The Little Gods Doctrine: A Discussion of the Controversial Teaching

Over the past 30 years or so some televangelists have taught that believers in Jesus are "little gods". Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, and Joyce Meyer have all stated that since we're spiritual beings created in God's image, we are in effect little gods. The critics of course seized on those comments as blasphemy and labeled the teachers heretics. In this video I discuss the history of the doctrine and what the Bible says on the matter.

Kenyon's Thoughts on Incarnation -

"Every false religion that denies the Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth has attempted to provide a theory of universal Incarnation in order to stimulate to a higher moral and spiritual life.

Theosophy tries to make us believe that all men have the nature of Deity.

The same thing is held by practically all our modern liberal theological teachers and preachers! That the so-called “Spark of Divinity” dwells in all men, that the New Birth is simply the awakening, the blowing-into-a-flame, of this spark of Divinity.

If man had a spark of Deity or any part of Deity abiding in him, then man was already God Incarnate.

We know that this theory is fallacious, for humanity has experimentally proven it false.

The entire New Testament contradicts it.

If we accept any of the Bible, we must accept it all.

The Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth is no more difficult to believe nor to understand than the creation of the first man or the birth of a child.If God is Almighty, He had power to beget a child in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

If Jesus was Incarnate, Man and God can become united; God can dwell in these human bodies of ours; God can impart His own life and nature to our spirits, and we may have God’s life in these human bodies.

If Jesus was Incarnate, then immortality is a fact.

If we do receive Eternal Life for our spirits, then we have positive assurance that these bodies will become Immortal at the return of the Lord Jesus.

If the Incarnation is a fact, Christianity is supernatural.

Every man who has been “born again” is an Incarnation, and Christianity is a miracle.

The believer is as much an Incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth.

We cannot conceive of any man’s desiring to doubt the Incarnation, as it offers the only solution of life’s mystery; it gives the reason for man’s being; it makes life with its burdens, sorrows, and grief which culminate in death tolerable; it throws light upon this human problem that can come from no other source.

The Incarnation has been the craving of the Universal Man, and if Jesus of Nazareth was Incarnate, the universal cry has found its answer in Christianity.The Incarnation is the basic miracle of Christianity.

It proves the Pre-existence of Christ and is the foundation and reason for all subsequent miraculous manifestations of divine power.

Man’s condition demands an Incarnation, because he is spiritually dead and without an approach to God.

The Incarnation of Deity with humanity will provide a Substitute of Deity and humanity united on such a ground that the Incarnate One can stand as man’s mediator, being equal with God on the one hand and united with man on the other; He can bring the two together.

Again, being Deity and humanity united, He can assume the obligations of human treason, satisfy the claims of justice, and thereby bridge the chasm between God and man."