THE ATONEMENT AND THE WORD OF FAITH
by Tim Germain
The Word of Faith is also known as the Faith Movement. The main preachers besides Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland are: Kenneth Hagin Jr., Gloria Copeland, Don Gossett, Marilyn Hickey, Roy Hicks, Charles Cowan, Lester Sumrall, Ed Dufresne, Norvel Hayes, Jerry Savelle, Fred Price, Benny Hinn, Henry Hinn, Charles Capps, Buddy Harrison and Ken Stewart.
The Father of the Word of Faith Movement is E. W. Kenyon who died in 1948. Wherever you go books by E. W. Kenyon will go hand in hand with the Faith Movement.
The following quotes represent the teaching of the Word of Faith Movement concerning the Doctrine of the Atonement.
“You have to realize that He (Jesus) died; you have to realize that he went into the pit of hell as mortal man made sin. He didn’t stay there, thank God. He was reborn in the pit of hell and resurrected.”{1}
“Do not let the physical suffering of the graphic scene of Golgotha rob you of the reality of the son of God being made sin for us. When he was made sin he was turned over by God to the adversary. You remember that he uttered the sentence “It is finished”. You can now understand that he did not mean that he had finished His substitutionary work.”{2}
“Jesus went to hell like any sinner…”{3}
“Satan had conquered Jesus on the cross…Satan triumphantly bore his spirit to the dark regions of Hades. When he had suffered Hell’s agonies for three days and three nights, the supreme court of the universe cried “Enough” He had paid the penalty and met the claims of justice.”{4}
“Adam died spiritually when he ate of the fruit. Jesus died spiritually when he opened himself to sin…He became a spiritually dead man.”{5}
“When [Jesus] said it is finished, on that cross, he was not speaking of the plan of redemption. The plan of redemption had just begun. There were still three days and three nights to go through…[in hell], He suffered punishment for three horrible days and nights.”{6}
“There can be no substitution unless Christ actually paid the spiritual penalty of man’s transgression…But this work (atonement) was not finished on the cross.”{7}
“Isaiah 53 is a picture of the substitutionary sufferings in our stead. It is neither mental nor physical suffering. It is suffering in the spirit.”{8}
“It is hard to understand how he [Jesus] became sin, but I know he did. Satan would become his master.”
“Jesus Christ took upon himself our sin nature…the nature of spiritual death, that we might have eternal life.”
“In the spirit world we are free, because Jesus Christ shed his blood 2000 years ago on Golgotha’s Hill…went to the very pit of Hell, and was chained with the chains of sin, disease, and all the evil of the enemy. I can almost see Him in my mind as his feet were enshackled in those chains and He dragged them as an emissary of the pits led Him through hell itself. But on the third day God…bellowed down through the atmosphere…It is Finished the supreme sacrifice has been paid. The prison is open I have paid the price. All you have to do is accept it and walk out to freedom. Jesus christ signed your pardon…”
“Because He was made sin’, IMPREGNATED with sin, and became the very essence of sin, on the cross He was banished from God’s presence as a LOATHSOME THING. He and sin were made synonymous…Justice demanded that the full penalty for every sin of all mankind be paid by someone. This meant that it was not sufficient for Christ to offer up only His physical life on the cross. His pure human spirit had to descend into hell’…The Father turned Him over, not only to the agony and death of Calvary, but to the satanic torturers of His pure spirit as part of just desert of the sin of all the race. As long as Christ was the essence of sin’ he was at Satan’s mercy in that place of torment where all finally impenitent sinners are imprisoned upon leaving this life…If Jesus paid the full penalty of sin on the cross only, that is, by His physical death alone, then sin is wholly a physical act. If sin is wholly a physical act, then every man could pay for his own sin by his own death. Because sin is basically or primarily in the spirit realm and of the spirit, therefore Jesus’ work was NOT FINISHED when He yielded up His physical life ON THE CROSS. It was not completed until He descended into hell, paid once and for all the eternal consequences of the aggregate sin of the world.”
