Invalidating The Cross Series

Invalidating the Cross

This section is divided into two parts. The first part addresses false doctrines and the

second part examines scripture and biblical doctrines.

Part 1.

It is a serious offence to demote Christ or to reject Him as He has revealed Himself in

scripture. Let’s begin by looking at Psalm 2:

11 Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is

kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

In spite of this warning, false teachers proudly demote Jesus Christ. This in itself is bad

enough, but as we will see, they take it a step farther. They belittle and invalidate the

cross as they deny that it is our way of redemption. The Bible has this to say about the

cross in 1 Corinthians 1:

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to

us who are being saved it is the power of God.

The Bible also says that the cross reveals the power of God. In spite of this, Word-Faith

teachers declare the cross itself is useless in our salvation. Here are some examples:

"It wasn’t physical death that paid our penalty on the cross - it had to be more than

that. If it was physical death, any man or prophet who died over the last 4,000

years could have done it."

The thing that redeemed us was not Jesus being nailed to the cross. His spirit and

soul went into Hades. He walked into the door of Hades... And they wrapped

their grimy hands and the chains of hell itself around Jesus and they confined

Jesus into one of the cells in the Hades section of the underworld...Jesus sat their

immobile not doing anything except serving our sentence". - Fredrick Price

Kenneth Copeland declared that the Spirit of God revealed to him that Jesus was "an

emaciated little wormy spirit" who suffered in the bottom of Hell. He then goes on to

explain that any man could have redeemed mankind if they had the knowledge Jesus had.

Spirit of God spoke to me. A twice born man whipped satan in his own domain. A

born again man defeated satan. You are the very image and a copy of that one.

You can’t mean that I could have done the same thing? Oh yes. If you had the

knowledge of the word of God that he did, you could have done the same thing

because you are also a born again man - Kenneth Copeland

Joyce Myers declared that unless you believe that Jesus suffered in Hell, you cannot be

saved.

"There is no choice of anyone going to heaven unless they believe this truth I am

presenting. You cannot go to heaven unless you believe with all your heart that

Jesus took your place in hell."

"For three days He was alone paying for our sins as "only a man."

Kenneth Hagan explains that Jesus had to taste spiritual death for every man and had to

be reborn in Hell:

"Why did He [Jesus] need to be begotten or born again? Because He became like

we were - separated from God. Because he tasted spiritual death for every man

and because his spirit and inner man went to hell in my place. Physical death

wouldn’t remove your sins. He’s talking about spiritual death. Jesus was the first

born again man. Why did his spirit need to be born again, because it was

estranged from God." - Kenneth Hagan

This Word-Faith doctrine does not come from the Bible, but comes directly from pagan

religions. Reverend Sun Myung Moon who founded the pagan cult known as the

Unification church and its followers were once called the Moonies taught exactly what

Word-Faith teachers are now teaching. Moon declares himself to be the Messiah. For

those who are unfamiliar with the Moonies, some of Rev. Moon’s quotes should clarify

his pagan position:

"The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world."

"So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against

the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and

die. Many people will die -- those who go against our movement."

"The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the

Lord of the Second Advent." (Which, by the way, is the title Rev. Moon claims

for himself).

(Here is a supposed divine revelation given to Moon from Christ)

"Bring in the flocks. Bring in the sheep and bring them to the throne of your True

Parents. Bring them to the throne of our True Parents, the mighty throne of