(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Creflo Dollar Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. was born in College Park, Georgia on January 28, 1962. Though he was raised in a…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) T.D. Jakes Thomas Dexter Jakes was born on June 9, 1957 in South Charleston, West Virginia and grew up in nearby Vandalia.…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Brian McLaren Brian McLaren (born in 1956) studied humanities at the University of Maryland and graduated with graduate and post-graduate degrees in English.…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Benny Hinn Toufik Benedictus Hinn was born on December 3, 1952 in Jaffa, Israel (modern-day Tel Aviv), the son of a Greek…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Pope Francis Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, the first child of Italian immigrants Mario…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Marcus Borg Marcus Borg was born in 1942 to a Lutheran family in North Dakota. After high school he went to Concordia…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Norman Vincent Peale Norman Vincent Peale was born on May 31, 1898, in Bowersville, Ohio, the first child of Charles and Anna…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Harry Emerson Fosdick Harry Emerson Fosdick was born in Buffalo, New York, on May 24, 1878. As a young boy he claimed…
Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916) founded the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the movement whose followers later took the name Jehovah’s Witnesses. A Pittsburgh businessman who sold his clothing stores to fund his preaching, he claimed to be restoring the faith of the New Testament while denying the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personhood…
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was the leading figure in the founding of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. After William Miller’s prediction that Christ would return in 1844 failed, she claimed to receive visions, some 2,000 over her lifetime, that guided the struggling Adventist movement, and her church still regards her as having a unique, God-given gift…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Joseph Smith Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805 in Sharon, Vermont. When he was a child his family moved to…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Muhammad Muhammad was born around 570 in Mecca in what is now the nation of Saudi Arabia. This was an area where…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Pelagius Historians believe that Pelagius was born in Britain around the year 354. We know little about his early years, but do…
(Recognizing a false teacher is a matter of spiritual discernment, a skill any Christian can and should grow in. If that is what brings you here, begin with my guide to spiritual discernment.) Arius Arius is said to have been Libyan by descent, and he was probably born around 256 AD. We know little about…