Posted on 05/20/2010 7:40:41 PM PDT by Salvation
Which do you choose?------------------
God's Gospel?
Or Osteen's gospel of prosperity?
What about the suffering that Christ said was necessary?
"Take up your cross and follow me."
I’ll take God’s Gospel and the suffering that I know goes with it. My eye is on the future.......not on the prosperity of the current culture.
Eternity vs. comforts of today?
Catholic Ping!
Statist will always direct your attention away from the real culprit - the state.
Just another different gospel...another lie from the pit of hell, like all who come with a different gospel & a different Jesus.
A different lifestyle....
I can’t even imagine thinking of Jesus living a prosperity lifestyle.
He may have dined with friends, but he had not fancy house to call his home or rich garments to wear.
The health & wealth, name it & claim it, blab it & grab it types cause many to stumble. Woe unto them.
The prosperity gospel appeals to the hedonist. God wants me to be wealthy because I want me to be wealthy. God becomes a big Genie in the sky. All that I have to do is rub him a few times, and poof, I’m rich! Whatever happened to Jesus’ warning that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil? These properity preachers preach a crossless Christianity. I guess that is why you never see one in their churches. There is no room for the Crucified Christ in their man made religion.
Father Barron needs to do his research.
Prosperity gospels and their like in the US go back to the 1800’s. E. W. Kenyon was the best known for it with his Word-Faith movement in the early 1900’s, and he was directly influenced by New Thought and Christian Science. The Rhema Church was preaching prosperity gospel in the 1960’s long before the televangelists got holds of it.
LOL! Your descriptions are so true!
Thank you for your historical accuracy. I wondered too, because I knew Oral Roberts was the first one.
BINGO. If I recall correctly St Maximilian Kolbe and St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) didn’t have an easy cushy ride. Jesus never promised that to anyone, especially His saints. Prosperity gospel=heresy.
I do think we all need to strive to be the best we can be with the gifts God has given us. But does everyone have to be rich?
Does that mean all the poor people of Asia and Africa don’t know God? To the contrary — I think they probably know God on a much more imtimate level that the prosperity gospel seekers do.
WOW! Salvation...a post I actually AGREE on with you!!!
Hey — put a mark on the wall.
You mean it’s not a food fight? Wahhhhhhhhh! LOL!
I’m still waiting for the Osteen lovers to show up.
Hang around!
The Prosperity Gospel also makes it your fault if you don’t become prosperous. You don’t have enough faith to claim prosperity. Puts it all on you. Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyers, Osteen, Ken Copeland, whole bunch of others all are part of the same thing. Name it and claim it. Just believe you’ll get it (whatever “it” is) and you’ll get it. Benny Hinn and his “healing” thing is the same deal. IF you don’t get healed, it’s your fault, you don’t believe enough in him nad his healing power to heal you.
That should have been:
Thank you for your historical accuracy. I wondered too, because I knew Oral Roberts wasN’T the first one.
I had never thought about healing in that way before.
I’ve always discerned that God has three answers.
No
Yes
and
Not now!
We are seeing false prophets which I Lord spoke about.
Sorry..Our Lord spoke about.
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