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Study Resources: The Errors of the Word-Faith Movement (apologeticsindex.org)

 the best critique of the movement is D. R. McConnell’s A Different Gospel

 Ralph Waldo Trine’s In Tune With the Infinite which is now available in PDF format. Trine attended Emerson College with E. W. Kenyon. While Emerson College is now a secular school and has always been officially a school of oratory, at the time Kenyon and Trine attended Emerson it was largely dedicated to spreading Mind Science teachings. Trine went on to be a significant figure in New Thought and his proximity to Kenyon has often been considered significant in tracing the roots of Kenyon’s teachings. See Ralph Waldo Trine - In Tune with the Infinite.pdf (brainybetty.com)

The Atonement of Christ and the Faith Message - Christian Research Institute (equip.org)

Amazon.com: The Word-Faith Controversy: Understanding the Health and Wealth Gospel: 9780801063442: Bowman, Robert M., Jr.: Books

Unfeigned Faith: A Book That Deserves More Attention - Apologetics Index

Divine healing: Does God perform miracles today?: Torrey, R. A: 9780801087554: Amazon.com: Books

Trophimus I left Sick by Donald Gee See Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 9 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) .  To hastily attribute personal sickness to personal sin was the precise folly of Job’s three friends that drew upon them the anger of the Almighty. Many cruel things are still being said on similar lines by hasty and dictatorial exponents of very imperfect doctrines of Divine healing. Usually they are those who have suffered little themselves, or else have had just one experience of Divine healing on just one line, upon which they base all their ideas. It is only in the broadest sense that we can teach that sickness in the human race stems from sin in the race. In the case of many faithful believers in the Lord Jesus Christ it would seem more correct to regard them as innocent victims of our common human frailties until the atoning work of Christ comes to its glorious consummation in the fullness of the Kingdom of God. … The scriptural truth is that the choicest saints on earth still have times when they “groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.” The teaching of these passages is not a claiming of Divine healing from the cause of the groaning or sighing consequent upon infirmities of the flesh, but rather having the comfort of hope that there is a fuller life, and a better body (a “building” rather than a “tent”) waiting for us in the life to come.

Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 8 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) To assert that healing for our bodies rests upon an identical authority with healing for our souls in the atoning work of Christ our Saviour can involve serious problems of personal faith and confidence for those weak in faith if, and when, they see manifest cases where Divine healing, though “claimed” has not been received. It is idle to blind ourselves to the fact that such cases exist. True faith refuses to blind itself to the truth, and persistent sickness can be a very unwelcome and stubborn truth.

Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 10 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) Any doctrine of Divine healing that professes to leave no place for pain in the present order of things is palpably too shallow to be true. It may have a passing appeal to the thoughtless. It cannot stand up to the strain of life as it really is in God’s Universe. It produces artificial and unnecessary problems by refusing to face the one true problem. For the genuine problem of pain there is at least the genuine comfort of truth.

Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 11 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) If it be asked wherein this truth has been pushed to an extreme, it might be suggested that in the first place we have erred by refusing any place in our doctrine, or at least a very insufficient place, for the sovereign will of God. To ask for Divine healing without any accompanying “nevertheless not my will but Thine be done” seems to pose an attitude out of keeping with every other right attitude we take in prayer.

Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 12 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) It may well be that in the bald statement that Paul left Trophimus sick at Miletum we have one of those intentional assertions of the Bible intended to keep us from extremes. The apostle who manifested when in company with this friend and co-worker such outstanding miracles of healing also faced the mystery of sickness among his intimate associates. To such mysteries he had only one answer—“Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known.” In those great believing words is the eternal triumph of faith, and hope and love. It still at times has to be said to the Lord, “he whom Thou lovest is sick.” The final answer here, and hereafter, will be provided by One who is the resurrection and the life. Those who have found the Living Christ to be here and now the Healer Divine have found a pearl of truth which none shall take away from them. But in enshrining their experience into a doctrine they need to be guided by the full revelation in all the Scriptures of truth, lest haply they say even of God, the thing that is not right.

Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 2 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) Moreover, Paul not only left Trophimus sick at Miletum—he did not secure relief from his own physical infirmities by means of his undoubted spiritual gifts. There are poignant references to his own physical weaknesses and infirmities and to those of Timothy his dear son in the faith (Gal. 4:13: I Tim. 5:23). Paul did not relish his weaknesses and infirmities of the flesh; he prayed to be delivered from them, and his ultimate glorying in them was a remarkable spiritual victory that was of a high order of grace (2 Cor. 12:9-10). In the case of Timothy he advised special dieting as an alleviation. The significant thing is that neither for himself, nor for those who were members of his missionary band, did he practice Divine healing through supernatural gifts of the Spirit though he was richly endued with the same in his evangelistic ministry.

