Joseph Prince is destroying lives: cases of adultery, his Pastor divorced & his healing doctrine gives people false hope – By Rev George Ong (Dated 26 Mar 2024)
Announcements:
This is my last Article for this week.
There is 1 video each on David Pawson,
Dr Roland Chia & Joseph Prince
& 2 videos on George Ong.
There are two parts to this Article:
PART ONE & PART TWO.
Excerpt No 1 from the Article:
David Pawson talked about
an increase in divorce and remarriage in South Africa
brought about by Joseph Prince’s false grace doctrine.
Do you know one of Joseph Prince’s Key Pastors,
had recently gone through a divorce?
If this happened to one of the Key Pastors in New Creation Church,
who regularly appeared in the worship services,
what goes down the line is up to one’s imagination.
Excerpt No 2 from the Article:
George Ong’s comments:
We must put things in perspective.
Currently, there are millions around the world,
who are influenced by his Health and Wealth Theology.
If Joseph Prince’s Health and Wealth Doctrine is so true,
then he must produce, at the very least,
a 30 percent success rate.
Let’s assume a conservative figure
of 1 million fans or followers
that Joseph Prince has influenced.
That would mean that he must produce
at least 300,000 testimonies
of those who are healed from diseases.
This is a reasonable figure to measure success, as, after all,
Joseph Prince has been preaching his Health & Wealth doctrine
for the last 30 odd years (appointed Senior Pastor in 1990).
Let’s ask Joseph Prince
to total up the number of his testimonies
of those who were healed in the last 30 odd years;
are there 300,000 people?
Not by any stretch!
By sharing two or three testimonies every week,
Joseph Prince wants to give the false impression
that many out of the 300,000 under his ministry were healed.
Let me make a very important qualification at this juncture.
Are we against healing?
Of course not!
What we are against
is Joseph Prince’s false and dangerous teaching
that God will heal and He must heal in each and every case.
And that is what gives people false hope
and could destroy them in the end.
Excerpt No 3 from the Article:
I am not saying that people themselves are not responsible
for their decisions and actions.
It takes 2 hands to clap.
But because of the massive influence
that he exercises over the people,
Joseph Prince’s heretical teachings
have played no small part
in egging the people to move in a certain direction
that are detrimental and destructive to their well-being.
Featured YouTube comment:
@12345okok
“Pastor George Ong shared Pastor Kong Hee’s message
so that we could see the difference.
The following extract is taken
from the website of City Harvest Church, Singapore
Inasmuch as Kong Hee highlights
the importance of the gifts of the Spirit,
he also constantly teaches
on the greater importance
of cultivating the fruit of the Spirit,
which he emphasises is the character profile of Jesus (1 Cor 12:7-11; Gal 5:22-23).
While Pastor Kong Hee encourages believers
to boldly believe God for healing, blessing, and protection,
he also teaches that trials, hardships and sufferings
are inevitable for everyone who lives for Christ (Mk 16:17-18; Jn 16:33; 2 Tim 3:12).
From the way Pastor Kong Hee preaches,
we could see that he is well balanced,
scholarly and yet humble.”
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
PART ONE
Featured YouTube comments:
@jeremychew3668
“My mother was a Joseph Prince believer.
When she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer,
she did a number of things:
(1) told no one, perhaps because as Joseph Prince said,
‘You’re sick because you’re of little faith.’
(2) didn’t seek standard medical treatment,
perhaps, to try and hide her illness,
Perhaps, she believed like Joseph Prince said,
‘Just believe and God WILL heal.’
(3) only thing she took 3 times of Holy Communion a day
as per Joseph Prince’s teachings.
Family, including myself, relatives and her close friends
were told of her real condition only when it was too late.
I flew home from overseas straight away
and got a couple of hours before she passed on.
It’s a mystery to many who know my mother
how she became to be during the last years of her life.
Everything became clear when one listens to the bullshit
that comes out from Joseph Prince’s mouth.
