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Here are some citations of the outlandish and perfidious teachings from the individuals listed above. They call it "revelation knowledge"; but this author calls it false doctrine.

KENNETH COPELAND
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"Jesus never actually claimed to be God" ("Take Time To Pray," Believers Voice of Victory, Feb. 1987)

"You don't have a god in you, you are one!" ("The Force of Love", Audiotape, 1987)

"When I read the Bible where He (Jesus) says, 'I AM,' I say, 'Yes, I AM too!'"
(Crusade meeting, July 19, 1987)

"Poverty is an evil spirit" ("Prosperity: The Choice Is Yours", Page 4)

"It wasn't a physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin...anybody can do that."
("What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost", Audiotape #BCC-19)

"A being (God) that stands somewhere around 6-2, 6-3 that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds or a little better." ("Spirit, Soul, and Body", Audiotape #01-0601, 1985)

"God and Adam looked exactly alike." ("The Authority of the Believer", Audiotape #01-0304)

"Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell."
(Kenneth Copeland Holy Bible, Reference Edition, 1991, Page 129)

"Do you want a hundredfold return on your money? Give and let God multiply it back to you. Invest heavily in God; the returns are staggering. Every man who invests in the Gospel has a right to expect the staggering return of one hundredfold." ("Laws of Prosperity", Page 67)

"You have the same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when he created the heavens and the earth." ("Inner Image of the Covenant", Audiotape)

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CREFLO A. DOLLAR
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"You're not a sinner saved by grace you sons and daughters of the Most High God. You are gods!." ("Changing Your World", April 17, 2002)

"I speak to fig trees! I speak to mountains! I cast out demons! Hallelujah! I raise the dead! If need be I walk on water! I'm a god of the Most High God!" ("Christian Celebrity or Charismatic Gnostic?"
Audiotape #0418)

"Well, you need to hear about money, because you ain't gonna have no love and joy and peace until you get some money!" (TBN, July 20, 1999)

"Jesus didn't come as God, He came as a man, and He did not come perfect."
(Creflo Dollar Ministries: World Changers, December 8, 2002)

"Words control the body. And regardless of what's going on in your physical body, you got to talk to it. I'm telling you I talk to my major organs...I speak words to it...The tongue in your mouth will control every inch of your physical body! Do not tolerate sickness and disease as long as you got a working tongue that can speak the established Word of God!"
(Creflo Dollar, "Establishing the Word of God Part 2," January 30, 2005, Product Number: 8442091)

"I don't have to tolerate sickness! I don't have to tolerate bondage! I don't have to tolerate debt! I don't have to tolerate lack! I don't have to tolerate insufficiency! I don't have to be broke, busted, and disgusted all my life. My God is a God that has me the power to get wealth."
(Creflo Dollar, "Growing Up In God", April 4, 2004)

"God wants you driving good, dressing good, looking good, because He is good!"
("Maximizing Your God Given Potential", May 18, 2003)

"I'm telling you, Jesus wasn't poor, and He didn't wear no rags, either; like we march in on these Easter little plays that we do at our church, with those raggedy sheets on. Jesus didn't have no rags on. He wore designer clothes, honey!" (Creflo Dollar Crusade, February 9, 1999)

"Break out of that old $2.50 offering, you get to get into that savings account and give something that's precious to you." / "Somebody might say, 'Well, I don't believe it.' Well, you probably wouldn't with your broke self." / "What's the gospel to the poor? It is prosperity!" (TBN, Praise-A-Thon, April 1, 2004)

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EDDIE L. LONG
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"God says the only way people can see me is through my people. They have been looking for God and He can't be seen. Didn't Jesus say, 'that you are gods?' You are gods with a little 'g'. Don't you understand that you are mighty? Don't you know that you are a king? If Elohim (gods) could only get you to act like El (God)." / "I don't have to have somebody tell me that Sunday I preached. I looked in the mirror and said to myself, 'You preached!' Then I gave myself an offering." / "You have been saved too long to be broke!" (TBN, Praise-A-Thon, March 29, 2004)

"My whole objective in life is to be His image, His duplicate, His witness and to show folk what He look
like...Somebody say, 'I want to see God.' Here He is, look at me!" ("God Is After Himself", Ministry CD)

"How would you feel if I announced to you that if you declared something that it had to happened?" /
"You have enough glory in your mouth that when you declare a thing, then it shall be established." / "Touch your neighbor and say, 'You got power in your mouth.' Tell them, 'There is power in your words.'" / "If you go to the graveyard you better watch out! People might come crawling out of their graves because you got the manifesting power [When you speak words of faith]."
("There's Power In Your Words", March 2, 2003)

