Teachings Tested by Scripture
Quotes from modern preachers examined with verse-by-verse biblical analysis. False teachings exposed. Faithful teachings affirmed. Every quote tested against the unchanging Word of God.
False Teachings Exposed
Kenneth Copeland
False TeacherWord of Faith heretic and prosperity charlatan
4 quotes analyzed →
Joel Osteen
False TeacherProsperity gospel leader at Lakewood Church
2 quotes analyzed →
Joyce Meyer
False TeacherWord of Faith teacher and prosperity advocate
3 quotes analyzed →
TD Jakes
False TeacherProsperity preacher and Oneness Pentecostal
2 quotes analyzed →
Brian Houston
False TeacherHillsong founder and prosperity advocate
2 quotes analyzed →
Creflo Dollar
False TeacherWord of Faith heretic and 'little gods' prosperity preacher
2 quotes analyzed →
John Avanzini
False TeacherProsperity preacher who claims Jesus was wealthy and wore designer clothes
2 quotes analyzed →
Jesse Duplantis
False TeacherProsperity showman who requested $54 million for a private jet
3 quotes analyzed →
Kenneth Hagin
False TeacherFather of the Word of Faith movement and JDS heresy
2 quotes analyzed →
Myles Munroe
False TeacherDominion theology teacher who denied the centrality of the cross
2 quotes analyzed →
Todd White
False TeacherSinless perfectionism preacher who denies the need for daily repentance
2 quotes analyzed →
Kathryn Krick
False TeacherSelf-proclaimed apostle who teaches Christians are filled with demons
2 quotes analyzed →
Wagner Ribeiro
False TeacherSelf-proclaimed apostle selling 'secrets to the supernatural' while throwing jackets on TikTok instead of preaching the Cross
5 quotes analyzed →
Greg Locke
False TeacherAngry book-burning pastor who attributes autism and mental illness to demons
1 quote analyzed →
Isaiah Saldivar
False TeacherArchitect of the YouTube 'Demon Slayer' movement who normalizes demon-hunting
1 quote analyzed →
Alexander Pagani
False TeacherThe 'theologian' of the deliverance movement who intellectualizes the demonization heresy
1 quote analyzed →
Daniel Adams
False TeacherMass deliverance preacher who creates environments of hysteria and chaos
1 quote analyzed →
Michael Todd
False TeacherShowman megachurch pastor who said Jesus didn't reach His potential
2 quotes analyzed →
Keith Butler
False TeacherWord of Faith pastor who paid cash for a $1.3 million home while preaching to the poor
1 quote analyzed →
Faithful Teachings Affirmed
Leonard Ravenhill
FaithfulProphet of revival and prayer (1907-1994)
2 quotes analyzed →
David Wilkerson
FaithfulStreet preacher and prophet of repentance (1931-2011)
2 quotes analyzed →
Paul Washer
FaithfulBold preacher of repentance and holiness
2 quotes analyzed →
John MacArthur
FaithfulExpositor and defender of biblical inerrancy
3 quotes analyzed →
RC Sproul
FaithfulReformed theologian and apologist (1939-2017)
2 quotes analyzed →
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All Quotes
"You don't have a god in you. You are one."
"God is a being that stands somewhere around 6'2", 6'3", that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, [and] has a hand span nine inches across."
"He needs you well, he needs you strong and he needs you rich."
"99.9% of all people are good people."
"He had become sin, he was no longer the Son of God. He was sin."
"I started to give on that level so that God would owe me. I put God in debt."
"You need more money. What money can do in your head is bless, it can help, it can build, it can increase."
"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified."
"If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness."
"God hates the lukewarm gospel of half-truths that is now spreading over the globe. This gospel ignores the whole counsel of God."
"Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place."
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
"I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."
"The time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers."
"The greatest heresy in the American evangelical and protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in."
"You are commanded to do things that you do not have the power to do. Why would God do that? To let you know that you need to be saved by grace."
"I don't think anything I've said has offended someone of a different faith."
"The Bible is the only source of divine revelation. It is complete, sufficient, and authoritative for all matters of faith and practice."
"The church's mission is not to reform society, but to preach the gospel."
"The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment."
"I'm not asking you to give to the church, I'm asking you to invest in your future."
"God is not a celestial bellhop on call to satisfy our every whim. The Bible is not a book of spells to conjure up a God who will do our bidding."
"If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether we are really following Christ."
"I am not poor. I am not miserable. I am blessed of God."
"I refuse to accept that I am a sinner."
"Everything that prays to God is a god... I said, everything that prays to God is a god."
"Jesus had a nice house! You don't think Jesus had a nice house? You think he was homeless? ... Jesus had a nice big house! ... Jesus wore designer clothes!"
"I've never had the Lord say, 'I want you to have this, but you can't have it till you get the money.' He always says, 'Go get it, I'll pay for it.'"
"I really believe that if Jesus was physically on the earth today, he wouldn't be riding a donkey. He'd be in an airplane flying all over the world."
"I went to heaven and I saw Jesus. He showed me around. I met Abraham, I met Paul... I was there for five hours."
"He [Jesus] tasted spiritual death for every man. And His spirit and inner man went to Hell in my place."
"He became our sacrifice and died on the cross. He did not die a sinless death. He became sin... He went to hell in our place and gained victory there, triumphing over the enemy."
"God could not interfere in earth's realm without the cooperation of a man... God has the power, but you have the authority. God has the might, but you have the right."
"People ain't worrying about no blood on the cross... you don't want be talking about blood in the boardroom... The good news is not Jesus."
"As a believer, you have a right to make commands in the name of Jesus. Each time you stand on the Word, you are commanding God to a certain extent because it is His Word."
"I am not a sinner. I am a saint. I don't have a sin nature. I have a God nature."
"If you have to repent for something you did, you don't believe who you are."
"The Prophet prophesied to me that I was actually called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and I was called to reach the nations, and God was going to do many miracles through me."
"Christians can have demons inside them. These demons need to be cast out through deliverance ministry."
"De onde a gente tirou a ideia de que precisa batizar para ceiar? ... O batismo é sequencial, isso é bíblico.""Where did we get the idea that you need to be baptized to take communion? ... Baptism is sequential, this is biblical."
"Segredos para o sobrenatural.""Secrets to the supernatural."
"Ainda no hospital, depois do acidente, o próprio Cristo me visitou: trouxe um 'soro espiritual' em uma bandeja de prata e colocou em meu braço. Jamais esquecerei esse momento.""Still in the hospital, after the accident, Christ Himself visited me: He brought a 'spiritual IV drip' on a silver tray and placed it on my arm. I will never forget that moment."
"Reprograme o seu espírito!""Reprogram your spirit!"
"Unção sem caráter!""Anointing without character!"
"Autism in some cases is demonic. I have seen it cast out."
"Deliverance is a lifestyle. You need to be constantly casting out demons and staying free."
"Demons can reside in the soul or body of a Christian while the Holy Spirit dwells in their spirit. This is why believers need deliverance."
"Cough it out! Vomit it out! Let it go! The demons are coming out!"
"Jesus didn't reach His potential."
"Your words frame your world. We need to activate our faith talk to activate what's in the unseen realm."
"You are as much the incarnation of God as Jesus Christ was."
"If horses get together, they produce what? Horses. If the Godhead says 'Let Us make man in Our image'... what are they producing? Gods!"
"God is powerless to do anything in this earth except what Christians allow through invoking His Name in prayer."
"Jesus was handling big money. The Bible says that Judas was a thief. If you only have a few bucks, you don't need a treasurer and you don't need a thief."