For those of you who are questioning the teachings of Beth Moore, I would encourage you, that the uneasiness you might be feeling is warranted.
From what I have seen she takes passages of scripture out of context to make them say nothing close to their original purpose and equates them to a sort of "me" status. She uses foolish phrases in her booklets, such as, "what does that verse mean to you." Her focus is this life, in her teachings, not the spiritual inner life. And Christ is not her focus, He is secondary to the teaching of law.
We should never read the word of God to decide what we want to make the scriptures say. Our aim in reading the Word is to allow the Holy Spirit to show us what the Lord meant so that we come in line with His will, we should not attempt to making the Bible come in line with our own will.
One of her techniques is to engage the audience by having them repeat after her, this is a very effective cult technique, once the leader can get the audience in a childlike stance, automatically accepting everything she says, she will say almost anything and the infantlike audience will fawn all over her. She is obviously doing everything right in her method of crowd pleasing and marketing, her popularity demonstrates this. Another method for mesmerizing her audience is to tell personal stories and regale the hearers with jokes that loosen up those engaged. Superficial people love lots of humorous personal stories.
Beth Moore is friends with people like Joyce Meyers, Joel Osteen and Rick Warren, this all by itself should be the first red flag. Our companions and those who endorse us are a huge clue as to our bent.
From the little that I have seen, it is clear that she is your typical prosperity, better life, preachers, claiming that if we follow certain principles in our life we will have health, wealth and popularity. And, it has worked for her, she is their example.
She has said silly things like "God took her to the zoo and we had a playdate with God and He talked to me." OH PLEASE!!!!
In conclusion, Beth Moore camps on the superficial of this life, neglecting the Spiritual and twisting Scripture to such a degree that it is no longer truth. She is a very good, well dressed and charismatic motivational speaker, whether or not she is a believer is highly questionable.
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