My one advice to anyone, stay away from Joseph Prince
and you will live much better and wiser in God’s hands.”
George Ong’s comments:
I got connected with Jeremy Chew,
who wrote the above YouTube comment
about 3 months ago,
when he first wrote to me.
I happened to know more than what many do
regarding Jeremy Chew’s family and his deceased mother.
I even saw Joseph Prince’s photograph (taken with the family)
at the wake of Jeremy Chew’s grandmother.
This is because Joseph Prince
is known to Jeremy’s mother (deceased)
and her relatives
and he attended the wake of Jeremy’s grandmother in Sep 2018.
Please check with Joseph Prince whether it’s true.
@user-vo3iy4ur6d
“We all should be very angry at Joseph Prince
hearing such a story.
I believe there are many such stories
in New Creation Church.
Joseph Prince is literally getting away with ‘murder’,
while at the same time absolved from responsibility,
and fleecing the people
who are too dumb to think clearly, rationally and biblically
under his occultic spell.”
@veralinc8117
“Shocking!
One man’s lie,
caused a life.”
@joyceliew4352
“Hi Jeremy, we are so sorry and saddened
to hear about your late mum.
No words can describe the pain and lost
you and family have gone through.
God knows everything
and Joseph Prince will have to answer to God.
The day will surely come.
And as for us, do continue to be faithful unto Him
until we see Him face to face.”
@jeremychew3668
“Yes, indeed there are more such stories.
My wife friend’s mother was also a Joseph Prince believer.
She had breast cancer, and did nothing until one day,
family members remarked
that the house seemed to smell of rotting flesh,
and eventually, her condition was discovered.
By then, doctors gave her less than 6 months
and she was gone within 3.
Many times, people become ‘dumb’
because they are desperate,
And people like Joseph Prince
sells them fake happy endings
and they fall for it.
Therefore, in whatever capacity,
we do what we can to lead people in the right direction
away from Joseph Prince and his friends.”
Glenn Fong, an Ex New Creation Church member
for 15 years wrote:
“I heard of cancer patients in New Creation Church
who denied medication and treatment
and died believing they will be healed.
Will Joseph Prince take responsibility for such cases?
What is worse is that he often transfers such guilt
to the people themselves
by saying through his sermons
that they don’t have enough faith.
I also heard of cancer patients
who Positive Confess their way to their grave.
Joseph Prince will take pains
to hide such incidents from the public.
The healing testimonies
we hear on Sunday in New Creation Church
are just a probability game;
he only publicises the successful cases.
Ultimately, God heals whoever He wills,
and it has nothing to do with his grace doctrine
or confessing,
‘I am the Righteousness of God in Christ’.”
Dr Chris Kang, an Ex New Creation Church member wrote:
“Promoters of the hypergrace scam
would point to so-called positive testimonies
of healing or prosperity
as evidence for the efficacy of hypergrace.
Yet, a little reflection
would show the fallacy of this argument.
Compared to the numbers of unfulfilled hypergrace prayers,
the numbers of fulfilled ones
are probably in the small minority.
There is little incentive for the majority
to write in failed stories
and even if they do,
would the hypergrace movement publish them?”
Aaron Khoo, an Ex New Creation Church member
for 11 years wrote:
“Using testimonies to give a false impression.
In my years at New Creation Church,
I’ve noticed that Pastor Prince
has kept using testimonies of prayers answered
and people healed;
and these are shared frequently
during worship services and on his website
as proof that he is preaching the right doctrine.
But this is being dishonest,
as he has only surfaced the so-called successful cases,
which are in the small minority.
As an example, at the beginning of every year,
the church will ask the congregation to ask God for 3 wishes.
But the leadership does not check or find out in detail
how many people in the entire congregation
really had their wishes answered
and/or how many are struggling with real issues
and challenges because their wishes were not answered.
