“Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet. ...
“Now God is not some creature that stands twenty-eight feet tall, and He’s got hands, you know, as big as basketballs. That’s not the kind of creature He is... He’s very much like you and me. Can you conceive that? Not hardly in the mind, but your heart can. your heart can. A Being, a Being that stands somewhere around six-two to six-three, that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, [and] has a [hand]span nine inches across.”
Kenneth Copeland, Spirit, Soul and Body audiotape. Cited by Hank Hanegraaff in Christianity in Crisis, 21st Century, p.374.
Kenneth Copeland, and the many other Word of Faith heretics who teach the same thing, are closer to the teachings of Mormonism than they are to Christianity.
So, God says that he is not man but spirit, Jesus says that God is spirit, and Jesus says that a spirit does not have flesh and bones like a man. Therefore, the answer to the subject question is, “NO! God is not a man!”
Regardless of what false teachers like those in the Word of Faith or the LDS tell you, God is not an exalted man, nor does he live on another planet. That sort of God is made in man’s image.
“Now God is not some creature that stands twenty-eight feet tall, and He’s got hands, you know, as big as basketballs. That’s not the kind of creature He is... He’s very much like you and me. Can you conceive that? Not hardly in the mind, but your heart can. your heart can. A Being, a Being that stands somewhere around six-two to six-three, that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, [and] has a [hand]span nine inches across.”
Numbers 23:19 — God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
1 Samuel 15:29 — And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.
Isaiah 31:3 — But the Egyptians are men and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit.
This passage says God is not a man, but is a spirit.
Hosea 11:9 — For I am God, and not man—
Luke 24: 39 — See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.
Jesus was pointing out that a spirit does not have flesh and bones like a man.
John 4:24 — God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Jesus was pointing out that God is spirit.Regardless of what false teachers like those in the Word of Faith or the LDS tell you, God is not an exalted man, nor does he live on another planet. That sort of God is made in man’s image.
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Numbers 23:19
Copeland is an evil liar.
-Carolyn
There, I edited it to include Numbers and 1 Samuel- the other one I forgot.
If God were a man, He would be a little more than 6'+ and a couple of hundred pounds. Isaiah 48:13 says, "...my right hand hath spanned the heavens." I think His right hand would weigh in at more than 200 pounds (Kenneth Copeland notwithstanding). In fact, it would weigh in at more than we could possibly imagine!
But, of course, He is not a man. We are made in His image, not He in ours.
When an individual questions the teachings of Mr. Copeland in many church systems, all of that "love bombing" given you upon entry into their church system, will turn into hatred with the fruits of lying, slandering, talebearing, and whispering about your character to even dare to question such a "great man of a god."
We don't have to look far to see the idols of the heart these days. Conditional man-worship love are the cornerstones of most churches these days.
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