Question: In your March newsletter you blasted Kenneth Copeland, John Wimber and the Vineyard ...

Question: In your March newsletter you blasted Kenneth Copeland, John Wimber and the Vineyard churches, the Toronto blessing, the Pensacola revival, Benny Hinn, and the current prayer and fasting movement for revival in our land. This list followed, without any noticeable differentiation, a chronicle of Sun Myung Moon, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Mormonism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The logical conclusion of most would be that you see them all in the same light...false religions and cults led by false prophets. Would you please confirm, deny, or explain this since many Christians would have a problem putting Pensacola and Mormonism in the same category. Please print the question in its entirety. Thank you.

Response: First of all, I take exception to your statement that I “blasted” Kenneth Copeland, et al. I simply quoted a few of their many false prophecies. I cannot understand why I am accused of “blasting” or “attacking” for quoting Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuller, Charles Colson, Bill Bright, or Hagin, Copeland, and Hinn. If you don’t like my quotations, please take that up with those I quoted. Is it wrong to quote what someone said and which they still affirm? Should they and their followers not be glad that I have given wider distribution to their ideas?

In the article you cite, I quoted the warnings of Jesus concerning false prophets and gave a number of examples of false prophets from Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, etc. I followed those with examples of false prophecies by the men you name. The prophecies of Copeland, Hinn, Wimber and the Vineyard “prophets” and of the Toronto and Pensacola “revivals” to which I referred are every bit as false as any other false prophecies I cited. False is false. Moreover, the false prophets who are looked up to among evangelicals are even more dangerous because they are heeded by multitudes who would not follow the false prophets within groups readily recognized as cults.

Are you defending the false prophecies of Copeland and Hinn which I cited? And these are just a small sampling! Do you really intend to defend false prophets? I hope not.

Did I put them in the same category as Mormons, JWs, et al.? Only as false prophets. Their heresies are a separate issue.