Prosperity Gospel,

Gospel, Deuteronomic Faith, and how babies come into it.

March 27, 2024. Introduction. Let me go straight to the central question I want to address here.

What is the difference between the prosperity gospel and the Deuteronomic blessings I like to talk about?

And what is the essential difference between the various men who are bringing these respective messages to you?

The difference is that the former is selling you something and the latter is telling you something.

One is leaching and the other one's teaching, but this requires some unpacking,

individual consumers. If for some reason you get up in the middle of the night and turn on the television,

the chances are pretty good that you're going to encounter infomercials. The infomercials are going to try to sell you a

rugged vacuum cleaner that could suck up a tennis ball, an absolutely amazing shammy cloth,

a reverse mortgage, and gold coins for these troubled times in which we live.

There will also be a televangelist on one of those channels who has a row of teeth that are really something

and he too will be trying to sell you something.

And because what he is selling is a product, it needs to be a guaranteed product.

Now as is the case in these sorts of arrangements, terms and conditions may apply.

He needs to sell you on the strength of the guarantee, and so that will be front and center in the message.

The terms and conditions are found in the fine print, down there where it says that you need to have

quote unquote enough faith.

Just last week some other view are latest hands on the television, prayed the suggested prayer,

and the very next day a distant uncle gave him a brand new Lexis. These promises and intimations

and strong suggestions and broad hints are very inexpensive to the ministry and so they serve

as a very effective loss leader and there really isn't any loss involved.

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