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into an image made like corruptible man
God is not in a shape of a man. Christ alone is "the image of the invisible God" Col. 1:15.
No man has seen God in Spirit.
"Gods 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 was as much like God as you can get, just the same as Jesus when he came to earth, he said if you have seen me you have seen the father .He wasn't a lot like God he's God manifested in the flesh, I want you to know something Adam in the Garden of Eden was God manifested in the flesh." (Kenneth Copeland, Following the Faith of Abraham I (Fort Worth, TX: Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1989), tape #01-3001, side 1.
Comment: Was Adam Jesus? Adam had a beginning, Jesus is eternal -- at least according to the Bible. When the Bible states we were created in His image it does not mean that God is a physical being and that we are like Him in that manner. Adam had moral and spiritual qualities of God in a limited finite way.
"Jesus has a beginning and an end." (Kenneth Copeland, What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)
"All of God's attributes and abilities were invested in Adam." (Kenneth Copeland, The Authority of the Believer IV; Tape #01-0304)
"Adam was God manifested in the flesh." (Kenneth Copeland, Following the Faith of Abraham, Tape #01-3001)
"You see Adam was walking as a God, Adam walked in God's class, Adam did things in the class of god's, hallelujah... (Kenneth Copeland, Following
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the Faith of Abraham, Tape #01-3001)
Comment: How many Gods are there? A "God" who is every bit like the One who made him, but fell? What does this mean for His creator? That he can fall too? Adam was man, not God -- with a big G or little "g"!
"You are not a spiritual schizophrenic -- half-God and half-Satan -- you are all-God" (Kenneth Copeland, Now We Are in Christ Jesus 1980, 16-17)
"There is a god class of beings." (Kenneth Copeland, Force of Love; Tape #02-0028), (Praise the Lord broadcast (TBN), recorded 2/5/86)
Comment: No one is in God's class. He alone is eternal. Who is like the Lord?
Ps 71:19 Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high, you who have done great things; O God, who is like You?
2 Sam. 7:22 "Therefore You are great, O Lord GOD. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Jer. 10:6 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and Your name is great in might).
If we are all God why do we sin? This is making God in the image of man.
Listen to Copeland mock, saying that God is a the biggest failure in the Bible:
"I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is. Everybody you ask "Who's the biggest failure?" They say "Judas", somebody else will say "No, I believe it was Adam", well how about the devil. He's the most consistent failure. But he's not the biggest in terms of material failure and so forth. The biggest one in all the Bible is God. What, what, what - don't you turn that set off - you listen to what. I told you - now you sit
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still a minute. You know me well enough to know I wouldn't, I wouldn't tell something I can't prove from the Bible. (Kenneth Copeland, "Praise-a-thon" program - TBN (April 1988)
Ask yourself: Has God ever failed?
Copeland On Christ
Christ "had no innate supernatural powers. He had no ability to perform miracles until after He was anointed by the Holy Spirit." (Kenneth Copeland, "Question & Answer," Believer's Voice of Victory, August 1988, 8.)
Comment: This means Jesus was not God.
Phil 2:6-7 "who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men."
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Jesus Christ supposedly told Copeland in the following prophecy:
"Don't be disturbed when people put you down and speak harshly and roughly of you. They spoke that way of Me, should they not speak that way of you? The more you get to be like Me, the more they're going to think that way of you. They crucified Me for claiming that I was God. But I didn't claim I was God; I just claimed I walked with Him and that He was in Me Hallelujah. (Kenneth Copeland, Take Time to Pray, Believer's Voice of Victory 15, 2 (February 1987) .
Comment: If Jesus did not claim to be God, then the Pharisees certainly misunderstood him when he said he was in Jn. 5 and 10, and all he had to do was correct them.
"Why didn't Jesus openly proclaim Himself as God during His 33 years on earth? For one single reason. He hadn't come to earth as God, He'd come as man." (Kenneth Copeland, Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, Aug. 8, 1988. p.8)
Comment: Copeland proves that he does not hold to the fundamentals of the faith by denying God came in the flesh as stated in Jn. 4:1-3 & 1 Tim. 3:16.
"Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies." (Kenneth Copeland, The Power of the Tongue, pp. 8-10)
So Jesus did not exist prior to the prophets words manifesting him? How did he come to be? By the words of their mouths? Glory be to man!
"God is injecting His Word into the earth to produce this Jesus," Copeland explains. "This [sic] faith-filled words that framed the
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