The Prosperity Gospel---Your Opinion?

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  • Terry
    Terry

    Some links:

    My grandmother and I use to watch Kathryn Kuhlman on TV when I was a boy.

    I've watched Rex Humbard preach and Oral Roberts. If they are mainstream examples of sanity I'll take a pass.

    Benny Hinn (a charismatic Pentecostal) is, in my opinion, scum of the Earth.

    • A. A. Allen (1911–70) Healing Tent Evangelist of the 1950s and 1960s
    • Joseph Ayo Babalola (1904–59) Oke - Ooye, Ilesa revivalist in 1930. Also, spiritual founder of Christ Apostolic Church
    • William M. Branham (1909–65) Healing Evangelists of the mid 20th century
    • Jack Coe (1918–56) Healing Tent Evangelist of the 1950s
    • Rex Humbard (1919–2007) The first successful TV evangelist of the mid 1950s, 1960s, and the 1970s and at one time had the largest television audience of any televangelist in the United States
    • George Jeffreys (1889–1962) Founder of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in the UK
    • Bishop R.A.R. Johnson (1876–1940) Founder of the House of God, Holy Church of the Living God, The Pillar and the Ground of the Truth, The House of Prayer for All People. A Commandment (Sabbath) keeping Pentecostal organization.
    • Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–76) American female evangelist who brought Pentecostalism into the mainstream denominations
    • Charles Harrison Mason (1866–1961) The Founder of the Church of God In Christ
    • Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) American Female Evangelist, pastor, and organizer of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
    • Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) Father of Modern Pentecostalism
    • David du Plessis (1905–87) South-African Pentecostal church leader, one of the founders of the Charismatic movement
    • Oral Roberts (1918-2009) Healing Tent Evangelist who made the transition to televangelism
    • William J. Seymour (1870–1922) Azusa Street Mission Founder (Azusa Street Revival)
    • Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate (1871–1930) [ 62 ] - Mother of Holiness. Founder of the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. and its dominion churches. [ 63 ]
    • Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947)
    • Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924)
  • Terry
    Terry

    Lastly, this is not supererogation. It is a misuse of Jesus' teaching about money. Jesus stated that it would be easier for a literal camel to go through a literal needle's eye, than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven. Jesus, never took a dim view of wealth, He after all needed money to pay for a Roman tax. However, he wanted his followers to know that their trust was not to be in wealth, but in God.

    Wiki:

    Prosperity theology (also known as prosperity doctrine, the health and wealth gospel, or the prosperity gospel) is a religious belief found among "tens of millions" [1] of Christians centered on the notion that God provides material prosperity for those he favors. [2] It has been defined by the belief that "Jesus blesses believers with riches" [1] or more specifically as the teaching that "believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the 'sowing of seeds' through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings." [3]

    I must be very dense. It sure sounds like the same thing as supererogation to me.

    Supererogation may be considered as performing above and beyond a normative course of duty, in order to further benefits and functionality
  • FireNBandits
    FireNBandits

    Seriously, what does this have to do with the NT? Nothing.

    Prosperity, however, beats the heck out of poverty!

    Two thumbs WAY up for prosperity!

    Saint Martin the Relatively Prosperous

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