Friday, May 18, 2012

Museum of Loons: Kenneth Copeland of Trinity Broadcasting Network


Museum of Loons:  Kenneth “Snake Eyes” Copeland of the Trinity Broadcasting Network

          Tim Naab runs an excellent site on Pentecostalist history and, as we would say, the “History of Loons.”   Tim is generationally rooted in American Pentecostalism.  He has been liberated from it with sorrows for earlier involvements in it.  As such, Tim knows more about them than most of them know about themselves. Tim offers quotes on Ken Copeland.
          Tim has collected some quotes.  We reproduce them here with a suggestion to investigate his website.
          Reformation Anglicanism calls him "Old Snake Eyes."   He looks shifty and he contorts his face when he talks.  Atop that, his theology is serpentine.
          We believe Copeland has six serious, permanent, and untreatable disabilities.  First, he is ignorant.  Second, despite being ignorant, he has an utter inability to be quiet, listen, read, learn and inwardly digest.  Given the first two maladies, he is obsessive-compulsive about incessant talking.  Fourth, he suffers from Pentecostalism.  Fifth, he is greedy.  He has never seen a "green back" for which he did not hustle (he has made millions with Trinity Broadcasting Network).  Six, there are narcissistic features, since there has never been a camera he has not loved.    As stated, these have been permanent and untreatable maladies.
          Here are some quotes collected by Tim.  They are other excellent articles at his website.  This particular article is long, but justifies our inclusion of Ken Copeland in our “Museum of Loons.”  As the Director of the Museum, Kenneth Copeland has been, by our executive decision, made a permanent member and chief exhibit of "Loondom."
         The quotes come from: http://www.seeking4truth.com/quotes_illustrating__kenneth_cop.htm

Quotes Illustrating Kenneth Copeland’s Heretical Teachings

That Adam was God manifest in the flesh.

“God’s reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself, and in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even. ... Adam is as much like God as you could get, just the same as Jesus. ... Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.” (Following the Faith of Abraham I, 1989 audiotape, #01-3001, side 1)

God is the greatest failure in the Universe.

“I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is. ... The biggest one is God. ... I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the Fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least—that’s a big loss, man ... Now, the reason you don’t think of God as a failure is He never said He’s a failure. And you’re not a failure till you say you’re one.” (Praise-a-Thon program on TBN [April 1988] )

God lives on a mother planet

“Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.” (Spirit, Soul and Body I, 1985 audiotape #01-0601, side 1)

“You don’t think earth was first, do you? Huh? Well, you don’t think that God made man in His image, and then made earth in some other image? There is not anything under this whole sun that’s new. Are you hearing what I’m saying? This is all a copy. It’s a copy of home. It’s a copy of the Mother Planet. Where God lives, He made a little one just like His and put us on it.” (Following the Faith of Abraham I, 1989 audiotape, #01-3001, side 1)

The death of Jesus on the Cross did not pay the price for sins.

“It wasn’t the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin ... anybody could do that.” (What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost)

“Every prophet that walked the face of the earth under the Abrahamic covenant could have paid the price if it were a physical death only”  “When He said ‘It is finished’ on that cross,  He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. The plan of redemption had just begun; there were still three days and three nights to be gone through.” “[Jesus] accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own Spirit, and at the moment that He did so, He cried ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’.” “He [Jesus] was down in that pit and there he suffered the punishment for three horrible days and nights for Adam’s treason ... There is a new birth takes place in the very depths of the earth, when the command of God says ‘That’s enough, loose him and let him go’.” (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne)

Jesus was raped by homosexual Roman soldiers every way possible.

“Let me tell you something folks. Anybody in here that’s ever been sexually abused, listen to me right now. Listen to me very carefully. The Bible’s very careful about the way it says these things. But down there in that dungeon, Romans, ungodly men, ungodly men, put Him (Jesus) to every kind of abuse that you can think of. There is no sin that Jesus didn’t bare. There is no thing, there is no such thing as a sexual abuse on somebody that Jesus doesn’t know firsthand what it’s all about. He’s been where you are. I don’t care what you’ve been through, Jesus has been through it. And everything’s done to him that we couldn’t even speak of.” (The Resurrection Truth)

God and Adam are the same size.

