Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, in today's episode I want to help you understand a part of something that

is called the Prosperity Gospel or the Health and Wealth Gospel.

So Prosperity theology became really popular in the mid-20th century with Pentecostals.

They thought that a person could know God favored him because that person received spiritual

gifts or what are called carisms.

Now these gifts were usually things like prophecy, speaking intungs, but gifts of prosperity

and comfort, these became really popular saying, oh not just speaking intungs, you'll get

money and health if you love God and you tithe Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts.

These are the guys saying this and still saying this with Copeland.

And they said you need to plant seed faith.

If you give a financial gift like to your favorite televanjalist, you plant a seed, it

will grow and then God will bless you with money.

Robert Tilton, a televanjalist called this the law of compensation.

So it's the idea that if you give to God to the televanjalist, God will give back to

you.

So giving is more like an investment, this seed faith idea, plant a seed, a seed gift.

And so like I said, Robert Tilton called this the law of compensation.

Kenneth Copeland calls it the law of prosperity.

Prosperity preachers always use this or Oral Roberts put it this way.

Luke 638 says, give and it will be given to you.

We must first plant a seed of faith so that God can multiply it back to meet our need.

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