Doctrinal Statement
1. Scripture – I believe the sixty-six books of the Bible to be inspired by God and innerant in their original autographs. They alone represent God’s textual revelation to man and they alone can be used as the rule of faith.
2. God – I believe in one God who exists eternally in three persons. While there are three persons of the Godhead (Trinity: Father, Son, and Spirit) there is but one essence of deity.
3. Creation – I believe in special creation ex nihilo by God and God alone. I believe this creative act took place during a period of six historical days. I believe in a literal Adam and Eve along with a literal fall and subsequent curse.
4. Jesus Christ- I believe in the historical incarnation of Jesus Christ (fully God and fully man). His virgin birth, sinless life, death upon the cross and physical resurrection.
5. Salvation – Salvation is provided exclusively through Jesus Christ. Only those who accept Christ by faith will be justified before God.
Let me get this clear? did you just tell this guy to leave his wife because she is a Word of Faith believer? I agree with you in regards to how destructive the WOF cult is but I wouldnt tell him to leave his wife.
Hi,
I hope that perhaps I may be able to help you understand just a bit of what you’re up against, and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
For me, it was a slow awakening, and a very painful one! It destoyed so much that I believed and trusted.
I was also in my 20’s when I was introduced to it. My children’s pediatrician had begun
a church with a few other business men in the community (he had come out of the Methodist church and he was the preacher of that church)
That was the beginning for me.
(his brother was my pediatrician and my siblings and then he became mine also at age 13 when his brother left)
People wonder how you can possibly believe that WOF stuff.
It’s real easy, like every other CULT they expose you only to what they want you to see and tell you only what they want you to believe.
I did some research awhile back and discovered that the Pentecostal/Charasmatic religion (which I make no distinction between anymore, it’s all the same) the religion had it’s beginnings in Catholicism and Methodist.
When dealing with someone deeply involved in the WOF movement, you have to understand that the FEAR OF HELL and the absolute certainty that you are going to hell if you stop believing their way is at the root of it all. (though they could not put that into words themselves I assure you)
WOF’S/Pentecostals twist scriptures so horribly that the only way they could really “love” God is to lie, to pretend – if they really took the time to examine what they claim to be truth.
God said “Perfect love casteth out fear, for in fear their is torment”.
People involved in that will never know what perfect love is because their “faith” is not about love, certainly not about the True God’s love.
The WOFer’s, like so many other “churches” out there have made God a product. Church is where you go to keep your subscription up to date and get more fear inspiring “truths”.
There’s no “product” out there that can outsell their product. Nothing else can send you to hell to burn forever on a whim.
My advice to you, if possible at all – LEAVE.
Maybe you can get her out of it that way. If not, and you don’t feel that’s an option, well, keep praying I suppose.
I don’t know what else to tell you.
God Bless,
My wife was raised Catholic as a child, but later introduced to the Word of Faith movement while in college years 20 + years ago. Since I’ve known her she has always listened to tapes and read book from Copeland, Hagen, Capps, Duplantis, etc. from time to time, but she has really gotten drawn deeper into the movement in the past few years. I’m a non-denominational Christian and I don’t subscribe to the doctrines of the WOF movement. The WOF movement has caused and continues to cause many problems between my wife and I. I have tried to provide her with reading materials to help dispel many of these false doctrines, but I can’t even get her to read a single sentence. I’ve tried to explain how these people take scripture out of context, but she says that she will not allow me to tear down her faith or take God’s promises from her. Do you have any ideas on how I can save her from this WOF stuff?