, only rich people could take off for three and a half years.”
• Frederick K.C. Price: “That’s the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce. I’m following Jesus’ steps.”
• T.D. Jakes: “If you obey GOD you will never be broke another day in your life.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “I am a billionaire, because the assignment that the Lord gave me, He said: I want you to begin to confess the billion flow.”
• Robert Tilton: “Being poor is a sin.”
• Robert Tilton: “The only time people were poor in the Bible is when they were under a curse.”
• Jerry Savelle: “You can’t live the good life if you are broke.”
• John Avanzini: “John 19 tells us that Jesus wore designer clothes.”

It’s noteworthy that while Jesus healed the blind and the sick, and even raised the dead, we see nothing in the New Testament about Him giving anybody money. Jesus talked about money a lot, but most of those were warnings about relying on wealth for security.

Healing (part 1)

Another primary concept among Word of Faith teachers is that Jesus’ death and resurrection ensures – makes available – healing for every believer. That includes physical healing from sickness and disease, but also from poverty and mental illness. Usually one must, they claim, believe that healing is theirs… in spite of continuing symptoms. This system of not allowing any questions or doubts allows them to disqualify criticisms about healing by suggesting that the sick person lacked faith, had doubts, or didn’t confess their victory consistently enough.

The New Testament contradicts this view. While we are told to pray for healing, and we see that faith plays a part in whether a person is healed, at no point are we taught by Jesus or His disciples that being saved means that one no longer suffers from such things. On the contrary, we see in Romans 5 that “we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” If healing is guaranteed for all believers, we would certainly not glory in suffering.

Word of Faith teachers make unbiblical claims about healing. A few quotes:

• Kenneth Hagin: “Healing belongs to you. It belongs to you because sickness is of the enemy.”
• Kenneth Hagin: “God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.”
• Kenneth Hagin: “Healing is the privilege of every member of the Church today provided through Jesus’ death on the Cross.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “To stay sick when Jesus has provided healing would be living far below your privileges as a child of God.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “The price Jesus paid at Calvary was the full price, covering every area of human life: spiritual, mental, physical, financial, and social. Our redemption is complete.”
• Frederick K.C. Price: “You can’t glorify God if you are sick.”
• Marilyn Hickey: “Christ has redeemed me from the curse of poverty, sickness and spiritual death.”

Healing (part 2)

It’s one thing to make the claim that following Jesus will bring healing from sickness and disease. It’s another entirely to show that the claim is true. Healing, some say, often happens gradually. When Jesus healed someone, they weren’t told to claim their victory over time, or to maintain a positive attitude to keep their sickness from coming back. Word of Faith teachers (along with other unbiblical movements like Christian Science), when confronted with people who are not healed, or with sicknesses that return, claim that the problem lies with the sick, not with the supposed healing.

• Kenneth Hagin: “There has been criticism of mass healing meetings because, in many cases, the healings do not last. This is true because where a mass faith is present, people can be helped temporarily. However, to maintain their healing, these people should continue to feed on God’s word.”

With a few notable exceptions, the death rate for humans is still 100%. If physical healing was purchased for us on the cross, why would anyone with enough faith die? When we think carefully about this idea, we can see that Word of Faith teachers die just like the rest of us… regardless of what we believe:

• E.W. Kenyon died in 1948.
• Kenneth Hagin died in 2003.
• T.L. Osborn died in 2013.
• Charles Capps died in 2014.
• Jan Crouch died in 2016.
• Morris Cerullo died in 2020.
• Paul (David) Yonggi Cho died in 2021.
• Ernest Angley died in 2021.

The truth is that Word of Faith teachers get sick and die, just like the rest of us. If they can speak health into existence, why can’t they also speak youth into existence and become younger? Why can’t they speak longevity into existence, and live forever?

Weird Ideas

This section is a kind of catch-all for some of the wacky things that certain Word of Faith teachers have said. They might not fit into one of the categories above, but need to be included. When you claim that God is speaking to you directly, what you say must 1) make sense, and 2) match what we see in Scripture. This stuff is just crazy.

• Kenneth Copeland: “He’s [God is] very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6′ 2, 6′ 3, that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “God is a spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “God and Adam looked exactly alike.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies.”
• Kenneth Copeland: “Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently it must be a planet.”
• Myles Munroe: “The Bible never says that Jesus really died, you know. The word used in the Hebrew is he breathed out. Expired is the word.”
• Myles Munroe: “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.”
• Benny Hinn: “God’s original plan is that the woman was to bring forth children out of her side… Adam gave birth to his wife out of his side. It was sin that turned the thing around.”
• Benny Hinn: “God has 9 parts. God has a body, soul and spirit. Jesus has a body, soul and spirit. Holy Spirit has a body, soul and spirit.”
• Benny Hinn: “Adam could fly like a bird.
• Benny Hinn: Adam could swim underwater and breathe like a fish.”
• Benny Hinn: “Adam went to the moon.”
• Benny Hinn: “Adam walked on water.”

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