Posted on 06/01/2019 4:28:45 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Wild eyed televangelist Kenneth Copeland appears unhinged in interview where he defends his $760million fortune and says he needs to use THREE private jets because 'demonic environment on commercial flights are not good for a preacher'
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland has appeared in a bizarre interview where he defends using three private jets to travel the world after previously claiming he didn't want to fly commercial with 'demons'.
The 82-year-old's chat with Inside Edition features him angrily pointing and staring the interviewer in one of the instances where he flares up after being confronted about his lavish lifestyle.
But at other moments Copeland has a cheerful demeanor and deflects questions by complimenting her on her eyes, praying for her, and even kissing her hand.
Lisa Guerrero caught up with Copeland – estimated to be worth $760million in October 2018 – after he last year purchased a $3million Gulfstream V private jet from producer and actor Tyler Perry.
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2 Peter 2:1-3 “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and IN THEIR GREED they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.”
2 Corinthians 2:17 “Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.”......Titus 1:7-11.....For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers,..... who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain.”
1 Timothy 6:5, 9-10 “...and constant friction between people of ‘corrupt mind’,... who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
It’s your best life now! /eyeroll
You can see the demonic in his expression, the barely bridled rage at being exposed.
If this is your best life now, I have some really BAD news for you......
Naturally, profit is legitimate and, in just measure, necessary for economic development. Starvation and ecological emergencies stand to denounce, with increasing evidence, that the logic of profit, if it prevails, increases the disproportion between rich and poor and leads to a ruinous exploitation of the planet.
Talk about the Middle Ages: This is from the same entity that commanded:
Secular authorities, whatever office they may hold, shall be admonished and induced and if necessary compelled by ecclesiastical censure,...to exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics pointed out by the Church ;
But if a temporal ruler, after having been requested and admonished by the Church, should neglect to cleanse his territory of this heretical foulness, let him be excommunicated..that he may declare the ruler’s vassals absolved from their allegiance and may offer the territory to be ruled lay Catholics, who on the extermination of the heretics may possess it without hindrance Canons of the Ecumenical Fourth Lateran Council (canon 3), 1215: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.asp
The head of state or ruler must, within ten days after the accusation, complete the following tasks: the destruction of the houses, the imposition of the fines, the consigning and dividing-up of the valuables that have been found or seized , all of which have already been described in this decree. He must obtain all fines in coin within three months, and divide them up in the manner to be set forth hereafter, and convict of crime those who cannot pay, and hold them in prison until they can ....
The head of state or ruler must divide up all the property of the heretics that is seized or discovered by the aforesaid officials , and the fines exacted from these heretics, in the form and manner following: one-third shall go to the government of the state or district. The second as a reward of the industry of the office shall go to the officials who handled this particular case. The third shall be deposited in some secure place to be kept by the aforesaid Diocesan bishop and inquisitors,and spent as they shall think fit to promote the faith and extirpate{11} heretics, this policy prevailing in spite of any statute that has been or shall be enacted against this dividing-up of the heretics' property . - Pope Innocent IV, Ad extirpanda :
To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority , as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago...
Furthermore, such an authority would need...to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties , and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums. Without this, despite the great progress accomplished in various sectors, international law would risk being conditioned by the balance of power among the strongest nations.
The integral development of peoples and international cooperation require the establishment of a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization. -http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html
Right on the Money: The Battle over Novus Ordo Apologist Salaries September 2, 2013
Make that,
“Karl Keating, in 2011 received a base salary of $230,214.”
Thank you for that set of official Catholic references!
How Christ like.
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Bottom line: even if the Catholic Church melted all of the gold vessels and sold all of its religious paintings, etc, etc to help the poor, it wouldn't end poverty.
Like Our Lord said, "you will always have the poor".
The economics of Catholicity, the State organ of religion whether Romam or Anglican, from whose influence the people that founded fled to a new, distant land that they might reinstitute a congregationally ruled religion, separated and apart from the secular elected government.
Who is it that does not know that the truly Christian form of representative government in both church and town hall, once brought alive to form a blood-bought nation of free men, became the target of the Roman Church, that they might overwhelm the capitalism principle, and bring the nation back into subjugation to the Bishop of Rome?
No matter how much income equality there may be, there will always be a bottom fifth of society. Always. So we (THEY) move up the asset-held level to whatever that bottom fifth’s assets happen to be, creating a new ‘poverty line,’ which doesn’t ease poverty but merely redefines it.
The only way to eliminate poverty is what communism advocates, but does not attain, by keeping everyone at the same asset level. The problem with that is it destroys the incentive to perform, and the free-riders will dominate until no one has anything. That’s just human nature.
Rather than deny human nature, Marxists opt to change the nature of humans, achieving Utopia. That’s where Soviet Man comes in. He’s had his hard drive reformatted and loaded with Utopian software. Except the Soviets had sixty years of indoctrination without achieving Soviet Man.
They would have been better advised to use a little ju-jitsu and use man’s desire to get stuff (Greed is Good or at least can be harnessed.) to let him make money and take a little of it for governance. But of course, that is capitalism, which didn’t fit Marx’s narrative. Why we teach his idiocy in college illustrates the desire for Utopia by those to whom history is a blank slate and their ever-recycled conceit, “This time it’s different.”
Don’t take poverty away from poor folks. Good lord, man, it’s the only thing they have!
So many questions piusv!
“So every time we receive a gift related to our faith, we should give it away?”
Churches have to obey Christ and fulfill Matthew 28:18-20.
Should they collect wealth instead of obeying Christ?
Should they collect art instead of obeying Christ?
Should they invest in museums instead of obeying Christ?
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“Is this what you do?”
The standard in Scripture is to be “a hilarious giver,” “willingly giving and not under compulsion.”
We try to do this generously to our assembly and to His mission around the world.
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“Or does this only apply to the Catholic Church and its spiritual gifts?”
I made it clear in my first post that Scripture applies to Copeland and the Catholic Church and of course it applies to every achristian and Christian church.
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“Bottom line: even if the Catholic Church melted all of the gold vessels and sold all of its religious paintings, etc, etc to help the poor, it wouldn’t end poverty.”
Perhaps you did not read Matthew 28:18-20?
It does not mention the poor, although the epistles do.
It sounds like a false argument, since I never mentioned the poor.
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“Like Our Lord said, “you will always have the poor”.”
We will. He did not say that in the context of justifying hoarding. It had a very specific context.
Best
OH?
Authority must mean something other than what I'm used to understanding.
When he dies; that 760 M will go to someone else.
They may be the one(s) that will get the blessing from giving it all away.
it would not end poverty but a lot could be done. there is a difference between keeping some gifts and bragging that you have more than 1/4 of the worlds fine art and jewels. say what u want i think it is indefensible. fortunately i’m not the one that will have to defend it.
I’ve never heard of this “bragging”.
You seem to believe that these great works of art, etc cant be used as part of fulfilling the Great Commission. The Vatican’s problem these days is it’s not fulfilling the Great Commission for other reasons, not because it owns valuable paintings of Christ’s life, death and resurrection.
As for my poverty comments, you may not have brought it up but it was certainly addressed by others. So no, it was not a “false” argument.
It sounds as if it has multiple reasons. I understand.
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