I totally agree with you concerning Copeland etc. They believe that they are gods, just like Jesus. This is absolutely wrong.
Once again satan wraps up some sort of perverse variation of the truth in lies so as to cause serious minded Christians to reject the truth. It’s sort of like a case of throwing out a baby with the bath water.
I believe you and other Christians who are very seriously conscience of keeping doctrine pure are correct. The problem is that you see doctrine as an end, rather than a means to an end. You deny experience as being important.
I contend that correct doctrine should give birth to a life full of experience. Not emotionally driven, but truth and Holy Spirit driven experience. Jesus said that people search Scripture to find life, but refuse to come to Him. Scripture is a means to finding our true and living God. Scripture is full of experiences with The LORD God, our Father. (Can you picture a loving Father who doesn’t want His child to have experiences with Him, to experience Him?)
Scripture shows us that faith brings about God filled experiences. Scripture is the means whereby we can find out whether the experiences we are having are true and born of God, or rather we are being deceived.
I grieve for the end of the Church that loves pure doctrine, which is as God wants, but denies that our Father God wants us to experience Him on many levels, and to have experiences with Him. It is very, very sad. It is like a child who loves and sees a puppy through the window, but never gets to experience that puppy in real life. I wish I could convey what I am thinking. It is hard to convey the very extremely sad lack that these doctrine loving Christians are living out in their/your(?) lives when they deny that The LORD God, our Father wants us to experience Him in true and living ways beyond even our imagination.
rather we are being deceived=whether we are being deceived
Sorry.