{"id":180,"date":"2013-01-30T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonofcarey.wordpress.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2013-01-30T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:20:16","slug":"problems-with-the-prosperity-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"9 Problems with the Prosperity Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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  1. The prosperity gospel is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n
  2. The prosperity gospel urges sinners to commit idolatry.<\/li>\n
  3. The prosperity gospel denies God\u2019s sovereign purposes for pain as revealed in Scripture.<\/li>\n
  4. The prosperity gospel ignores Biblical teaching on wealth.<\/li>\n
  5. The prosperity gospel discourages logical thought about the Bible, a work ethic, sickness, economics, and politics.<\/li>\n
  6. The prosperity gospel requires other heresies to support it such as deification and positive confession.<\/li>\n
  7. The prosperity gospel inoculates people from hearing the truth because they think they already know Gospel.<\/li>\n
  8. The prosperity gospel has never been accepted in the Christian church until the 1980\u2019s.<\/li>\n
  9. The prosperity gospel contradicts the lives of the many godly but poor believers in the Bible and history.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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