The Christian Arsenal

False Prophets & Teachings

Click here to see a Definition of a False Prophet. -  What is a False Prophet?) 

1. ✦The Circuit Rider vs. The Televangelist - In my continued research on the "old wells of revival" I have discovered  some incredibly contrasting bits of information.
   

Neil T. Anderson

1. ✦Freedom In Christ Ministries: A General Critique - Through his influential ministry, Freedom in Christ, Neil T. Anderson brings his so-called captive-freeing message on sanctification and spiritual warfare to Christians worldwide. Although some of his teachings are helpful, many others would be more aptly described as bondage making than as bondage breaking. These are some of the troubling teachings that will be documented in this series.
   

1. ✦Demon Possession and the New Clinical Deliverance - His whole approach is built upon a faulty foundation.
   

1. ✦Demon's, Demon's Where are the Demons? - The unchanged and unchanging Neil Anderson.
   

1. ✦Examining the Message and Method of Neil T. Anderson - Part One: Sanctification and the Believer’s Identity in Christ
   

1. ✦Examining the Message and Method of Neil T. Anderson - Part Two: Spiritual Warfare And The “Truth Encounter"
   

1. ✦Examining the Message and Method of Neil T. Anderson - Part Three: Spiritual Warfare And The Seven "Steps to Freedom”
   

1. ✦Examining the Message and Method of Neil T. Anderson - Part Four: Spiritual Warfare And The Myth Of Satanic Conspiracies and Ritual Abuse
   

1. ✦Spiritual Warfare: Designer Weapons for Contemporary Christians - A new awareness of satanic influence in daily life has spurred Christians to learn how to combat the unseen evil influences that seem to sabotage our growth in Christ.
   

1. ✦What's the Truth about Neil T. Anderson? - Helpful Hypothesis or Heresy
   

Benny Hinn

1. ✦Apologetics Index - Benny Hinn - Truth or Consequences - Part 1
   

1. ✦Benny Hinn's Anointed Graveyard - Can the dead bodies of charismatic leaders still emit the anointing presence of the Holy Spirit long after their corpses have decayed?
   

1. ✦Benny Hinn - False Prophet - This is an update on the Jesus Christ Slated To Star With Benny Hinn ... IN PERSON! story we sent out a month ago. 
   

1. ✦Deception in the Church - Articles on the false teacher Benny Hinn. 
   

1. ✦Faith Healing or Mesmerism - This page proves that Benny Hinn and other faith healers use mesmerism.
   

1. ✦Fake Healer - Truths about Benny Hinn
   

1. ✦Let Us Reason - Benny Hinns Romance with Necromancy.
   

1. ✦The Misadventures of Mrs. Benny Hinn - "Televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife, Suzanne Hinn reportedly arrested December 4, 1998 for shoplifting in a department store in South Africa.
   

1. ✦Personal Freedom Outreach - Is Benny Hinn’s “Fire” Anointing Really Just The Emperor’s New Clothes?
   

1. ✦Televangelist moves into Necromancy - Faith Healer Claims Contact with the Dead, Foretells New Direction for His Ministry.
   

1. ✦Is Benny Hinn Lying Again - Hinn claimed divine intervention for his ministry over the Miami Panthers, the southern Florida city’s National Hockey League team.
   

1. ✦Prophecy or Presumption - Time is running out on the spurious oracles of Benny Hinn.
   

Bob Larson

1. ✦Apologetics Index - Database, dictionary and glossary of apologetics resources on cults, sects, new religious movements, anticult and countercult organizations.
   

2. ✦Can Christians be Possessed? - An explanation why Christians can not be demonically possessed.
   

Gwen Shamblin

1. ✦Gwen Shamblin's Belief About the Trinity - Truth! How important is it? I mean, does it hold any kind of eternal consequences for us? If I am sincere about what I believe concerning Jesus, no matter how that is formulated, will it make a difference as an eternal consequence?
   

1. ✦Remnant Fellowship; Weigh Down Workshop - Shamblin is the founder of Remnant Fellowship, a church that - due to its rejection of a key doctrine of the Christian faith - must be considered to be, theologically, a cult of Christianity.
   

1. ✦Weigh Down Diet: No Way to Health - Karen Railey, a dietitian,  takes a close look at the Weigh Down program and finds it wanting.
   

David J. Smith

1. ✦A Church Reborn - During the past 10 years, the Holy Spirit has blessed the Worldwide Church of God with unprecedented growth in doctrinal understanding and in sensitivity to the world around us, especially other Christians. Yet the scope and speed of changes since the death of our founder, Herbert W. Armstrong, has confounded both supporters and detractors.
   

