A warning indeed
March 24th, 2005This is interesting (in the Chinese proverb sense), if you can get past the pathetic attempt at transcription and all the errors.
(Don’t waste your time reading it. Scroll down. The really interesting part is at the very end where it explains that the speaker’s dead and why.)
Kenneth Copeland is still alive and looking younger as the years go by.
Walter Martin is a victim of Isaiah 54:17 in action. Everything he said has been repudiated. He was wrong. He was very, very wrong.
We would all be well advised to heed the advice that God gave the exact same way twice (I Chronicles 16 and Psalms 105) saying, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.”
I’m not saying I’m one. But I’ll fist fight with ya over Kenneth Copeland.
}:-)
If Copeland said that Jesus told him he wasn’t God then Copeland was dead wrong.
Jesus is God and for Copeland or anyone else to say otherwise, is blasphemy. Think what you like about Walter Martin, he’s just not wrong in this case.
I’m not sure I followed that rambling piece of weirdness. Is the author saying that Copeland is a good man and that Matrin is bad, or is it saying that false teachings have prevaded the church or both?
If Copeland denied the divinty of Christ, as his words clearly show him doing, then he is definitely not annointed and is in fact just the opposite.
Also, there is no way that a preacher can be above reproach. They are not in the Levitical line spoken of in Ezk, neither can we not judge them by their fruits as the Bible instructs us to do with all things.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
I can assure you that Kenneth Copeland does not deny the divinity of Christ. His words do not clearly show him doing so. His words are being misquoted, misconstrued and also taken out of context.
What Kenneth Copeland said is true. Jesus never claimed he was God. He never denied it either and He made it pretty clear who he really was. He referred to himself as the Son of Man most of the time. He was born of a virgin and he was God, but he preferred to emphasize his humanity. He lived on the earth as a man.
Not once did he ever directly claim to be God.
Walter Martin was probably a good man. He was probably just deceived and lost track of his calling. He was on an evil mission and became practically obsessed with “exposing” Kenneth Copeland. Walter Martin is dead and almost entirely unknown. Kenneth Copeland is running one of the largest and fastest growing ministries worldwide.
The fruit of that ministry speaks for itself.
I’ve spent a lot of time in my life on the side of Walter Martin. Lord knows, I love a good argument and Walter does seem to wield reason like a stiletto punctering into the gut of heresy.
But then I started to pray earnestly to the Lord, about 3 years ago that He would increase my faith. He dutifully brought me out to the dessert and left me to die of thirst. The shepherds He used to point me back to the promised land were the very people I’d been deriding all my life.
I’ve heard so many bad things about Copeland, but every time I listen to one of his sermons I can’t find one thing remotely unscriptural about it and I am always blessed.
I’ve been reading my bible through every year for the last 7 or 8 years so I no longer need Walter to tell me what’s in my bible or if someone is straying from it. I would know if I heard Copeland say something that wass off – and since I’ve been listening to his sermons I’ve only been blessed.