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I do not believe in profits. Any of that stuff is just BS. It would be very easy to make predictions. the one you mentioned in your blog about how this will be a year of Jesus opening himself to everyone. With The Passion of the Christ out, that is they way a whole lot of people are going to feel about this year and it will all be in their heads. But because Kenneth Copeland said so, then it must be true. Yet we will be no closer to the events of revelations than we were a year ago. Kenneth Copeland and all other profits just know who to look at coming events and figure out what to say to make people believe they are profits. IT IS A CON GAME.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 27, 2004 at 4:07 PM
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Whew. Strong language.
dont insult me. Im not stupid. I would not listen to nor recommend a pathetic phony to you or any other athiest. Its authentic. Like I said, If you can get past the country bumpkin delivery and open your heart to what he is saying you might learn something that could answer your many questions. You do want truth, right?
posted by
cantey
on April 27, 2004 at 11:43 AM
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I would rather die first
Rather than litsen to anything Kenneth Copeland has to say. The guy is a 100% pathetic. I am as much of a profit as him any day, it is just he does it to make profit and that is it.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 27, 2004 at 10:48 AM
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of course
I said they should posess these traits. But we know most of them do not. And being a Christian does not instantly instill these things in people, being a Christian is a journey, a process in which a soul is transformed into these traits in order to serve humanity. It does not happen over night. But a person must be willing to submit themselves to the Spirit of God and allow it to happen, instead many Christians would rather be SELF- righteous instead of submitting to Jesus Christ and letting Him be the Lord of their destiny. This is the problem in the Church as I see it. It has been full of rebellion and pride. But that is changing.
Please dont laugh, but allow me to suggest that you order a 12 tape series on biblical Faith from Kenneth Copeland Ministries. If you can get past the fact that the guy seems to be a total hayseed, I think you might find them very interesting. He is an anointed prophet and teacher to the Body. It might help you to understand some things about God and how he operates.
posted by
cantey
on April 26, 2004 at 10:48 PM
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cantey
Yes, I have, but I have also meet Christians who I want nothing to do with. Just being a Christian, just like any other group of people, does not mean a thing really. It does NOT instantly make a person good of character. You can not judge a person by anything other than who that person is. Religion, race, sexuality, age, none of that is important. It is all about who the person and how they live their lives.
Oh, Kenneth Copeland, I've seen him on TV and he scares me. He comes off as having no clue about a thing. I really can not figure out why he has such a following. Although his style of preaching in general is stupid, but somehow the masses seem to like it. People like him should not be followed because that can only led to trouble.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 26, 2004 at 10:36 AM
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Have you ever in your life
met an individual, outside of your own family, who professed to be a Christian and also earned your respect or admiration? When you met a person and they claim to be Christian, what should strike you the most about them is their depth of compassion and wisdom, charecter and fortitude. They should represent Jesus Christ to you. In experience you meet Jesus Himself through them. That is why we ( Christians) are called the
Body of Christ. If you have not met such people ( I dont think you have), I beleive you will. In accordance with the prophecy I was telling you about. That Kenneth Copeland guy, he is such a Christian.
posted by
cantey
on April 25, 2004 at 9:39 PM
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You make a good point here kooka
I have seen it more than once myself. This is a point at which a lot of spiritual leaders lose their way. Their religion becomes more important than their personal relationship with God. Their ability to influence people and provide for themselves becomes their primary focus. I now define addiction as anything that is more important to me than my personal relationship with God. In my world, whatever is placed in that position other than God is out of place and therefore unhealthy behavior. Spiritual leaders who fall into this "religious addicton" are (in my opinion) more damaging to the body of Christ than anything else.
posted by
Budmannomore
on April 25, 2004 at 7:12 PM
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budmannomore
Interesting. I wish I could say I see where you are coming from, but I have never been addicted to anything in my life. I am lucky I guess. I have always had strong family and friends and have never needed to fill any gaps in my life. But that is part of the reason why I do believe that for some religion is needed. I have known a few others like you who found the wrong things to fill in those gaps in life and then turned to religion to get over them. From what I have seen most Atheist who stick with it are ones who do have the stronger family ties and such and have not gotten into addiction and the like. We just have not had those missing parts that you talk about. And I will agree that filling those gaps with beleif is better than with addiciton, at least most of the time. I have known some that have turn their beleifs into addiction and that can be just as bad as drugs and such when you decide that religion is more important than family and friends and put everyhting into that beleifs.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 25, 2004 at 2:13 PM
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Ofcourse you don't.
Atheism works for you. When I tried being an atheist, I was lousy at it. I really felt like a part of my life was missing. I fell into the trap of addiction. For me, atheism and addiction are interconnected. This is not your experience however.
posted by
Budmannomore
on April 25, 2004 at 1:57 PM
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"That selfish drunk thing if you know what I mean!", no I don't know what you mean. Not sure what that has to do with being an athiest.
But the rest of what you said made sense to me.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 25, 2004 at 8:58 AM
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I would rather deal
with an honest pagan than a hypocritical Christian any day of the week. People like you described in this post is one of the reasons I tried being an atheist. Atheism did not sit well with me. That selfish drunk thing if you know what I mean!
posted by
Budmannomore
on April 25, 2004 at 6:32 AM
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