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Poverty Gospel Promises too little |
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Written by Oshea Davis | |
Wednesday, 24 January 2018 | |
Mohler’s Poverty Gospel Promises too little.I saw this quote the other day by Albert Mohler. “"(a)The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth – (b)and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health."
This is so bad, and it reeks of false humility. Does he really expect Christians to fall for this type of religious sophistry and rhetoric?
The issue, is that that Bible is simply not humble enough, for some people; they feel the need to help out the Bible and make it more humble according to a man centered view.
Be Good Stewards of Pain? OR is Christian Ethics Being Good Stewards of God's Promises and commands?I read this irritating quote from Jerry bridges the other day.
"....We usually think of
Christian stewardship in terms of money. Some churches have 'stewardship
campaigns' during which they seek to get their membership to pledge toward the
annual church budget. Then the concept of stewardship was broadened to include
our time and talents---or as one slogan puts it, 'Be a good steward of your
time, talents, and treasure.' The idea behind these concepts is that whatever
resources God has given us, He has entrusted them to us as stewards to use for
His glory.
(1) There are a few problems with this. The first main “if…then,” argument only in essence says, “ If God CAUSES all things, then God CAUSES this thing.” It is a broad but correct deduction. So far so good. It is only dealing with causality or ontology that is; and so, the conclusion he makes that pain is like stewardship, is an implied “ought.” We ought to obey God to use pain is such and such away. This is now a category or ethics—a different category. Ethics is what God commands. However, Jerry provides no command from God (in what I read) clearly showing we “ought” to treat pain the way he seems to imply.
(2). Overall this is an inductive argument in the form of
arguing from analogy, which is invalid. [ That is, X, R, T, and F all have
characteristic 1, 2, and 3. Also, X, R and T have characteristic 4. Thus, F has
characteristic 4 as well. ]
(3.) Lastly, we do in fact know –broadly speaking—what to
with suffering GOD CAUSES. Hannah knew what to do when she dealt with the pain
of not having a child -(which God caused), she asked for a miracle and received one – a gift. She
did not like the pain and wanted it to go away. God gave her a son, as a gift.
The pain stopped. God has commanded us to believe in His promises. God's
commands is real Christian ethics. Christian ethics is not an inductive
conclusion taken from some nebulous notion of what one thinks God's causality
is doing at a given moment. |
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