The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

Even though there are many books that are written on the Prosperity Gospel, but that many of the books that are written on this subject does not address the history of the prosperity-faith movement from which is it historically connected to such cults as Christian Science, New Thought metaphysics, Religious Science, and Swedonborgianism. Many proponents of the prosperity gospel will contend that it is based upon the Bible, but either ignorant and unaware of the influence of New Thought, Mind-Cure and Harmonalism (1 Tim. 6:20 with Colossian 2:18, 19). I will challenge supporters of the prosperity gospel and followers of the Faith movement especially within the African American Word of Faith movement churches and its own leadership to look outside the scope of the cultural of Faith theology even though "mind-control" plays a integral part in how people read, hear, and see.  Any outside authority, scholars, or critical of the movement's leadership and controversial teachin...

It is very important to understand God's written Word!  There are those within the professing church today who attempt to make a distinction between the "written" Word and the "spoken" word as to be spoken within a person's [human] spirit. The written Word is what is reveal already in scripture, but spoken word is what is reveal in a person's [human] spirit as most Gnostics will have the Church to believe. The doctrinal depravity and the depth of Gnostics teaching speaks about the "rehema" word: that of the "revealed" or "spoken" word that only the "true" spirituals can unfold the depth of God's divine mysteries as opposed to the traditional Church that are fleshly who possess such sensory knowledge. Many Gnostics will contend, "The letter kills, but the spirit gives life." The exegetical approach of Gnostics within the professing church today is to look "beyond" the backdrop of a given pa...

The consensus within the Church today is that God does speak and continue to speak today through God's Word, but it is within a person's [human] spirit; not through the sensory of man's intellect. If in fact God does speak through that of a person's [human] spirit than what is the basis by which a person judge spiritual truth? It is quite ironic that people today make decision based upon there emotions; not what is good sound judgment. There is a risk in colliding between Reason and Faith. The contention that Reason have nothing to do with Faith nor Faith with Reason. The truth of the matter that Reason and Faith are bedfellow nor do they have a "hate and love" relationship with each other. If anything Reason and Faith compliment each other whereby they cannot work independently with one another. Also it must be pointed out that Reason alone cannot possibly understand the revelation of the Bible without a person's reasoning facilities being illuminate by...

There are several traits that characterize faith leaders who are diagnose as having or being on the borderline of such narcissistic personality. Such personality disorders are not admirable, but negative in the most negative of personality traits. What is so disturbing about the cultic leadership "within" the Word-Faith movement what is known as the Positive Confession movement is their hidden chronic illness of such personality traits that are related to narcissism: that of the preoccupation of Self, grandiose of illusion, lack of empathy, and paranoid.     Even though this is a subject that is quite difficult to grasp, but it is important to present a crystal clear picture of the cultic leadership within the Faith movement especially within the context of the African American Word of Faith religion own leadership. Also, even though at times it is not pleasant to address that of this particular issue, but it is necessary so that people are made aware of the personali...

The nature of faith is believing in God's promise (Rom. 4:20-21). It is amazingly how that many Christians today misinterpret such biblical passage with such wrong application. Interpretation precedes with that of application; not application goes before interpretation (2 Tim. 2:15). Also many Christians today fail to give into the account the biblical, historical, and theological analysis of the biblical passage/s of scripture so as to give a clear meaning of what it says and mean. Even though there are some who will make such analysis, but the goal is to bend the text to fit within the cultural understanding of that culture instead of allowing scripture to speak for itself.  We do not speak by putting into the mouth of scripture, but scripture once again speak in behalf of its own witness. Also in order to understand the message of the Bible is to read the immediate context of the passage of scripture in light of its own context along with previous and preceding verses: that of...

The nature of faith is centered upon the Person of Jesus Christ. A "faith" that does not focus upon the message of Christ is a false gospel whereby there are "legion" of gospels that oppose the true nature of the Gospel of Christ (Gal. 1:8-9). It is quite important that the nature of faith are defined according to the standard definition of the Bible. It is amazingly difficult that there are cultist that utilize biblical terminology (e.g. "firstborn") but have radically different meanings (2 Pet. 3:16, 17). For any Christian to be effective in pre-evangelism and discipleship is to insult that many of cultist define biblical terms (e.g. "firstborn") according to the standard definition of the Bible. That is the way by which many Christians can "stripped" the cultist of its most powerful arsenal (2 Cor. 4:3-4).  It is very unfortunate that there are cults within the Faith movement that utilize at will biblical terminologies (e.g. "...