The topic of the ATONEMENT is THE CARDINAL DOCTRINE OF THE BIBLE. No matter what other beliefs may be embraced, if you get this one wrong, then ALL IS LOST! What we believe with regard to this subject can not be underestimated.
Jude 1:3 says…that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 says…Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
In 1 Timothy 4:16 we read, Take heed unto yourself and unto the doctrine; continue in them; for in doing this you shall both save yourself and them that hear you.
I believe that the reason for the bast majority of all wrong teaching today can be traced to a wrong understanding of the Atonement. By carefully examining the statements of key Word of Faith teachers and the revealed Scripture let us determine whether this teaching can be supported and defended in the light of reason and God’s Word.
I want to say upfront that while there are multitudes of sincere Christians who identify themselves with the Word of Faith teaching, nevertheless, the basis of the doctrinal error, if embraced, will LEAD THE SOUL TO PERDITION. It is my intention that with love and truth, to my best ability, present the light concerning this most sacred and holy subject, THE atoning death of Jesus Christ.
Let’s first summarize the Word of Faith teaching on the Atonement.
1) The physical death of Christ did NOT CONSTITUTE THE ATONEMENT. His physical sufferings are INSUFFICIENT and INCOMPLETE to reconcile man to God.
2) Jesus LITERALLY BECAME A SINNER or sin was imputed to him. SATAN was his MASTER ON THE CROSS.
3) His SPIRITUAL SUFFERING IN HELL constitute the redemption of man. A LITERAL PAYMENT was required to be made to SATAN on man’s behalf. This was ACCOMPLISHED IN HELL.
4) After three days and three nights Jesus had PAID A RANSOM to the DEVIL for man. God looked down from heaven pronounced It Is Finished, and then Jesus was BORN AGAIN IN HELL subsequently overcoming the devil and rising from the dead.
5) The sin problem has been wiped away. As far as God is concerned ALL MANKIND IS PARDONED, FORGIVEN in his sight.
6) Man’s responsibility is only now to RECEIVE this JUDICIAL PARDON from God.
In defining and correctly understanding the Atonement we can say the following.
“Properly understood, an atonement is an arrangement by which the literal infliction of the penalty due to sin may be avoided; it is something which may be substituted in the place of punishment; it is that which will answer the same end which would be secured by the literal infliction of the penalty of law. It is not a commercial transaction – a matter of debt and payment, of profit and loss. It pertains to law, to government, to holiness; not to literal debt and payment. Sin is crime, not debt; it is guilt. The Atonement pertains to love and mercy, truth and kindness, as well as to justice. It regards a race of offenders with compassion; it seeks to alleviate and lessen suffering; and it is not, therefore, the cold and stern business of paying a debt, of meeting the mere demands of justice and law. It seeks to bring back wanderers by the consideration that God loves them – that they may be forgiven – that salvation is free for all men if they choose to avail themselves of it. It is real, not imaginary salvation.”
So then the Atonement is something substituted in the place of the penalty of the law, which will answer the same ends as the punishment of the offender himself would. It is instead of his punishment. It is something which will make it proper for a lawgiver to suspend or remit the literal execution of the penalty of the law, because the object or end of that penalty has been secured, or because something has been substituted for that which will answer the same purpose. In other words, there are certain ends proposed by the appointment of a penalty in case of a violation of the law; and it these ends are secured, then the punishment may be remitted and the offender may be pardoned. That which will secure these ends is an atonement.”
Man, due to his love of sin and his unwillingness to be reconciled to God, enlists himself in defying and warring against the Creator of the universe. This defiance and rebellion must be overcome if reconciliation is to be accomplished, and a return to obedience and devotion put in its place.
“On the part of man, the object to be accomplished is to bring him to willingness to be at peace with God.”