“God spoke Adam into existence in authority with words. These words struck Adam’s body in the face. His body and God’s were exactly the same size.” (Holy Bible, Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition 1991, p. 45)

God is “a being that is very uncanny the way He’s very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6’-2”, 6’-3”, that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, [and] has a [hand] span of nine inches across.” (Spirit, Soul and Body I, 1985, audiotape #01-0601, side 1)

“[Adam] was the copy, looked just like [God]. If you stood Adam upside God, they look just exactly alike. If you stood Jesus and Adam side-by-side, they would look and sound exactly alike.” (Authority of the Believer IV, 1987, audiotape #01-0304, side 1)

God has no right to the earth at all; He needs an invitation.

“God had no avenue of lasting faith or moving in the earth. He had to have covenant with somebody. ... He had to be invited in, in other words, or He couldn’t come. God is on the outside looking in. In order to have any say so in the earth, He’s going to have to be in agreement with a man here.” (God’s Covenants With Man II, 1985, audiotape #01-4404, side 1)

The deification of Satan.


Satan is deified as the God this world and is positioned with so much power that he could manage to “turn the light off in God.”

Ownership of the earth is Satan’s.

“God’s on the outside looking in. He doesn’t have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don’t belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, ‘Where have you been?’ Wasn’t any of God’s business.  He [Satan] didn’t even have to answer if he didn’t want to ... God didn’t argue with him a bit! You see, this is the position that God’s been in … Might say, ‘Well, if God’s running things He’s doing a lousy job of it.’ He hadn’t been running ’em, except when He’s just got, you know, a little bit of a chance.” (Image of God in You III, 1989, audiotape #01-1403, side 1)

“Here’s where we’re gonna depart from ordinary church: Now, you see, God is injecting His Word into the earth to produce this Jesus—these faith-filled words that framed the image that’s in Him … He can’t just walk onto the earth and say, ‘Let it be!’ because He doesn’t have the right. He had to sneak it in here around the god of this world that was blockin’ every way that he possibly could.” (The Image of God in You III, 1989, audiotape #01-1403, side 2)

“The Bible says that God gave this earth to the sons of men … and when [Adam] turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look where it left God. If left Him on the outside looking in … He had no legal right to do anything about it, did He? … He had injected Himself illegally into the earth—what Satan had intended for Him to do was to fall for it—pull off an illegal act and turn the light off in God, and subordinate God to himself … He intended to get God into such a trap that He couldn’t get out.” (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017)

“Adam committed high treason; and at that point, all the dominion and authority God had given to him was handed over to Satan. Suddenly, God was on the outside looking in … After Adam’s fall, God found Himself in a peculiar position …God needed an avenue back into the earth …God laid out His proposition and Abram accepted it. It gave God access to the earth and gave man access to God ... Technically, if God ever broke the Covenant, He would have to destroy Himself.” (Our Covenant with God, 1987, pp. 8-11)

Jesus Christ communicates directly with Copeland.

“Don’t be disturbed when people put you down and speak harshly and roughly of you. They spoke that way of Me, should they not speak that way of you? The more you get to be like Me, the more they’re 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 in Me. Hallelujah.” (“Take Time to Pray,” Believer’s Voice of, February 1987, p. 9)

“The Spirit of God spoke to me and He said, ‘Son, realize this. Now follow me in this and don’t let your tradition trip you up.’ He said, ‘Think this way—a twice-born man whipped Satan in his own domain.’ And I threw my Bible down … like that. I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘A born-again man defeated Satan, the firstborn of many brethren defeated him.’ He said, ‘You are the very image, the very copy of that one.’ I said, ‘Well now you don’t mean, you couldn’t dare mean, that I could have done the same thing?’ He said, ‘Oh yeah, if you’d had the knowledge of the Word of God that He did, you could’ve done the same thing, ‘cause you’re a reborn man too.” (Substitution and Identification, 1989, tape #00-0202, side 2)

Atonement Atrocities.

