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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries Sunday, May 28, 2006 www.orm.cc WHAT IS FAITH? Oral Roberts Oral Roberts Ministries www.orm.cc "Many people are confused about exactly what faith is. We talk about it, hear it preached in our churches, and read about it in the Bible. God says in Habakkuk 2:4, The just shall live by his faith. But what is faith, really? That's a question I asked God when I was trying to find His direction for my life. And this is what He said to me: 'Faith is a knowing. It's when the Holy Spirit supernaturally empties your heart of doubt and fills you with a knowing so that you know that you know that you know. and in that moment of knowing, you can't doubt.' I suddenly realized something about the Holy Spirit that I didn't know before. He has the power to supernaturally empty my heart of doubt and fill it with a knowing and a confidence that comes from God. That was a profound thought for me because I was plagued with many doubts. As I listened to God, He gave me the Scripture in Romans 4:17 which tells us to have the faith of God, who called those things that be not as though they already were! All of a sudden I got it. That was an illustration of faith and how it works. That revelation helped establish me in my Christian faith as a young preacher. I believe that once we understand this idea, we can go beyond theory to action, and we can act with certainty concerning whatever we're believing God for. This is when miracles happen!" ON DOCTRINE NOTE: Once again, if a person does not read verses that Oral Roberts "quotes" then they will not know that he not only misquotes the Scripture, he states what verses do not say. What does Romans 4:17 actually say, that Oral Roberts uses as the foundation for his claims? "(as it is written, 'I have made you a father of many nations') in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;"Oral Roberts is very subtle regarding what he claims the Scripture says. Romans 4:17 says nothing about how believers are "to have the faith of God," and, in fact, makes no mention or even an implication that God has faith, needs faith or uses faith Himself in any manner. Oral Roberts adds his theology to the verse that does not state what he claims, and in the process writes his own Scripture, the Oral Roberts Version (ORV), in which he inserts his ideas in place of what the Holy Spirit authored. Oral Roberts has made the same claim in another article: "Scripture says that God called those things that were not as though they were. In some mysterious way that's described as believing by faith. God saw something that was not. It existed in His faith and was as real to Him as if it were already there."It certainly is a very mysterious way to describe believing by faith, because the Scripture makes no such statement, and, of course, Mark 11:22 says nothing about God having faith or that uncreated entities exist in the faith of God prior to their actualization. What Oral Roberts is presenting is the standard Word of Faith teaching about faith, which is defined as an entity of force unto itself that is so powerful that God had to use it to create heaven, the universe, earth and human beings. God is impotent and unable to bring into being those things that He imagines without the use of faith. Kenneth Copeland, former Oral Roberts University student and associate in ministry with Oral Roberts, states the case: "You have the same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when he created the heavens and the earth." Kenneth Copeland, 'Inner Image of the Covenant,' side 2.That teaching makes God subservient to faith and reduces His omnipotence to dependance and elevates faith as a powerful force that is greater and more powerful than God. Both Oral Roberts and Kenneth Copeland teach about a god who is much different than the One revealed in the Scripture. SEE: The article, ORAL ROBERTS, on the On Doctrine website. The article, Kenneth Copeland - What Did He Say?, on the On Doctrine website. |
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