Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

I believe they would say it is not any human's place to make that judgement, that only G-d can truly judge people like them.

 

Yes, many Christians say they are spreading false messages. They are not uncontradicted. The prosperity gospel is reviled by everybody but folks preaching it.

Take, for example, the controversy swirling around John MacArthur's comments about Beth Moore. He said this popular evangelist should "Go home" because women shouldn't be allowed to preach. The backlash from many other evangelists and mainline Protestants has been swift and severe.

 

Are there prominent Christians who disagree with the Gospel of Trump as revealed to Franklin Graham, et al?

Let me count the nays:
John Pavlovitz
John Fugelsang
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Stephen Colbert
Jen Hatmaker...

 

And here ...

Why One Cannot Follow Jesus and Support Trump – Red Letter Christians

https://www.redletterchristians.org/franklin-graham-wrong/

 

Oh, brother...

Impose by force? Change the channel.

Ruined their lives? Like I said, oh, brother...

Franklin Graham and Jim Bakker, prophets? That's according to you, not them.

The means of delivering the message? What would you know, given that you make it sound, simultaneously, like you listen to it all the time, which you actually must not if you hate it as vehemently as you sound like, and wouldn't be caught dead doing it?

 

moral grandstanding

Are You a Moral Grandstander?

 

Certainly plenty of history in which Christianity is delivered at the end of a sword.

Not sure he's linking that with Graham or Bakker.

 

Big news in in the gospel music world.

 

One can't follow Jesus and support lots of politicians. It ain't just Trump. And it ain't just Republicans, either.

 

Worth asking if Christianity and Capitalism are compatible as well.

 

Christianity is counter-cultural enough that its worldview would be incompatible with the world at large on many fronts, including economic.

Christians coupling with capitalism hit its peak in the 90s and 2000s with the prosperity gospel. We're already moving away from that and toward something else. My sense is that it'll be the kinds of doctrinal debates and moral issues dealt with in Corinth and Ephesus.

Christianity is not obviously not scripturally compatible with abortion, for example. It doesn't stop American Christians from believing whatever they like on that matter because of individualism.

 

To the extent I know all their work, I'd say quite of a bit of it is false teaching, yeah. As to hell...that's between them and God.

I couldn't reject the prosperity gospel more. I dunno that Joel Osteen is going to hell for it.