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earthless -> RE: Pastor Chris (5/9/2008 3:15:44 PM)
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I believe this is the first one and quite frankly I am a bit shocked there hasn't been one before. Many label him the Benny Hinn of Africa/Nigeria.
From what I have been able to study, listen, and read he is classic Word of Faith/Latter Rain/Charismania. Many of his teachings are problematic and some are downright disturbing, blasphemous.
The following is from a pastor that has blogged extensively about Chris's teachings and activities:
"Last night I watched Chris Oyakhilome on TV as he introduced another one of his damnable heresies, undermining the foundation of our faith. His teaching was from Acts 12
Acts 12:1, 2
1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Oyakhilome wondered why an apostle so close to Jesus could be killed like that, and went on to say that the reason why Apostle James was killed was because “those people did not know how the kingdom functions”. According to Chris, if Apostle James, Peter and the rest of the Church had understood the principles of the kingdom, James would not have been killed.
According to Church history, Paul was also martyred years later. Peter was martyred. John was detained and then martyred. Obviously, these foundational apostles all did not know how the kingdom functions. According to this heretic, our entire faith was built on a bunch of ignorant pretenders who did not know anything about the kingdom whose foundation they were laying! We might as well throw the Bible away and find something else to do with our lives.
These guys were the ones through which the foundation of our faith was laid. Jesus handed them the truth of the Gospel. And none of them knew how the kingdom functioned, simply because they were killed?
Ephesians 2: 19-20
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit
Sincere, right-thinking believers can imagine what this will lead to. First, it brings the integrity of the Bible into question. If Chris is right (God forbid!), we may be wasting our time believing the epistles written by these men. We will certainly be wasting our time following their examples.
Secondly, anybody else can get up tomorrow and say that when Paul, John or Peter said this or that, it was because he did not know how the kingdom functioned. And then all we have to do is pick a couple of verses of the Bible out of their context and presto - we have new revelation."
For the REST
I was going to write a perspective on his teachings a few months ago but that has been placed on the back burner due to the arrival of our new baby boy.
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