God and Mammon: For God or for the Money

ISBN-13: 9781508745396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 308 str.

Godfrey Okoro Godfrey

Opis

The concept of wealth prosperity centred Christianity is often reasoned by many as a belated discovery of an integral part of the reality of Christianity. Some other schools of thought, notable of the Old generation orthodoxy, decry the trend. In the distant past, Christianity was a religion on welfarism. It was the welfare of the soul, where the objective of the preacher and the laity was to find rest to the soul in the bosom of our Lord God. Now, Christianity is still based on welfarism. It is rather the welfarism of the material wellbeing. It is even considered a superior welfarism, which mocks at the old ways of the soul, and claims it is a factor of lack of learnedness in the scriptures. It has its roots in Judaism, far into the Bible days: And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. (Luke 16:13-15) ...Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. (John 6:26-27)