Here we are back for the third week of this blog entitled "Who Can We Trust? Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth!" We've been discussing who we can and can't trust in mainstream evangelism today. Today is on the negative and we'll be focusing on Jesse Duplantis. In case you missed the first two weeks worth of entries and this week's positive on R.C. Sproul, I do suggest that you go back and read them as well when you're finished here.
This is the third entry concerning untrustworthy evangelicals and todays, last week's, and a few more untrustworthy entries will consists of contemporary prosperity and word-of-faith preachers who were greatly influenced by the two main architects of this movements theology, Kenneth Hagin Sr.(Daddy Hagin) and Oral Roberts and one such person is Jesse Duplantis.
We can all agree that we live in a generation and culture(if you're in America) of easy believism where people have the ability to get their message out to millions with just the click of a mouse. With that said, there is a slew of theological information at our fingertips. One quick google search and you can get commentary and scripture interpretation from Billy Graham to Benny Hinn and everything in between. With so many choices and the deceitfulness of our own hearts we're apt to listen to whomever we "like" or whomever our friends listen to or whatever makes us feel good. In light of this reality let us be diligent in determining who we let speak into our life! Every heretic speaks some truth sometimes or no one would listen. My goal over the next few months is to do two blogs a week, both critiquing prominent evangelicals in our day, one on someone who is trustworthy, someone who rightly divides the Word, someone who doesn't twist the scriptures, and the other on someone who is untrustworthy, possibly deceived, and even possibly an apostate, who for filthy lucre, distorts the Gospel. Let me say up front that there may be some of these critiques that you absolutely agree with and some you may vehemently reject and at times you may think that I'm being judgmental, harsh, or you may even think I'm crazy but I challenge you to research the Word and the person and then decide. I will praise some of these men and I will reject others, it's not personal but as a Pastor with a Pastor's heart I feel compelled to protect the flock from wolves and to lead the flock to spiritual food that will equip them for this life and the next, that is the sole intent behind these blog entries! Lets get started!
Jesse Duplantis is a WoF(word of faith) prosperity gospel evangelist whom you've probably caught a glimpse of as you channel surf past TBN on the television. He's best known for his comedic style and extravagant lifestyle and is a close friend with last week's untrustworthy Evangelical, Kenneth Copeland. His heresy isn't just spread through his preaching but it's also in print in books such as "Close Encounters of the God Kind."
Let's get to the point, let's list known heresies credited to Jesse Duplantis.......
- Duplantis uses Genesis 2:7 the same way Copeland does and proclaims that we are "little god's" with the power to "speak" things into existence.
- He claims this power is evident in Genesis as he infers that when God brought the animals to Adam to be named that they were dead and Adam was the one who "breathed" life into them, thus giving Adam diety status.
- Another aspect of Duplantis' heresy concerning this is the statement he's made concerning God's omniscience (knowing all). He claims that God didn't know what he had created and that Adam had to explain it to him. His basis? The fact that he's known smart, creative people who created things by accident! Wow! Comparing the all knowing, all powerful God with fallen man, that always results in good theology! I hope you can hear my sarcasm!
- Claims to have been carried by a chariot to heaven where he talked with Jesus, Abraham, and David. He even said that David told him he regretted writing some of the Psalms! That's believing in the "God Breathed," infallible, perfect Word of God right?
- To top off the trip to heaven experience, Duplantis said that he sensed Jesus was sad so he asked him what was wrong and Jesus' reply was "I need you boy." Yes, you read that correctly.
- The last one, though heretical, is down right rediculous. Duplantis claims that giraffes were made with left over parts from other animals! That's why they look so strange. Trust me, I'm not making this up! Yet he's failed to do his research on the majestic animal as science has proven how precise they are constructed and that it's a natural wonder that they don't pass out from an overflow of blood to the brain when they bend over. Their 25 pound heart is made strong to pump blood to their brain and their jugular veins have one way valves blocking flow when they lower their heads! That's God's perfect work in action, not just left over parts!
I pray this has been helpful and enlightening. God bless. See
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