Is this teaching biblical?
Creflo Dollar's claim that 'everything that prays to God is a god' is a blasphemous redefinition of the Creator-creature distinction. By this logic, even demons who addressed God would be gods. Scripture is unambiguous: there is ONE God, and all who worship created things rather than the Creator are condemned. The 'little gods' doctrine is the oldest lie in the Bible — the serpent's promise in Eden.
What did Creflo Dollar say?
"Everything that prays to God is a god... I said, everything that prays to God is a god."
Speaker: Creflo Dollar
Source: Our Equality with God, World Changers Church International, 2002
What does Scripture actually teach?
Isaiah 45:5
"I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me."
— NKJV
God declares with absolute finality: 'There is no God besides Me.' Dollar's claim that every praying creature is a god creates billions of gods — a direct contradiction of God's exclusive claim to deity. This is polytheism, not Christianity.
Romans 1:25
"Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."
— NKJV
Paul identifies the fundamental sin of paganism: elevating the creature to the status of the Creator. Dollar's teaching does exactly this — it makes created beings into gods. This is 'the lie' that Paul condemns: confusing creature with Creator.
Psalm 82:6-7
"I said, 'You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High. But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.'"
— NKJV
Word of Faith teachers misuse this verse to support the 'little gods' doctrine. But the context is God's REBUKE of unjust judges — and His verdict is that they will 'die like men.' Far from affirming human deity, God is condemning their arrogance and declaring their mortality.
Isaiah 43:10
"'You are My witnesses,' says the Lord, 'And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me.'"
— NKJV
No god was formed before God, and none shall come after. If believers were gods by virtue of praying, they would be gods 'after' God — which He explicitly says is impossible. Dollar's doctrine is logically and scripturally impossible.