Copeland says that Jesus became a sign of Satan when He was hanging on the cross: “The righteousness of God was made to be sin. He accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own spirit. And at the moment that He did so, He cried, ‘My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?’ You don’t know what happened at the cross. Why do you think Moses, upon instruction of God, raised the serpent upon that pole instead of a lamb? That used to bug me. I said, ‘Why in the world would you want to put a snake up there—the sign of Satan? Why didn’t you put a lamb on that pole?’ And the Lord said, ‘Because it was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross.’ He said, ‘I accepted, in My own spirit, spiritual death; and the light was turned off.’” (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)

“When Jesus cried, ‘It is finished!’ He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne. … Jesus’ death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.” (“Jesus—Our Lord of Glory,” Believer’s Voice of Victory, April 1982, p. 3)

Jesus’ “rebirth” in hell.

“[I]n hell He [Jesus] suffered for you and for me. The Bible says hell was made for Satan and his angles. It was not made for men. Satan was holding the Son of God there illegally … The trap was set for Satan and Jesus was the bait.” (Walking in the Realm of the Miraculous, 1979, p. 77)

Satan blew it on a technicality, according to Faith theology, because Satan had dragged Jesus into hell illegally. As Copeland puts it, “The Devil forgot to take into consideration that Jesus hadn’t sinned Himself but, rather, had merely become sin as a result of the sin of others.” (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)

“… [t]hat Word of the living God went down into that pit of destruction and charged the spirit of Jesus with resurrection power! Suddenly His twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out and come back to life. He began to look like something the devil had never seen before. He was literally being reborn before the devil’s very eyes. He began to flex His spiritual muscles … Jesus was born again—the first-born from the dead the Word calls Him—and He whipped the devil in his own backyard. He took everything he had away from him. He took his keys and his authority away from him.” (“The Price of it All,” Believer’s Voice of Victory, September 1991, p. 4)

Miscellaneous Quotes

“Any O.T. prophet could have atoned for our sins if they knew what Jesus knew.” (Substitution and Identification)

“Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God.” (Now We Are In Christ Jesus, 1980, p. 24)

“Adam was made in the image of God. He was as much female as he was male. He was exactly like God. Then God separated him and removed the female part. Woman means ‘man with the womb.’ Eve had as much authority as Adam did as long as they stayed together.” (Sensitivity of Heart, KCP Publications, 1984, p. 23)

“He [Jesus] is suffering all that there is to suffer. There is no suffering left apart from Him. His emaciated, poured out, little, wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing [hell]. And the Devil thinks he’s got Him destroyed.” (Believer’s Voice of Victory program [21 April 1991]. This message was originally delivered at the Full Gospel Motorcycle Rally Association, 1990 Rally at Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas.)

“As a believer, you have a right to make commands in the name of Jesus. Each time you stand on the Word, you are commanding God to a certain extent because it is His Word.” (Our Covenant with God, KCP Publications, 1987, p. 32)

“God was making promises to Jesus, and Jesus wasn’t even there. But, you see, God deals with things that are not yet as though they already were. That’s the way He gets them to come to pass.” (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017)

Kenneth Copeland, Word of Life Christian Center, Honolulu HI,
Dedication Celebration Service, Evening, Dec. 2, 2001

"And there are going to be multiplied millions upon millions, there's going to be close to a billion people that have been trapped in that religion, that over the next few months are gonna to come into the kingdom of God. (cheering) That's gonna happen, you watch and see what I'm telling you. Because its been ... I'm telling you Satan's fat is in the fire he pushed it over the line, and God has moved, and for over a hundred years the United States has been an instrument of judgment in the hand of God. That's one of the reasons we're blessed, amen? I'd like to get in there and walk around a while but I don't have the time but I can tell you this, that thing has come to an end, its over, I'm talking about Islam and every, all that that stands for. That's over with. Now, God is making His move."

Jesus was infected/injected with satan's sin nature in order for redemption to work


"He [Jesus] is suffering all that there is to suffer. There is no suffering left apart from Him. His emaciated, poured out, little, wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing [hell]. And the Devil thinks he's got Him destroyed."

