WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF THE “WORD OF FAITH” MOVEMENT? [3 of 3] Seymour had no biblical education because his teacher, Parham, had little, just as Parham's teachers, Dowie and Sandford, had little-to-none. Besides them, the New Thought founder (and root of the Word of Faith movement), Phineas Qimby, had none. This meant his trainees, Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science founder) and Warren Felt Evans, were also lacking biblical training. On top of that and going forward in time, Aimee Semple McPherson, who most Pentecostal and Word of Faith denominations come from, also lacked a biblical education. When you trace the history of the Word of Faith movement, here's their origins and modern result tell us this:; WOF was basically founded by biblically-UNTRAINED leaders. They were not students of the Bible. Instead, they learned from PAGANS and CULTS. Still, even with that non-biblical foundation, today they claim to be extra-spiritual, even more spiritual than other Christians. In fact, they say the rest of us suffer because we are missing out on their teachings. Besides the false teachings, in this way too, they create division in the Church. Why do they do so? It's because they are pushing false teachings that most followers do not recognize as repackaged Hinduism. With only a name change to "Word of Faith" teachers, our Christian Church today has carbon copies of Hinduism's leaders. I believe WOF teachers are just modern-day, Hindu gurus.