Trophimus I Left Sick - Part 3 | Donald Gee (bibleportal.com) Those who want, somehow or other, to fit in this verse about the illness of Trophimus with their own doctrines of Divine healing are tempted to assert that he MUST have failed somewhere. But that is the worst possible way of interpreting the Scriptures. There is nothing whatever in the statement, or in its context, to suggest anything spiritually or morally wrong about Trophimus. Assumption here is completely gratuitous. ..... Part of the unfortunate manner in which faith in Divine healing sometimes has been sincerely promulgated by strong-minded personalities is this continual suggestion that failure to get healed is rooted in some deep spiritual failure in the one who is sick. This attitude has added mental suffering to physical suffering, and in extreme cases turned belief in Divine healing into a scourge rather than a privilege, and a burden rather than a relief. That it possesses an element of truth need not be denied. Even in natural healing the patient has responsibilities. But to hold a doctrine of Divine healing that acts like a lash upon the heightened susceptibilities of the weak and sickly, surely comes near being a travesty of compassion with which our Lord viewed the multitudes of sick folk that crowded around Him on earth.

Charles Price’s old classic, The Real Faith (available free in PDF format) is a good book on this phenomenon of gift-faith as it relates specifically to healing. See The Real Faith – Charles S. Price | HopeFaithPrayer. Microsoft Word - The_Real_Faith_Charles_Price-Final.doc (hopefaithprayer.com) is.

In our blindness of heart and mind, we have taken faith out of the realm of the spiritual and, without realizing just what we were doing, have put it in the realm of the metaphysical …

I was weeping because of those people who dragged their tired, sick bodies back to their homes—just as needy as they were before they came into the services .

To testify to healing on the basis of faith or promise, before it has happened, is generally unwise, and always inexcusable, unless the faith is actually there. Even when it is there, it is better by far to be able to testify with the double voice one the articulate voice of praise and thanksgiving, and the other the inarticulate voice of the physical manifestation itself.

The Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospels: Gordon D. Fee: 9781573830669: Amazon.com: Books. Does God will that the true believer in Christ be in good physical health? Is a Christian promised good financial health by virtue of his or her faith in Christ? If the Christian does not experience these blessings, must we assume that he or she is outside the will of God? Gordon Fee provides a provocative discussion and a direct challenge to all who struggle with these issues. Perhaps no other issues more directly affect the lives of professing Christians as do the issues of health and wealth and their relationship to the will of God. In Disease of the Health & Wealth Gospels, Dr. Gordon Fee looks at the treatment of these two themes as frequently found in popular Christian teaching. Based on solid exegesis of the Scriptures, looking at each theme separately, this books suggests that there may be yet a "more excellent way" in viewing these emotionally charged issues. Gordon D. Fee is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God. Considered to be one of the foremost experts in textual criticism of the New Testament of the Bible, Dr. Fee was a member of the editorial board that composed both the New International Version (NIV) and Today's New International Version (TNIV) translations of the Bible. He is also the author of numerous commentaries and books on biblical interpretation, including the popular introductory work How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (co-authored with Douglas Stuart). The disease of the health & wealth gospels : Fee, Gordon D : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

American Christianity is rapidly being infected by an isidious disease...it says “God wills it. So think God’s thoughts. Claim it. And its yours....

Much of what is said by Hagin, Roberts, Shuller, Copeland has a biblical ring and that is why the trap is so effective but the charge is clear the problem is with those who dont agree with the NEW revelation of WOF

These WOF teachers twist scripture so you do not end up with PLAIN AND CLEAR doctrine

Example is the misappropriation of scripture in 3 Jn 2 to be a promise to all Christians

Paul did not ask Timothy to claim healing but use a little wine for his often infirmities

Fee on the gospel of perfect health

The gospel of perfect health is a distortion of the healing that was part of Jesus/Apostles ministry, the charismata and James 5

While scripture supports our prayer in faith for healing it is a distortion to insist (1) God wills complete healing and perfect health for every believer and (2) God has obligated Himself to heal all who have faith unless there is sin in their lives. The idea is the believer can CLAIM their promised healing from God so any failure to receive is placed on the believer. CLAIMING means to confess healing even though symptomes are present.

These evangelists are the unwitting descendants of the false apostles

The real problem why the perfect health “gospel” works part of the time rests on its faulty exegesis of scripture. It is not at all plain and clear.

Being redeemed from the curse of the law in Gal 3 has nothing to do with the cureses of Deut 28

Change in tenses from Isa 53 and 1st Pe 2 prove healing in the atonement. AoG does not see healing in the atonement in the same way as salvation in the atonement. Matt saw healing as part of the Messianic ministry not the atonement. The context of healing refers to the wounds and diseases of sin ---- Isa 1:6-7

God honoring faith does not mean he always heals.