And when there are a number of wishes
answered by the roughly 34,000 (was then 34,000 when I attended),
the leadership of New Creation Church
will make a big fuss about it
by featuring and publicising them as testimonies,
giving the false impression
that this small number
represents the majority.
It is the same with testimonies of healing.
As the saying goes,
“You will inspect what you expect.”
But New Creation Church doesn’t.
They only inspect or highlight
the so-called successful cases,
which represent only a small minority.
But what about the majority
whose prayers are not answered
and those who are still sick?
George Ong’s comments:
We must put things in perspective.
Currently, there are millions around the world,
who are influenced by his Health and Wealth Theology.
If Joseph Prince’s Health and Wealth Doctrine is so true,
then he must produce, at the very least,
a 30 percent success rate.
Let’s assume a conservative figure
of 1 million fans or followers
that Joseph Prince has influenced.
That would mean that he must produce
at least 300,000 testimonies
of those who are healed from diseases.
This is a reasonable figure to measure success, as, after all,
Joseph Prince has been preaching his Health & Wealth doctrine
for the last 30 odd years (appointed Senior Pastor in 1990).
Let’s ask Joseph Prince
to total up the number of his testimonies
of those who were healed in the last 30 odd years;
are there 300,000 people?
Not by any stretch!
By sharing two or three testimonies every week,
Joseph Prince wants to give the false impression
that many out of the 300,000 under his ministry were healed.
As a matter of fact, most of these so-called healings
that Joseph Prince did during the worship services
are regarding people
who have been so-called healed of this or that pain.
You must remember
that I view and listen to Joseph Prince’s sermons
almost every Sunday.
So, Joseph Prince cannot fool me.
There are zero miracles of healing
where crippled people walk out of their chairs,
or the blind people were made to see.
Let me make a very important qualification at this juncture.
Are we against healing?
Of course not!
What we are against
is Joseph Prince’s false and dangerous teaching
that God will heal and He must heal in each and every case.
And that is what gives people false hope
and could destroy them in the end.
In a Sunday sermon aired on YouTube,
17 Mar 2024, 2 Sundays ago, Joseph Prince said;
“When you believe that like, for example,
God doesn’t heal everyone today.
Then the moment you become sick,
the doctor says I got bad news for you and all that,
you might think that
you are one of those that God will not heal.
Now, once you believe a lie,
that’s how you become depressed.
And not only that the Holy Spirit
cannot bear witness with a lie.
If you keep on believing a lie,
He cannot bear witness with it.”
George Ong’s comments:
Joseph Prince said
to believe that God doesn’t heal everyone today
is to believe a lie.
It is such extreme teachings that God must heal every one
that give people false hope
and destroy them in the end.
Let me put it in a straightforward manner
– the Health and Wealth doctrine of Joseph Prince
that every New Covenant believer can and must be healed,
is a SCAM that millions have fallen into.
Lindsay Lim, an Ex New Creation Church member
for 18 years, wrote:
“Holy Communion is the next issue I wish to highlight.
Joseph Prince falsely teaches
that the partaking of the Holy Communion
is for the healing of our bodies and blessings to our life,
such as the blessing of youthfulness.
I have literally seen how some New Creation Church folks
took the Holy Communion
as they were taking medication, irreverently,
treating it as some sort of magic potion.
And when they didn’t see any healing or results,
they got angry with God.
Some even left the faith
when they did not receive the healing
they believed they would receive
after partaking the Holy Communion.
You must be saying to yourself
that you only hear about the fantastic testimonies
of healing and victory stories in the pulpit of NCC
that are often shared by Joseph Prince.
The reason is Joseph Prince wouldn’t dare
to announce such negative stories (and there are plenty)
for fear that his false teaching
on the Holy Communion would be exposed.”
In a sermon, Dr Roland Chia said;
“A representative of this group
has also presented an erroneous understanding
of the Holy Communion.
According to him (Joseph Prince),
eating the bread and drinking the wine
will guarantee good health and a long life.
