Modern Day False Teachers
Here in Belize many people are deceived by false teachers. Are you?
Take a look at the lists below and make sure you’re not following the many false teachers/teachings flooding into Belize from the U.S.
“But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, . . . “(2 Peter 2:1)
Why is it that so few Christians appear concerned about the existence of False Prophets?. From the way many of us talk about the subject you might wonder whether we believe any teacher deserves to be so categorized. It is as if the only heresy left in our culture is to call someone a heretic. But why? Confrontation may be too uncomfortable for some. Calling someone a heretic may seem too judgmental. Many simply follow the crowd, rather than follow the Bible, unwilling and unequipped to challenge the faith they were raised in. Maybe it is too difficult to think this deeply … but Jesus said, “the way is easy that leads to destruction” but it is the difficult “narrow path that leads to life”. Christians must, therefore, arm themselves against false prophets .. and recognizing who they are requires knowledge. And knowledge requires a study of God’s word.
The Pathology of False Teachers
How to Identify False Teachers
What’s the Big Deal About False Teachers?
The Origin and Presence of False Teaching
How Should You Pray for False Teachers?
Jesus, the apostles Paul, Peter, and John all repeatedly warned such men would rise up among us, and lead many astray, even within the visible church. They warned that not only would there be many False Teachers, there would be many followers of them as well …people “to suit their own desires …will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” (2 Tim 4:3). Sadly, very few people do their homework when considering their own pastors, so the wolves have taken advantage of this fact to keep multitudes in their blinded condition. Obviously we should not easily call other people a heretic, but if they publicly teach doctrine long recognized by the church as false, then we ought to call it out.
Matthew 7:15-16 (NASB) Jesus: “BEWARE of FALSE PROPHETS, who come to you in SHEEP’S CLOTHING, but INWARDLY are RAVENOUS WOLVES. You will KNOW THEM by their FRUITS..”
Matthew 24:11 JESUS: “MANY FALSE PROPHETS will rise up and DECEIVE MANY.”
2 Timothy 3:13 (NASB) “But EVIL MEN and IMPOSTERS will proceed from BAD to WORSE, DECEIVING and BEING DECEIVED.”
Ephesians 4:14-15 (NASB) “We are no longer to be children, TOSSED here and there by WAVES and carried about by every WIND OF DOCTRINE, by the TRICKERY of men, by CRAFTINESS in DECEITFUL SCHEMING; but SPEAKING the TRUTH in LOVE, we are to GROW UP in ALL aspects into HIM who is the head, even CHRIST.“
Colossians 2:8 (NASB) “See to it that NO ONE takes you CAPTIVE through PHILOSOPHY and EMPTY (VAIN) DECEPTION, according to the TRADITION OF MEN, according to the ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES of the WORLD, rather than according to CHRIST.”
Here is a list of of the more obvious heretics/false teachers to be marked & avoided: (not exhaustive)
Angley, Ernest [Word of Faith]
Armstrong, Karen [Progressive]
Arnott, John [leader Toronto “Blessing”, Latter Rain]
Bakker, Jamie [Emergent Church]
Bakker, Jay [Emergent Church, neo-liberal]
Bakker, Jim [Prosperity Theology]
Bell, Rob [Progressive Christian, Emergent Church]
Bethel Church (Redding, CA)/Bethel Music
Borg, Marcus J. [Liberal Christian]
Burke, Spencer [Emergent Church]
Boyd, Gregory A. [Open Theist]
Camping, Harold [false prophet]
Campolo, Tony [Progressive Christian]
Chalke, Steve [rejects penal substitution and biblical Inerrancy; supports same sex unions]
Cho, Paul or David Yonggi [Word of Faith, pastor of largest church in the world]
Claiborne, Shane [Progressive Christian]
Clement, Kim [New Apostolic Reformation]
Copeland, Kenneth and Gloria [Word of Faith]
John Dominic Crossan [Liberal Theology]
Crouch, Paul Jr. [promotes Prosperity heresies via TBN]
Crouch, Paul Sr. [Properity Teacher, TBN founder]
Crowder, John [New Mystics, Sons of Thunder]
Deere, Jack [Latter Rain, Wimberite]
Dollar, Creflo [Prosperity Teacher]
Dowd, Michael [Progressive Christian]
Eddy, Mary Baker [“Christian” Science; mind sciences]
Evans, Rachel Held [Progressive “Christian”, Political Idolatry]
Flowers, Leighton [Provisionalism, Serious departure from historic Christianity on many issues]
Furtick, Steven [ narcissistic “gospel” devoid of much Biblical truth]
Hagee, John [False Prophet, Uber-Pentecostal, Ultra-Dispensationalist]
Hagin, Kenneth Jr./Sr. [Prosperity]
Hatmaker, Jen [works righteousness, progressive, affirms same-sex marriage]
Hick, John [Progressive Christian]
Hinn, Benny [Prosperity Teacher, Uber Charismatic]
Hollis, Rachel [self-help, self-care, self-love. prosperity]
Hillsong/Brian & Bobbie Houston
Hybels, Bill [Seeker Sensitive]
International House of Prayer (IHOP)
Jacobs, Cindy [Prosperity]
Jakes, TD [Oneness Pentecostalism]
John Pavlovitz [Progressive activist; withholds gospel from persons identifying as LGBTQ]
Johnson, Bill [New Apostolic Reformation, Kenosis, Word of Faith] – more..
