The origin of the prosperity gospel

ORAL ROBERTS AND MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND PROSPERITY

Oral Roberts is one of the pioneers of "faith healing." His ministry was originally called healing waters. His first book, published in 1947, was titled If You Need Healing -! Do this! He listed six steps to release, the first being: "Know that God's will is to heal." In September 1976, the magazine published by Abundant Life, Roberts made ​​the following statements: "The disease is part of the curse and Jesus came to destroy the curse. He suffered in our place because he did not want us we suffer disease. He took our specific diseases and weaknesses of his own body sinless and perfect, in full payment for the penalty of sin. " "I know that God's greatest desire is for you to be healthy." "The disease is not part of God's plan is not devised by the will of God ". "Some ministers are still praying, Father, if it be your will, heal me. I wonder if they could they be sued for malpractice theological? Okay, is a thought "(Oral Roberts, "For I know that God wants to heal you" Abundant Life, Sept. 1976). Oral Roberts was also the pioneer of the concept "faith seed" that those who give money to his ministry then reap money . In early 1950, Roberts began to promise their followers that their financial gifts they would return to God multiplied by seven times. Richard, his son, took his place as head of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma, and he continues in footsteps of his father teaching that health and prosperity are promised by Christ. In St. Louis, Richard told the people: "Let us believe in the flow of healing." He then began to rebuke diseases. "I come against every disease, every ailment. I tie them in the name of Jesus. I address them. I send go. Pain is abandoning his neck now. Begone, you the stink, tormenting things! I turn to cancer. Your foul, tormenting cancer, go in the name of Jesus! Each tumor dissolve in the name of Jesus. " He invited people to receive healing, but although there was a lot of commotion and noise and "slain by the spirit" and laughter and such things, there was no evidence that anyone was really organic healed of an ailment. He had attended many cripples in wheelchairs, but they did not find release. The modern charismatic movement healing is a great deception. While we know that God often heals in answer to prayer and we have witnessed and experienced such healings, however the same charismatic healing movement is a farce. Many times through the years, doctors have tried to find evidence of healings were claimed by people Concurrent Oral Roberts crusades and have been unsuccessful. A doctor in Toronto, Canada, examined 30 people who went through the healing line of Roberts, and they found no health event "that could not be explained in terms of psychological shock or directly hysteria". At least one of 30 died. Disasters have repeatedly fallen on Roberts' healing crusades. On September 8, 1950, in Amarillo, Texas, a 64 year old man died when he ran from the tent when it was being buffeted by a wind storm. Two days later, another wind storm destroyed the store of the crusade and sent 50 people to hospital. In 1951, an Alabama businessman died while attending a crusade of Roberts in Atlanta. In 1955 Jonas Rider killed during a crusade in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 1956, Mary Vonderscher died twelve hours after his appearance on a TV show Roberts to testify to their healing. In January 1959, a 64 year old man died during a campaign in Oakland, California. In May 1959, a three year old girl died during a healing crusade in Fayetteville, North Carolina. An elderly Indian woman died on their way to that crusade. In July 1959, a woman died after healed believed in a cross-Roberts. Roberts was not only unfit to heal strangers, was unfit to heal his own family. In 1984, a grandson who was named after him (the son of Richard and his second wife, Lindsay) died two days after birth, despite the special prayers of several major Charismatic faith healers. We want our readers to understand that we are not rejoicing in the tragedies that have befallen Oral Roberts. They are sad things, and there is no joy in relate. The reason we mention them is that he has made ​​claims to be taken seriously. If healing is in the atonement, if special healing powers belong to every Christian today, if the will of God that the Christian is healthy and thriving, if the disease is never God's will, it will be evident in the fact of the Christian life. These facts of life for Roberts, however, show that these things are not true. His life testifies to the same problems, the same diseases, the same sufferings that befall Christians who do not believe the doctrine of Pentecostal healing, and who believe in a cessation of the apostolic sign gifts. The same can be said of all other charismatic leaders who teach that healing is promised by Jesus Christ. God has not promised health and financial prosperity, and that there is lawlessness and confusion make such promises.