"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron..." (1 Timothy 4:1-2)"You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons." (1 Corinthians 10:21)"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1, NKJV)"In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping." (2 Peter 2:3, NIV)
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'IF YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM GOD, READ YOUR BIBLE; If you want to AUDIBLY HEAR from God, READ YOUR BIBLE OUT LOUD.' - Justin Peters (A Call For Discernment Seminar)
Prosperity Gospel (Name-it, Claim-it, Word-Of-Faith, Health and Wealth...)
The Prosperity Gospel, (also known as Name-it Claim it, Word of Faith, Seed Faith, Health and Wealth and Gospel of Success) is an umbrella term for a group of ideas. It is a belief among some "Christians" that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that demonstrations of faith, positive speech, speaking benefits into one's life ('word of faith' or 'name it and claim it') and planting seeds of faith will increase their material wealth. Material, tangible and especially financial success is seen as a sign of divine favour.
These teachings are heretical, blasphemous and contrary to orthodox Biblical Christian teachings. (See Bible verses regarding this at the bottom)Word of Faith teaching holds that God wants his people to prosper in all areas of life, including finances, health, marriage, and relationships. It teaches that God's blessing empowers his people to achieve the Bible's promises. Thus, suffering does not come from God, but from Satan.The WoF movement believes in a "force of faith." It believes that words can be used to manipulate the faith-force, and thus actually create what they believe Scripture promises (health and wealth). One has but to claim them (or proclaim them) and the laws supposedly governing the faith-force are said to operate independently of God’s sovereign will and that God Himself is subject to these laws.This is nothing short of idolatry, turning our faith - and by extension ourselves - into a god. So ‘claiming’ spiritual healing, or that car, or the spouse of one's dreams, or riches, or mostly ‘prosperity’, or whatever, is heresy.WoF proponents use Psalms 105:15; "Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm." to 'protect' themselves against persecution. This Psalm refers (in the previous two verses) to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the people of Israel, saying in verse 13, "When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He permitted no one to do them wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,...{insert v.15}." Context is key!Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to ‘claim’ anything, rather, the Bible teaches us to ‘ask’ and ‘pray’ with humility and earnestness. The word pray means to ask earnestly and/or humbly. (Matthew 7:7, John 16:24, John 16:26, etc.)These teachings are heretical, blasphemous and contrary to orthodox Biblical Christian teachings. (See Bible verses at the bottom)
New Age Movement (New Ageism, New Age Thinking, New Thought...)
New Ageism is not in itself a religion, more like a set of beliefs, a pseudo-Christian cult, contrary to Christianity, orthodox Biblical Christian teachings and an affront to God. Appearing first as the New Thought movement, and pioneered by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, it encompasses and teaches health and prosperity (WoF), Law of Attraction, Manifestation and how humans are god-like in their truest form (See an example here).New Age thinking is prevalent in Hollywood and the music industry, and is actively promoted by most of its actors, actresses, musicians and performers. Reincarnation, karma, cosmic consciousness (the all-knowing one), the 'good force' overcoming the 'evil force' (e.g. 'Star Wars'), super-heroes, superhumans (e.g. the 'MCU')... One has but to look for the signs and they become obvious.Based on Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism and heavily rooted in, and inspired by Eastern mysticism, psychology, psychotherapy and to a great degree, paganism, spiritualism, clairvoyance, tarot, occultism and magic, New Ageism has found its way into the church in a variety of ways including belief in reincarnation and astrology, not to mention self-love and self-actualization ideology.Other ways that New Age has crept, and can creep into a Christian's life is through practices such as Yoga, transcendental meditation and herbal/herbalistic/naturopathic remedies (Note: It's not the remedies that are wrong but how they are sourced and used).
Discernment is clearly called for.Some examples of New Age teachings include;"Follow your heart/Trust in yourself" - Jeremiah 17:9; 'The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.'
"Law of Attraction" - Believe, imagine, or visualize what you want from God and He will make it true for you...
"Oneness" - We can become one with God by being sinless...
"Universalism" - The belief that all roads lead to God... (Contrast however, Acts 4:12.)
"Pantheism" - The view that the only way God can know everything is if He is everything and everything is God.
