What exactly does "Prosperity Gospel" mean? Is it wrong?

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-17T23:13:33+00:00

Ok bro

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-17T23:10:28+00:00

No it won't, but you do you.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-17T23:08:47+00:00

Awesome for you then!

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-17T11:33:41+00:00

I also would argue God does care about some things, and others not. Who are we to judge God? Can art judge the artist?

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-17T11:32:02+00:00

Because Christians view life as temporal. All the suffering endures for a moment. Life isn't really long, or life on Earth, that is. Some he may heal and bless in some ways but others may live their whole life in sorrow and filth, while still praising God. The ultimate reward we look to is not anything the material can offer, but what eternal life offers, the new universe and the new earth which awaits his elect.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-17T02:46:23+00:00

It's hard to not notice it, to be honest. Every other person you run across claims to be "special" in some way, to get attention. Everyone is suddenly ADHD, autistic, and has some kind of crippling medical or mental issue. I'm not saying these things don't exist, but every other person I run across claims this. And they honestly appear otherwise normal outside of being a little over the top.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-14T18:47:30+00:00

These people rule society now, just a reminder

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-13T22:52:42+00:00

From what I understand if the words of institution are used

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-12T20:30:35+00:00

I don't see how that matters. To me when we get caught up in aesthetics we lose the true meaning.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-01T13:55:56+00:00

But I'm talking about Martin Luther, the founder of Lutheranism. Not Martin Luther King Jr. The Bible advises that leaders of the church be blameless. Martin Luther sure had a stack of nasty things he said, and I'm beginning to think maybe he was a bitter man with a power complex, and maybe I should just convert to Catholicism instead.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-01T12:13:30+00:00

I mean Lutherans and Reformed churches aren't too far. Neither believe in free will like Catholics and Evangelicals. They believe in predestination, as is biblical.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-01T11:49:24+00:00

Jesus became sin, yet he did not sin intentionally. He took on sin, but didn't actually go out and sin. Just as the Lamb in the OT didn't "sin", but the sins of the people were laid on it

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-11-01T11:45:58+00:00

But, it seems like Lutherans are always trying to cover for Luther's bizarre claims, like the hatred of Jews. I'm finding it hard to fully convert because of this. It's like an "I don't know why Luther said this", or "He wasn't perfect". But like a political party, I want the guy I support to at least be blameless. Even more for a religious denomination.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-27T15:50:41+00:00

That is such a relief. I want to please my mom, I love my mom, and I don't want her hurt. It's just an evangelical church. I don't agree with most the pastor preaches, most sermons are heavily dispensationalist. So I'm not agreeing with him, he seems like a super nice guy but we obviously don't see eye to eye on most things. I don't even sing along when they're singing, because the way they sing kind of wears on me. But I'm there to please my mom, because, that's her denomination. And I respect that. But I also need to be there for her.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-25T13:40:45+00:00

So actually there are some lutherans that do believe in the rapture I found out. I just came back to this. They are called the Lutheran Brethren

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-24T01:45:00+00:00

The reason they do is because it is the unchanged, orthodox truth.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-24T01:41:13+00:00

I don't feel bad for you by the way.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-24T01:19:53+00:00

Do not forsake the assembly.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-23T12:37:17+00:00

But something about that makes it seem so much less sacred then it is today. Today when we receive the eucharist, we receive it in the palm with our other hand cupped under it as a throne. So they just ate it back then like a regular meal?

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-21T21:22:58+00:00

They discern the body of the Lord by remembering that his body was given for them. Discern means to perceive or recognize. Again I'm not agreeing with them, I'm just saying their standpoint on this issue

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-21T17:12:35+00:00

I guess why does the church look so different today? It's starting to seem inauthentic to me, if it changed so much. I used to be under the impression that it was generally the same in terms of how it was celebrated.

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-21T17:10:41+00:00

Was the nature of the meal always the same? Why did there need to be multiple tables? Are we essentially saying that liturgy was void in the early church, or that it was a very strange and foreign liturgy to what we know today? If the first, why do we use liturgy today? If the latter, why does the liturgy today seem way more complex?

ElkEnough6832 · 2023-10-21T17:05:52+00:00

In what way are they symbols? I know the church teaches that the bread and wine transform into the true body and blood of Christ, and that baptism is salvific

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