Wow, just wow. I watched the shorter video ~11min long with Francis' address to Kenneth Copeland for unity (watch to the end to see K. Copeland and his 'prayer and blessing for Francis
). I am truly speechless and more than a little freaked out.
This name probably (and mercifully) doesn't mean anything to people on Cathinfo but it does to me. I grew up with his "Word of Faith" crap in an evangelical/charismatic family. My families bookshelf probably has or had most of his books. This guy is a complete fraud. He preaches something called the 'prosperity gospel'. In a nutshell it means if you pray and have 'faith in your faith' (seriously!?!) God will make you rich, happy, well, etc in this life, especially if you are willing to kick a few $$$ toward K. Copeland and pals ministry. Seriously, think of the worst stereotypes of American TV 'evangelist' and ya pretty much this guy.
Here are some quotes from Kenneth Copeland from a protestant site exposing him for the heretical fraud that he is:
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)
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/copeland/general.htmWell, that is just a sprinkling, if you really want to know more about this shuckster then just google his name +exposed, heresy, fraud, whatever fill your boots.
As for Francis message of peace, love and unity towards Kenneth Copeland... well I don't even know what to say about that. It just makes me truly sick to my stomach.
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