What is the Word of Faith teaching on "little gods"
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Rather than assuming Wikipedia is accurate, I thought I'd as for a better sourced answer to the question. Wikipedia's article on the Word of Faith movement lists various controversies regarding Word of Faith teachings. Among them is the "Little gods controversy"
> Many Word of Faith teachers have sought to emphasize the full meaning
> of the believer's status as a child of God (through Christ) by using
> phrases such as "little gods" to describe them, a practice that has
> garnered some criticism from some other segments of the Christian
> community.
And later on...
> Suffer the Children, a documentary highlighting some of the teachings
> of the Word of Faith movement, has a video clip of Creflo Dollar
> teaching the "little gods" doctrine to his congregation based on the
> notion that "everything reproduces after its own kind":
>
> - Dollar: "If horses get together, they produce what?"
> - Congregation: "Horses!"
> - Dollar: "If dogs get together, they produce what?"
> - Congregation: "Dogs!"
> - Dollar: "If cats get together, they produce what?"
> - Congregation: "Cats!"
> - Dollar: "So if the Godhead says 'Let us make man in our image', and everything produces after its own kind, then they produce what?"
> - Congregation: "gods!"
> - Dollar: "gods. Little "g" gods. You're not human. Only human part of you is this flesh you're wearing."
So what is the teaching? Do they teach that people are truly divine? (Compared to, for example, the mainstream or the LDS definition of divinity )
I want to be very clear that I'm not interested in hearing criticisms and comparisons from the other segments of the Christian community. I'm not interested in whether the "little gods" teaching is true. I'm operating under the assumption that what the Word of faith movement teaching is simply misunderstood by the other segments of Christianity. I'm just wondering what the actual teaching ***is***, not whether it's true or heretical.
That said, it is perfectly reasonable for someone to explain why the Word of Faith adherents believe this to be true. (In other words, inclusion of apologetic reasoning explaining the merit behind the teaching is allowed.)
Asked by David Stratton
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Jun 21, 2013, 02:47 AM
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