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

Hey everyone, in today's Rebuttal video, I'm going to take a look at some clips from the

one-hour version of a documentary called American Gospel.

So the description says American Gospel is a critique of the prosperity gospel, which

claims that if you're holy enough and you give enough money, God will reward you with

health and wealth.

Now, I definitely agree the prosperity gospel is false and it's just really bad for people.

But American Gospel also tries to define the gospel itself as being identical to Protestant

faith alone theology.

So let's take a look.

But moralistic preaching, or sometimes identified as moralism, is preaching the commands of

Scripture or the morals of Scripture and nothing else, just pretty much saying to people,

you'd be a good person and God will love you for that.

And while we do not intend it, that is not just a sub-Christian message, it's actually

an anti-Christian message.

I was hearing from the Sermon on the Mount from Jesus.

Here's how not to be sexually immoral.

But then I'm thinking about the passage in the Sermon on the Mount and the whole point

is to try and tell us, you're not sexually moral.

Your righteous should exceed that of the Pharisees and you think that it's about keeping these

lists of rules and the Ten Commandments.

Well, I say to you and he takes it to the heart and he says, if you have lust in your heart,

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