Space does not permit listing the scores of Christian teachers of humanistic psychology or questionable theology and practices. The major leaders we list below have dramatically moulded the faith of literally thousands of churches and millions of Christian people. They may be cited as an illustration of the problems of this field in general:
 

Norman Vincent Peale:
He has mixed humanistic psychology and occultic mental techniques with Christian terminology. For example, in his book on Positive Imaging, he says you can send thoughts to hover over people's minds, eventually bursting in on them, compelling them to do things like write out checks for $5,000. He has also written many forewords to books supporting psychic practices or teachers. See, for example, his foreword in Helen Keller's My Religion, where she testifies to her belief in the occultic practices and philosophy of the 18th century medium Emmanuel Swedenborg.
 

Robert Schuller:
He has replaced some important biblical doctrines with modern psychological concepts. This is clearly revealed in his book such as, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation.
 

Kenneth Copeland:
He claims that he believes in and teaches the doctrine of the deity of Jesus Christ. Yet in the February 1987 Believers Voice of Victory magazine, he gives a prophecy of Jesus Christ where Jesus stated through him: "They crucified me for claiming that I was God. But I didn't claim I was God; I just claimed I walked with Him and that He was in Me. Hallelujah. That's what you're doing." Copeland stands by this prophecy today. He must stand by it, of course, otherwise he is guilty of false prophecy. His response to critics is that he is not denying the deity of Christ, merely that Christ was saying through him that while on earth He never claimed He was God. But this is wrong. While He was on earth Christ did claim He was God (John 5:18; John 10:30; John 14:6; John 20:28). Copeland has also taught that Christ was "born again" while in hell.
 

Kenneth Hagin:
He has taught that Christ did not specifically die for our sins, but instead experienced a sin nature like Adam's. While on the cross, the important thing that happened was that Christ accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own spirit. When He was in hell, Jesus became the first one ever "born again."

Paul Yonggi Cho:
He teaches we can "incubate" or unleash ideas (by thinking, visualization, and meditation) which will enter what he terms "the fourth dimension," a level of reality where our ideas can become successful manipulators of the physical world.
 

Robert Tilton:
He misinterprets the biblical teaching concerning tithing and giving money for the ministry in his "Success in Life" programs. For example, like many other "faith" teachers, he teaches a hundredfold return on giving. If this principle is really true, then possibly he should give his money to poor people and thereby increase his wealth a hundredfold, no longer needing people to send him money.
 

Charles Capps and John Osteen:
They teach a system of positive confession that has elements similar to pagan occultism and magic. There are "words of power" similar to magical spells which, once uttered, powerfully influence people or change reality. In Dynamics of Faith and Confession (1983) Charles Capps redefines faith and makes salvation a ritual technique. He teaches the Virgin Birth was accomplished through Mary's positive confession. Here, he appears to teach that what Mary conceived by positive confession was not the eternal second person of the Godhead but the verbal power of God which became personified on earth as Jesus. "Jesus was the personification of God's Word on this earth...Jesus in Word form was the creator of all things."
 

Morton Kelsey:
He is an Episcopal priest and Jungian psychologist, rejects biblical authority. Kelsey believes Jesus was a psychic and one of the greatest shamans (or witchdoctors) who ever lived. Christians are to be just like Jesus, that is, become psychics and shamans, following in His footsteps.
 

Agnes Sanford:
She was a Jungian, who believed that God could work through "good" spirits and the spirits of people who have died. She believed God used some mediums to heal people. Like modern channelers, she also believed that angels and dead saints could "speak and act in and through us." She accepted other occult teachings and practices and denied certain important biblical doctrines.
 

E. W. Kenyon:
He taught supernatural power is unleashed by the words we speak. Therefore he said, "You confess that you are perfectly healed while the disease is making full headway in your body." He would say that if you have to ask for faith, "all prayer for faith is nothing but unbelief."
 

Napoleon Hill:
He was a spiritist whose beliefs were derived from or influenced by the spirit world. For example, see his confession of this in his book, Grow Rich with Peace of Mind. He is the grandfather of the Success/Positive Mental Attitude seminars taught widely to leaders in business and industry.
 

Jerry Savelle:
He teaches "if you will please God, you will be rich."
 

    The above is only a small sampling of errors that are being taught by Christian leaders in the Positive Thinking and Faith-Confession movements. In every case we know of, the root problem is either rejecting the Bible as a final authority or being ignorant of its teachings.
 

John Ankerberg & John Weldon