Kimball, Dan [Emergent Church]
Lane Craig, William [Trinitarian Errors, Partialism, Neo-Apollinarianism, Histoical Adam, Molinism]
Long, Bishop Eddie [Prosperity Uber Charismatic]
McClure, Joel [Emergent Church]
Mclaren, Brian [Emergent Church]
McManus, Erwin [Mystic Contemplative Prayer Movement]
Merritt, Jonathan [Pelagian, Progressive Christian]
Merton, Thomas [Trappist monk and Catholic mystic]
Micah, Jory [denies inerrancy, Feminist, Christological heresy, ambiguous about ascended Jesus having physical body, Jesus is genderless]
Miller, Donald [Progressive Christian]
Meyer, Joyce [Prosperity Preacher]
Nouwen, Henry [Contemplative Mysticism, Emerging Church]
Osteen, Joel [cotton candy theology, bible compromiser, name it & claim it, soft moralism]
Pagitt, Doug [Emergent Church]
Peale, Norman Vincent [positive confession liberal]
Pearson, Carlton [Universalism]
Popes, all [idolaters, antichrists]
Price, Fred KC [Prosperity Preacher, Name it & claim it]
Prince, Joseph [Prosperity, Antinomianism]
Roberts, Oral [deceased, false prophet]
Robertson, Pat [divination, false prophet, TBN]
Rohr, Richard [Progressive Christian]
Roth, Sid [mystic, NAR]
Russell, Charles Taze [founder Jehovah’s Witnesses]
Rutherford, Judge [past president of Jehovah’s Witnesses]
Scandrette, Mark [Emergent Church]
Schuler, Robert [Peale clone, liberal theology]
Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism)
Jehovah Witnesses
Charles Taze Russell (founder Jehovah Witnesses)
Spong, John Shelby (1931–)
Stanley, Andy [Marcionite, carnal Christianity]
Sweet, Leonard [Emergent Church]
Tenney, Tommy [Oneness Pentecostalism, Charismatic]
Vines, Matthew [Liberal]
Wallis, Jim [Progressive Christian, Left-Wing Political idolatry]
Warren, Rick [Emergent Purpose Driven]
Webber, Nadia Bolz [Progressive Christianity]
Seventh Day Adventist
White, Ellen G. [founder False Prophet Seventh Day Adventist]
White, Paula [prosperity theology, NAR]
White, Todd [Read himself into bible, False prophet, False healing, prosperity Gospel]
White, Tom [Latter Rain; spiritual war network]
Wimber, John [deceased, Kansas City Prophets/Latter Rain]
Womack, Andrew [Prosperity]
Wright, Jeremiah [Liberation Theology, Bible denier]
Yoga / “Christian” Yoga / “Holy” Yoga
Young, William Paul [Progressive Christian]
“Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.” (2 John 9)
“Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.” (Colossians 2:8)
MORE STUDIES ON FALSE TEACHERS:
- SO4J-TV’s CONCERN
- LIST – LIST OF FALSE TEACHER & FALSE PROPHETS
- BIBLICAL DISCERNMENT VS THE TRUE GOSPEL
- QUOTES
- JUDGING OTHERS – SHOULD CHRISTIANS JUDGE?