Kenneth Copeland (Believer's Voice of Victory program, April 21, 1991)

"The righteousness of God was made to be sin. He accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own spirit. And at the moment that He did so, He cried, 'My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?' You don't know what happened at the cross. Why do you think Moses, upon instruction of God, raised the serpent upon that pole instead of a lamb? That used to bug me. I said, 'Why in the world would you want to put a snake up there -- the sign of Satan? Why didn't you put a lamb on that pole?' And the Lord said, 'Because it was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross.' He said, 'I accepted, in My own spirit, spiritual death; and the light was turned off."

Kenneth Copeland (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)

Jesus "put Himself into the hands of Satan when He went to that cross, and took that same nature that Adam did [when he sinned]."

Kenneth Copeland (The Incarnation, 1985, audiotape #01-0402, side 1)

Jesus is said to have remarked, "It was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross....I accepted, in my own spirit, spiritual death; and the light was turned off."

Kenneth Copeland (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)

[Jesus] "had to give up His righteousness"

Kenneth Copeland (The Incarnation, 1985, audiotape #01-0402, side 2)

"How did Jesus then on the cross say, 'My God.' Because God was not His Father any more. He took upon Himself the nature of Satan. And I'm telling you Jesus is in the middle of that pit. He's suffering all that there is to suffer, there is no suffering left . . . apart from Him. His emaciated, little wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing and the devil thinks He's got Him destroyed. But, all of a sudden God started talking."

Kenneth Copeland (Believer's Voice of Victory, TBN, April 21, 1991)


The cross wasn't enough, Jesus redeemed us in hell


"When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption."

Kenneth Copeland (Jesus -- Our Lord of Glory, Believer's Voice of Victory Magazine 10, 4; April 1982, p. 3)

"Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell"

Kenneth Copeland (Holy Bible: Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition, 1991, p.129)

"He [Jesus] allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell....He allowed Himself to come under Satan's control...every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him....They tortured Him beyond anything anybody had ever conceived. For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer."

Kenneth Copeland (The Price of It All, 3)


Jesus died spiritually


"Jesus had to go through that same spiritual death in order to pay the price. Now it wasn't the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin, because if it had of been any prophet of God that had died for the last couple of thousand years before that could have paid that price. It wasn't physical death anybody could do that."

Kenneth Copeland (What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost, audio tape #020022)


Jesus was the first born again man


"He allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell as if He were the most wicked sinner who ever lived ... Every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him ... [They] tortured Him beyond anything that anybody has ever conceived ... In a thunder of spiritual force, the voice of God spoke to the death-whipped, broken, punished spirit of Jesus ... [in] the pit of destruction, and charged the spirit of Jesus with resurrection power! Suddenly His twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out and come back to life ... He was literally being reborn before the devil's very eyes. He began to flex His spiritual muscles ... Jesus Christ dragged Satan up and down the halls of hell ... Jesus ... was raised up a born-again man ... The day I realized that a born-again man had defeated Satan, hell, and death, I got so excited ... !"

Kenneth Copeland ("The Price of it All," Believer's Voice of Victory, September 1991, p. 4)

"In hell He [Jesus] suffered for you and for me. The Bible says hell was made for Satan and his angels. It was not made for men. Satan was holding the Son of God there illegally ... The trap was set for Satan and Jesus was the bait."

Kenneth Copeland (Walking in the Realm of the Miraculous, 1979, p. 77)

"The Spirit of God spoke to me and He said, "Son, realize this. Now follow me in this and don't let your tradition trip you up." He said, "Think this way -- a twice-born man whipped Satan in his own domain." And I threw my Bible down... like that. I said, "What?" He said, "A born-again man defeated Satan, the firstborn of many brethren defeated him." He said, "You are the very image, the very copy of that one." I said, "Goodness, gracious sakes alive!" And I began to see what had gone on in there, and I said, "Well now you don't mean, you couldn't dare mean, that I could have done the same thing?" He said, "Oh yeah, if you'd had the knowledge of the Word of God that He did, you could have done the same thing, 'cause you're a reborn man too."

