Victor Paul Wierwille was the founder of The Way International.
Education
Wierwille graduated from Mission House College with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees. He then studied at The University of Chicago Divinity School and received a Master of Theology in practical theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Wierwille later studied at Pikes Peak Bible Seminary and Burton College, a non-accredited institution, and received a doctorate in theology.
Career
One book was Jesus Christ is Not God, in which he addressed his belief that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and Messiah but not a persona of the Christian God or a pre-existent being. Wierwille wrote three other works which focused on Jesus Christ and the concept of the Holy Spirit: Jesus Christ Our Passover, Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed, and Receiving the Holy Spirit Today. and his Studies in Abundant Living five-volume series. Wierwille became associated in 1957 with Aramaic Bible scholar George Lamsa who finished his translation work for the Lamsa Bible in Wierwille"s home.
Lamsa and Wierwille together produced the first American Aramaic grammar in 1960 for the study of Biblical manuscripts with the classical Estrangelo letters.
Believing the original New Testament was written in Aramaic, he was a supporter of Lamsa"s translation of the Bible and used it frequently. After graduating from B.G. Leonard"s Gifts of the Spirit class in Calgary, Alberta, Wierwille began teaching a similar class that he initially called Receiving the Holy Spirit Today but soon changed to Power for Abundant Living (PFAL).
Eventually he expanded it into a teaching series, including a foundational, intermediate and advanced class. He died on May 20, 1985 of hepatocellular carcinoma and melanoma.
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