“This is contemplated in the atonement. It is an essential idea in its nature that it will secure this effect – that in the gift of the Saviour, in His character, in the manifestation of His love, and in His sufferings in behalf of others, there is that which will secure repentance and reformation on the part of the sinner. By the greatness of the suffering of him who made it, the atonement is adapted to convince the sinner of the evil of those sins for which he died; by the manifestation of love…it is fitted most deeply to the heart of the guilty.”
“We are deeply affected by the suffering of others if they are the consequences of our own offences.”
“The great instrument in bringing men to repentance and securing their reformation has been the story of the Redeemer’s love.”
“On the part of God. The obstacles to reconciliation on His part did not arise from any unwillingness to be at peace with man…but solely from the fact that He is the Lawgiver of the universe, and that His Law has been violated; from the fact that the law has a just penalty, threatening death to the violator…from the fact that if the transgressor was released from the penalty of the law there would seem to be a total disregard of the law and its threatenings; from the fact that, if the sinner was admitted to the favour conferred on those who had not sinned, it would seem as if God was regardless of character and treated the good and the bad alike…and destroy…the interests of justice.”
“In the idea of the Atonement…these difficulties have been removed, and that God is in all respects now is free to bestow His favour on those for whom it was made as he is on those who have never violated his law.”
“Reconciliation is in fact produced between God and man by the atonement. God becomes the friend of the pardoned sinner. He admits him to His favour and treats him as a friend. The sinner becomes the friend of God. He changes his view of the character of God; he submits to his arrangements; he no longer opposes His plans; he is pleased with His government and His laws. He loves Him as he loves no other being. He lives to promote His glory. He loves what God approves, defends what He has stated to be true, advocates the plans which He has formed, vindicates the doctrines which He has revealed; trusts in trial to the promises which He has made, flies to Him in times of trouble and sorrow, leans upon His arm in death, finds in the mortal agony his highest consolation in the belief that God is his friend, and expects to find felicity in the future world only in God. There is no friendship so strong, so sincere, so tender, so enduring, as that between God and the reconciled sinner.
The essential points to be established from the Scriptures are as follows:
1) The atoning death consisted solely in the physical death of the Saviour; it was the giving of His life represented by His blood.
2) Reconciliation is effected through Christ as a result of his substitutional death and sufferings. That not only was He Himself a substitute, but that His sufferings were substituted sufferings, and not the literal penalty of the law.
3) he suffered and died as a substitute in the place of sinners. The innocent was treated as if He were guilty. This work was accomplished on the cross.
4) Man is still guilty, separate, and enemy of God. Repentance from dead works and faith towards God are necessary conditions which must be met without which there can be no granting of pardon or forgiveness.
5) That the benefits of His suffering may become ours as a ground of our salvation; that is, a public and sufficient reason why God should treat sinners as if they were righteous.
FIRST POINT
The physical death of the Redeemer or the giving of His life that constituted the atonement. Some passages from the New Testament on this doctrine are unequivocal.
Revelation 5:9 “Thou hast redeemed us unto God by thy Blood.”
Revelation 7:14 “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
1 John 1:7 “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.”
1 Peter 1:18,19 “Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.”
1 Peter 2:24 “Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Hebrews 10:10 “By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once.”
Hebrews 13:12 “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.”
Colossians 1:14 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins…” v 20 “…and having made peace through the blood of his cross…”
Ephesians 1:7 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
Hebrews 9:12 “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his won blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
Hebrews 10:19 “Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.”
1 Peter 1:2 “Elect…unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.”
Acts 20:28 “Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”
Romans 3:25 “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.”
Ephesians 2:13 “Ye, who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
“The doctrine of the Hebrews was, that the blood is the seat of life, or that the life is in the blood; and hence to shed blood became synonymous with taking life. Leviticus 17:11 “The life of the flesh is in the blood.”
