Comments on: Is the Prosperity Gospel Financial Heresy? http://toughmoneylove.com/2008/10/05/is-the-prosperity-gospel-financial-heresy/ The Hard Truth about Money and Personal Finance Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Mr. ToughMoneyLove http://toughmoneylove.com/2008/10/05/is-the-prosperity-gospel-financial-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-840 Mr. ToughMoneyLove Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:05:55 +0000 http://toughmoneylove.com/?p=121#comment-840 Pit - I have not been in the audience when the Prosperity Gospel has been preached although I have seen it on TV. What you describe is so sad and so contrary to scripture. Pit – I have not been in the audience when the Prosperity Gospel has been preached although I have seen it on TV. What you describe is so sad and so contrary to scripture.

]]> By: pit http://toughmoneylove.com/2008/10/05/is-the-prosperity-gospel-financial-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-837 pit Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:26:21 +0000 http://toughmoneylove.com/?p=121#comment-837 The people I know who subscribe to the "prosperity gospel" believe that being prosperous is God's stamp of approval on their lives. They believe that the poor are the way they are because of being mentally retarded, drug use or just plain lazy or incapable of making good decisions. They will not admit to any adverse situation in their life because it would reflect badly on them and be proof that God was withholding his blessing on them because they were doing the wrong things or not doing the right things in the eyes of God. They feel compelled to look prosperous and in good health even if that isn't so. The people I know who subscribe to the “prosperity gospel” believe that being prosperous is God’s stamp of approval on their lives. They believe that the poor are the way they are because of being mentally retarded, drug use or just plain lazy or incapable of making good decisions. They will not admit to any adverse situation in their life because it would reflect badly on them and be proof that God was withholding his blessing on them because they were doing the wrong things or not doing the right things in the eyes of God. They feel compelled to look prosperous and in good health even if that isn’t so.

]]> By: PT http://toughmoneylove.com/2008/10/05/is-the-prosperity-gospel-financial-heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-712 PT Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:17:59 +0000 http://toughmoneylove.com/?p=121#comment-712 I think there is some truth to the prosperity message taught in Christian churches (at least the passages referenced are biblical), but like anything, it can be warped and taken to the extreme. Which is what some pastors/churches have done to their benefit, like you say. Yes, I think it helped contribute. Like you say, it helped to contribute to the notion that people "deserve" something just because. But thinking you deserve something and getting it unjustly are two different things. The lenders never should have extended credit to those who traditionally weren't deserving. I think there is some truth to the prosperity message taught in Christian churches (at least the passages referenced are biblical), but like anything, it can be warped and taken to the extreme. Which is what some pastors/churches have done to their benefit, like you say.

Yes, I think it helped contribute. Like you say, it helped to contribute to the notion that people “deserve” something just because.

But thinking you deserve something and getting it unjustly are two different things. The lenders never should have extended credit to those who traditionally weren’t deserving.

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