Kenneth Copeland (Substitution and Identification, tape #00-0202, side 2)

" ...that Word of the Living God went down into that pit of destruction and charges the spirit of Jesus with resurrection power! Suddenly, His twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out and come back to life. He began to look like something the devil has never seen before. He was literally being reborn before the devil's very eyes. He began to flex his spiritual muscles... Jesus was born again -- the firstborn from the dead."

Kenneth Copeland (The Price of it All, Believer's Voice in Victory, vol 19 September 1991, p.9)

"He [Jesus] was down in that pit and there he suffered the punishment for three horrible days and nights for Adam's treason... There is a new birth takes place in the very depths of the earth, when the command of God says 'That's enough, loose him and let him go'."

Kenneth Copeland (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)


Anyone could have redeemed us


"It wasn't a physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin...anybody can do that."

Kenneth Copeland (What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost, audiotape #BCC-19, side 1)

"Every prophet that walked the face of the earth under the Abrahamic covenant could have paid the price if it were a physical death only. When He said 'It is finished' on that cross, He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. The plan of redemption had just begun; there were still three days and three nights to be gone through."

Kenneth Copeland (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)

"The Spirit of God spoke to me and He said, "Son, realize this. Now follow me in this and don't let your tradition trip you up." He said, "Think this way -- a twice-born man whipped Satan in his own domain." And I threw my Bible down... like that. I said, "What?" He said, "A born-again man defeated Satan, the firstborn of many brethren defeated him." He said, "You are the very image, the very copy of that one." I said, "Goodness, gracious sakes alive!" And I began to see what had gone on in there, and I said, "Well now you don't mean, you couldn't dare mean, that I could have done the same thing?" He said, "Oh yeah, if you'd had the knowledge of the Word of God that He did, you could have done the same thing, 'cause you're a reborn man too."

Kenneth Copeland (Substitution and Identification, 1989, tape #00-0202, side 2)


The church is in control, not God


"As a believer, you have a right to make commands in the name of Jesus. Each time you stand on the Word, you are commanding God to a certain extent because it is His Word."

Kenneth Copeland (Our Covenant with God, 1987, p. 32)


God is banned from the earth until the church unleashes him/allows him in


"God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, "Where have you been?" Wasn't any of God's business. He [Satan] didn't even have to answer if he didn't want to ... God didn't argue with him a bit! You see, this is the position that God's been in ... Might say, "Well, if God's running things He's doing a lousy job of it." He hadn't been running 'em, except when He's just got, you know, a little bit of a chance."

Kenneth Copeland (Image of God in You III, 1989, audiotape #01-1403, side 1)

"Here's where we're gonna depart from ordinary church: Now, you see, God is injecting His Word into the earth to produce this Jesus -- these faith-filled words that framed the image that's in Him ... He can't just walk onto the earth and say, "Let it be!" because He doesn't have the right. He had to sneak it in here around the god of this world that was blockin' every way that he possibly could."

Kenneth Copeland (The Image of God in You III, 1989, audiotape #01-1403, side 2)

"The Bible says that God gave this earth to the sons of men ... and when [Adam] turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look where it left God. If left Him on the outside looking in ... He had no legal right to do anything about it, did He? ... He had injected Himself illegally into the earth -- what Satan had intended for Him to do was to fall for it -- pull off an illegal act and turn the light off in God, and subordinate God to himself ... He intended to get God into such a trap that He couldn't get out."

Kenneth Copeland (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017)

"Adam committed high treason, and at that point, all the dominion and authority God had given to him was handed over to Satan. Suddenly, God was on the outside looking in ... After Adam's fall, God found Himself in a peculiar position ... God needed an avenue back into the earth ... God laid out His proposition and Abram accepted it. It gave God access to the earth and gave man access to God ... Technically, if God ever broke the Covenant, He would have to destroy Himself."

Kenneth Copeland (Our Covenant with God, 1987, pp. 8-11)

"God had no avenue of lasting faith or moving in the earth. He had to have covenant with somebody. He had to be invited in, in other words, or He couldn't come. God is on the outside looking in. In order to have any say so in the earth, He's going to have to be in agreement with a man here."