"It is so important that you change your vocabulary. A lot of the stuff I found myself in, I spoke it."
("There's Power In Your Words", March 5, 2003)

"I am looked at as one of the churches' fathers. One of God's CEO's." ("The Empowerment of Kings", February 10, 2002)

"When God created, say 'created.' When God created the Spirit Man...He sliced us off of Him. For generations we dwelled with him in spirit." ("Behold We Are Like God", March 23, 2003)

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THOMAS D. JAKES
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"It's what you say to yourself that gets you healed. If you say that you won't be healed you won't be healed. If you say that you are broke you will stay broke. Oh! But I came to serve notice on the Devil. The Bible says, 'The power of life and death is in the tongue.' Slap somebody and say, 'You better
speak to yourself.'" ("Seize The Moment", WTAL 2000 Atlanta)

"Scripture teaches that receiving Christ as your personal Savior does not necessarily make you a son of God, but if you choose to do so, the power and right to do so is present. Just being saved does not make you a son of God, ...only those who are willing to be led by the Spirit actually realize and manifest the sonship of God" ("The Harvest", Pages 46-47)

"The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed because it's holding people back" (Kaylois Henry, "Bishop Jakes Is Ready. Are You?", The Dallas Observer Magazine, June 20-26, 1996, Page 31)

"Jakes, who drives a Mercedes, has moved with his wife and their five children to a luxurious seven-bedroom home with swimming pool in the White Rock Lake area of Dallas. He said the home cost more than $1 million. 'I do think we need some Christians who are in first class as well as coach,' Jakes said." (The Fort Star Telegram)

"Because the teachers in Jesus' day listened to Him as a child, it boosted His self-esteem."
("Loose That Man", Page 3)

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FREDERICK K. PRICE
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"If it be thy will or thy will be done -- if you have to say that, then you're calling God a fool."
("Ever Increasing Faith", TBN, November 16, 1990)

"God can't do anything in this earth realm except what we, the body of Christ, allow Him to do."
("Ever Increasing Faith", TBN, May 1, 1992)

"The apostles were business men; they were rich men; had plenty of money. I'm going to show you that
Jesus was a wealthy man; had plenty of money." ("Ever Increasing Faith", TBN, November 23, 1990)

"How can you glorify God in your body when it doesn't function right? How can you glorify God? How can
He get the glory when your body doesn't even work? And the Bible says your body is the temple. He lives,
the Holy Spirit lives in your body. What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can't see out through the windows and He can't hear with the ears? What makes you think the Holy Spirit wants to live inside of a physical body where the limbs and the organs and the cells do not do not function right? You don't want to live in a house with a leaky roof. You don't want to live in a house where the toilets are running over on the floor. You don't want to live in a run-down, broken-down house where the electricity doesn't work and the wires are hanging out of the wall. You'll get it fixed because you say this house can't function rightly unless everything is functioning as it was designed to function. How do you think, then, that God can get the glory out of your body when your body is the temple where God lives and what makes you think He wants to live in a temple where He can't see out of the eyes, and He can't walk with the feet, and He can't move with the hand? Because the only hands He has in the earth realm are the hands that are in the body. The only eyes that He has that are in the earth realm are the eyes that are in the body. If He can't see out of them then God's gonna be limited. He's not going to be helped."
("Is God Glorified Through Sickness?", Tape #FP605)

"You can talk about me all you want while I'm driving by in my Rolls Royce that's paid for."
("Ever Increasing Faith", March 29, 1992)

"Yes! You are in control! So, if man has control, who no longer has it? God."
("Prayer: Do You Know What Prayer Is?", The Word Study Bible, 1990, Page 1178)

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JOHN HAGEE
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"Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the Word of God." (Praise-A-Thon, TBN, April 16, 1993)

"Poverty is a curse" (Praise-A-Thon, TBN, November 4, 1992)

"The Jews were not rejecting Jesus as Messiah. It was Jesus who was refusing to be the Messiah to the
Jews." ("Should Christians Support Israel?", Pages 67-68)

"Jesus was not poor...Jesus had a nice house! John 1:38 says that Jesus turned to those that were following him and said, 'Come with me.' And they said, 'Where dwellest thou?' He said, 'Come and see.' And Jesus took that whole crowd home with Him to stay in His House. That meant it was a big house! Jesus wore fine clothes! John 19:23 says, 'He had a seamless robe.' Roman soldiers gambled for it at the foot of the cross. It was a designer original! It was valuable enough for them to want it! And then there are Christians that have a poverty complex that says, 'Well, I feel guilty about having nice things.' Jesus didn't!" (Praise-A-Thon, TBN, November 5, 2004)