New Word?

[TK Burk]

Is there such a thing as God giving man more Word than is already found in the Bible? Would God ever tell us more or something different than has already been given us through the Old and New Testaments? What do you say?

Here is a little on the teaching commonly called the "New Word" doctrine.

Here is an explanation from one who believes this, Kelly Varner:

We believe that there are some things that the Lord has yet to reveal to His Church. We have but crossed the threshold of the Most Holy Place. This is uncharted territory: we have not passed this way heretofore. Apostles and prophets will eventually make these things known to the Church in the seasons of the Lord. We remain open to be taught, corrected or adjusted in our vision (Josh. 3:1-5; Isa. 55:9; 1 Cor. 2:9-16; Eph. 3:1-5, 16-21).

They teach that God will give men today more Word than is already found in the Bible.

Today Word-Faith teachers are numerous and popular. Men like Kenneth Hagin, Sr. and Jr., Kenneth Copeland, Charles Capps, Robert Tilton, John Osteen, Frederick K.C. Price, Benny Hinn, Paul Yonggi Cho, Paul Crouch, John Avanzini, Marylyn Hickey, Morris Cerullo, T.L. Osborn, and Jerry Savelle are but a few of the most popular teachers of this NEW movement within professing Christianity today.

The WORD FAITH MOVEMENT TEACHES …

THE HUMAN MIND AND TONGUE CONTAINS A SUPERNATURAL ABILITY OR POWER. These teachers proclaim that the very words one may speak can harvest or harness a "divine force," that can heal, produce wealth, bring success in anything and in other ways, influence or control even the environment. According to the Word Faith teachers, God is obligated to automatically respond to accomplish and obey any literal "words" uttered in this faith by believers knowing this truth. Frederick K.C. Price like the others states: "God has created the universe by speaking it into existence. He has given that same ability to you in word form." According to this teaching, God is reduced to a cosmic servant-bellhop subject to the word formulas of his fallen creatures who think they sit on the throne of the universe. A second popular teaching that comes forth in various form is…

EVERY WORD-FAITH BELIEVER IS ACTUALLY A GOD OR A POTENTIAL GOD. Word faith teachers tell their followers they are unique beings who are in the "God-class," and thus become workers of the supernatural, able to supernaturally perform anything they wish according to their "faith." Kenneth Hagin says, "Man was created on terms of equality with God…he lives on terms equal with God." " The believer is called Christ, that’s who we are, we’re Christ!" Charles Capps says, "Adam was an exact duplication of God’s kind!" Morris Cerullo says, "…you’re not looking at Morris Cerullo you’re looking at God. You’re looking at Jesus!" Robert Tilton says, "The Spirit of God is upon me the same way the Spirit of God was upon the Lord Jesus Christ." Friends, this is not an isolated case of a slip of a tongue. The Word Faith Movement claims that its followers are little-gods. However, true Christianity NEVER teaches us that we are either equal to God or Jesus Christ or even a part of the Godhead! This teaching emanates from and is propagated by the metaphysical Cults. Now a third teaching that comes forth from these proclaimers is…

GOD GIVES HIS ANOINTED TEACHERS SPECIAL REVELATIONS THAT REVEAL HIS ONGOING TEACHINGS. Every Word-faith teacher "claims," God speaks to them by special revelation and has given them the newly revealed truths to bring to His people. Men like Kenneth Hagin Sr.,& Jr. Kenneth Copeland, Charles Capps, Robert Tilton, Benny Hinn and the others ¾ all claim to receive regular physical or spiritual appearances of God the Father, Jesus Christ and or angels to personally instruct them in this newly revealed faith. In Jerry Sevelle’s prosperity series we are told: "The revelation knowledge in this set was given to Brother Sevelle supernaturally by God." Robert Tilton claims, "God directed me by the Holy Spirit to write certain things to you…I have learned on Him for every word." Charles Capps boasted, " The Word of the Lord came to me saying…" Every single teacher in this cultic faith movement proclaim special revelation from God. This friend, is one of the marks of a cult who say today they receive "extra-biblical revelation" that leads us into new teachings outside the Bible. Now here’s a forth error promoted by the WORD FAITH MOVEMENT …

ALL SICKNESS, POVERTY, AND LACK OF SUCCESS IS NOT GOD’S WILL FOR FOLLOWERS. Word-faith teachers constantly condemn any and all Christians who suffer any form of disease, deformity, poverty, and or failure in business or life, because God wants them to be healthy and well, and prospering in everything they desire to do. Failure is due to a "lack of faith, and acceptance" of their messages and teachings.

Robert Tilton says, "Jesus came to deliver humanity from failure and to bring us into success." Kenneth Hagin says, "Christians should have super-prosperity and super-success." "Sickness and disease are of Satan…It is not the will of God for Christians to be ill."

Frederick K.C. Price boasted he doesn’t allow sickness in his home, he has banned it by the power within him. He further states the reason he drives a Rolls Royce is he is following in the footsteps of Jesus. Friend, these teachers who have step outside the truths of the Bible are nothing short of "hucksters," who under the banner of "Jesus is Lord" are funneling the offerings of their followers into their own pockets to prove their false doctrine of the health, wealth and prosperity Gospel. Now there’s more. We also hear from their lips the teaching that …

SPIRIT GUIDES ARE HERE TO SERVE FOLLOWERS REQUESTS AND GUIDE THEM INTO ALL NEW TRUTH. Almost all of the Word Faith Movement teachers I mentioned today teach that the angelic world is waiting to serve followers and do their bidding at their "positive-faith" commands. Gloria Copeland and Charles Capps says God revealed to them that each follower has some 40,000 to 72,000 angels assigned to each one to do their bidding and follow their every "faith" command. Frederick K.C. Price again waxes corruptly, "Yes, you are in control! So if man is in control, who no longer has it? God!" Kenneth Hagin says, "Turn your order in! Send the ministering spirits out to get it by saying, ‘Go ministering spirits, and cause the money to come.’" Hagin claims that he gets regular visions and appearances of God, angels and Jesus…at least eight visits so far from Jesus. Now continuing along in the false teachings of this cultic movement we discover that…

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES AND MANIFESTATIONS ARE TO BE TRUSTED MORE THAN BIBLICAL TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE AND HISTORIC CHRISTIANITY. Here is where the greatest danger lies, as these false teachers following earlier Charismatic teachings, lead their followers away from God’s revealed and lasting truths into new revelations, teachings and experiences that contradict the Bible’s plain teachings. When one chooses to depart from that which is revealed in God’s Word to follow new revelatory teachings based on "experiences" ¾ Satanic delusions are rampant.

This is the case more so in the Word Faith Movement that any other aberrant religious teaching today. Of course all of this new WORD FAITH MOVEMENT’S teachings are not new. In fact, they originate from the very source that produced the metaphysical cults today we know such as Christian Science, Mormonism, Mind Science or New Thought. These cultic systems of teachings are found in these revelations just discussed.

(Above quoted from The World, the Word & You! Broadcast, Commentary by Dennis L. Finnan)

Okay, what do you think? Is this God speaking newly to man, or is this man speaking in place of God?