For Discussion:
Foundational Belief #1: The Deity of Christ
Jesus is God in flesh (John 1:1,14). He is fully God and fully man (Col. 2:9) thus, He has two natures: God and man. He is not half God and half man. He is 100% God and 100% man. He never lost his divinity.
Additional Biblical Support (isn't it somewhat ludicrous to have to be so basic?):
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
(We could go on and on)
In Word of Faith the Deity of Christ is consistently denigrated:
EVIDENCE
"don't be disturbed when people accuse you of thinking you are God...the more you get to be like Me, the more they are going to think that way of you. 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 with Me" (Copeland, "Take Time to Pray," Believer's Voice of Victory, #15, 2 February 1987, p. 9).
"Jesus was on the earth just a man, not the son of God" (Frederick K.C. Price, Tape #RP 19, May 1993).
"You are as much the incarnation of God as Jesus Christ was" (Kenneth Hagin, The Word of Faith, December 1980, p. 14).
"But Jesus didn't show up perfect, he grew into his perfection. You know Jesus, in one scripture in the Bible he went on a journey, and he was tired. You better hope God don't get tired. Isaiah 50 says, 50, 60, somewhere, says where we have a God who fainteth not, neither is weary (Isa. 40:28). But Jesus did, if he came as God and he got tired, he says he sat down by the well 'cause he was tired. Boy we're in trouble. And somebody said, well, Jesus came as God. Well how many of you know the Bible says God never sleeps, nor slumbers. And yet in the book of Mark we see Jesus asleep in the back of the boat.
Y'all please listen to me, please listen to me. This ain't no heresy. I am not some false prophet, I am just reading this thing out to you the Bible. I am just telling you all these fantasy preachers have been preaching all of this stuff for all of these years and we bought the package. And the question mark was there. And we are now - faith can never go past that question mark, and we've tolerated and put it up, put up with things that we had authority over ... -- Creflo Dollar
Paul Crouch: "In other words, in so many words, you’re right, no where in the New Testament did he literally get up . . ."
Kenneth Copeland: ". . . preach and claim that He was God . . ."
Paul Crouch: ". . . and say, ‘I am God.’ Did He? I stand corrected."
Since Word of Faith teaching consistently and completely denigrates the deity of Christ it is incumbent upon Bible believing Christians to maintain a proper Biblical belief in realtion to the Nature of Christ.