Cut to the chase: Four reasons to avoid Lori Alexander of godlywomanhood
By Elizbeth Prata
Last week I wrote a series on discernment in 6 essays. They are below. I called it “Wolf Week” because false teachers are called wolves in scripture. My own version of Shark Week, lol.
Wolf Week Intro: or, We DO know the heart
Wolf Week # 1: My two “starter false teachers”
Wolf Week # 2: Why Wolves?
Wolf Week # 3: Types of false teachers and their different methods
Wolf Week # 4: Has that false teacher REALLY ‘helped’ you?
Wolf Week # 5: Why does God allow false teachers?
A short follow-up series I am publishing beginning today contains 4 more essays in short form focusing on 4 influential ‘Bible’ teachers. I have written discernment essays on these four previously in years past, but those essays were longer. In articles like that, I include sources, explain the teacher’s errors thoroughly, and provide examples. All this make the essays longer. Nowadays however, people like to read less lengthy material. So I cut to the chase and made shorter essays showing why these folks are false.
Today I look at 4 reasons not to follow Lori Alexander, half of the duo behind godlywomanhood/ The Transformed Wife.
1. Lori Disbelieves in Original Sin
In a post now scrubbed but saved in the Internet Archive (see link ‘Source’), Lori wrote in 2016: “Your children are born in the flesh. It’s not sinful yet since they haven’t sinned, just as Adam’s flesh wasn’t sinful before he sinned“. (Source).
In another example, in 2022 or 2023 The Transformed Wife replied to a woman asking Lori directly about original sin. Her reply was completely unbiblical. (Source: Lindsey Davis-Knotts)-
Disbelieving in Original Sin is heresy. If you want to know more about the denial of Original Sin and its originator, Pelagius, and why it’s a heresy, listen to this sermon “A Survey of Heresies- Pelagianism” by Phil Johnson.
2. Lori teaches that women should not teach doctrine to other women
Sadly her errant interpretation means that she considers everything outside of Titus 2:3-5 ‘doctrine’ and thus she limits her knowledge and her teaching to others to those 2 verses. As a result, her view of the whole counsel of God is warped.
3. Lori is a King James Onlyist
Lori said in a blog post she agrees with Michael Pearl who teaches KJV-Only. Pearl had said in that video, “I believe that the King James Bible is the Word of God and not the other books” (Michael Pearl). Pearl has also said,
“The others are not really translations, they’re not preservations of the Word of God. They’re modern renderings which involve somewhat the imagination of the authors, and they’re all done for the sake of selling something.” (MPearl).
She wrote that she likes it, besides the fact that Michael Pearl taught that it’s the best and only version that is acceptable, but because homosexual is a recently made up word but the KJV uses sodomite and that is a way better word, Lori says.
4. Lori submits to Michael and Debi Pearl’s unbiblical teachings blindly and wholeheartedly.
The Pearls are famously known (or infamously) their book Created to Be His Helpmeet. Lori uses the Pearls’ “wisdom” as her foundational basis for many things in life, including child rearing. Yet we read this from well-regarded pastor, writer, and reviewer Tim Challies:
Created to Be His Helpmeet review by Tim Challies:
Throughout the book, Pearl shows that she is a poor and unwise mentor. In place of the wisdom and the fruit of the Spirit that ought to mark a mentor, she displays a harsh and critical spirit, she offers foolish counsel, she teaches poor theology, she misuses Scripture, and she utterly misses the centrality of the gospel.
Michael Pearl’s book How to Train up a Child, a review titled by Challies “How (Not to) Train up a Child” had so much to say he made his review into two parts. (Part 1, Part 2). About Michael Pearl’s book, Challies said,
But the fact remains that the weight of the book is driven by an unbiblical view of human nature which in turn leads to the wrong emphases. In place of the gracious, loving mercy of gospel is the harsh justice of law.
If you read enough of Lori’s output you will see she actually sees the Pearls as an idol as high or higher than Jesus, IMO.
Lori Alexander’s dependence on the KJV only, the Pearls, and to a lesser degree Bill Gothard’s teachings, along with a limited view of scripture, has drawn her into a sphere where she dispenses seemingly surface good advice but comes from a very cultish place. And we mean CULT. See research by Daniel Schricker, Ph.D, here.
Conclusion
Avoid Lori Alexander. She is a heretic (see # 1), possesses a harsh and critical spirit, is a hypocrite, was abusive to her children when they were young, and dispenses medically unwise and biblically wrong advice. She overreaches, makes absolute statements, and is absent grace and charitableness.
Other, more thorough, Lori Alexander essays here:
