Many groups teach a form of “believing,” sometimes called the “faith message,” “word-faith” or “the law of believing.” Of the many variations of this teaching, one of the most damaging is “the Law of Believing” taught by The Way International and its late founder Victor Paul Wierwille.    

    Like Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland and some other teachers, Wierwille teaches “believing equals receiving.” In other words, whatever you believe will indeed happen. One of their favorite verses is Mark 11:23-24:    

    “Jesus said, ‘Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be taken up and cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.... believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”    

    Wierwille called this “believing equals receiving.” When you truly believe, you will receive what you believe.    

    Mark 11 highlights an important Biblical principle: faith is an essential part of the Christian life. As Hebrews 11:6 adds, ”without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him.”

Background: This list began as an attempt to refute the contention that the written works of Victor Paul Wierwille, founder of The Way International, are the "God-breathed" equivalent of Holy Scripture. In compiling this list, it was not my intention (or anyone else's) to demean Wierwille, judge him, or even question his motives. The only goal was to show that, by its own standards, PFAL disqualifies itself as the "God breathed Word."

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