At The Dissenter, we are committed to proclaiming the truth of God’s Word while dragging into the light the wolves who twist it to serve the devil’s agenda. Over the years, we’ve exposed a long procession of frauds—charlatans, grifters, heretics, and smooth-talking deceivers—men and women like Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Steven Furtick, Beth Moore, T.D. Jakes, and many that you may not have ever even heard of, each one helping pave the broad road to destruction with a smile and a Scripture ripped out of context.

Today, we introduce number 64 on our ever-growing roster of deceivers: Joseph Prince.

Few modern deceivers are as slick and dangerous as Joseph Prince. This Singapore-based megachurch celebrity markets a sugar-coated “grace” that is nothing less than spiritual poison. With a charismatic smile and feel-good messages, Prince has amassed a global following—but behind the positive vibes lies a brazen heretic peddling a counterfeit gospel. He twists Scripture to tickle itching ears and denies the very truths that lead to repentance and holy living. In short, Joseph Prince is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, preaching “another gospel” entirely, and the church must not be fooled.

Joseph Prince (born 1963 as Xenonamandar Singh) co-founded New Creation Church in Singapore in 1983 and became its senior pastor in 1990. He was born to a Sikh priest father and Chinese mother, but today sports a Christianized name and leads a 34,000-member congregation from a luxury $500 million auditorium. Prince’s ministry spans the globe through TV broadcasts, books, and conferences, and with it a lavish lifestyle—so much so that even back in 2008 observers questioned his extravagant wealth. Yet for all his outward success, what Prince actually preaches is a twisted mix of truth and error that betrays the gospel of Jesus Christ.

At the core of Joseph Prince’s doctrine is what critics dub “hyper-grace”—essentially, antinomianism (lawlessness) repackaged for itching ears. Prince teaches that once you’re under grace, God’s moral law and commandments have no binding effect on you. “The law is not for you the believer… The law is not applicable to someone who is under the new covenant of grace,” he insists.

According to Prince, Christians should never be told to obey God’s Law or even to confess their sins. He brazenly writes, “Under the new covenant, we don’t have to keep on asking the Lord… for forgiveness because He has already forgiven us.” To Prince, any ongoing repentance or acknowledgment of sin is unnecessary—a stance that flatly contradicts Jesus’ own teaching for believers to pray “Forgive us our debts” daily (Matthew 6:12) and marks Prince’s message as blatant heresy.

Worse still, Prince claims his no-repentance, no-Law gospel came by direct divine revelation. He recounts how in 1997 he “distinctly heard the voice of the Lord” telling him he was “not preaching grace” radically enough and needed to stop “mixing grace with law.” By asserting God personally commanded him to jettison God’s Law, Prince engages in modern Montanism—the false claim of new prophetic revelation that implicitly denies Scripture’s sufficiency. Equally alarming, he attributes to God the very lie that Christians may live lawlessly, essentially blaspheming the Lord by making Him the author of Prince’s antinomian errors. Two thousand years of Christian teaching testify that this “hyper-grace” is nothing but old-fashioned lawlessness. The Apostle Paul utterly condemned the idea that we “continue in sin that grace may abound,” declaring “By no means!” (Romans 6:1-2). Yet Prince proudly teaches the opposite, leaving his followers thinking they can spurn Christ’s moral commands without consequence.

To bolster his extreme grace doctrine, Prince even denies that God ever judges or disciplines for sin under the new covenant. He outrageously claims that if God were to judge sin today, “He has to apologize to Jesus” for the cross, and that “God is not judging America (or any country in the world today).” According to Prince, all wrath, judgment, and even Holy Spirit conviction of sin are now obsolete—as if God has laid aside His holiness. He teaches that the Holy Spirit never convicts believers of wrongdoing, twisting John 16:8 by arguing there is “no impartation of faith” when one hears the commandments preached. In Prince’s view, calls to repent or warnings about sin only breed “condemnation,” which he labels the root of all problems. Thus he portrays any mention of sin, law, or judgment as negative “religion” to be avoided. The result is a message that comforts people in their sins—a spiritual anesthesia that leaves them numb to conviction and in danger of damnation.