“The plain doctrine of the New Testament, therefore, is that the blood of Christ – that is, that the giving of his life – was the means of making the atonement, or of securing reconciliation between man and his Maker. In other words, his life was regarded as a sacrifice in the place of sinners, by means of which the penalty of the law which man had incurred might be averted from him…and treated as if he had not sinned. This is the doctrine of the atonement.”
SECOND POINT
What is needed to be established is that the sufferings of the Redeemer were substituted suffering or that they were not the literal penalty of law. The point we have looked at is that Christ was the substitute, that is, it was not the person who violated the law that had suffered, but another in its place. So also we need to show that His sufferings themselves were substituted suffering.
A “substitute” is “one person put in the place of another to answer the same purpose.” – Webster
Christ is never spoken of as being guilty or deserving of punishment. He always has been regarded as the object of God’s highest love. We must take note how carefully the Scripture states this and guard against the view of the imputation of sin which would regard a literal transfer of guilt to Him and thus speak of Him as a sinner – as suffering “justly”.
The following Scriptures fortify this truth.
1 Peter 2:22 “Who did no sin; neither was guile found in his mouth.”
Hebrews 4:15 “But in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
Hebrews 7:26 “Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.”
1 Peter 3:8 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust.”
Isaiah 53:9 “Because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”
v 11 “By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many.”
Matthew 3:17 “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
“The passage in 2 Corinthians 5:21 – “he hath made him to be sin for us” – cannot be intended to be literally true…in no proper sense can it be true that he was made to be a sinner; for this would be contrary to the teaching of the passages just quoted, that he “knew no sin”, that he was “holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners”, and that he “died the just for the unjust”. We must therefore look for some other interpretation that the literal one; and that is found in the doctrine that the word here rendered sin, in accordance with hebrew usage, is employed in the sense of sin-offering.”
Leviticus 6:25 “This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy. Whatsoever shall tough the flesh thereof shall be holy…”
The Old Testament atoning lamb was the type, which pointed to the Lamb, which was Christ. Just as the type was most holy so also christ the substance was most holy. There was no literal transfer of sin.
“Similar passages occur in Galatians 3:13 “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.” The word here properly means cursing malediction, execration, a devoting or dooming to destruction. It occurs in the New Testament in the following places: Colossians 3:13,13 rendered curse; Hebrews 6:8, James 3:10, rendered cursing. Applied to a lost sinner, it would mean that all saving influences were withdrawn and that he was given over to the malediction of God. But what is its meaning as applied to the Redeemer in the passages now before us?
A) It cannot mean that he was made a curse in the sense that His work and character were displeasing to God; for as we have seen, just the contrary doctrine is everywhere taught in the New Testament.
B) It cannot mean that He was the object of the divine displeasure, and was therefore abandoned by Him to deserved destruction.
C) It cannot be employed as denoting that he was in any sense…blameworthy; for this is equally contrary to the teachings of the Bible.
D) It cannot mean that He was guilty in the usual and proper meaning of the word, and that therefore He was punished; for this would not be true.
E) It cannot mean that He bore the literal penalty of the law; for, there are parts of that penalty – remorse of conscience, and eternity of suffering, which He did not, and could not, bear.
F) It cannot mean that He was sinful, of a sinner, in any sense; for this is equally contrary to all the teachings of the Bible in regard to His character.
G) There is but one other conceivable meaning that can be attached to the passage, and that is that, though innocent, He was treated in His death as if He had been guilty; that is He was put to death as if He had personally deserved it. He was suspended on a cross, as if He had been a malefactor. He was given up by God and man to death as if He had Himself been such a malefactor. He consented to die in the same manner as the vilest malefactor, in order that by His substituted sorrows He might save those who were personally guilty. The idea which makes the atonement so wonderful – the idea which made it an atonement at all – is, that innocence was treated as if it were guilty; that the most pure and holy and benevolent being on earth was treated as if He had been the most vile and ill deserving.”
