Thursday, September 18, 2008

Health, Wealth and Prosperity Gospel Teaching

Also known as, “Prosperity Doctrine,” “Health and Wealth,” “Name It and Claim It,”

The prosperity teaching is an aberrant doctrine, largely promoted by the Word-Faith movement.

Here’s how it is sold: God wants you to be rich (and/or healthy), but He can not bless you unless you first send money (also known as a “seed-faith offering”) to whichever televangelist or teacher tells you about this scheme. Perfected by Kenneth Copeland,Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn,Marilyn Hickey, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, et al.

The teaching is part and parcel of ‘Positive Confession,’ one of the doctrinal pillars of Word-Faith theology.

Here is a good article about Prosperity Teaching at its Most Brazen Has Established a British Presence...:

http://www.ukapologetics.net/08/elsh.htm