- JUSTIN PETERS / EXPOSING WORD OF FAITH PROSPERITY GOSPEL VIDEO
- CHARISMATIC CHAOS – A BIBLICAL ANSWER TO THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL – JOHN MACARTHUR
- DOCTRINE: GOOD DOCTRINE VS BAD DOCTRINE – CROSS TV
- CRITICAL ISSUES COMMENTARIES – CIC ARTICLES
- WHY IS THE WORD OF FAITH PROSPERITY GOSPEL SO UNBIBLICAL?
- SCRIPTURE TWISTING – HOW THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL TWISTS SCRIPTURE – Q & A
- FALSE VISITS TO HEAVEN & HELL – VIDEOS, ARTICLES, AUDIOS
- WHAT IS A FALSE TEACHER? BY JOHN MACARTHUR
- BEWARE OF FALSE TEACHERS
- FALSE TEACHERS – SCRIPTURES
- WRONGLY LABELING TRUE BELIEVERS AS FALSE TEACHERS
- FALSE TEACHINGS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH – MANY ARTICLES
- CULTS – SUMMED UP INFO ON CULTS – ARTICLES & VIDEOS
- NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION – NAR
- CATHOLIC HERESY LIST – FALSE TEACHERS – CATHOLICISM
- EMERGENT CHURCH – WHAT IS THE EMERGENT CHURCH?
- EMERGENT CHURCH WARNING SIGNS
- EXPOSING WORD OF FAITH – PROSPERITY GOSPEL
- JUDGING OTHERS – SHOULD CHRISTIANS JUDGE FALSE TEACHERS?
- THEOPHOSTICS – FALSE TEACHING
- MORMONS BELIEFS EXPOSED | CULT
- JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES EXPOSED – CULT
- ISLAM VS CHRISTIANITY – COMPARISON CHARTS
- YOGA – FALSE TEACHING
ADDITIONAL FALSE TEACHERS
– JUSTIN ABRAHAM (New Age Mystic / (NAR / Occult)
– ENOCH ADEBOYE (Extra-Biblical, Mysticism, False Prophet, Faulty Biblical Exegesis)
– CHEE AHN (NAR / False Prophet / Signs & Wonders)
– A.A. ALLEN
– NEIL T. ANDERSON – Issue 21
– CAROL ARNOTT (NAR / False Prophets)
– JOHN ARNOTT (NAR / False Prophets)
– JOHN AVANZINI (WOF)
– DIONNY BAEZ (NAR / Bethel / False Prophet)
– HEIDI BAKER (NAR / Bethel / False Prophet)
– JIM BAKKER (NAR / False Prophet)
– GEORGIAN BANOV (NAR / False Prophet)
– WINNIE BANOV (NAR / False Prophet)
– ROB BELL (See Issues 104a & 104b Emergent Church / Heretic / Universalist / No Hell)
– PAUL BEGLEY (False Prophet / False Prophecies)
– TODD BENTLEY (NAR / LATTER RAIN)
– MIKE BICKLE – Issue: 107 (False Prophet / (NAR) / Gnosticism / Contemplative Prayer)
– REINHARD BONNKE – (WOF / Decision theology / Signs & Wonders)
– GREG BOYD – Issue: 83 (Open Theist, Mysticism)
– WILLIAM BRANHAM [1909-1966] – (NAR / denied the trinity / False Prophet)
– RODNEY HOWARD BROWNE (WOF / Holy Laughter / NAR )
– JUANITA BYNUM – (WOF / False Prophet)– JONATHAN CAHN – Issue: 129 (Mysticism / Extra-Biblical / False Prophet)
– PAUL CAIN (NAR / False Prophet / exposed as a homosexual & alcoholic)
– STACY CAMPBELL (False Prophet)
– WESLEY CAMPBELL (False Prophet)
– HAROLD CAMPING
– TONY CAMPOLO
– CHARLES CAPPS (WOF)
– BRIAN CARN (WOF / False Prophet)
– MORRIS CERULLO (WOF / NAR / False Prophet)
– MARK CHIRONNA ( (NAR / False Prophet)
– DAVID YONGGI CHO (WOF / Found Guilty of Tax Evasion & Sentenced to Jail & Fined 5 million / Pastor of the world largest church)
– DEEPAK CHOPRA
– RANDY CLARK (NAR)
– IAN CLAYTON (New Age Mystic / Occult Practices / Son of Thunder NAR)
– KIM CLEMENT [1956-2016] (NAR / False Prophet / WOF)
– GERALD COATES
– GRAHAM COOKE
TODD COONTZ – (WOF)
– KENNETH & GLORIA COPELAND (WOF / False Prophet)
