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Page Summary: Studies in the Word of Faith movement, key elements, key people, doctrines, practices, healing, tongues, roots, history, parallels, David Cox's Library of Religious Works
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78.02 Word of Faith Movement
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| 78.02.00 General Works | ||
| 78.02.01 History, Roots of Movement | ||
| 78.02.03 Parallels in other religions | ||
| 78.02.04 Key Figures and Leaders | ||
| 78.02.05 Key Practices & Doctrines | ||
| 78.02.05.01 Healing | ||
| 78.02.05.02 Speaking in Tongues | ||
| 78.02.05.03 Jesus Died Spiritually | ||
| 78.02.05.04 Word of Faith | ||
| See 78.01 Charismatic Movement | ||
Description: This movement is a submovement within Pentecostalism (beliefs in tongues, healings, etc), and is distinguished by its particular doctrines of the manipulation of reality by the power of one's faith. The belief rotates around a central core belief of the power of a person to manipulate God and reality (apart from the will of God) through one's faith. This comes from their belief that "salvation" communicates to the individual deity (i.e. Benny Hinn looking in the mirror every morning saying "Hello God").
Some of the more notable things that distinguish this movement is a belief that God's will is that every Christian should be prosperous (prosperity gospel or wealth gospel), and healthy (health gospel). This desire of God is unilateral, and anyone claiming to be saved that is not in financial bliss and good health is because they lack faith.
The principle figures of this movement are very agile in raising funds from their people, and convincing their people to "walk in faith" which for them means to taking daring leaps of faith in business and personally. Common is seed money for faith, which is the teaching that they have to give their churches and leaders seed money showing their faith, after which God will bless them with more. Want a house, give a house first.
Doctrinally Considered - The movement has some serious errors doctrinally. The key error that destroys a biblical concept of salvation is their beliefs about Jesus' death on the cross. They believe that Jesus' death did nothing towards giving us salvation, and actually after his death, he went to hell to be tortured by Satan, and God the Father upon seeing this stopped things and resurrected Jesus, and this is what saves us. To move redemption from the cross to afterwards, and make Jesus powerless against his master Satan, is to destroy any biblical concept of salvation.
Key figures in the Movement - Kenneth Hagin, Kenyon, Kenneth Copeland, Binny Hinn.
John Dowie, Maria Beulah Woodworth-Etter, Charles Parham, Frank Sandford, Seymour, William Branham, Frank Hall, Kathryn Kuhlman, Aimee Semple McPherson, A.J. Tomlinson, A.A. Allen, Jack Coe, Charles Price, David Duplessis, Smith Wigglesworth, Kenneth Hagin Sr, Oral Roberts, Morris Cerullo, John Wimber, Charles and Frances Hunter, Jamie Buckingham.
See 31.14.02 Speaking in Tongues
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