Kenneth Copeland (God's Covenants With Man II, 1985, audiotape #01-4404, side 1)


These men think they're Gods!


"Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God."

Kenneth Copeland (Now We Are In Christ Jesus, 1980, p. 24)

"You are not a spiritual schizophrenic -- half-God and half-Satan -- you are all-God"

Kenneth Copeland (Now We Are in Christ Jesus, 1980, p.16-17)

"You don't have a god in you, you are one"

Kenneth Copeland (The Force of Love, 1987, audiotape #02-0028, side 1)

"I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he [Jesus] says, 'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yes, I Am, too!'"

Kenneth Copeland (Believer's Voice of Victory, TBN July 9, 1987)

"Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!"

Kenneth Copeland (Praise The Lord, TBN February 5, 1986)

"Adam was created in God's own image and likeness, a spirit-being...[and] takes on the nature of his spiritual father or lord."

Kenneth Copeland (Our Covenant with God, 1987, p.7-8)

"Gods reason for creating Adam was his desire to reproduce himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself. And in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He was not a little like God, He was not almost like God, He was not subordinate to God even ... Adam was as much like God as you can get, just the same as Jesus. Adam in the Garden of Eden was God manifested in the flesh"

Kenneth Copeland (Following the faith of Abraham Audio, #01-3001 side 1)


The Anointing


"Believers are not to be led by logic," he writes. "We are not even to be led by good sense"

Kenneth Copeland (The Force of Faith, 7)

"You have the same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when he created the heavens and the earth."

Kenneth Copeland (Inner Image of the Covenant, side 2)


The 100 fold theory


"Do you want a hundredfold return on your money? Give and let God multiply it back to you. He urges his supporters, "Invest heavily in God; the returns are staggering, ... "Every man who invests in the Gospel has a right to expect the staggering return of one hundredfold."

Kenneth Copeland (Laws of Prosperity , pg.67)


The importance of earthly riches


"The basic principle of the Christian life is to know that God put our sin, sickness, disease, sorrow, grief, and poverty on Jesus at Calvary," he asserts. "For Him to put any of this on us now would be a miscarriage of justice."

Kenneth Copeland (The Troublemaker, 6)

"Well, they say, you need balance in this, get out there in that hyper faith, that name-it-and-claim-it, that blab-it-and-grab-it. YEAH! We named it and claimed it and got it. (crowd cheers) Blabbed it and grabbed it and still got it ! Hallelujah! And our bills are paid."

Kenneth Copeland (speaking at John Hagee's Church, August 18, 1999)


Health is yours for the claiming


"You began to meditate on those scriptures until you built an inner image of yourself healed. As that image grew more crisp and clear, you began to expect -- or hope for -- that image to become a reality. Eventually, faith rose up, put substance to that internal image and turned it into an external reality. That spiritual process always works the same way. Hope forms the image according to the Word, then faith rises up and gives substance to that image, making it a reality in the natural, physical realm. ... Actually, what you did is activate the scriptural process described in Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is the substance of things hoped for ... Boil it down to its simplest form, and you could write it like this: God's Word+Hope+Faith=Manifestation! ... You'll be expecting the very presence of God to rise up in you so powerfully that instead of believing for healing every six weeks, you'll walk in divine health every day!"

Kenneth Copeland ("Expect The Glory", Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, January 1998, p. 5)

"... It wasn't Peter's shadow that healed them. What was it? That field of Glory that surrounded him. That's what [sic] God put hope in you to expect. The Glory! ... It will flood the earth when we meditate upon the Glory of God so much that hope rises up and produces an image. Then faith will release the Glory of God from the inside of us where we can't see it to the outside where we can see it! ... Does this sound wild to you? Well, it's not! If you'll go back and read the Bible, you'll see that's what Christianity is all about. God intended for the Body of Christ to walk through this earth with such a manifestation of His presence in our lives that it would either scare people spitless ... or draw them into the Kingdom of God!"