"Panentheism" - God and the world are inter-related. God is greater than the universe and God is in the universe. Therefore, anything that affects the universe must affect God. (See Psalms 139:1-6; God knows everything and Psalms 139:7-8; God is everywhere)
"Contemplative Prayer" - A type of mystical meditation leading the mind into an altered state of consciousness.All these teachings are contrary to the Bible and additionally, the Bible is unequivocal in condemning the use of clairvoyants, psychics, horoscopes, tarot cards, or any other aspect of the occult and these practices are detestable and an abomination to God. ~(Deuteronomy 18:9-14_)~
New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)
The New Apostolic Reformation movement claims that the lost office of 'apostle' has been fully restored and should be acknowledged by today's Church. It is a massively negative addendum to the Charismatic Movement.The NAR is patently and blatantly un-Biblical and emphasizes experience over Scripture, mysticism over doctrine, and modern-day 'apostles' over the plain text of the Bible. Of particular distinction in the New Apostolic Reformation are the role and power of spiritual leaders and miracle-workers, the reception of “new” revelations from God, an over-emphasis on spiritual warfare, and a pursuit of cultural and political control.The office of apostle requires traits that are impossible today. For example, true apostles must be personal eyewitnesses of the risen Christ (1 Corinthians 9:1; 15:7–8), specifically designated as apostles by Jesus (Galatians 1:1; Acts 1:2; Luke 6:13), and already verified by miraculous signs (Matthew 10:1; 2 Corinthians 12:2; Acts 5:12).So too, the office of the modern prophet.
"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son..." (Hebrews 1:1)Modern prophecy is driven by a love of money and self-ambition. Jesus, knowing this about the Pharisees, said, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it." (Luke 16:15-16) See also 1 John 4:1, 2 Peter 2, Deuteronomy 13:1-4, Deuteronomy 18:21-22 and Micah 3:11)For God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. (1 Corinthians 14:33)
List of false teachers, false prophets and promoters of heresies
“Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11)“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.” (2 Cor 11:13-15)“8Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit...and not according to Christ... 18Let no one cheat you of your reward...vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head...” (Col 2:8,18-19)"7For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist... 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; 11for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds." (2 John 1:7,10-11)"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." (Matthew 24:24)"1...there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2And many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; ... 22Of them the proverbs are true: ‘A dog returns to its vomit,’ and, ‘A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.’" (2 Peter 2:1-3,22)"9The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10and with all unrighteous deception... 11And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)------------------------------------------------
Key:
NAR: New Apostolic Reformation
WOF: Word of Faith/Prosperity Gospel
New Age/Mysticism/New Thought Movement: Bundled together (See above)
Universalism: The view that all human beings will ultimately be saved and restored to a right relationship with God (no belief in hell or eternal damnation)
Modalism: States that Jesus is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (one Person in three roles, or modes)
Ecumenism: Promotes unity among all churches, including Jehovah's Witness, the Roman Catholic Church, Mormons, even Islam and Buddhism
Occult: Belief or practices that are non-religious or scientific; involving esoteric supernatural powers or forces, magic, witchcraft, satanism, ESP, astral-travel, astrology and many more. Closely linked with mysticism and New Age thinking.
Extra-Biblical: Adding to the (already 'sufficient and inerrant') Bible
Emergent Church: The belief that 'modern' Christians should embrace modern beliefs; post-modernist thinking, experience over reason, subjectivity over objectivity, spirituality over religion, images over words, outward over inward, feelings over truth (See Seeker Sensitive)
Seeker-Sensitive: Typically associated with 'mega-churches'; The use of contemporary, flashy, elaborate secularist popular culture and theatrics to 'touch' the unsaved and hopefully lead them into the church. Emphasis is on the person, not the Gospel. (See Bethel Church, Jesus Culture)
Contemplative Prayer: Not Biblical prayer at all. A type of mystical meditation leading the mind into an altered state of consciousness
Dominionism: The belief that Christians should take moral, spiritual, and ecclesiastical control over society
In (mostly) alphabetical order:
DR. ABEL DAMINA (WOF / False Teacher / False Prophet / Many False Claims Against God and The Bible / Claims God did not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and God has never and will never destroy life external link
ANDREW WOMMACK (WOF / Disputes God's Sovereignty - A rebuttal) external link
ANDY STANLEY (False Teachings / Discredits "a version of Christianity that relied on the Bible as the foundation of faith."; "Who needs God?") external link
ANITA MARTIR RIVERA aka ANITA FUENTES (False Prophet / False Teachings / Claims God is speaking to her and interprets Scripture to fit her doomsday messages; See HERE and HERE; Spoiler alert! We KNOW how it all ends...) external link
ANN VOSKAMP (New Ageism / False Teachings / Romantic Panentheism)
ARNOLD MURRAY [1929-2014] / DENNIS MURRAY (Shepherd's Chapel - Modalism / False Prophets / False teachings / Believers in Annihilation / Deniers of Eternal Hell / Anti-Semitic) external link
ASA ALONZO (A. A.) ALLEN (WOF / Excerpt from Randi Allen's 'The Faith Healers')external link
BENEDICTUS TOUFIK "BENNY" HINN (WOF / False Miracles / False Faith Healer / Associated with the Toronto Blessing movement / Sep 2019 - Renounces prosperity gospel -10 months pass- Jul 2020 - Guess who's back...)
