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The prosperity gospel is a bunch of bunk.
1 posted on 02/03/2012 1:34:29 AM PST by billflax
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To: billflax

Good for him! He really IS a true Christian.


2 posted on 02/03/2012 1:53:13 AM PST by Apollo5600
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To: billflax

Cool.


3 posted on 02/03/2012 2:01:45 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: billflax
The Prosperity Gospel reflects a new variant on an ancient apostasy presuming our material standing proportionate to our moral stature.

Doesn't the Jewish faith suggest something along this line? The Mormon church signals prosperity by building ostentatious churches, and many Mormons seem unusually ambitious and driven. I wish I had 1% of Mitten's unbridled ambition. I have no clue what his thought process might be, what motivates him to be such a vulture weasel.

4 posted on 02/03/2012 2:20:43 AM PST by Reeses
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To: billflax
"The Prosperity Gospel reflects a new variant on an ancient apostasy presuming our material standing proportionate to our moral stature"

While I don't agree with the prosperity Gospel it's hard to escape the face that the Psalms take exactly this position repeatedly. The good will flourish and the evil will eventually suffer. Fortunately, Ecclesiastes and Job both show the other side to this coin.

5 posted on 02/03/2012 3:30:03 AM PST by circlecity
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To: billflax

Hell opened up a special circle just for Hagin, Copeland, Hinn, Dollar, Price, Crouch, and Parsley. Millstone time!


6 posted on 02/03/2012 4:03:10 AM PST by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: billflax
Those who serve God best should be rewarded most.

Back in 2007 a friend and his wife coaxed me into attending their Baptist church which I did for almost a year......

The pastor drove a really nice Corvette......

8 posted on 02/03/2012 4:49:50 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: Gamecock

One for the ping list


9 posted on 02/03/2012 5:10:40 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow (Can't afford a ticket back from Suffragette City)
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To: billflax

I despair of the Joel Osteen daily garbage on Free Republic. That is not Christianity.


10 posted on 02/03/2012 5:41:02 AM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: billflax

Good for Tebow.
My sister was caught up for several years in a large NW prosperity Church, Casey Treat Ministries. I attended a few of the services with her, and as a Christian outsider I could see the false doctrine being taught, while she and thousands of other good people just follow him like a bunch of lemmings. I heard him say, “The Richer you are the more blessed by God you are”, and that God’s desire is for you to be wealthy.” And “that if you were poor in riches it is because you are poor in spirit.” And how do you become rich, according to Casey, giving in abundance to the church of course.
Thankfully my sister finally wised up, and left that church.


11 posted on 02/03/2012 5:43:16 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: billflax

May God continue to bless Tebow with discernment....


12 posted on 02/03/2012 5:48:02 AM PST by codder too
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To: billflax

Very happy to hear that.

That’s Smilin’ Joel Osteen’s crowd, isn’t it?


13 posted on 02/03/2012 5:48:33 AM PST by ScottinVA (Liberal logic: 0bamacare mandate is acceptable... but voter IDs are unconstitutional.Oh, let me gues)
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To: billflax

Good for Tebow. The more I learn about this young man, the more impressive he gets.


15 posted on 02/03/2012 5:55:59 AM PST by Not The Other One
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To: billflax

Tebow’s parents are missionaries. I believe that gives him a clearer, more eternal perspective than that of most American Christians, including me.


17 posted on 02/03/2012 6:08:37 AM PST by opus86
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To: billflax

Didn’t Jesus say “many shall come in my name”, referring to false prophets?


20 posted on 02/03/2012 7:27:21 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: billflax

Those preaching ‘the prosperity gospel’ are the ...’wolves in sheep’s clothing’... Jesus and Paul warned us about.


22 posted on 02/03/2012 8:17:20 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: billflax

The more I learn about Tim Tebow, the more impressed I am, and the less guilty I feel for rooting for him and the Broncos to beat my Jets.


23 posted on 02/03/2012 9:57:57 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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To: billflax
These false doctrine pastors who preach prosperity gospel are those whom Christ Jesus and our Apostle Paul for the Gentiles, warning that many shall come in the later days preaching as ...’wolves in sheep’s clothing’... for such God has reserved Hell and the Lake of Fire for false doctrines as these - today we are Ambassadors for Christ and our ministry is the ministry of reconciliation, not health and wealth - that kind of false doctrine teaching only helps the god of this world to make the earth a healthy and clean and wealthly world system...

By the way... Satan is the god of this world system...Search the Scriptures for this proof, it's there. The worst is Rick Warren who cuts off the grace of God for a man-made, man-oriented, man-focused, works-oriented system of false teaching, and ensures this form of false doctrine propagates successfully by awarding 'churches' the good house-keeping Rick Warren seal of approval, ensuring that these 'works oriented churches' continue in false Bible doctrines from the master of deception - Satan.

26 posted on 02/03/2012 11:19:17 AM PST by bibletruth
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To: billflax

Good for Tebow. He’s wise for someone so young!


27 posted on 02/03/2012 4:38:05 PM PST by jan in Colorado (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. --George Orwell.)
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