"Have faith in God". (Mark 11:22 in modern English translations) "You have faith of God" (Mark 11:22 in the original Greek) It's pretty easy to notice the renderings of Mark 11:22 I have above, don't match. The English translation reads as a command. The Greek, as an assertion. These were the first words out of Jesus mouth when He responded to His disciples inquiry about how a fig tree He cursed the day before had died so quickly. They were understandably amazed by this and Jesus used...

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law". (Galatians 5:22-23) Since the mid 1970's there's been a lot criticism over the teachings of the Word of Faith movement. In the 1980's and 1990's there were books entirely dedicated to tearing it apart, many of which I read to see if the critics truly understood the Word of Faith teachings and truly had anything to say to it. They didn't. After...

Heresy has been a very overused word in the 20th and 21st centuries. It's a word so casually tossed around that, like all things overused by the masses, its true intent finally ends up being gutted of any real meaning. Traditionally, heresy is a label that is applied to any teaching that is at variance with one of the central tenets of Christianity. Today however, put any theological viewpoint into your Google search engine and hit enter and up pops a host of opinions concerning that...