In fact, he even recommends
that those who are sick
to partake the Holy Communion 3 times a day,
like taking medicine.
Needless to say,
this is a distortion of the sacrament of Holy Communion,
which is meant to point us
to what Christ has done for our eternal salvation.
At the hands of this preacher (Joseph Prince),
Holy Communion, has become an antibiotic or an elixir.
Those who peddle such doctrine
are offering strange fire (Lev 10:1-7).”
Although Dr Roland Chia
didn’t mention the name of the preacher in his sermon,
but if you ask him,
he will not hesitate to tell you
that the person he is referring to
is Joseph Prince.
In a teaching session, George Ong said;
“People believe in it
and start administering the Holy Communion.
Okay, do you know that, I’m sure you might have heard.
He (Joseph Prince) will claim that it’s not from him.
They (NCC members) even asked non-Christians to take (Holy Communion).
Non-Christians, non-Christians.
This is from different source.
Another one, from 2 different source.
I heard, then when I share,
that person who heard from another source
– Ask the dog to take (Holy Communion).
Give it to the dog.
He’s (Joseph Prince) going to claim that he’s not the one,
but the way he teaches will lead to all that. It will lead.
Just like, you know, when you say,
‘You are once saved, always saved,
you will never lose your salvation.’
No wonder people say,
‘I am once saved always saved,
I may be sinning
because he (Joseph Prince) says all my sins are cleansed.’”
Healing (and the Holy Communion)
is just one issue that Joseph Prince
has been destroying lives and also their faith,
where people who are not healed
got angry with God and walked out of Him.
The other issue is that his teaching
have also led to people to committing adultery
and into divorce and remarriage.
In a sermon, David Pawson said;
“Now the preachers of free grace are saying,
‘The only thing you need do is believe,
and there’s no need for repentance to be saved.’
And this teaching is now spreading around the world
from Singapore and from here in America.
No repentance.
You can be saved without repentance.
Can you imagine the result that that’s having?
Well, I can tell you,
this teaching of so-called Free Grace
has really captured the churches in South Africa.
And when I asked the Pastors,
what effect that was having on Christian living,
they all said the same thing.
They said,
‘We’re getting a vast increase
in divorce and remarriage.’
Isn’t that interesting?
Because even if it’s wrong to divorce and remarriage
– that’s okay
– you’ve been forgiven in advance.
Doesn’t matter how you live now.
And that’s the fruit of that wrong teaching of grace.”
David Pawson talked about
an increase in divorce and remarriage in South Africa
brought about by Joseph Prince’s false grace doctrine.
Do you know one of Joseph Prince’s Key Pastors,
had recently gone through a divorce?
If this happened to one of the Key Pastors in New Creation Church,
who regularly appeared in the worship services,
what goes down the line is up to one’s imagination.
In a teaching sermon, George Ong said;
to view the 1-minute-and-15 second video:
“There are also of course very terrible testimonies
he (Joseph Prince) hides them.
I’ll give an example.
Those who share with me.
There are 4 ladies who shared.
One lady, who shared with me,
the son-in-law got an affair attending NCC.
So, he (son-in-law) told this lady,
‘It’s okay, I’m once saved, always saved.
I’m once righteous, always righteous.’
You see. It’s real. It’s from first hand.
That means this lady tell me the son-in-law.
Ya, shared with me, attending NCC.
You see, all these, Joseph Prince won’t tell you.
He’s destroying lives.
Those he destroying lives,
he won’t tell you.
Another second case.
Second case is this lady told me from a Methodist church.
Then she told me for 4 years,
the husband was having adultery,
living apart from her.
Where was the husband worshipping?
NCC.
Because my sins are all forgiven.
You know, I’m once saved always saved.
You see that.
He (Joseph Prince) doesn’t want to share all this.
He’s destroying lives.
And the third story,
this man, his wife got into an adultery.
And then he divorced the wife.
The wife and the lover
lifting their hands worshipping God in NCC.
