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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 375
care about doctrines. In fairness, Crouch may well defend his statement, saying that it was not
meant that way but thats the way it came out and his actions would support such an attitude.
It is no little matter to possess and teach serious doctrinal errors; John said they have not
God. The Apostle Paul instructed Timothy to warn the brethren to “teach no other doctrine” (1
Timothy 1:3). He instructed the Romans: “mark them which cause divisions and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17).
If our brothers are in serious doctrinal error, the word of God clearly says, they know not
God and henceforth it follows that they are lost. In order to show the love of Christ we must
point out this error. This is the example that the Apostles set. Much of the New Testament are
letters to churches correcting doctrinal error. Paul even corrected the Apostle Peter who was
being hypocritical (Galatians 2:11-21).
Jesus gave a set of rules to follow when confronting a brother. He said we are first to go
to them in private. If they don't listen, we are to confront the brother with two or three witnesses
and if he still doesn't listen, the matter is to be taken to the church. If he doesn't listen to the
church, he is to be considered a heathen (Matthew 18:15-17). Paul Crouch has been confronted
in love by a great many Christian brothers. According to scripture, he is to be regarded a heathen
because he has refused to listen!
Hank Hanegraaff met with Crouch to try and convince Crouch of how the “Faith
movement compromises Christian doctrine.” Shortly after their meeting, Crouch blew-up on
camera. He declared on television: “If you want to criticize Ken Copeland for his preaching on
faith, or Dad Hagin, get out of my life! I don't even want to talk to you or hear you. I don't want
to see your ugly face. Get out of my face, in Jesus' name.”
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The world doesn't need the kind of faith of Copeland and Hagin who both claim to be
gods. While Copland claims to be a God, he says “Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross”
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God is the biggest failure in the world. In his own words: “I was shocked when I found out who
the biggest failure in the Bible actually is.... The biggest one in the whole Bible is God....”
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Copeland is heretic leading people to destruction.
The following is another response Crouch gave to criticism during a TBN “Praise-a-thon”
on April 2, 1991:
...that old rotten Sanhedrin crowd, twice dead, plucked up by the roots...
they're damned and on their way to hell and I don't think there's any redemption
for them... the hypocrites, the heresy hunters that want to find a little mote of
illegal doctrine in some Christian's eyes... when they've got a whole forest in their
own lives...
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To hell with you! Get out of my life! Get out of my way!... I say get out of
God's way! Quit blocking God's bridges or God's going to shoot you if I don't.... I
don't even want to even talk to you or hear you! I don't want to see your ugly
face!
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Crouch and the rest of the of those in the “Word of Faith” movement and many others are
preaching a prosperity doctrine. Now I don't doubt that God wants to bless us but first on his list
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