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Richardleeevange@aol.comDate:
Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:10:12To: WalterMartin@mail.serve.com
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Subject: Re: WM: Word Faith teaching
In a message dated 2/16/00 11:03:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, suprdave@lightspeed.net writes:
<< Dave:
Actually, WOF does not adhere to Christian Science. Christian Science denies the reality of sickness. WOF doesn't! Christian Science denies the reality of hell. WOF don't! Christian Science has a different Jesus. WOF doesn't! There is a huge difference between WOF and Christian Science. Christian Science is a non-Christian cult because it denies the Deity of Christ. WOF believe and uphold the Deity of Christ, The Trinity, His Bodily Resurrection, His atonement...
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Granted, the WOF movement doesn't go that far, but can you deny that Mary Baker Eddy's teaching about sickness share a relationship with the healing movements that antedate Pentecostalism by decades? What of E.W. Kenyon's influence? Many in the WOF DO in fact deny or distort the Trinity, and distort the Atonement!!! Did Kenneth Copeland repent of saying that God was a big man with a large hand span, or was he merely exaggerating? What of the Born again Jesus doctrine, that Christ took on the nature of Satan and burned in Hell, and accomplished the Atonement there? I would agree that Christians have disagreed over just what Jesus did among "the spirits in prison", but did he accomplish the atonement there? Just curious, thanks. I'm sure others will weigh in also.
Richard