9 Problems with the Prosperity Gospel

The prosperity gospel will find no corner in which to hide its head on this blog, so let me start with a simple list of problems inherent to the message that Jesus died to deliver us from poverty.

1. The prosperity gospel is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2. The prosperity gospel urges sinners to commit idolatry.
3. The prosperity gospel denies God’s sovereign purposes for pain as revealed in Scripture.
4. The prosperity gospel ignores Biblical teaching on wealth.
5. The prosperity gospel discourages logical thought about the Bible, a work ethic, sickness, economics, and politics.
6. The prosperity gospel requires other heresies to support it such as deification and positive confession.
7. The prosperity gospel inoculates people from hearing the truth because they think they already know Gospel.
8. The prosperity gospel has never been accepted in the Christian church until the 1980’s.
9. The prosperity gospel contradicts the lives of the many godly but poor believers in the Bible and history.