– PAUL CROUCH [1934-2014] & JAN CROUCH [1938-2016] – (WOF)
– JOHN CROWDER – (NAR / Latter Rain)
– PAUL CUNNINGHAM
– CREFLO & TAFFY DOLLAR (WOF)
– JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE (WOF / False Prophet / False “Apostle”
– CLARE du BOIS (Extra-Biblical, Mysticism, False Prophet, Faulty Biblical Exegesis)
– EZEKIEL du BOIS (Extra-Biblical, Mysticism, False Prophet, Faulty Biblical Exegesis)
– JESSE DUPLANTIS (WOF / False Visits To Heaven)
– JOHN ECKARDT (NAR / False Prophet)
– GENE EDWARDS
– LOU ENGLE – (NAR / False Prophet)
– CHARLES FINNEY
– RICHARD FOSTER – Issue: 112 (Mysticism)
– POPE FRANCIS (Unbiblical Catholicism)
– Francis Frangipane (NAR / False Prophet) – STEVEN FURTICK (WOF / Pragmatism)
– W.V. GRANT– JOHN HAGEE (WOF / Salvation for the JEWS w/out conversion to Christianity)
– TED HAGGARD (NAR)
– KENNETH HAGIN [1917-2003] (WOF / NAR / False Visits to Heaven & Hell)
– JEN HATMAKER
– CHRISTIAN HARFOUCHE
– BILL HAMON (NAR / False Prophet / Signs & Wonders)
– JACK HAYFORD
– RUTH HEFLIN
– MARILYN HICKEY – Issue: 40 (WOF)
– STEVE HILL (NAR)
– HILLSONG (Embraces WOF & sadly promotes False Teachers such as: Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes, etc.)
– JOHN HINKLE
– BENNY HINN (WOF)
– DAVID HOGAN
– BRIAN HOUSTON (Embraces WOF & sadly promotes False Teachers such as: Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes, etc.)
– LARRY HUCH (WOF)
– BILL HYBELS
– CINDY JACOBS (NAR)
– MIKE JACOBS (NAR)
– T.D. JAKES (WOF / Modalism: Denies the Trinity / Cult: Oneness Pentecostal i.e. “Jesus Only”)
– LEROY JENKINS (WOF / Exposed as a Convicted Felon for Arson – Sentence to: 12 years / Drugs & Alcohol problems)
– JESUS CULTURE MOVEMENT FROM BETHEL CHURCH (NAR)
– BILL JOHNSON – Bethel Church (NAR / Latter Rain)
– IAN JOHNSON (NAR / False Signs & Wonders)
– BOB JONES [1930-2014] (NAR / False Prophet)
– TONY JONES
– MANASSEH JORDAN
– T.B. JOSHUA
– RICK JOYNER – Issue 71 / (NAR / False Visits To Heaven & Hell)
– JOHN P. KELLY (NAR / False Prophet)
– MORTON KELSEY – Issue: 83 & Issue: 112 (Mysticism)
– E.W. KENYON
– JOHN KILPATRICK (NAR / False Prophet)
– DAN KIMBALL
– PATRICIA KING (False Prophet / Mysticism / Occult Teachings / NAR / Latter Rain)
– KATHRYN KUHLMAN – [1907-1976] – (WOF)
– BOB LARSON
– ROBERTS LIARDON (Exposed as a Homosexual, WOF, False Visits to Heaven)– EDDIE LONG – [1953-2017] – (WOF)
– LORD MAITREYA
– GUILLERMO MALDONADO (False Signs & Wonders / NAR / Latter Rain )
– BRENNAN MANNING
– MARJOE (MARJOE GORTNER) – Former Child False-Teacher
– BRIAN MCCLAREN – (Emergent Church)
– CLARENCE MCCLENDON (WOF / NAR / False Prophet)
– AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON [1890-1944] (Founder of the False Teaching: Foursquare Gospel Church)
– JOYCE MEYER (WOF)
– JOSHUA MILLS (NAR)
– BETH MOORE – Issue 110A & Issue 110B (Contemplative Prayer, Extra-Biblical, Faulty Biblical Exegesis)
– DAYNA MULDOON (WOF, False Prophecies & False Visions)
– MYLES MUNROE [1954-2014] – (WOF)
– STEVE MUNSEY (WOF)
– MIKE MURDOCK (WOF)
– ARNOLD MURRAY – SHEPHERDS CHAPEL (False Prophet, Believers in: Annihilation & Denies Eternal Hell)
– JOEL OSTEEN (WOF)
