![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The "mortalists", however, believe that a man's spirit is no more or less than the "breath of Elohim (God)", an impersonal force that returns to Elohim (God) at death. Both these groups believe that the soul is mortal. From here on there are two schools of thought which I will simply call the "mortalists" and the "immortalists". The Tanakh (Old Testament) teaches that man is basically composed of two parts - a spirit and a body, which together constitute a "living soul". It was not until my second reading that I began to notice some interesting discrepancies between his teachings and what we would claim to be true biblical doctrine. I had heard that Hagin's doctrines were New Age-influenced in many areas yet as I read his booklet all I could see was plain Bible teaching. In my first reading I was impressed just how similar we were and began to wonder if there were any really serious differences between us. I was recently given copy of one of Kenneth Hagin's booklets, How You Can Know the Will of God (1991) which I read with some interest. To begin with, I think it is fair to say that we are united on all the essential saving doctrines of the Christian emunah (faith) - where we differ (and this is true of most charismatic groups) is in the area of some of the spiritual gifts. This is a subject altogether too large to answer in a single article like this one and so I will take the liberty of focusing on what I believe to be a key doctrine in trying to understand our differences. This short article attempts to answer that question. We have sometimes been as what the similarities and differences are between the teachings of Kenneth Hagin and Messianic Evangelicals. BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT - The Teachings of Kenneth E. ![]()
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