[WileyPink]

Baptist Bible Study Ping

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[TommyDale]

Thanks for posting this. We can never hear the truth often enough.

[Resolute Conservative]

Careful there are some here take offense when you criticize the false teachings of Osteen, Hinn, Copeland, and Meyer. I am not one of them.

[JamesP81]

I know some folks that subscribe to this sort of teaching to some degree. Most are devoted Christians, and the church they go to does a lot of good and a lot of people get saved.

But, and this is a big but, they teach some things that just aren't true. The campus ministry I attended when in college was associated closely with this particular church. I had gotten saved at age 12, but hadn't learned to live my faith properly. I learned a lot of that from them, but when I didn't start speaking in tongues when they prayed over me, the assumption was that my faith wasn't sufficient. It was not difficult to logically follow that to it's ultimate conclusion: if my faith is insufficient for speaking in tongues, perhaps its insufficient for salvation as well.

I dealt with that one a long time. To some degree, I still do. I can see my own deficiencies and in human terms its hard to comprehend how a God who is perfect would have anything to do with me. But thank God that He does.

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you for the Informative Post, WileyPink, and for the Ping, Alpha. I don't Remember Ever Reading that Hinn Claimed Elijah had Visited him, so that is New Info to me, and I don't Know whether to Laugh or Barf. :(

When I Read Things Like this, it Always Makes me Long for a New House-Cleaning in the Church, as when our Lord Swept Away Several Fallen 'Ministries' in the Past.

Brother Alpha, Thank you for your Excellent Scriptures and Comments on this Thread, and Also for the Outstanding Study on Discernment a Few Days Ago.

The Blessing and the Honor and the Glory and the Power
Belong to the One Sitting on the Throne,
And to the Lamb Forever and Ever! (Rev.5:13)