And knowing the entire Bible is 'key' to discerning when unbiblical teachings are spoken and taught. Which is why today so many are easily mis-led into other false religions and or false practices...they are blank slates for the most part ready to have whatever teachings might be presenting their wares.
The difficult issues is many who know the Lord are being mis-led today....even though they are uncomfortable with the direction they are in, or are going, their "teachers" are quick to tell them not to be afraid, or that it's satan trying to get in their way of the experience God wants them to have. So they press on believing they are fighting the enemy of mens souls when in fact they are opposing the very sensibilities and discernment he's given them that something is wrong and or dangerous.
It is vital today that Christians understand and know the scriptures....otherwise as these various false teachers present their teachings they will be a target.
As for Copeland......
Quote on TBN, Kenneth Copeland.....“Dogs beget dogs cats beget cats, and God beget Gods, you are little Gods.”....
Sound familiar? He's clearly crossed over and has brought the church to exactly what the 'New Age Occult' teachings and also' Mormonism' teachings which have been saying for years,... that we are all Christed. ........And it not surprising when we have heard such surprising statements like this one from Copeland:
" That nature is like eternal in absolute perfection. ....And that was imparted, injected into your spirit man..... And you have that imparted into you by God just the same as you imparted into your child the nature of humanity. ......Well now, you don't have a human do you? No, you are one..... You don't have a god in you, you are one."
Copeland, Binn, and many others now in the Emerging church are all on the same path, and they with Mormonism, New Age Spirituality, and the New isalmic Chrislam, are all promoting the very same agenda and it is not of the Lord Jesus Christ...but another Christ...which Jesus himself warned us would come from "within" the church..and these are the teachers who went out from us in our day...false and deceptive who distort, abuse and mis-lead people ...dangerous hardly says enough...
" That nature is like eternal in absolute perfection. ....And that was imparted, injected into your spirit man..... And you have that imparted into you by God just the same as you imparted into your child the nature of humanity. ......Well now, you don't have a human do you? No, you are one..... You don't have a god in you, you are one."
Hard to believe that Satan is STILL getting mileage out of that lie he used on Eve. But there it is, coming right from the mouths of religious figures claiming to speak for Christ.
Acts 12:21-23 21 On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. 22 And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.