So, you know,
he’s not going to tell you all these things.”
PART TWO
One persistent question that is usually raised is,
if Joseph Prince is teaching false doctrines,
why are true Christians drawn to his church?
It is not difficult to explain
why the false grace doctrine of Joseph Prince
is able to draw believers to his sermons and his church.
First, there are sincere and honest Christians
who want to live for God.
At the same time,
they have overly sensitive consciences to their failures.
They are not looking for an excuse to sin
but somehow couldn’t find true freedom from bondage.
On their most terrible day,
they decide to get on the internet for some relief,
and out comes Joseph Prince with his grace message.
And as they begin to hear from Joseph Prince
that they don’t have to see themselves as unworthy
because God loves them as they are,
and God sees them as righteous
because they have the righteousness of Christ
– True.
Further, they hear from Joseph Prince that all their sins:
past, present and future are forgiven
without the need for confession,
and nothing that they do will ever separate them from God
– False.
Tell me, was there a ring of truth in what they heard?
Yes!
But is it the whole truth?
No!
Only half of it is the truth.
While the first half is true,
the second half is a lie.
Time and again, I have pointed out on my website
about the half-truth deception
which is a hallmark of Joseph Prince’s theology.
And here, it strikes again.
Once Joseph Prince hooks you with the first half of the truth,
pulling the wool of deception over your unsuspecting eyes
about the other untrue half becomes easy.
Since these honest and sincere believers
were not looking for an excuse to sin or disobey God,
the message of grace by Joseph Prince was liberating for them,
even though the half-truth message was distorted.
These true believers seem to have discovered
‘a new revelation of grace’
that has set them free in the teachings of Joseph Prince.
Can you now see how genuine and honest Christians
can find ‘liberty’ even in distorted truth?
Conversely, there are also believers
who have little discipline,
are complacent about their lives,
and are starting to involve themselves in unholy living.
When they hear the same grace message of Joseph Prince,
they are immediately attracted to it
because of what Joseph Prince said
– that God will never leave them nor forsake them
no matter what they do
– false.
And they further hear from Joseph Prince
that when they sin,
they are not to confess their sins
because their sins have all been forgiven,
but they are to confess their righteousness
– false.
What they have heard would be warmly welcomed by them
because they suddenly found a new guilt-free way to sin
– that when they sin,
they are not to confess sins
but their righteousness.
Instead of drawing them closer to God
through reading the word and prayer,
they would become even more complacent and compromised
in their Christian living.
And hearing from Joseph Prince
that they are made primarily
to enjoy the grace and the love of God
and that their loving God is no longer the issue,
and that Christianity is effortless,
as everything is done by Christ for them,
they become worse in their complacent state.
They begin to attack the true-grace people
who try to correct their distorted grace doctrine
as grace-haters, modern Pharisees, and works-obsessed people,
who are mixing grace with works
simply because Joseph Prince has postured them
in these derogatory terms to his congregation.
Instead of growing nearer to God,
they got further away from God
in the name of Joseph Prince’s grace teachings.
Now they have found a new and liberated way
of handling their present and future sins
– to ignore them
as they have all been forgiven at the cross 2,000 years ago.
Can we now see how the half-truth grace message of Joseph Prince
can both be ‘liberating’
to those who are honest about living the Christian life,
and at the same time,
destructive for those
who are looking for a way to feed the flesh?
Joseph Prince has, on countless times in his books and messages,
trumpeted the fact that
many have been delivered from their bondage by his grace theology.
But he has remained deceptively silent
about the many who are destroyed by the same grace message.
We can understand why so many genuine believers
who may have been wounded by legalism
are naturally drawn towards the grace message.
What they didn’t know is that
they are swinging from one extreme of legalism
to another possible extreme of libertinism.
These genuine Christians may not have started out in libertinism,
but they may end up like those ‘fleshly’ Christians,
who may later rationalise that their present and future sins
are not a bother anymore;
after all, they have all been forgiven.
