The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

There are so many believers who are "spiritually" handicapped in their own personal and spiritual walk with the Lord.  The reason for such is their lack of the knowledge in the Person of God in Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is full of grace and truth (Jn. 1:14).  Instead the church have been made to believe that having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is not enough to possess such knowledge, but "knowledge" that transcend beyond what is revealed in scripture.  Jesus Christ is the fount of the wisdom and knowledge of God (Col. 1:9).  In order to know God's will is embedded in scripture through all wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives (v. 9).  The Holy Spirit is divine Truth by which God have disclosed everything we need to know through the revelation of the Bible (2 Tim. 3:15, 16).  God is the Author of scripture by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.  Scripture is complete without any further revelation or revelation of the spir...

Many followers of the Word of Faith movement who are ignorant as to the history of the prosperity gospel as to where it came from.  Also proponents of the prosperity gospel give such vague, but distorted view of the prosperity gospel so as resort to the Bible to support their claim to prosperity (3 John 2). Their are such Faith teachers like Kenneth Copeland for example claim that prosperity is based upon the Bible; not Christian nor the New Age.  Many of cults will insist that they are Christians, but are cults who utilize at will the Bible language of the Bible by which they have radically total different meanings (2 Pet. 3:16, 17).    Throughout this article I will begin to address the historical origins of the prosperity gospel in connection with such Gnostic influence (1 Tim. 6:20).  Their are individuals like Oral Roberts who claim that to have receive the prosperity message via Revelation knowledge (2 Cor. 8:9).  According to 2 Corinthians 8:9 th...

   The concept of Faith taught by many within many Faith circles is a worldview; not a biblical concept of faith according to Hebrews 11:6 where it says, "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must [believe] that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." The biblical concept of Faith is trusting in the God of the Bible through which according to Hebrews 11: 6 make reference to the existence of God (v. 6a).  God is the Designer of the universe by which He created the world (Col. 1:15-17). The theistic God of the Bible is not consist of Faith nor is He a Faith Being subject to spiritual laws by which the Faith movement falsely teach (2 Pet. 2:1).  If in fact the theistic God of the Bible is consist of Faith than who or what become the Object of His faith? If in fact the theistic God of the Bible is dependent upon Something or His faith to create the universe than God cease to be God thereby He is a mere M...

It is so important to do research on alternative and new religious movements. The reason why it is important to study sects and cults is its opposition of traditional religious establishments and the whole of the political government. These are groups and organization whether extreme fundamentalist groups, neo-Nazis, or right wing political organizations that pose such challenge and threat society and human institutions. Just recently I watch on CNN News today concerning two white Nazis whose attempt was to bomb Black churches and to create a race war in the United States as well as the assassination of political officials. The White Nazis attempt to go through with their threat was interrupted by the FBI.  It is a fact that because of racist ideology, curious beliefs, practices, and apocalyptic vision of  self proclaimed Messiah of these dangerous cult groups that at will they will say and do anything that will silence the mouths of its critics as well as religious scholars...

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...