Were it true, that sin had literally been transferred to the innocent it follows that guilt also would have been transferred. Man no longer would be required to repent. Only guilty individuals are or can be required to repent. Of course the Scripture abundantly affirms that God calls all men to repentance. Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30
THIRD POINT
Concerning point three, the work of the Redeemer was accomplished on the cross. The following Scriptures suffice.
Colossians 2:14,15 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; having spoiled principalities and powers, he hade a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God.”
Ephesians 2:15, 16 “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby…”
Metaphorically the Apostle Paul identified himself as being crucified with Christ on the cross. The entire basis of his new life was what his master had accomplished for him on the cross.
Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
This too was the reason for his boasting.
Galatians 6:14 “But God forbid that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
Man is not forgiven by God subsequent to the death of Christ. The death of Christ is man’s provision for the forgiveness of sin. Men must repent from dead works and turn to God, exercising faith that Christ’s death was on man’s behalf, before man can receive pardon.
Acts 2:38 “…repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come…”
v 23 “And it shall come to pass that every soul, who will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.”
Matthew 16:24,25 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
Luke 13:3&5 “I tell you, Nay, but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
Acts 20:24 “Testifying both to the Jews and also the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Acts 26:20 “…that they should repent and turn to God, and do works fit for repentance.”
FOURTH POINT
The merit of the Redeemer’s death is a proper and just cause for God to pass over the repentant sinner’s penalty. We may avail ourselves of the benefits of His sufferings as if those sufferings had been our own.
“Their deeds are not, indeed imputed to us. They are never reckoned as in any sense ours. There is no transfer of character or of honour. There is no confounding of identity. There is no confusion in the estimate which is formed in regard to meritorious services. But in respect to the results we are regarded and treated as if all that valour…had been ours. The same thing is also true in respect to the sufferings of martyrs. We enjoy the avails of all those sufferings as though they had been our own. It is true that we have not been laid on the rack; that we have not been imprisoned, scourged, stoned; that we have not been bound to a stake or stretched on a cross; that we have not been thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheatre; and it is true also that in the estimate of moral character and real worth there is no confusion of character, no transfer of moral worth; but in regard to all that is valuable in the religion for which they suffered, we enjoy the avails of their sufferings as really as they would themselves have done had their lives been prolonged to the present hour.
The principle, therefore, that we may avail ourselves of the sufferings and trials of others for our own benefit, or may be treated as if those sufferings and trials were our own, enters into the very structure of all social life. It is difficult to see why, under a law that is so universal in reference to our fellowmen, it may not also be a principle in the Divine administration in reference to the toils and sufferings of the Redeemer.”
“The merit of the Redeemer is unexhausted by time. The stream of salvation never runs dry. As healing fountains flow from age to age, no matte what numbers apply for healing; and as they retain their power, no matter what the forms of disease which are healed; and as they flow in large abundance above all that is needed and is applied; pouring their streams on the sands of the desert, or mingling with other waters, so it is with the waters of salvation.
“The fountain ever flows, by day and by night, in seed-time and harvest, in summer and winter. It is ample for all that apply. It is unexhausted by the numbers that come, and by the nature of the maladies that are healed. It flows in large abundance above and beyond all that is needed, and though it seems to be useless or wasted, it is neither; for, whether men avail themselves of it or not, it is a standing proof of the inexhaustible and illimitable benevolence of God. It will flow on to the end of time. When all the fountains that now pour forth healing waters for the cure of the sick shall – if they ever do – exhaust the source of supply, the streams of salvation will still pour forth their unexhausted floods over a lost world. Never till time shall end will the sentiment of the beautiful stanzas with which this Treatise on the atonement may appropriately close, cease to be true:-
“There is a fountain, fill’d with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.
Dear dying Lamb, they precious blood shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransom’d church of God be saved, to sin no more.”