Hand-in-hand with his hyper-grace doctrine, Joseph Prince preaches a full-throated prosperity gospel. In his telling, God never wants you to be sick, poor, or “defeated” in any area of life. “You are destined to reign in life… to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord’s desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure,” Prince said.

If that weren’t clear enough, he mocks any suggestion that God might allow trials or hardship for our good: “Religion will tell you that ‘God’ wants you sick to teach you character and patience… that ‘God’ wants you poor… But these are LIES from the pit of hell!” In Prince’s warped theology, health and riches are every Christian’s birthright, and any doctrine that says God can use suffering or that believers should be content in humble circumstances is demonically inspired falsehood.

He even teaches that Jesus died to give us material prosperity. He claims that on the cross Jesus bore “not just our sins, but also our sicknesses, diseases and infirmities, and ‘by His stripes we are healed’!” By wrenching Isaiah 53:5 out of context, he asserts that every Christian is guaranteed bodily healing through the Atonement, as if Christ’s primary mission was our temporal well-being. In doing so, Prince tragically distorts the gospel—trading the true good news of forgiveness of sin for a cheap promise of health and wealth.

One of Prince’s most grotesque teachings is his claim that Jesus was the tithe—yes, the tithe. In a sermon on giving, Prince declared that “the money that comes into your hand is not [redeemed]… Jesus is the tithe… They offered the tithe as a burnt offering on the cross.” He claimed this came directly from God the night before.

To Joseph Prince, tithing your money breaks a spiritual curse, and Jesus Himself was the model for financial seed-sowing. This isn’t creative exegesis. It’s calculated exploitation wrapped in faux spirituality. He doesn’t preach the cross — he monetizes it.

Prince’s associations are just as corrupt as his doctrines. He praises Kenneth Hagin, the father of the Word of Faith heresy. He’s been welcomed at Hillsong conferences and shares platforms with the worst prosperity hucksters alive today. His ministry is a who’s who of spiritual grifters, each one endorsing the next. These are not guilty by association errors — they are guilt by shared worldview. He doesn’t just hang out with wolves — he howls with them.

And the damage is catastrophic. His false gospel creates counterfeit converts by the millions — people who have never been broken over their sin, never truly repented, and never actually met the real Jesus. They believe in a God who gives them everything and demands nothing. His “gospel” doesn’t offend, doesn’t convict, and doesn’t save. It’s all cotton candy and no cross. And when the prosperity fails, as it always does, these people don’t question Joseph Prince — they question Christ.

Joseph Prince is a false teacher of the highest order. A theological con artist. A velvet-tongued emissary of hell. He offers poison with a smile and tells you it’s communion. He doesn’t proclaim Christ crucified — he markets Christ commodified. He is not merely in error. He is a danger. A smooth-spoken, well-dressed, jet-setting danger to souls.

Links

1. https://www.christianpost.com/news/singapore-megachurch-defends-pastors-500000-salary.html
2. https://www.fightingforthefaith.com/2015/01/joseph-prince-hyper-grace.html
3. https://disntr.com/2023/07/27/joseph-prince-preaches-another-gospel-the-lie-that-grace-means-sin-doesnt-matter/
4. https://protestia.com/2021/04/01/joseph-prince-teaches-god-has-to-apologize-to-jesus-if-he-judges-sin-again/
5. https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/06/24/discernment-ministries-warn-against-hyper-grace-movement-and-joseph-prince/
6. https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/12/18/joseph-prince-preaches-that-jesus-was-the-tithe-given-by-god/
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihkKUNm_8Ao (sermon excerpt: “Jesus is the tithe” — Joseph Prince)
8. https://www.christianpost.com/news/false-grace-message-sweeping-across-churches.html
9. https://protestia.com/2023/06/09/joseph-prince-uses-demonically-inspired-logic-to-dismiss-gods-holiness-warns-of-hellish-doctrines/
10. https://reformationcharlotte.org/2023/06/28/joseph-prince-claims-he-was-spoken-to-directly-by-god-to-preach-radical-grace/
11. https://www.christianpost.com/news/joseph-prince-hyper-grace-under-fire.html
12. https://protestia.com/2021/03/10/hyper-grace-is-a-terminal-heresy-heres-why/