Joseph Prince never fails to justify
that he does not condone sin,
nor does he encourage Christians to sin.
But that doesn’t help a teeny-weeny bit
in alleviating the serious abuses
that his false teachings can and have led to.
He cannot wriggle his way out
by just saying that he is against sin
and that he doesn’t encourage others to sin.
Let me give you an illustration.
Let’s assume that Joseph Prince was to release the dam
that stands between a huge village and the waters.
He cannot just harp on the fact
that with the release of the waters,
he has saved many people with the fresh supply of water.
At the same time,
he has to be held totally responsible for the many
who have drowned and are swept off
by the rushing waters to their destruction.
Oh, Joseph Prince would love to claim credit
for providing waters to the many who needed them,
but he plainly refuses to take responsibility
for the many other lives
that have been destroyed by the rushing waters.
It is like this mayor who tells his citizens
that he is against robbers
and that he is afraid
that robbers may come and destroy their homes,
and he warns his people about them.
Yet, on the other hand,
he tells his citizens that it is perfectly alright
to leave their doors open for most of the time
to enjoy the nice and cool breeze.
If robbers were to enter the house when the doors are opened,
and the people are robbed and killed,
the mayor must be held responsible
for misleading the citizens
by engaging in double-talk (as Joseph Prince often does).
Does it help for the mayor to say,
“Oh, didn’t I tell you all that I am against robbers,
and didn’t I warn you about robbers?”
Does it help for Joseph Prince to say,
“Oh, didn’t I tell you I am against sin,
and I hate sin?”
But at the same time, Mr Mayor,
you told them to open their doors,
didn’t you?
But at the same time, Joseph Prince,
you taught them the heretical teachings
that all their past, present and future sins are forgiven,
and no more confession for the forgiveness of sins is needed,
didn’t you?
You told and gave them the false hope
that they will never be judged ever again
– and they will never lose their salvation,
no matter what,
even though they are living a lifestyle of sin,
didn’t you?
So, when believers get into horrible sin
and meet with a tragic end
because of the double-talk, feel-good teachings
and heretical doctrine of Joseph Prince
that appeal to their flesh,
no amount of justification by Joseph Prince (that he is against sin)
will help to alleviate his responsibility.
Joseph Prince frequently boasted about the many testimonies
that his grace theology has set people free from their bondage.
However, if there are tragic testimonies
that people’s lives have been wrecked
because they practise his teaching,
he is never going to tell you
and he would immediately disclaim responsibility
if they were to come out into the open.
As for myself,
I have many people who came to tell me about
how the lives of their relatives and friends were wrecked
because they came under the influence of Joseph Prince’s teachings.
One Christian lady personally told me that her son-in-law,
who is a believer, committed adultery
and is still with the woman
because he was convinced by Joseph Prince’s theology
that all our sins have been forgiven: past, present and future,
and that our salvation can never be lost, no matter what.
Another sister who is a believer, shared with me
that her husband had committed adultery for several years.
And during the period of his adultery,
guess where he was worshipping
– at Joseph Prince’s New Creation Church.
A Christian brother told me that
when his wife committed adultery,
where was she and her lover worshipping?
– they were raising their hands worshipping God
at Joseph Prince’s New Creation Church.
These occurrences are not at all surprising
because of Joseph Prince’s teachings
that all their future sins have been forgiven (including adulterous sins)
and that Christians can never lose their salvation
(even though they had committed adultery without repenting.)
Mind you, these 3 cases
are just a few of the many first-hand accounts of similar stories
that I have personally heard.
It doesn’t help a tiny bit
for Joseph Prince to defend himself that he is against sin.
He can shout all he wants that he is not teaching the people to sin
– the fact remains his Pseudo grace teachings
would lead and have led to that horrible licentious end.
This is because some of the key aspects
of Joseph Prince’s grace doctrines are as follows:
All your future sins – any sin, whether big or small and whether they be anger, lying, adultery, rape, murder, etc, are automatically forgiven.
