#439 The Prosperity Gospel is DANGEROUS - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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What do Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, and Jesse Duplantis have in common? They all promote a form of Christianity that preaches a good and easy life. Tim Staples breaks down the reasons why the prosperity gospel is dangerous and exposes the pitfalls of this theology. Cy Kellet: Tim Staples, Catholic Apologist, thanks for being with us. Tim Staples: It is great to be with you, Cy Kellet. Cy Kellet: I want to talk to you about the prosperity gospel. And this is something that really is big. The prosperity gospel is really big, and I do sometimes feel a pang of guilt that we don’t talk ab…

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0:00.0	Tim Staple's Catholic Apologist, thanks for being with us.
0:08.5	It is great to be with you, Cycolic.
0:10.4	I want to talk to you about the prosperity gospel, and this is something that really is
0:15.6	big.
0:16.6	I mean, the prosperity gospel is really big, and I do sometimes feel like paying a guilt
0:19.4	that we don't talk about it enough, because there is a cogent and very important Catholic
0:24.4	response to it.
0:25.8	But let me start with this.
0:27.9	A lot of the Scripture reads like the prosperity gospel.
0:31.8	So it doesn't seem entirely insane.
0:35.8	Yes.
0:36.8	Yeah.
0:37.8	Exactly.
0:38.8	If you read, especially much of the Old Testament, and we have to remember, the Kingdom
0:46.5	of God in the Old Testament was almost entirely focused in this world.
0:53.1	If you notice in the Old Testament, there is very much in this world focus.
0:58.5	There's very little about the next life.
1:02.0	Well, why is that?
1:03.0	Well, because there was very little revealed.
1:05.2	Really, it's in Jesus Christ that we have revealed the reality of heaven as the possession
1:12.2	of God in the beatific vision, for example, which there was no concept of that in the Old
1:17.5	Testament.
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