Are ALL the Word of faith/prosperity/health/wealth Groups heretical?

I believe they are intrinsically demonic in source of power and doctrine.

 

The difference is extent of error. The Assembly of God still preach and teach "another gospel" which does not have the Holy Spirit as its source. They preach justification by works precisely because they assert that works utlimately detemines heaven or hell.

 

As you know the use of Biblical terms is worthless unless it is also accompanied with the correct Biblical definition of those terms.

The AoG like Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses and Roman Catholicism use all the right Biblical terms in expressing their gospel. However, they teach clearly that true children of God can lose their salvation and go to hell. The only basis for a true child of God to lose their salvation is based upon their works and obviously not "good" works but "bad" works. Hence, they deny the meaning of "grace" and "saved" and "eternal" life and repudiate the sufficiency of the atonement of Christ and thus teach another gospel.

 

I wouldn't say it is heretical; moreso abhorrent. They deliberately manipulate the text. They see scripture as living and the same passage can mean different things to different people. Their homiletic is way off.

 

Scriptures may have different applications to different people but no scripture contains contradictory applications or contradictory meanings to different people.

The different applications is due to the fact that every truth is broad as it is interconnected with every other truth.

However, to say that one text can provide contradictory applications, contradictory doctrines is oxymoronic and contrary to the nature of God who is not the "author of confusion".

They preach "another gospel" even though some may be actually saved but deceived as were the Galatians (Gal. 3:1)

 

Since Baptists don't accept the ecumenical creeds as defining "Christianity," by what standard do you judge heresy?

And, no, "We only believe the Bible" doesn't cut it because it is the equivalent of "We only believe the US Constitution." If that was a valid argument then most political and religious forums would never have come into existence.

 

The bottom line difference between the true gospel of Christ and "another gospel" is denial or acceptance of the sufficiency of Christ and his provision to eternally save his people.

The difference between justification by works versus justification by grace through faith is the differnce beween accepting or denying the sufficiency of Christ's provision to eternally save his People.

Justification by works denies the sufficiency of the promise of the gospel as sufficient in itself to eternally save anyone. Thus the doctrine of apostasy from salvation by works is the necessary manifest evidence rejecting the sufficiency of Christ and his provision as promised in the gospel.

 

Whether they are actually saved or not is determined by what they actually trusted in at the time of their profession rather than some later theological explanation they have come to.

However, their soteriological explanation of the salvation is false, another gospel and denies the sufficiency of Christ provision and the promise of the gospel.

 

The promise of the gospel is ETERNAL and therefore UNCONDITIONAL life. They are preaching a gospel of TEMPORAL and CONDITIONAL life. They are denying the very heart of the gospel and that is the COMPLETE SATISFACTION OF THE LAW by Christ to save those who believe in the gospel.

The doctrine of apostasy is the outright denial of the SUFFICIENCY of the promise of the gospel and thus the SUFFICIENCY of the Person and work of Christ to obtain salvation.

The doctrine of apostasy is the outright assertion that justification is by works and the heart of the gospel is justification is by faith WITHOUT works because Christ SUFFICIENTLY SATISFIED ALL THE LAWS DEMANDS without your works.

Simply because they mouth the right words does not change what they DEFINE those words to mean. If they are saved they are saved IN SPITE OF later theological error they learn.

 

No, they state it by using those terms but deny it by their definition of those terms.

The simple acid test of discerning what a person or denomination MEANS by justification by grace through faith alone is simply to ask them if such a person genuinely saved can lose their salvation. If they say yes, they believe in justification by works - period!

Why? because the ONLY WAY a genuinely saved person can lose their salvation is to DENY the MEANING of grace and DENY the MEANING of justification by faith ALONE and DENY that Christ completely SATISFIED the Law's demand - that is the ONLY WAY you can believe in apostasy of true born again Christians.

Hence, the bottom line is that they actually DENY the gospel presents the good news that Jesus Christ has FINISHED and/or COMPLETELY SATISIFIED the full demands of the Law of God for those who receive the promise of the gospel by faith! The doctrine of apostasy is the formulated denial of the gospel promise and the assertion of the belief in justification by works REGARDLESS of the terms they use.

Here is how they do it. They state that the human will that received this promise of the gospel has the power to reject it after receiving it and/or if the believer does not repent of evil deeds before death he will go to hell. Thus condemned or justified ultimately by what YOU DO rather than what Christ DID.

 

Are ALL the Word of faith/prosperity/health/wealth Groups heretical?

Yeah. Why ain't they be?

 

Regarding the "Name it-Claim, it" prosperity bunch, I believe they clearly are teaching full blown heresy, although some to a much greater extent than others.

The assembllies of God, and groups similar to them are generally fine.

They have some different convictions, but nothing that anyone should refuse fellowship with them over. :wavey:

 

They deny that Jesus Christ fully satisfied all the demands of the law against sinnres which is the very heart of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. They deny the gospel promise of unconditional eternal life but believe in conditional termporal life. They teach the doctrine of apostasy and deny that all that the Father gives to the Son will come to the Son and none shall be lost. They preach another gospel while using gospel terminology.