Kenneth Copeland ("Expect The Glory", Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, January 1998, p. 6)


Results of lack of faith


"God cannot do anything for you apart or separate from faith,"

Kenneth Copeland (Freedom from Fear, 1983, 11)


4th Dimension of non-carnal attainment


"Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord."

Kenneth Copeland ("Believer's Voice of Victory", Feb. 1987, p.9)


The faith force


"Faith is a power force," he claims. "It is a tangible force. It is a conductive force."

Kenneth Copeland (The Force of Faith, 1989, 10)

"Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance."

Kenneth Copeland (Forces of the Recreated Human Spirit, 1982, 8)

"The force of gravity...makes the law of gravity work...this force of faith...makes the laws of the spirit world function."

Kenneth Copeland (The Laws of Prosperity, 1974, 18-19)

"Faith is God's source of power"

Kenneth Copeland (Forces of the Recreated Human Spirit, 1982, 8)

"Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe."

Kenneth Copeland (Authority of the Believer II, 1987, audiotape #01-0302, side 1)

"The force of faith was controlling His (Jesus') ministry."

Kenneth Copeland (The Force of Faith, 9)

"Man was created to know that great life force and he longs for it in his dreams. Adam had that life force in him before he committed high treason"

Kenneth Copeland (What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, side 2)

"God did not create the world out of nothing, He used the Force of His Faith."

Kenneth Copeland (pirit, Soul, & Body, #01-0601, Tape #1)

"Faith is God's source of power"

Kenneth Copeland (Freedom From Fear, 1983. p. 12)


Words are spiritual containers


"Words are spiritual containers,"

Kenneth Copeland (Forces of the Recreated Human Spirit, 15; cf. 14)

The "force of faith is released by words."

Kenneth Copeland (Authority of the Believer II, 1987, audiotape #01-0302, side 1)

"God used words when He created the heaven and the earth....Each time God spoke, He released His faith -- the creative power to bring His words to pass."

Kenneth Copeland (The Power of the Tongue, 1980, 4)

"As a born-again believer, you are equipped with the Word. You have the power of God at your disposal. By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances."

Kenneth Copeland (The Power of the Tongue, 1980, 15)

"Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth....And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this; and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother."

Kenneth Copeland (Believer's Voice of Victory, TBN, March 28, 1991)

"Words are the most sacred things....This is a word planet...governed by words...created by words....Words cause it to function...cause life...cause death....Words go on forever....Words are holy."

Kenneth Copeland (The Abrahamic Covenant, side 1)


Sensual manifestations


"Everything that you're able to see or touch, anything that you can feel, anything that's perceptive to the five physical senses, was originally the faith of God, and was born in the substance of God's faith."

Kenneth Copeland (Spirit, Soul, & Body Part 1, 1985, audiotape #01-0601, side 1)


Above Reproach - testing their spirits


[Copeland claims Jesus told him personally in a vision:] "Don't be disturbed when people put you down and speak harshly and roughly of you. They spoke that way of Me, should they not speak that way of you? The more you get to be like Me, the more they're 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 He was in Me. Hallelujah. That's what you're doing."

Kenneth Copeland ("Take Time To Pray," Believer's Voice of Victory 15, February 1987, 9)


God is the biggest failure in the bible


"I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man....Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one."

Kenneth Copeland (Praise-a-thon on Praise The Lord, April 1988)


Jesus was raped by Roman soldiers


"Let me tell you something folks. Anybody in here that's ever been sexually abused, listen to me right now. Listen to me very carefully. The Bible's very careful about the way it says these things. But down there in that dungeon, Romans, ungodly men, ungodly men, put Him (Jesus) to every kind of abuse that you can think of. There is no sin that Jesus didn't bare. There is no thing, there is no such thing as a sexual abuse on somebody that Jesus doesn't know firsthand what it's all about. He's been where you are. I don't care what you've been through, Jesus has been through it. And everythings done to him that we couldn't even speak of."

Kenneth Copeland (The Resurrection Truth)


God's physical description


"God spoke Adam into existence in authority with words. These words struck Adam's body in the face. His body and God's were exactly the same size."

