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Originally Posted by Ohio
Sorry about asking stupid questions ... but what is a word-faith person? Am I one of them?
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Well, just go to "word faith" on Wikipedia for their definition, as KSA points out. I always thought word-faith was "name it and claim it in the power of Jeeeeeesus' name!" Basically,
naming what you want from God and
claiming it by faith.
Osteen, as the article says, is influenced by it. But word-faith people generally tend to be charismatic and focused on miracles and other tangible evidences of God's working in people's lives.
It's also interesting the article says that word-faith types tend to believe in something resembling deification.
An increasing number of Word of Faith Ministers are propagating the teaching that believers are "little gods". Kenneth Hagin wrote that God "made us in the same class of being that he is himself," and that the believer is "called Christ" because "that's who we are, we're Christ!"[23] According to Hagin, by being "born again", the believer becomes "as much an incarnation as Jesus of Nazareth".[24] Kenneth Copeland says Adam was "not a little like God ... not almost like God ... not subordinate to God even",[25] and has told believers that "You don't have a God in you. You are one." Based primarily on the book of Psalms 82:6, which says "I have said, Ye are gods and all of you, children of the Most High"; this was also corroborated by Jesus making reference to this scripture in John 10:34. [26] A common theme in Word-Faith preaching is that God created man as "an exact duplication of God's kind." (Hebrews 1:3, John 14:12, etc) [27]