BETH MOORE (Contemplative Prayer / Extra-Biblical / Ecumenical / Faulty Biblical Exegesis / Aligned with Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen)
BILL HAMON (NAR / False Prophet / Signs & Wonders)
BILL HYBELS (False Teacher / Seeker-Sensitive / Several accusations of sexual assault See references 1, 2, 3)
BILL JOHNSON (NAR / Latter Rain / False Prophet / Leader of Bethel Church)
BISHOP CARLTON PEARSON (New Age / Promotes Universalism aka the “Gospel of Inclusion”)
BISHOP TALBERT W. SWAN II (Similar to Jeremiah Wright & Al Sharpton who are known as race-baiters & charlatans / Liberation theologist)
BISHOP WALTER SCOTT THOMAS (WOF / Associations with T.D. Jakes)
BOB JONES [1930-2014] (NAR / False Prophet)
BOB LARSON (False Teacher / Spiritualist / Teaches that "If the core of a person’s identity is strong willed, it seems harder for a demon to take over, no matter what that person does." - Bob Larson, "In the Name of Satan - How the forces of evil work and what you can do to defeat them"; (Nashville: Nelson, 1996) pg.109)
BRIAN CARN (WOF / False Prophet)
BRIAN HOUSTON (NAR / WOF / Promotes Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes, etc.)
BRIAN AND JENN JOHNSON (NAR / False Teacher - Thinks the Holy Spirit is like the genie in Aladdin / Founders of Bethel Music)
BRIAN MCCLAREN (False teacher / Emergent Church / Universalist)
BRUCE WILKINSON
C. PETER WAGNER [1930-2016] (Founder of NAR / False Prophet / Self-Proclaimed Apostle)
CHARLES CAPPS (WOF)
CHARLES FINNEY
CHEE AHN (NAR / False Prophet / False Miracles, Signs & Wonders)
DR. CHIDI OKOROAFOR (WOF / Misuse and making up scripture to support WoF / Sexual immorality while in office
CHOO THOMAS [1939-2013] (NAR / False Visits To Heaven & Hell)
CHRISTIAN HARFOUCHE
CHUCK PIERCE (NAR / False Prophet)
CINDY JACOBS (NAR)
CLARE du BOIS (and EZEKIEL du BOIS) (Author of YouTube channel Still Small Voice (Now deleted but also on Bitchute) / Extra-Biblical, Mysticism, False Prophet, Faulty Biblical Exegesis / Anxiously awaiting the next buzz date for the Rapture)
CLARENCE MCCLENDON (WOF / NAR / False Prophet)
CREFLO AUGUSTUS DOLLAR JR. & TAFFY DOLLAR (WOF)
DALLAS WILLARD [1935-2013] (Mysticism)
DAN KIMBALL
DAVID HOGAN
DAYNA MULDOON (WOF, False Prophecies & False Visions)
DEEPAK CHOPRA
DENNIS ROJAS (NAR / False Prophet)
DIONNY BAEZ (NAR / False Prophet / Aligned with Bethel Church (see Bethel Church at the bottom))
DON STEWART
DOUG PAGITT (Emergent Church)
DUTCH SHEETS (NAR / False Prophet / Self-proclaimed Apostle)
ED LITTON (President of the Southern Baptist Convention / False Teachings / Unbiblical - Claims 'Homosexuality will not send you to hell...' - YouTube account now closed; Feb 2023)
E. W. KENYON
EARL PAULK
