Bummer...

I woke up this morning and from bed just started flipping through the channels and ended up landing on the program "Jesus is Lord" with Kenneth Copeland...

This guys just gives me the creeps man... and I hate what he's doing in distorting and twisting the word of God. Together with his guest host today, he began using Galatians 6:7-8 ("Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows of the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.") to teach that people who have cancer essentially have "brought it on themselves"...that the truth of the matter is, we don't "catch" anything, we don't just get sick, we bring it on ourselves.

What he taught from this passage has NOTHING to do with what it is actually saying!Now I know that unhealthy lifestyles can create greater risks of certain sickness, but is the little 5 year old boy who has leukemia said to have "brought it upon himself"... that's absolutely disgusting! That perspective which is unfounded in scripture does nothing to impart hope to the child, but only benefits the so called "faith healer" if he is unable to heal someone. Because now if Mr. Copeland finds it impossible to heal someone who is sick, well "they brought it on themselves" right? Then he'll be able to cling even tighter to his hopelessly unbiblical perspective that, "Well... they just didn't have enough faith for a healing."

What this scripture is truly saying in its context is, let us not be deceived... a true believer in Christ is going to live a Christian life! God's desire here is that we would NOT Be DECEIVED! Even if someone "says" that they are a Christian... but they continually practice sin, they need to know that assurance of their salvation is in question...Yet, if they turn from their sins and trust in Christ alone, they will will have evidences in their lives of true faith, in other words they will "sow to the Spirit" and reap everlasting life.

Let us examine ourselves... that we might not be deceived. And let us read our bibles so we won't be deceived by Kenneth Copeland and the many other false teachers there are out there.