Sunday, January 13, 2013

"THE QUESTIONABLE AND THE NON-REALISTIC BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF THE HUNDREDFOLD"

Prosperity preachers all over the human universe teach that Christians who are faithful tithers of all their incomes and also the regular givers of bountiful and sacrificial offerings for the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ on this earth will receive back in this present life the hundredfold of whatever they have given for the work of the Lord. These prosperity teachers always quote from the gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 10:29-30 which reads "And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life."

In the percentage terms, a hundredfold of anything is mathematically equal to its 10,000 times. The hundredfold of 1 is 10,000 and the hundredfold of 100 is 1,000,000  or a million. Can we take the above scriptures literarily at the face value and in all reality based on the way this scripture is rendered or stated? Are the material and the financial promises in this scripture truly realistic in our global economic systems and in our human financial world that we live as humans on earth? Will the world's financial systems survive the realisation of the financial and the material promises of this scripture if they become a reality in this life?

If this scripture is a reality in this life based on the prosperity gospel teachings, three visible things would have happened all over the world in all the Churches where this scripture is taught and practiced. Firstly, all the Christians who practice this scripture in all truth and honesty will be multibillionaires and trillionaires in all currencies by now and will become the richest group of people that this world has ever seen or known. Secondly, the Churches that practice this scripture will be the richest human religious institutions ever on earth today. These Churches will be richer than all the advanced, emerging and developing economies  together with their GDPs. Thirdly, this type of biblical investment will be the most lucrative and the most rewarding ever known on earth today in terms of its returns or yields. This investment will collapse the global economy systems and all the existing traditional investments of the world today, such as, the stocks, bonds, treasury bills, gold, precious metals, real estates, bank savings, CDs, fixed deposits and money markets. 

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