I warned you.
Below is a post from FB that challenges the origins of 'the "Word of Faith" doctrine'. In fact it says it's a heresy. I'm just wondering how WOF believers would respond. Biblically of course, not emotionally.
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FYI my only conscious interaction with it is trying to read Kenyon's "What Happened from the Cross to the Throne" (my original Pastor was a Kenyon fan), and going to a church camp where the guest was Roy Hicks Sr and buying his "Use It or Lose It: The Word of Faith" which I read many times. (Use it or Loose it: Hicks, Roy H.: 9780892740024: Amazon.com: Books). I must admit it psyched out people when in response to "you're getting sunburnt" I'd say "by Jesus' stripes I've been healed".
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During my lifetime, I have personally experienced the way heresy spreads and infects the Church overall.
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Decades earlier, a man named Kenneth Hagin wrote a book. In it, he lied and said Jesus personally taught him what came to be known as the "Word of Faith" doctrine. He was the conduit Satan used to import the notion of "speaking things into existence" into Christianity.
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It wasn't until AFTER that teaching was imported into Christianity that Christians who had accepted it began to find proof texts to try to justify it as orthodox Christian teaching. The reality is that is was never taught or preached anywhere in the history of Christianity.
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There is no portion of scripture that even implies that YHWH endowed humans with the ability to bring things into existence with words in the way He can.
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This kind of teaching and language is now being used OUTSIDE of the tongue talker's Word of Faith / Charismatic circles. That's a literal example in YOUR lifetime of a new heresy being invented and how the rest of the Church was infected.