>> Mainly with respect to prosperity gospels
Can you elaborate on that?
It sounds almost too silly to detail, but it’s like the preachers who promise you that if you declare you’re going to get a million dollars, then God will do it, but oh you got to kick into their ministry first. Hucksters, largely.
The longer I live, the more this kind of theory is palpably implausible. You might be able to sell out to the DEVIL and get it, but God might with just as good reason put you through lean times, and even Paul states that he can live equally well unto the Lord in abundance and in poverty.