Posted on 09/06/2005 2:14:56 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Prominent San Diego evangelist Morris Cerullo was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on three counts of filing false individual income tax returns, which allegedly underreported his income by $550,000.
The indictment alleges that Cerullo, president of Morris Cerullo World Evangelism, filed false tax returns for 1998-2000...
...If convicted, he would face a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
Morris Cerullo is the founder of INSP(The inspiration Network) the network he named after he took over the television holdings of Jim Bakker.
1.) Morris Cerullo is a Word-Faith teacher. Morris Cerullo: "He[God] made Morris Cerullo a small, miniature god. His likeness. Where is that godlikeness? He gave us power...He gave us authority, He gave us dominion. He didn't tell us to act like a man! He told us to act like god!"
Morris Cerullo, "Praise the Lord TBN November 15, 1990)
2.) There is a common teaching among Word-Faith leaders that we Christians are little gods. Creflo Dollar goes sofar as to say that it is blasphemy if you do not agree that Christian's are little gods.
At the link below for 1.) you can see additional quotes from Morris Cerullo
At the link below for 2.) Are Christians Little Gods? you can see quotes from Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Ken Copeland
1998-2000
Clinton's fault.
1.) Morris Cerullo http://www.myfortress.org/MorrisCerullo.html
2.) Are Christians Little Gods? http://www.myfortress.org/AreChristiansLittleGods.html
A true, God-fearing Christian (that IS sarcasm, BTW).
God's going to be awfully hacked off at a lot of folks who claim to speak for Him.
And none of them taken out of context, I am sure.
They rent out time at their recording studios -- the latest high tech gear. The place looks like a gold-plated funeral home, though. Cerullo is another TV huckster that give real Christians a bad name. (PTL means "Pass the Loot," or is it "Praise the Loot?"
Kenneth Hagin, Word-Faith teacher:
"man...was created on terms of equality with God, and he could stand in God's presence without any consciousness of inferiority...He made us the same class of being that He is himself...He lived on terms equal with God...The believer is called Christ, that's who we are; we're Christ" (Zoe: The God Kind of Life, pp. 35-36, 41)
A nutcase...
You are talking about the whole faith of Mormons.
They believe that we are all little gods and will have other god babies with our "forever marriage" and live on other planets, like Kolob.
Sounds like he needs to make a large contribution to Bob Tilton so he can get it back a 'hundredfold' and pay off the IRS. At least that is what Brother Bob teaches.
Now I know why I stopped listening to all these "little gods"!
They are nuts!
Maybe you don't understand that one doesn't have to read an entire book to make sure they get things in context. Maybe you do, though. 'Taken out of context'...the last line of defense to defend blasphemous teachings from blasphemous treachers. If someone says that God made them into a small, miniature god, then it is hard to take that out of context. Maybe you are capable of it though...
Kenneth Copeland said, "You don't have a god in you...you are one" (Copeland, The Force of Love, 1987, Tape #02-0028)
Copeland : " God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself...He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even"
(Copeland, Following the Faith of Abraham, 1989, Tape #01-3001)
Crooked televangelist?
Shocking! Whoda thunk it?
Yep, Word-Faith taeching is slowly morphing into just that, at least in this one area:
Here is an excellent profile of the Word-Faith Movement:
http://www.watchman.org/profile/wordpro.htm
One of the quotes that you will find there is this:
Kenneth Hagin:
" You are as much the incarnation of God as Jesus Christ was" (The Word of Faith, December 1980, p.14)
Here is another quote.
Kenneth Hagin:
"Every man who has been born again is an incarnation and Christianity is a miracle. The believer is as much an incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth"
(The Incarnation, "The Word of Faith 13, December, 1980)
http://www.countercult.com/h00.html
A heretic. There was only One Incarantion of God, Jesus Christ. There is only one Begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ. Period
Not being hateful...just responding appropriately to a statement that sounded rather cute:
"and none of them taken out of context, I am sure."
...and who apparently have claimed to be small, miniature gods.
Cute?
OK.
And your response was anything but "appropriate."
1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
If we're all Gods, where are our universes to run?
There will only be one Son of God, though.
The Bible does speak of becoming sons of God, not Sons of God, but that is in the next life, and is spoken in terms of being adopted into the family of God. The believer isn't Christ, though, despite what Hagin may have said, and no one has ever been as much an incarnation of God as Jesus of Nazareth. There was, and is, and ever shall be only one Incarnation of God, Jesus Christ.
BTW, I hope that you aren't referencing the Manifest Sons of God heretical doctrine, which was started by William Branham, that states that there will be immortal people in this life BEFORE the millenial reign begins.
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