ECKART TOLLE (Author of A New Earth / Buddhism / New Age / misuse of Scripture, false teachings on God and the Bible's teaching on evil)
ED YOUNG JR. (WOF / Pragmatism)
EDDIE LONG [1953-2017] (WOF)
ELLEN G. WHITE nee HARMON [1827-1915] (Works-based / Founder of the False Teaching & Cult of Seventh Day Adventist / She had approximately 2,000 visions & dreams / Sabbath Keeper)
ENOCH ADEBOYE (Extra-Biblical, Mysticism, False Prophet, Faulty Biblical Exegesis)
EZEKIEL du BOIS and CLARE du BOIS* (Extra-Biblical, Mysticism, False Prophet, Faulty Biblical Exegesis / Anxiously awaiting the next buzz date for the Rapture) external link
EUGENE PETERSON (NAR / Emergent Church / Mysticism / Author: The Message Bible)
FRANCIS FRANGIPANE (NAR / False Prophet)
FREDRICK (FRED) PRICE (WOF)
GENE EDWARDS
GEORGIAN BANOV (NAR / False Prophet)
GERALD COATES [1944-2022] (False Prophet - Westminster 1995) external link
GILBERT DEYA (False Miracles / Arraigned in court on 5 counts of child trafficking offences) external link
GRAHAM COOKE (False Prophet / False Teachings)
GREG BOYD (Open Theist, Mysticism)
GUILLERMO MALDONADO (False Signs & Wonders / NAR / Latter Rain)
HAROLD CAMPING (False Prophet / Predicted end of the world (over and over) / Urged people to leave church)
HEIDI BAKER (NAR / Bethel Church (see Bethel Church below)/ False Prophet / Associated with the Toronto Blessing movement)
HENRY FERNANDEZ (WOF)
HILARY HINTON "ZIG" ZIGLAR [1926-2012] (WOF)
IAN CARROLL (NAR / New Ageism / Mysticism / Occult Practices / Necromancy / Grave Soaking) external link
IAN CLAYTON (NAR / Founder of Son of Thunder Ministries / New Ageism / Mysticism / Occult Practices)
IAN JOHNSON (NAR / False Signs & Wonders)
JAN CROUCH [1938-2016] & PAUL CROUCH [1934-2014] (WOF)
J. D. GREEAR (Former President of SBC / False Teachings / Unbiblical - Claims 'Homosexuality will not send you to hell...') external link
JACK HAYFORD
JAMES PAYNE (WOF)
JAMES ROBISON (WOF)
JASON WESTERFIELD (False Prophet / NAR / New Age Mystic & Occult Practices / Astral Travel & Angel Visits)
JEN HATMAKER
JENN JOHNSON (NAR / New Ageism / Necromancy / Bethel Music / Holy Spirit is like the genie in Aladdin See Bethel Church below)
JENTEZEN FRANKLIN (WOF / False Teaching / Blasphemy) eternal link
JEREMIAH JOHNSON (NAR / False Prophet / Prophesied that ex-President Trump would win a second term) external link
JEREMIAH WRIGHT (Liberation Theology / Race-baiter / President Barack Obama’s Pastor)
JESSE DUPLANTIS (WOF / False Visits To Heaven)
JIM BAKKER (NAR / False Prophet)
JOEL SCOTT OSTEEN & VICTORIA OSTEEN (WOF / False Teachers - JO believes that Mormons are Christians and teaches that you can live "Your Best Life Now"; VO teaches that "You should just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy.")
JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE (WOF / False Prophet / False “Apostle”)
JOHN ARNOTT & CAROL ARNOTT (NAR / False Prophets / Occult / Mysticism / Founding Pastors and Presidents of "Catch the Fire" aka "Toronto Blessing")external link
JOHN AVANZINI (WOF)
JOHN CROWDER (NAR / Latter Rain)
JOHN ECKARDT (NAR / False Prophet)
JOHN HAGEE (WOF / Preaches salvation for the Jews without conversion to Christianity) external link
JOHN HINKLE
JOHN KILPATRICK (NAR / False Prophet)
JOHN P. KELLY (NAR / False Prophet)
JOHN PAVOLITZ (Heretical & doesn’t believe God’s Word)
JOHN WIMBER (NAR / False Prophet)
JONATHAN CAHN (Mysticism / Extra-Biblical / False Prophet)
JOSEPH PRINCE (WOF / Hyper-Grace Movement)
JOSHUA MILLS (NAR)
JOSHUA SELMAN NIMMAK aka APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN (WOF / NAR / Dominionist / False Prophet / Heretical / Teaches that: "Adam was not the first man", "You can lose your salvation", "Jesus was not fully man", etc. / Student of Benny Hinn, William Branham, Morris Cerullo, Reinhard Bonnke, and Myles Munroe / The 'Intro' here says it all...)external link
JOYCE MEYER (WOF / False Teacher - Teaches that Jesus literally stopped being the Son of God on the Cross, Jesus paid for our sins in Hell, you can release the power of Heaven through your words and that she is no longer a sinner and more...external links
JUANITA BYNUM (WOF / False Prophet)
JUSTIN ABRAHAM (New Age Mystic / NAR / Occult)
KACOU PHILIPPE (False Prophet) Says he's the way of eternal life; Claims that "...Islam, Christianity and Judaism are the three frog spirits in Revelation 16:13..." and "...these are the same demons that aroused Elvis, Marley, James Brown, Madonna...and Celine Dion." external link
KAT KERR (NAR / New Ageism / Mysticism / False Prophet - Claims trips to Heaven - 'Heaven' merch available) external link
KATHIE WALTERS (NAR / Tickled by Angels, Chariot Rides, Golden motorcycle rides with Jesus... / Occult / Astral Travel) external link
KATHRYN KUHLMAN [1907-1976] (WOF)
KENNETH COPELAND & GLORIA COPELAND (WOF / False Prophet)
KENNETH HAGIN [1917-2003] (Father of the Word of Faith, Seed Faith, Prosperity Gospel / NAR / False Visits to Heaven & Hell)
KEVIN ZADAI (NAR / New Ageism / Mysticism / False Prophet - Claims Jesus taught him to play the sax) external link
KIM CLEMENT [1956-2016] (NAR / False Prophet / WOF)
KRIS VALLOTTON (NAR / False Prophet / Leader of Bethel Church / Prophesied that ex-President Trump would win a second term)
LANCE WALLNAU (NAR)
LARRY LEA (WOF / FINANCIAL Fraud) external link
LEONARD SWEET (Mysticism / New Age)
LEROY JENKINS (WOF / Follower of A. A. Allen / Exposed as a convicted felon for arson. Sentenced to 12 years / Drugs & Alcohol abuse)
LEROY THOMPSON (WOF) external link
LOU ENGLE (NAR / False Prophet)
LUIS PALAU [1934-2021] (Incomplete Teachings / Ecumenism / Aligning with Catholicism)
MARCUS LAMB [1957-2021] & JONI LAMB (WOF / False Teachers / Founders of Daystar Television Network / Admitted on air of having an affair-Cringeworthy! / Marcus died of Covid-19 after his TV show repeatedly said people pray instead of getting vaccinated) external link
MARILYN HICKEY (WOF)
MARJOE GORTNER (Former Child False-Teacher)
MARK BATTERSON (New Ageism / Occult / Author: The Circle Maker which teaches un-Christian (Talmudic) ways to pray)
MARK CHIRONNA (NAR / False Prophet)
MATTHEW ASHIMOLOWO (WOF / NAR)
MIKE BICKLE (False Prophet / NAR / Gnosticism / Contemplative Prayer)
MIKE JACOBS (NAR)
MIKE MURDOCK (WOF)
MORRIS CERULLO (WOF / NAR / False Prophet)
MORTON KELSEY (Mysticism)
DR. MYLES MUNROE [1954-2014] (WOF)
NANCY LEIGH DeMOSS WOLGEMUTH (New Ageism / Mysticism / Contemplative Prayer)
NEIL T. ANDERSON (Author of 'Bondage Breaker' / Teaches that Christians can have demons and do not have a sin nature) external link
NICKY GUMBEL (NAR / New Ageism / Mysticism / Ecumenical / Founder of the ALPHA Course) external link
NORA (NENG YEE) LAM [1932-2004] (WOF / False Prophet / Dubious miracles / Faith Healing Fraud)
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE (New Age / Occult / Author: The Power of Positive Thinking / "...best known champion of Freemasonry in America" - Editor, Freemasonry, A Celebration of the Craft ) external link
ORAL ROBERTS (WOF / False Prophet / Anointed by Rodney Howard Brown with holy laughter)
PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME (WOF / False Teachings) external link
PAT ROBERTSON (False Prophet / Prophesied that ex-President Trump would win a second term)
PATRICIA COKING (Formerly "Pat Cocking" / False Prophet / Mysticism / Occult Teachings / NAR / Latter Rain)
