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Jimmy Swaggart and his study bible contain many unbiblical teachings and heresies. Swaggart denies the Genesis account of creation and promotes the "gap theory." He claims God lives on the planet Heaven, like Mormonism teaches. Swaggart also claims speaking in tongues is necessary for believers and the church. Most egregiously, Swaggart denies the Trinity and teaches that each person of the Godhead has their own separate body, which is a heretical view of God's nature.

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Jimmy Swaggart

Jimmy Swaggart and his study bible contain many unbiblical teachings and heresies. Swaggart denies the Genesis account of creation and promotes the "gap theory." He claims God lives on the planet Heaven, like Mormonism teaches. Swaggart also claims speaking in tongues is necessary for believers and the church. Most egregiously, Swaggart denies the Trinity and teaches that each person of the Godhead has their own separate body, which is a heretical view of God's nature.

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Jimmy Swaggart

and
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries

Both Jimmy Swaggart and his so-called “study bible” are


anything but biblically sound. All it takes is a reading of
Swaggart’s commentary (which he provides in red ink,
apparently equating it with words of Christ) to realize that
Swaggart is not just a poor teacher of the Scriptures, but a
certified false teacher and a heretic.
In his commentary on Genesis 1:2, right at the beginning of
the Bible, Swaggart makes the incredibly unbiblical claim that “God did not
originally create the Earth without form and void;” even though the verse
says that is exactly what God did. Swaggart explains that at some point after the original creation noted
in Genesis 1:1 there was a “cataclysmic happening” which Swaggart claims was the “revolt of Lucifer
against God.” As a result of this “cataclysmic happening” the Earth was reduced to being “without
form and void” and God had to re-create everything. It goes without saying that there is absolutely no
Biblical evidence for this whatsoever. It is a false teaching known as the “Gap Theory” and it has been
around for a long time, and it was soundly refuted almost as soon as it began.

But wait, there’s more:


In his commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:2, Swaggart claims that God lives on the planet Heaven. This is
Mormonism, which teaches that heaven is a planet near the star Kolob.

In his commentary on Luke 24:49 Swaggart claims that the passage is teaching the “Baptism with the
Holy Spirit, which Swaggart claims is “accompanied by the speaking with other tongues.” Swaggart
goes on to claim unless a believer is able to speak in tongues, both the believer and the Church are “of
little worth to the Kingdom of God.”

Perhaps the most egregious example of not just a poor understanding of God’s Word, is Swaggart’s
blatant heresy. In reading his commentary in his so-called “study bible,” it becomes clear that Swaggart
denies God. At least he denies the one true and living God of the Bible, the Triune God of Scripture. In
God’s place Swaggart teaches tri-theism, the heresy that there are three separate gods making of the
Godhead. It goes without saying that Jesus has a body. We know this because Jesus died on the cross,
rose from the dead, and ascended bodily into heaven. We also know that Jesus had two distinct and
inseparable natures: one divine and one human. This is know as the hypostatic union. A doctrine which
Swaggart denies, instead teaching the kenotic theory which states that Jesus emptied Himself of His
Divine attributes while on earth. In his commentaries on Exodus 33:23 and Deuteronomy 4:16,
Swaggart claims that God the Father also has His own body; and in his commentary on John 1:32,
Swaggart teaches that God the Holy Spirit has His own body. This could not be more unbiblical, and it
could not be more heretical. This is a denial of the very nature of God, and Swaggart is changing God
into something He is not. Therefore, Swaggart is teaching a different god, but not the God of the Bible.

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