CONCLUSION:
We have seen that the heart of the Gospel message is Jesus Christ and Him crucified; that it was His physical suffering or the giving of His life represented by His blood constitute our Redemption. The sufferings of Christ were substituted sufferings and not the literal penalty which the law breaker himself would have received. The problem of reconciling man to God, as well the justice of the law, is solved through the atonement.
The Word of Faith teaching, completely passes over the heart of the Gospel; that is, the physical suffering and death of the Saviour. Instead, by shifting and perverting the reason for man’s Redemption, (from the cross to being born again in Hell) they introduce a damning heresy. They charge Jesus as the vilest and most perverted sinner of the human race and will justly incur the wrath of the most holy, pure, and righteous Son of God. This teaching not only brings disgrace to the Son of God with respect to his Righteous character, but it pollutes the high value of the Kingdom of His Father, which He represents.
This teaching is a new hybrid of an age-old heresy called Universalism which says all the world has been pardoned, “you just don’t know it”! This is what Kenneth Hagin Jr. Meant when he said “In the spirit world we are free…” The new twist is that you just have to receive it, or repent!
Knowingly or unknowingly, this teaching says:
1) The physical death of Christ can’t save you.
2) All of man’s sin was transferred to Jesus (except the sin of unbelief, and the sin against the Holy Spirit, he missed those) all men are pardoned [forgiven].
3) Jesus is a sinner, of the worst kind. He bore the sin of the world in His spirit.
4) Jesus was born again in Hell and overcame the devil.
5) Jesus paid a ransom to the devil being in torment by him in hell. This regained man’s right to have authority over the devil, and the sole author of his circumstances. Redemption is now finished.
6) God would be understood to be harsh and vindictive to require a payment in the exact amount before he would consider granting pardon.
7) it can not be said that forgiveness if freely by his grace, since Jesus paid the devil what was coming to him.
FINALLY:
I charge those who embrace this teaching with the sin of unbelief. You have made the death of Christ of none effect. Those of you who have changed the Gospel of the Grace of Christ whereby God is willing to pass over transgression, to a payment to the Devil have perverted the Gospel of the Grace of God. You must repent of this hellish doctrine. The truth is that Christ bore your sin in his body on the tree. 1 Peter 2:24. (This is the reason you can be forgiven, not that you are, and you just have to receive it.) The Apostle Peter wrote, Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come…”
RESOURCES:
1. Kenneth Copeland, “What Happened from the Cross to the Throne.” (Tape) Classic Redemption Series, Forth Worth: Copeland Ministries, #00-0303.
2. E.W. Kenyon, “What Happened from the Cross to the Throne” p.46.
3. Kenneth Copeland, “What Happened from the Cross to the Throne” (Tape) side 2.
4. E.W. Kenyon, “What Happened from the Cross to the Throne” p.89.
5. Charles Capps, “Authority in Three Worlds” Tulsa Harrison House, 1982, p.159.
6. Kenneth Copeland, “What Happened from the Cross to the Throne” (Tape) Classic Redemption Series. Forth Worth: Copeland Ministries, #00-0303.
7. E.W. Kenyon, “What Happened from the Cross to the Throne” p.60.
8. Ibid., p.61.
9. Ibid., p.33.
10. Kenneth Hagin, “The New Birth” Tulsa, OK. pp.13,14.
11. Kenneth Hagin, Jr., “The Prison Door is Open – What are You Still Doing Inside?” Tulsa, OK. pp26.28.
12. Paul F. Billheimer, “Destined for the Throne”. Christian Literature Crusade, Forth Washington, Pennsylvania, p.94.
13. Albert Barnes, “The Atonement”, Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, MN p.230.
14. Ibid., p.244.
15. Ibid., p.265.
16. Ibid., p.266.
17. Ibid., p.266.
18. Ibid., p.267.
19. Ibid., p.263.
20. Ibid., p.263.
21. Ibid., p.263.
22. Ibid., p.301.
23. Ibid., pp.302-3.
24. Ibid., p.294.
25. Ibid., pp.295-6.
26. Ibid., pp.305-6
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