Kenneth Copeland (Holy Bible, Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition 1991, p. 45)

"If you stood Adam upside God, they look just exactly alike....If you stood Jesus and Adam side-by-side, they would look and act and sound exactly alike....The image is that they look just alike, but the likeness is that they act alike and they are alike....All of God's attributes, all of God's authority, all of God's faith, all of God's ability was invested in that man."

Kenneth Copeland (Authority of the Believer IV 1987, audiotape #01-0304), side 1)

"The Bible said He measured the heavens with a 9 inch span. Now the span is the difference, distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little Finger. And, and that Bible said, in fact the amplified translation translates the Hebrew text that way. That He measured out the heavens with a 9 inch span. Well, I got a ruler and measured mine, and my span's 8 3/4 inches long. So now God's span is a quarter of an inch, a quarter inch longer than mine. So you see, that faith didn't come billowing out of some giant monster somewhere. It came out of the heart of a being that is very uncanny the way He's very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6' 2 ", 6' 3", that weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, has a span of 8 and, I mean nine inches across - stood up and said "Light be [Let it be?]", and this universe situated itself and went into motion. Glory to God."

Kenneth Copeland ("pirit, Soul, & Body Part 1" 1985, audio tape #01-0601, side 1)

God is a "spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet."

Kenneth Copeland (Kenneth Copeland ministry letter, 21 July 1977)


The Womb-Man


"Adam was made in the image of God. He was as much female as he was male. He was exactly like God. Then God separated him and removed the female part. Woman means 'man with the womb.' Eve had as much authority as Adam did as long as they stayed together."

Kenneth Copeland (Sensitivity of Heart, KCP Publications, 1984, p. 23)

"Then, he created Eve out of Adam. Now, actually God didn't name her Eve, Adam named her Eve later. That wasn't her name, her name was Adam ... Adam. When God said Adam, they both came. Their authority was one and the same together. They did everything together. They had always been together. Even when she was still part of him, he was as much female as he was male, LIKE GOD IS. And God separated the female part of him and then put them back together. And she was Adam, they were Adam. He was the man, she was the woman. She was the man with the womb."

Kenneth Copeland ((Transcribed From A Message Given By Kenneth Copeland, Paw Creek Ministries) )


God lives on the mother planet


"Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet."

Kenneth Copeland (Following the Faith of Abraham I, 1989 audiotape, #01-3001, side 1)

"You don't think earth was first, do you? Huh? Well, you don't think that God made man in His image, and then made earth in some other image? There is not anything under this whole sun that's new. Are you hearing what I'm saying? This is all a copy. It's a copy of home. It's a copy of the Mother Planet. Where God lives, He made a little one just like His and put us on it."

Kenneth Copeland (Following the Faith of Abraham I, 1989 audiotape, #01-3001, side 1)


I have met and/or spoken to Jesus


(Relating Jesus speaking) "Don't be disturbed when people put you down and speak harshly and roughly of you. They spoke that way of Me, should they not speak that way of you? The more you get to be like Me, the more they're 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 in Me. Hallelujah."

Kenneth Copeland ("Take Time to Pray," Believer's Voice of Victory, February 1987, p. 9)

http://kcm.org/studycenter/articles/seasonal/power_of_resurrection.php (I've had ugly books written about me because I said that Jesus died spiritually, but the fact is, I didn't say that–the Bible said it. Jesus became our substitute. If he hadn't died spiritually, then we could never have been made alive spiritually. But He did!

On the cross, Jesus was separated from the glory of God. He allowed Himself to be made sin for us, and He became obedient to death. He went into the pit of hell and suffered there as though He was the One Who had committed the sin.)

"People have even argued about whether God is male or female. But the Bible itself tells us that He's both! That's right. In the Hebrew language, all words have gender. They're either male or female. But the Hebrew word 'Jehovah' is both masculine and feminine. He's as much female as He is male and as much male as He is female.

"Originally, mankind was that way too. When God first made 'man,' he was as much female as he was male. Then God separated the female part out and made 'wo-man' or, 'the man with the womb.' After that, man and woman had to come together to be perfectly whole." ("Viva la Difference," From Faith To Faith, by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Published by Kenneth Copeland Publications, 1982, June 28.)


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