PAUL BEGLEY (False Prophet / False Prophecies)
PAUL CAIN (NAR / False Prophet / Exposed as a homosexual & alcoholic)
PAUL CROUCH [1934-2014] & JAN CROUCH [1938-2016] (WOF)
PAUL CUNNINGHAM
PAULA WHITE (WOF)
DR. PAUL "DAVID" YONGGI CHO [1936-2021] (WOF / 2014; Found guilty of tax evasion, imprisoned & fined US$5 Million / 2014; Convicted of embezzling US$12 Million in church funds / Former pastor of the world's largest church) external link
PETER HORROBIN (Ellel Grange Ministries - False Miracles / New Ageism / False Teachings: Teaches healing and Christians can be inhabited by demons)
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY (NAR: Inspired the mind-healing philosophy of the New Thought spiritual movement)
PRISCILLA SHIRER (NAR / False Teachings / Mysticism / Contemplative Prayer)
RACHEL HELD EVANS (False Teachings / Wrong Hermeneutics)
RANDY CLARK (NAR / False Prophet (Prophesied about/over Todd Bentley) / Prominent leader of the TORONTO BLESSING movement)external link
REINHARD BONNKE (WOF / Decision theology / Signs & Wonders)
REVEREND AL SHARPTON (NAR / False Teacher - Teaches a form of Socio-Political Gospel / Race Baiter)
REVEREND SAM OYE (WOF / NAR / False Prophet)
RICHARD FOSTER (Mysticism)
RICHARD ROBERTS (WOF / False Prophet)
RICK JOYNER (NAR / False Visits To Heaven & Hell / False Prophet / False Teachings / Occult / 'Helping' Todd Bentley return to ministry) external link
RICK WARREN (Seeker-Sensitive / Pragmatism / Finds common ground with Catholicism / Ecumenism)
ROB BELL (False Teachings / Emergent Church / Heretic / Universalist / Teaches there is no Hell)
ROBERT SCHULLER [1926-2015] (Unbiblical Self-Esteem, Positive Thinking, Positive Confessions, etc)
ROBERT TILTON (WOF / FAITH HEALING Fraud) external link
ROBERT W. SHAMBACH (WOF / Holy Ghost Miracle Revival ministries / A. A. ALLEN'S 'right-hand man')
ROBERTS LIARDON (Exposed as a Homosexual / WOF / Claims of visits to Heaven)
ROD PARSLEY (WOF)
RODNEY HOWARD BROWNE (WOF / NAR / Holy Laughter / Refers to himself as "God's bartender")
RONALD WEINLAND (False Prophet / False Teachings - Multiple "End of the world” predictions; Says he & his wife are the two witnesses from Revelation 11 / Convicted on 5 counts of Tax Evasion) external link
RUTH CARTER STAPLETON (President Jimmy Carter’s Sister / Mysticism)
RUTH HEFLIN [1940-2000] (False Prophet)
SARAH YOUNG (Occult / Paganism / Clairvoyance / Mysticism / Extra-Biblical / Author of "Jesus Calling")external link
SHEILA WALSH (WOF)
SID ROTH (NAR / Latter Rain / False Visits To Heaven & Hell / Extra Biblical Revelations - Spiritual Experiences)
STEVE HILL (NAR)
STEVE MUNSEY (WOF)
STEVEN FURTICK (WOF / Blasphemy - Claims '_I am God Almighty!_' / Pragmatism)
T. B. JOSHUA [1963-2021] (WOF / False Prophet)
T. D. JAKES (WOF / Modalism: Denies the Trinity / Cult: Oneness Pentecostal i.e. “Jesus Only”)
TED HAGGARD (NAR)
TODD BENTLEY (NAR / Latter Rain / Several accusations of sexual assaults/impropriety / Kicking people in the face "healing") external link
TODD COONTZ (WOF)
TODD WHITE (NAR / False Prophet / Aligned with Bethel Church / False Signs & Wonders)
TOMI "APOSTLE" ARAYOMI and TAHMAR "PROPHETESS" ARAYOMI (NAR / Self-proclaimed Apostle and Prophetess / False Prophet)
TOMMY TENNEY (NAR)
TONY CAMPOLO (NAR / Emergent Church / Catholic Mysticism / Universalist / Denies the Sovereignty of God)
TONY JONES (NAR / Emergent Church / Accused of emotional, physical and spiritual abuse by ex-wife Julie McMahonexternal link
WALTER VINSON (W. V.) GRANT (WOF / FAITH HEALING Fraud) / Sentenced to pay $60,812.88 & 16 months in prison for tax evasion) external link
WESLEY CAMPBELL & STACY CAMPBELL (False Prophets / False Teachings / Prominent leaders in the TORONTO BLESSING movement)external link
WILLIAM BRANHAM [1909-1966] (NAR / Denied the Trinity / False Prophet)
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG (New Ageism / Universalist / Occult / Author of "The Shack") external link
WINNIE BANOV (NAR / False Prophet)
YAKIM MANASSEH JORDAN (WOF / False Prophet - Charges USD$1000 to raise someone from the dead / Sued 16 times for incessant calling in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
ZIG ZIGLAR [1926-2012] (New Age / Occult / Author of "Over the Top", "Better Than Good" / Disciple of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale / Positive Confessions / Self-Esteem)
Other organisations that support these teachings:
BETHEL CHURCH (At the centre of the New Apostolic Reformation movement / Incorporates New Ageism / Promotes False Teachings / False Prophecy / False Healings / Pluralism / Necromancy / Jenn Johnson, one founder of Bethel Music, thinks the Holy Spirit is like the genie in Aladdin)
JESUS CULTURE (Part of Bethel)
HILLSONG (Like Bethel - WOF / New Ageism)
OPRAH WINFREY (New Ageism / Mysticism / Occultism)
TORONTO BLESSING / CATCH THE FIRE Ministries (New Ageism / False Teachings / False Doctrines / Holy Laughter / Occultism / Ritualism)
DAYSTAR TELEVISION NETWORK (Promoters of Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel)
TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK (Promoters of Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel)
THE ALPHA COURSE (Founded by a known heretic / Promotes New Ageism, is multi-denominational and Universalist / False Teachings / False Doctrines / Holy Laughter / Mysticism / Ritualism / Occultism)Special mentions: This is just a small selection...
Islam - Fun- Not-so-Fun fact: According to Islamic eschatology, at the end of time will come a man; the Mahdi, also known as the 12th Imam. He will ride in on a white horse, with a massive army carrying black flags bearing one word - PUNISHMENT. He will go from nation to nation, starting with Israel and slaughter all the Jews, those who do not believe in or convert to Islam or worship Allah. He will establish Islam as the world's only true religion on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He will perform great signs and wonders and all will love him and worship him. Huh!... Antichrist I mean, Revelation 6:2 much?Mormonism (aka Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS, for short) believes in the heretical teachings of John Smith. He claimed that he received a personal visit from God the Father and Jesus Christ (Articles of Faith, p. 35) who told him that all churches and their creeds were an abomination. Mormonism contradicts, modifies, and expands on the Bible. Mormons believe that God attained the status of Supreme Being by righteous living and persistent effort, He has a “body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s”(Doctrine and Covenants 130:22) and Brigham Young taught that Adam was actually God and the father of Jesus Christ. (Erm, see John 4:24)According to LDS President, Gordon B. Hinckley, "As a church, we have critics -many of them. They say we do not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity. There is some substance in what they say. Our faith, our knowledge, is not based on ancient tradition... [it] comes of the witness of a prophet in this dispensation..."(April 2002, General Conference)Roman Catholic Church - Pope Francis (All Popes, really) is a False Teacher and Catholicism is a works-based religion that believes in the continual sacrifice of Christ, promotes idolatry, is heretical and patently and utterly unbiblical.According to Roman Catholicism, authoritative revelation from God consists of two tightly connected streams, Scripture and Tradition and the only authoritative source of interpretation of Scripture is The Magisterium, consisting of the pope and the bishops.Roman Catholic theology presents the immaculate conception of Mary. That at her conception, she “was preserved immune from all stain of original sin” (Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, Dec 8 1854) and her sinlessness was manifested by her perpetual virginity; she remained a virgin her whole life. So, how were James, Joseph, Simon, Judas, and their sisters, all Jesus' brothers and sisters conceived? Matthew 13:55-56 and Acts 1:14_
The RCC believes that the Pope is Christ's representative on earth, Baptism confers grace through consecrated water, which cleanses people from original sin, Confirmation bestows grace through consecrated oil and the laying on of a bishop’s hands, conferring the fullness of the Holy Spirit and that The Eucharist, which is “the source and summit of the Christian life” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1324) gives grace through bread and wine, a process known as transubstantiation. (Wow!)Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) believe that Jesus Christ is God’s agent (as Archangel Michael), through whom sinful humans can be reconciled to God and the Holy Spirit is the name of God’s active force in the world. They believe that when Jesus was born on earth, he was a mere human and not God in human flesh. All this denies Jesus' and the Holy Spirit's deity. The New World Translation (NWT) of the Bible is Jehovah's Witnesses own translation, no other religious group uses this Bible and Jehovah's Witnesses make very little use of other Bibles.Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) profess to teach salvation by grace through faith, but they redefine this to add works to grace. Faith and works are said to be the two oars by which the believer is propelled to glory. SDA'ism says that the sabbath was given to Adam in the Garden of Eden (Nehemiah 9:13-14, Exodus 31:13-17) and that God intended for all men to keep it. They further say that Jesus and the apostles kept the sabbath and that it is binding upon all Christians. Further, SDAs believe that Ellen White was a prophetess; "The Ellen White books have been likened also to a telescope which greatly enlarges the vision of God’s plans as revealed in His word." (Ellen G. White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, p. 34; - In countering this, however, see Deuteronomy 18:18-22)Two verses disprove SDA doctrine in totality: Romans 3:20, and Galatians 2:16 and also, see what Revelation 22:18-19, Deuteronomy 4:2 and Proverbs 30:5-6 say about adding or deducting from God's words...Church of Scientology - No more needs to be said...external linkChristian Science Church/Movement - Major proponents of word of faith, prosperity gospel, health and wealth, identification and ‘revelation knowledge’ recycle, in one form or another, the teachings of Kenneth Hagin, commonly regarded as the founder of the Faith Movement. Research has shown conclusively that Hagin ‘copied extensively’ from the writings of E. W. Kenyon and Kenyon admitted he had freely used ideas from Mary Baker-Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. See HERE and HERE. There is nothing Christian, nor Scientific about this movement!For Christian Scientists, the ultimate textual authority is not the Bible but MBE's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In that book, MBE says that “Christian Science is unerring and Divine” while the Bible has been corrupted and contains “manifest mistakes.”According to Christian Scientists, “Jesus is the human man, and Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ.” The invisible Christ (“the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science”) became perceptible in the visible Jesus, who was a mere man and demonstrated the divine idea. Therefore, Christian Scientists deny the Trinity and replace the person of the Holy Spirit with ‘divine Science.’MBE outlines her version of the triune God:
"Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God,—that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. Divine trinity They represent a trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite."
More Bible verses against false teachings, prophets and heresies...
“Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless -not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.” (Titus 1:7-9)"I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who...want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:6-13)"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world." (1 John 4:1-6)"Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple." (Romans 16:17-18)"God, who made the world and everything in it,...does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things...28for in Him we live and move and have our being 29...we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead." (Acts 17:24-25,28-31)"15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16You will know them by their fruits...18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Therefore by their fruits you will know them.... 22Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" (Matthew 7:15-23, abridged)"'3...What will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?' 4And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 10And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." (Matthew 24:3-5,10-14)"11And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ..." (Ephesians 4:11-15)"10There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13You shall be blameless before the Lord your God." (Deuteronomy 18:10-13)"18'I will raise up for them a Prophet...and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him...' 20'...the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' 21...'How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?'- 22'When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.'" (Deuteronomy 18:18-22)2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist..." (2 Timothy 4:2-5)3If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. 6Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10For 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." (1 Timothy 6:3-10)
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