Steven Furtick is well-known for outlandish comments that have landed him with accusations of modalism. Furtick is most widely known for a style of preaching called “narcigesis” a term coined by discernment ministries to describe Furtick’s own teaching. Steven Furtick is an obvious false teacher, but that doesn’t stop Elevation Church from being a top ten largest church in America.
This latest Facebook post by Steven Furtick has gone viral for promoting universalism.
Steven Furtick, in the post, provides assurance that you are forgiven simply on the basis of the fact that God is a god who forgives. He bases this entire argument on the Imago Dei claiming we are what God is.
Obviously, we aren’t omnipresent, omnipotent, or triune. By Furtick’s logic only Satan and his demons are unforgiven. This is universalism as Furtick infers that all people are save, as all people are forgiven.
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Following the logic of “what He is; you are”, the post should have said this:
“If God is love, you are love.
If God is capable, you are capable.
If God is forgiving, you are forgiving.”
Aside from the fact of the incommunicable attributes of God (some you mentioned), it didn’t even make logical sense to begin with.
Predictably enough he used the erroneous and unscriptural reasoning as an attempt to lead up to a wrong understanding and application of imago dei. Given the rampant abuse of that principle these days, and for what it is most being wrongly used, his likely purpose for posting such fallacious inanity is fairly obvious.