KENNETH COPELAND SAYS: Jesus Christ took on Satan's nature, or in other
words, became a sinner while on the cross.

THE BIBLE SAYS: Jesus is, was, and always will be pure.

Kenneth Copeland has a long and documented history of teaching things there
are truly unBiblical. Perry Pellegrini shows several examples of this from
Copeland's own words compared to what the Bible says. I hope this may serve
as a warning to avoid Copeland and his heretical teachings.

May God bless,
Carl

my website -- http://www.nettally.com/saints/
my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/

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KENNETH COPELAND AND THE BIBLE
by Perry Pellegrini
(Foundation for Christian Apologetics)

KENNETH COPELAND SAYS: God looks like a man.

"The image being that he was a copy, looked just like, if you stood Adam
upside God they look just exactly alike...Now a lot of people have missed
that...but that's exactly true...The image is that they looked just alike.
But the likeness, is that they act alike, and they are alike...Now here's
Adam in the image of God, and in the likeness of God. 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." (The Authority of the Believer IV,
Tape #01-0304)

"The Bible said in the fortieth chapter of Isaiah, along about the twelfth
verse, that He measured out the heavens with a span... And I found out
from the Hebrew Bible, that the Bible said he measured the heavens with a
nine-inch span...Can you conceive that? Not hardly, in the mind but your
heart can't, your heart can't. A being, a being that stands somewhere
around six two, six three, that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a
couple hundred pounds a little better, has a span of eight and, I mean a
nine inches across. A being that would walk the shores of Galilee, a
being that would shed tears and a being that was hungry, and a being that
would laugh and play with the kids, stood up and said 'Let it be.' And
this universe situated itself and went into motion." (Spirit, Soul, and
Body, Tape #01-0601)

THE BIBLE SAYS: God is spirit, and is not like man.

"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and
in truth." (John 4:24)

"God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should
change His mind." (Numbers 23:19)

KENNETH COPELAND SAYS: There are many gods (or a god class).

"He is a spirit, and Jesus said the time will come and now is that they
that worship Him, worship Him in spirit and in truth and He imparted in
you when you were born again, Peter said it just as plain, he said we are
partakers of the divine nature. That nature is life eternal in absolute
perfection. And that was imparted, injected into your spirit man, and you
have that imparted into you by God just as same as you imparted into your
child that nature of humanity. That child wasn't born a whale, born a
human. Isn't that true? Well now, you don't have a human do ya? No, you
are one. You don't have a god in you, you are one." (Force of Love, Tape
#02-0028)

"Am I a god? Man was created in the god class, was not created in the
animal class, it was the gods class. He has a uniqueness about him that
even angels do not have...Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious
promises, you become partakers of the divine nature. Alright, are we
gods? We are a class of gods." (Praise the Lord, TBN, 2/5/1986)

"He am healin', He am deliverance, He am financial prosperity, mental
prosperity, physical prosperity, family prosperity. It's terrible
grammar, but you understand what I'm sayin'. I'm sayin' it to effect my
mind...And 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 says I AM, I just
smile and say, 'Yes, I AM too.'" (Believer's Voice of Victory Broadcast,
7/9/1987)

THE BIBLE SAYS: There is only one God.

"You are my witnesses, declares the Lord, and my servant whom I have
chosen. So that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He.
Before Me no god was formed, nor will there be one after Me." (Isaiah
43:10)

"I am the first and I am the last; apart from Me there is no God." (Isaiah
44:6)

"I am the Lord and there is no other." (Isaiah 45:18)

"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear O Israel, the
Lord our God, the Lord is one.'" (Mark 12:29)

"So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is
nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one." (1 Cor.
8:4)

KENNETH COPELAND SAYS: Adam was God manifested 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 that.
He was not a little like God, he was not almost like God, he was not
subordinate to God even. Now this is hard on the human mind, but I'm
tellin' ya what the Bible said." (Following the Faith of Abraham, Tape
#01-3001)

"Adam is as much like God as you can get, just the same as Jesus when He
came into the earth, He said you've seen me you've seen the Father, he
wasn't a lot like God, He's God manifested in the flesh! And I want you
to know something, Adam in the Garden of Eden was God manifested in the
flesh." (Following the Faith of Abraham, Tape #01-3001)

"You see Adam was walking as a God, Adam walked in God's class, Adam did
things in the class of god's, hallelujah...when he acted on the fact that,
and bowed his knee to Satan and put Satan up above him, then there wasn't
anything God could do about it, because a god had placed him there."
(Following the Faith of Abraham, Tape #01-3001)

THE BIBLE SAYS: There is no one like God.

"How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there
is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears." (2 Samuel 7:22)

"O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or earth
below; you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue
to walk wholeheartedly in your way." (1 Kings 8:23)

"For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord? Who is like the
Lord among the heavenly beings?" (Psalms 89:8)

Note: If Adam was an exact duplication of God in nature, as Kenneth
Copeland asserts, then why didn't Adam know whom Satan was? For God's
nature is omniscience (Job 26:6, Ps. 147:5, 1 John 3:20). And how could
Adam fall into a sinful state? For God, it is impossible (James 1:13).

KENNETH COPELAND SAYS: The physical atonement did not pay for sin.

"The death of Jesus Christ was not a physical death alone. If it had been
a physical death, Abel would have paid the price for mankind. He was the
first man that died because of honoring God and His Word. If it had been
a physical death only, it wouldn't have worked! And if He hadn't died
spiritually, that body never would have died." (What Happened From the
Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)

"For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer. Some people
don't want to believe that. They want to beleive that after His death,
Jesus just stayed in that upper region of Sheol that the Bible calls
paradise, but they're mistaken! If He had simply stayed there, there
would have been no price paid for sin." (Believer's Voice of Victory, Vol.
19, No. 9, Sept. 1991)

"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 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." (Tape on file, Foundation
for Christian Apologetics)

THE BIBLE SAYS: It was the physical death of Jesus that atoned for our
sins.

"God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His
blood. He did this to demonstrate His justice, because in His forbearance
He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished." (Romans 3:25)

"Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be
saved from God's wrath through Him." (Romans 9:5)

"Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has
made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought
with His own blood." (Acts 20:28)

"This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the
forgiveness of sins." (Matt. 26:28)

"For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or
gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you
from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb
without blemish or defect." (1 Peter 1:18-19)

"...and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from
the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us
and has freed us from our sins by His blood." (Rev. 1:5)

KENNETH COPELAND SAYS: Jesus Christ took on Satan's nature, or in other
words, became a sinner while 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 has thou forsaken Me.' You don't know what happened on
the cross. Why do you think Moses, upon the inception of God, raised a
serpent up on that pole instead of a lamb. I said why in the world do you
have to put that snake up there, the sign of Satan, why don't you put a
lamb on that pole? The Lord said, 'cause that was the 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, Tape #00-0303)

"The spirit of Jesus accepting that sin and making it to be sin, He
separated from His God and at that moment He's a mortal man. Capable of
failure, capable of death. And if Satan is capable of overpowering Him
there, he'll win the universe and mankind is doomed. Don't get the idea
that Jesus was incapable of failure because if He had been, it would have
been illegal." (What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)

THE BIBLE SAYS: Jesus is, was, and always will be pure.

"Can any of you prove Me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why
don't you believe me?" (John 8:46)

"God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might
become the righteousness of God." (2 Cor. 5:21)

"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth." (1 Peter
2:22)

IN CONCLUSION:

We leave you with the words of the apostles John and Peter:

"Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you (or man)
rather then to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking what we
have seen and heard." (Acts 4:19-20)