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Posted on 12/28/2007 7:37:39 AM PST by NYer
Without a doubt the biggest ignored scandal in all of Christianity is the bilking of people using God for profit.
Amen to that!!!!
Joyce Meyers doesn’t preach “prosperity gospel” and her messages are very good and she’s very funny. BUT, I would NEVER give money to her. She takes a six figure salary and her husband has a $500,000 salary from the ministry etc. . . . she’s getting prosperous for sure. The trick is this. She could not take a dime from the ministry at all and have a millionaire lifestyle from her books and tapes. So in my view she has succumbed to greed. It pains me because she is so talented.
"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Any day of reckoning in the courts or public opinion will pale in comparison to the real day of reckoning for these wolves.
People have to be smart enough to protect themselves.
--why doesn't this grandstanding SOB look into congressional waste??? At least the funds given to phoney preachers are voluntary, instead of being extracted at the point of the government gun---
bttt
I’ve seen Pat Robertson promote this message as well using people who claimed to GET OUT OF DEBT this way -which I think is very dangerous.
I like the advise of the money manager David Ramsey...it is a christian’s duty to first get out of debt - and then there will be plenty of money leftover to make decisions regarding charity.
Otherwise the christian will waste many years giving a little here - a little there OR they can get their finances in order NOW - so they can give alot later.
>>People have to be smart enough to protect themselves.<<
You would think that after the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker scandal, people would have wised up to this kind of fraud.
P.T. Barnum once famously said that there was a sucker born every minute. This story proves it!
Would that AP and the other leftists outraged at the donations to wealthy TV evangelists by poor or middle income people, question forced "donations" through our tax dollars by the same "government officials holding hearings."
Instead, why not hold "hearings" into government sponsored waste, fraud, abuse and scams perpetrated by our elected officials.
To use faith as a way to scam people, will receive it's ultimate punishment - HELL for which there will be no pardon.
Governments who drive people into poverty through taxation and scams go unquestioned each and every day by our so-called "watch dogs" in the media, who in reality are in bed with the same pols who pull these never ending, unconstitutional scams.
We have Hollier than Thou Freepers, without any facts, jumping on Christians like a pack of liberals going after a pro-life conservative.
Envy is worse than greed and FR Mountebacks are practicing it with ardor.
The Book of Job is a case study in piety unrewarded...
I'm not defending these prosperity guys at all, but you can't criticize them for playing loose with Bible verses if you do the same or worse:
Job 41:10-12
10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. 12The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first.
Which is why it is so important to be "in the Word", so that when others would try to twist God's word for selfish reasons you would know The Truth.
I feel sorry for those that have been bilked, but God gave (most of) them sound mind and the ability to discern His will, but they seem to have chosen the easy, softer way which is to have someone else think for them and tell them what to do.
They have also taken their focus off of the face of Jesus and put in on the face of Grant, Jackson, et al.....
“Governments who drive people into poverty through taxation and scams go unquestioned each and every day by our so-called “watch dogs” in the media”.
A fundamental truism that bears repeating.
Let’s start with the Department of Education and HUD.
Good advice, honey. Seems she learned the hard way.
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
Ugh.
Watch the video. It's a scream. Robert Tilton Is Pastor Gas
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