Inside Edition catches Kenneth Copeland off guard.

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Kenneth Copeland says that the Lords disciples were wealthy. I thought they were uneducated fisherman? And even if they were rich at one time, they gave up all to follow the Lord so they were not rich in the scripture that Kenneth Copeland quotes.

Matthew 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”



 

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Kenneth Copeland says that the Lords disciples were wealthy. I thought they were uneducated fisherman? And even if they were rich at one time, they gave up all to follow the Lord so they were not rich in the scripture that Kenneth Copeland quotes.

Matthew 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”



Cut him a break. It looks like he just got off his private jet and getting into his expensive SUV.
 
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This is a master class in Televangelist!

"My wife loves Inside Edition"
"He made that plane so cheap for me I couldn't HELP but buy it!"
"I love your eyes"
etc.
How does this man get paid so much when he doesn't even know how to read scripture? He claims that the Lords disciples were rich. The funny thing is that the scripture he quoted contradicted him.
 
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Kenneth Copeland says that the Lords disciples were wealthy. I thought they were uneducated fisherman? And even if they were rich at one time, they gave up all to follow the Lord so they were not rich in the scripture that Kenneth Copeland quotes.

Matthew 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”



If I were a big Hollywood screen writer and had to write a script about a swindling, charlatan con-man televangelist I still couldn't script it this perfectly. Unbelievable.
 
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If I were a big Hollywood screen writer and had to write a script about a swindling, charlatan con-man televangelist I still couldn't script it this perfectly. Unbelievable.
I agree.
 
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How does this man get paid so much when he doesn't even know how to read scripture? He claims that the Lords disciples were rich. The funny thing is that the scripture he quoted contradicted him.
Well, let's look at what Jesus said shall we?
It's the verse right after the one you all have been quoting.
"Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
The fact is, some of Jesus' disciples were rich. And very much so. I underlined the part that's important for emphasis. And in another gospel where Jesus and the disciples were talking about the same subject, Jesus points out that yes, anyone who does such things will also be subject to many persecutions.

So the question I have to some of you is this: Could Kenneth Copeland (as a rich man who's received these promises) be experiencing a persecution of being backbitten and tongue scorched by a lot of people as God pointed out in that passage. It's something I hope some of you will stop and ponder at least. I, for one, don't want to touch God's anointed, regardless if I agree or disagree with them.
 
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Televangelists. The prosperity gospel is America's most dangerous export.
Kenneth Copeland's gospel is a false gospel. It is not Christian at all, even though he professes Christianity. He is actually preaching humanism, because he teaches that we are "gods", and that God can only work with our permission. His teaching is nothing like the true gospel of Christ, and he is putting forward a God and a Christ of his own imagination instead of the true God and true Christ of the Bible.
 
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Kenneth Copeland says that the Lords disciples were wealthy. I thought they were uneducated fisherman? And even if they were rich at one time, they gave up all to follow the Lord so they were not rich in the scripture that Kenneth Copeland quotes.

Matthew 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”



I thought he died? Maybe I’m mixing him up with the Left Behind books guy.
 
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Well, let's look at what Jesus said shall we?
It's the verse right after the one you all have been quoting.
"Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
I looked the NASB, NKJV, NIV and YLT, and none of them quote that scripture the way you do. They dont have the words "in this age" as part of the translation. Not in Mathew that i was quoting.
 
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Kenneth Copeland says that the Lords disciples were wealthy. I thought they were uneducated fisherman? And even if they were rich at one time, they gave up all to follow the Lord so they were not rich in the scripture that Kenneth Copeland quotes.

Matthew 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”



Just watched the whole thing. Embarrassing. :eek:
 
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I, for one, don't want to touch God's anointed, regardless if I agree or disagree with them.
Oh yeah....the old "touch not God's anointed" threat. That verse is so used, misused and abused it's pitiful.
 
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Kenneth Copeland says that the Lords disciples were wealthy. I thought they were uneducated fisherman? And even if they were rich at one time, they gave up all to follow the Lord so they were not rich in the scripture that Kenneth Copeland quotes.

Matthew 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”



Copeland refers in other preaching to the wealth of Jesus and the disciples as they ministered. His take is that it was sufficient to make it worthwhile for Judas to pilfer. Decades ago I believed the "prosperity" gospel. All I got out of it was broke. Once I accepted God's true Kingdom financial ways, things changed to be way better. And no, I don't own a jet. I do own my car though. And I have zero debt.

I don't agree with Copeland's message but I understand the reasoning behind it. To me, it shows the dangers of cherry picking scriptures to produce a doctrine, while ignoring those that don't fit. An awful lot of posters here are guilty of that.
 
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Oh yeah....the old "touch not God's anointed" threat. That verse is so used, misused and abused it's pitiful.
The key is the "Lord's anointed". There are vast numbers of self anointed ministers that God has nothing to do with.
 
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