1. ✦David J. Smith - This is an overview of Smith’s teaching, practices, claims and an analysis of them.
   

1. ✦Identity: A Christian Religion for White Racists - “Christian Identity" is the name of a religious movement uniting many of the white supremacist groups in the United States. Identity's teachers promote racism and sometimes violence. Their roots are deeply embedded in movements such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis.
   

1. ✦The OOP's Files - The following teachers or groups publicly declared specific dates or time frames within which certain prophetic events were to occur. Each continued their ministry with barely an interruption after the original predictions had failed. This shows a definite lack of discernment and Biblical knowledge on the part of the membership and followers.
   

1. ✦Religious Lingo Lexicon - The following lexicon is a collection of terms which may be unfamiliar to many who do not have exposure to much contemporary religious debate. The definitions provided are brief and relatively value-neutral—more information may be provided by links to articles on specific movements, groups teachers or ideas.
   

1. ✦Teachers With an Appeal for Former Followers of Herbert W. Armstrong - After the death in 1986 of Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), the top leadership of that organization embarked on a program of change. By 1995, they had drastically altered or eliminated completely many of the doctrines upon which Armstrong had built the denomination.
   

Jesus Seminar

1. ✦Jesus Seminar Forum - The Jesus Seminar Forum is an introduction to the research of the Jesus Seminar of  the Westar Institute & a bridge to Jesus scholarship on line.
   

1. ✦The Truth About the Jesus Seminar - Sometimes the best defense is knowing the right questions to ask. Here are the ones you need when the Jesus Seminar hits.
   

1. ✦What about the Jesus Seminar? - Links and resources presenting answers to the Jesus Seminar propaganda in attack of historical Christianity.
   

Kwanzaa

1. ✦Another Viewpoint - Kwanzaa began in southern California in 1966, the creation of Ron McKinley Everett (aka Dr. Maulana Karenga). Originally intended to be a black nationalist substitute for Christmas, today Kwanzaa is promoted as being a cultural celebration for people of African descent (though it is still observed to a large degree by black people who are not Christians and who choose not to celebrate Christmas).
   

1. ✦Syncretistics Services? Kwanzaa and the Church - Chuck Colson's powerful article about Kwanzaa and the Church. Article courtesy of Lifeline News.
   

1. ✦The Truth About Kwanzaa - Discover some surprising facts about the afrocentric celebration of Kwanzaa.
   

1. ✦Tis The Season to be Pagan - America -- the greatest country in the world -- was founded on the concept of religious freedom. In America, you can be a Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, or pagan without fear of persecution. While government cannot endorse one religion over the other, individuals can. As with most of my columns, I reach out to black readers. This week, I reach out specifically to black Christians.
   

New Age

1. ✦Gospel in the Stars - The gospel of Jesus Christ found in the horoscope and stars. Is it true or is it a fantasy a fable being perpetrated on unsuspecting people.
   

1. ✦The Roots of the New Age Movement - New Age philosophy is based on ancient traditions, alchemy, gnosticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry. Its roots are explored in Eastern and Western traditions.
   

1. ✦Touched by an Angel - Looking at The TV series touched by an angel.
   

The Vineyard Movement

1. ✦The Counterfeit Revival (Part One) - Christianity is undergoing a paradigm shift of major proportions — a shift from faith to feelings; from fact to fantasy; and from reason to esoteric revelation.
   

2. ✦The Counterfeit Revival (Part Two) - Visionary Hoaxes and Revisionary History
   

3. ✦The Counterfeit Revival (Part Three) - Separating Fact From Fabrication on the Pensacola Outpouring
   

4. ✦Holy Laughter - There are few within the evangelical Christian churches today have not heard of the phenomenon known as "holy laughter." It has been increasingly manifesting in charismatic churches in the United States, Canada and Great Britain for over two years, and its reach into new churches continues at a rapid pace.
   

5. ✦Vineyard and Promise Keepers - Part of the PK problem is the failure to recognize the folly of "Law-Keeping". The power of the gospel has been replaced by 7 promises of the flesh ("new law" so to speak). Christians tend to view anything outwardly "moral" as somehow being "good" and/or "Christian". The Law is "good" and "holy" yet wholly inadequate for man. PK has introduced a new "Evangelical Law" for Christian men.
   

6. ✦Vineyard Christian Fellowship - Vineyard Christian Fellowship refers to a group of " Third wave" charismatic churches, reported to be more than 250+ in number, under the dominant influence of the late John Wimber.
   

Other False Teachings

1. ✦Sophia Worship - One of the more shocking developments at the 1993 Re-imagining conference was the prayer and supplication to "Our Maker Sophia."