– DOUG PAGITT – (Issue: 99) / (Emergent Church)
– ROD PARSLEY (WOF)
– EARL PAULK
– LUIS PALAU – (Problematic.. he has leanings towards Catholicism)
-JOHN PAVOLITZ (Heretical & doesn’t believe God’s Word)
– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
– CARLTON PEARSON (Promotes: Universalism aka the “Gospel of Inclusion”)
– KACOU PHILIPPE (False Prophet who says hes the way of eternal life)
– CHUCK PIERCE (NAR / False Prophet)
– PETER POPOFF (WOF)
– FRED PRICE (WOF)
– JOSEPH PRINCE (WOF / Hyper-Grace Movement)
– PHINEAS QUIMBY
– DENNIS ROJAS (NAR / False Prophet)
– ORAL ROBERTS – (WOF / False Prophet)
– RICHARD ROBERTS – (WOF / False Prophet)
– PAT ROBERTSON (False Prophecies)
– JAMES ROBISON (WOF)
– SID ROTH – (NAR / Latter Rain / False Visits To Heaven & Hell)
– ROBERT SCHULLER [1926-2015] – (Issue: 18 – Self-Esteem, Positive Thinking, etc)
– R.W. SHAMBACH (WOF – Word of Faith)
– DUTCH SHEETS (NAR / False Prophet / Self-proclaimed Apostle)
– PRISCILLA SHIRER
-ANDY STANLEY
– RUTH CARTER STAPLETON – Issue: 83 – President Jimmy Carter’s Sister / Mysticism)
– RUTH CARTER STAPLETON – Issue: 83 – President Jimmy Carter’s Sister / Mysticism)
– DON STEWART
– BISHOP TALBERT W. SWAN II (He is from the same mold as: Jeremiah Wright & Al Sharpton who are known as a race-baiters & charlatans– he is also loosely a Liberation theology guy).
– LEONARD SWEET
– TOMMY TENNEY (NAR)
– BISHOP WALTER SCOTT THOMAS (WOF – Associations with Word of Faith False Teacher: T.D. Jakes)
– CHOO THOMAS [1939-2013] (NAR / False Visits To Heaven & Hell)
– LEROY THOMPSON (WOF)
– ROBERT TILTON (WOF)
– ECKART TOLLE – Issue: 114
– KRIS VALLOTTON – (NAR)– ANN VOSKAMP [Romantic Pantheism / Issue: 120]
– C.PETER WAGNER [1930-2016] (Founder of: NAR / False Prophet / Self-Proclaimed Apostle)
– LANCE WALLNAU (NAR)
– KATHIE WALTERS (NAR / Angel Visitations & tickled by Angels, Chariot Rides, Golden Motorcycle Rides w/Jesus in the sky, Occult practices & Astral Travel)
– RICK WARREN (Seeker-Sensitive / Finds Common Ground w/ Unbiblical Religions)
– RONALD WEINLAND (False Prophet, False “end of the world” predictions for 5/2012; He says he & his wife are two witnesses from Rev. 11)
– JASON WESTERFIELD (False Prophet / NAR / New Age Mystic & Occult Practices / Astral Travel & Angel Visits)
– ELLEN G. WHITE [1827-1915] (Founder of the False Teaching & Cult of Seventh Day Adventist / She had approximately 2,000 visions & dreams / Sabbath Keeper.)
– PAULA WHITE (WOF)
– TODD WHITE (NAR / False Prophets / Bethel Church / False Signs & Wonders)
– BRUCE WILKINSON – Issue 72
– DALLAS WILLARD – [1935-2013] (Mysticism)
– JOHN WIMBER (NAR) – False Prophet)
– OPRAH WINFREY / Issue 114 (New Age)– ANDREW WOMMACK (WOF) – ED YOUNG JR. (WOF / Pragmatism)
– SHEILA WALSH (WOF)
– JEREMIAH WRIGHT (Liberation Theology – Also known as a race-baiter like Al Sharpton… as well as being known as being President Barack Obama’s Pastor.)
– WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG (Author of “The Shack” / He promotes Universalism)
– SARAH YOUNG – “JESUS CALLING” BOOK – Issue: 125 – Mysticism, Extra-Biblical)
– ZIG ZIGLAR – [1926-2012] – (Positive Confessions, Self-Esteem, etc)