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1 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | Hank | 67581 | ||
Jestified: What was Jesus' real mission: to be a "faith healer" or a Savior? The focus of Scripture: is it on physical healing and financial success, or on God's provision for the redemption of fallen man? And from what source did you derive your view that Jesus enjoyed material prosperity on this earth? And, finally, I find the title of Hagin's book, "The Midas Touch" particularly repugnant. Do you know who Midas was and with what god he dealt? In mythology, Midas was an ancient king of Phrygia and it was the pagan god Dionysus who promised him, in accordance with Midas' wishes, that everything he touched would turn to gold. The foolish modern teaching is that all Christians have to do is "name and claim" what they envision to be biblical promises, thus to force the hand of the Almighty God. Shades of Midas and his Dionysus, perhaps? | ||||||
2 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | Jesified | 67610 | ||
Jesus' primary mission was redemption. However, His "mission" had many other points. Showing us the Father, physical healing, and prosperity are other points of Jesus' ministry that, sad to say, are often ignored. Jesified |
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3 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | EdB | 67640 | ||
Jesified Ignored??? The health wealth gospel has permeated nearly every denomination and church. Why else do you think Christians in America have become so self centered and self absorbed. The church has patterned society everything is focused on self and enjoying life here on earth. Living longer and getting richer and forget all the unpleasantries. America’s churches have so learned to focus on the present situation that eternity means little. I know a couple that left a church because the Pastor was teaching on the rapture and they didn’t want to think about the rapture in fact they didn’t want Christ to return because they had just gotten married and wanted to have kids and grandchildren. Look at the stats. Mission giving falling all time low, giving to charity falling, church attendance falling, divorce within the church higher rate than outside church, sin within the church rising. No I think the Health and Wealth gospel is anything but ignored. EdB |
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4 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | Jesified | 67643 | ||
The point I was getting at is that the FACTS of health and wealth are ignored. Yes, the idea of it is preached everywhere, unfortunately, that has resulted in people moving from one extreme to the other. In the 40's and 50's, it was the commonly held opinion that God wanted His people poor to teach them humility. That was eventually further perverted into the idea that God uses sickness to teach us lessons. If either of these were actually true then God would be guilty of child abuse. Now, churches have taken it to the other extreme. It's common place to think that God will supply every lust of the flesh. Although God will supply all our needs (Philippians 4:19) and even the desires of our heart (Psalms 37:4) we must remember that these needs and desires must be in line with God's word. For example, a cocaine addict needs cocaine, but God won't supply drugs to them because it harms them. Also, if the desire of you heart is a particular someone, He won't over-ride their free will just to satisfy the desire of you heart (which is more acurately lust). The scripture says to delight yourself in the Lord and the context is supporting the idea that you've got His word in your heart. When you've got God's word in your heart governing your thoughts and desires, unless you open the door to other desires, you don't even want something outside of the will of God. Jesified |
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5 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | EdB | 67649 | ||
Jesified In this we agree. I think one of the things is causing so much trouble is how we treat scripture. The church has got to focus on the whole Bible, the whole intent and stop looking for a verse of scripture here or there to prove a point. God through out scripture has assured us that He will care for those the trust in Him. Whether He heals us of a disease or gives us the strength to endure the disease, whether we are filthy rich or have merely enough to meet our needs God has promised never to leave us or forsake us. If we trust in Him and Him alone all things will work out to our best interest. It is Faith in God, and God alone that is important and this is what should be believed, taught and preached. It should not be not faith in what God will do for us, or what God will give us, that is currently being preached. If God did nothing else for humanity what He already has done is worthy of all praise and glory. If it would be that not another Christian ever got healed or ever got rich, God would still be God and still worthy of worship. God is love, not someone with deep pockets or being a super physician. Love isn’t spoiling a child by giving him everything or making life easy. Love God’s love is doing what is best for the child, seeing them through process that refines them like pure gold. Without that refining we would contain many impurities that would make us worth less. EdB |
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