There is no confession of sins required after conversion for whatever sins, (even rape or murder) you may have committed. If you confess your sins (for example, rape or murder), you are insulting God because all your future sins (including rape or murder) have been forgiven at the cross.
When you sin (including pornography or adultery or murder, etc), Prince disallows you to confess these sins to be forgiven but he teaches that you are to confess you have the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus when you are in the very act of watching pornography or committing adultery, or murdering someone.
And that since you are once righteous, always righteous, there is nothing you can do to forfeit your salvation even though you are living a lifestyle of sin till the day you die because you are once saved, forever saved.
God is even blind to your sin after you become a Christian. The Holy Spirit does not convict you of sin; the devil does a better job at that.
With such horrendous teachings,
can you see that it is so easy
for those who are influenced by Joseph Prince
to remain in sin,
being deceived by him
that they are, nonetheless, once saved, always saved.
Joseph Prince is so deceptive
that his teachings are actually giving the people
the license to sin,
while at the same time,
he can craftily claim that he isn’t overtly teaching it.
That’s the kind of crafty wolf that you are dealing with.
So, Church, you had better wake up!
Shepherds, you had better keep warning the flock
about such destructive heresies
that are churned out by Joseph Prince
that would ultimately destroy the church!
Let me quote what Lindsay Lim,
an Ex New Creation Church member for 18 years
has to say about such destructive teachings of Joseph Prince:
“At this point,
I wish to share some key teachings of Joseph Prince
which I believe can destroy a believer’s life.
There are so many I can share
but due to the practicality of space, I will highlight some:
The first aspect of Joseph Prince’s heresies
is that Christians should just confess
‘we are the righteousness of God in Christ’
whenever we are tempted or when we have fallen into sin.
This is a toxic teaching
as just by the use of a simple illustration,
I would reveal how false such a teaching is.
If a child does something wrong that hurts his parents
and all the child does is going around to confess
‘I am right, I am right’
all day long instead of saying sorry to his parents,
people around him would say he is a spoilt brat
and I believe his parents would be heartbroken as well.
This boy would be seen as rebelling against his parents
by doing what he is doing.
Likewise, by teaching Christians to confess
‘we are the righteousness of God in Christ’
when we sin against God,
Joseph Prince is in fact encouraging us to be rebellious
and ignoring God’s feelings
when we break His laws and His heart.
If we are living in rebellion
and don’t want to be reconciled to our Abba Father,
how can we continue to walk with God?
In fact, the Bible gives a very serious warning
about outright rebellion
and how it leads to the work of witchcraft
in our life and in the church.
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry…” (1 Sam 15:23)
So, Joseph Prince by his teaching
is actually encouraging his followers
to rebel against God.”
One of Joseph Prince’s final defences
has always been to use the excuse
that since every church has her fair share of such people
who continue to sin,
no matter what the church teaches
– so why pick on his church?
But one mustn’t be fooled by Joseph Prince
as no true evangelical church
will ever teach what Prince teaches.
Just 4 examples:
1. That all future sins are already forgiven without confession.
2. And when one sins, he is not to confess his sins
but he is to declare how righteous he is in Christ.
3. God is even blind to your sin after you become a Christian.
4. The Holy Spirit does not convict you of sin;
the devil does a better job at that.
It is these very heretical teachings Joseph Prince teaches
which no true evangelical church will ever teach,
that are responsible for deceiving people
that they are once saved, always saved,
even though they are living a lifestyle of sin
– and leading them to their final destruction.
(Note that regarding the last sentence,
even the Perseverance of the Saints’ doctrine
never teaches that.)
I am not saying that people themselves are not responsible
for their decisions and actions.
It takes 2 hands to clap.
But because of the massive influence
that he exercises over the people,
Joseph Prince’s heretical teachings
have played no small part
in egging the people to move in a certain direction
that are detrimental and destructive to their well-being.
Rev George Ong