Andrew Wommack – False Teacher
Bethel Church is becoming his favourite playground for spewing his heresy…
“God has already placed His healing power within us, and it is now under our authority. It isn’t up to God to determine who receives healing; it’s up to us!”
“The Lord never told us to pray for the sick in the sense that we ask Him to heal them. He told us to heal the sick.”
Andrew Wommack, Faith For Healing Is Based On Knowledge.
Andrew Wommack believes in the “Word of Faith” theology that conceives of faith as a force conveyed by words that bring about reality. If you say, “I think I’m going to get a cold” you will actually create the cold (unless someone else counters your negative words by saying something positive). All of this takes place independently of God.
In his series titled “The Believer’s Authority”. Andrew Wommack tells the story of when his infant son kept waking up all through the night with symptoms of croup so severe that he could hardly breathe. This happened every half hour all night long. Finally his mother said, “Admit it Andy, he’s sick.” Andrew Wommack said,
“Man I got right down in her face and stuck my finger in her face and I said, ‘Satan in the name of Jesus I command you to shut up. … And for two days she never said a word. We were on vacation. It was an awesome vacation – you can imagine.”
The Believer’s Authority (https://awmsa.net/product/the-believer-039-s-authority-e-book-pdf)
Andrew Wommack teaches that God gave man all authority on earth, so God Himself had no authority. The reason Jesus had to come in human flesh was to gain that human authority. He teaches that God had limited His own authority by giving it to man such that God was unable to speak Jesus’ body into existence. And so God had to find men to do it on their authority. It took God 4000 years to find enough men with enough combined authority to create Jesus’ body. Apart from the help of men God was unable to create a body for Jesus.
Andrew Wommack utters this blasphemy:
“When (people) see that some sickness, disease, tragedy comes into their life, instead of taking their authority and rebuking the devil and commanding him to leave, instead they go to God … and they beg God, ‘Oh God please change this situation. Oh God please get the devil off my back.’ And it’s not within God’s power and authority. He gave us that power and authority.”
The Believer’s Authority (https://awmsa.net/product/the-believer-039-s-authority-e-book-pdf)
2 Timothy 4:3-4 “3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
Source: Robbie van Staden
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Mick. Paul of Tarsus said “a little leaven leavens the whole lump” and not I. He also wrote:
Of course there are a lot of incorrect teachings on trhe web. Don’t you know what Paul of Tarsdus said?
You seem to tolerate incorrect teachings.
I do not tolerate incorrect teachings, I weigh all things with the Bible. (It’s incredibly hard to have the entire Bible memorised in order to verify something so fast.) I have yet to find any preacher who never makes a mistake, who never says anything false. But I don’t write them off completely because of one or two statements they make: I ignore the things I discern to be false, and hold fast to the sound doctrine.
I am very well aware of Paul’s teaching that you quote, including that it is an extension of Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 16:12. I am also aware that Jesus even described the Kingdom of heaven as like yeast (Matt 13:33). I am also aware of John’s in 1 John 4:
I am trying to discern whether your teaching on this site is accurate. If I find one mistake, should I discard the entire site? Is misquoting a person, or taking them out of context, worthy of being called a “false teacher”, etc.?
Hi Mick.
As I said earlier, Andrew Wommack is a Word of Faith protagonist who believes your words have creative power – LIKE GOD. Is this part of the doctrine of Christ? – yes or no.
You are welcome to follow Andrew Wommack’s teaching but please don’t expose your wife and kids to his poison. You will have to give an account to God.
Dear Mike
The entire Word of Faith RELIGION is occult. Not just little erroneous doctrines here or there. You can not speak things into existence, like God – this OCCULT religion is based on the occult teachings of Law of Attraction. Word of Faith’s other names are Metaphysical teaching aka Christian Science or New Thought, or Latter Rain Movement.
Andrew Wommack does not teach that God has no authority, he teaches that God is sovereign but not in the way that he controls everything we do. Which he doesn’t, when God created us he gave us free will. And he also gave us dominion over the Earth as stated in Genesis 1:28.
And in response to your comments about what he says about healing is true. Mark 16:17-18 states “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Dear Mary
Of course Jesus Christ heals, if we pray to Him directly and if it is God’s Will for us to be healed we will be healed.
Do you believe? Are you truly saved? You quoted Mark 16:17-18 – did you notice it says “they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;”
Have you tried this lately? Please I ask that you pick up a deadly snake (please don’t remove its teeth or milk the teeth of its poison as some snake handling cultic ‘Christians’ do). If you don’t like snakes, you can always try drinking some cyanide, and if that doesn’t float your boat, you can always lick a poisonous dart frog.
Will you live? If you believe this verse as it says (without reading it in context of scripture) then you will live right?
Wrong.
Only the Apostles (chosen by Jesus Christ, and named by name in the bible) and those who had hands laid on by Christ’s chosen Apostles were given this power to heal, to cast out demons, to speak with new (earthly) languages to spread the word of God to other countries, to lay hands on the sick and they would be healed, and here’s the biggie….they could not die – they had a ministry to go out and preach the gospel to the nations and God made sure they survived by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit. When the Apostles mission ended, after they had completed the writing of the bible, the Apostolic gifts passed away. Please read: https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2019/08/13/apostles-and-super-apostles/
Now we go directly to Jesus Christ Himself for all our needs. We do not need a false apostle or prophet to tell us they can heal us.
There are no more apostles or prophets today. The bible is clear that God speaks to us through His Son who is the Word of God,
Hebrews 1:1-2 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Do you see what happens when you misinterpret scripture like you have? I recommend you stop listening to Andrew Wommack and his false teachings and start listening STUDYING the bible yourself with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Hi Mary. Have you cast out devils yet, do you speak in new tongues, have you taken up serpents, and have you drank deadly poison, yet, without being hurt?