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Ivory Coast [Catholic] Bishop Warns Against ‘Prosperity Gospel’
Crux ^ | 9/30/18 | Staff

Posted on 10/02/2018 5:51:36 PM PDT by marshmallow

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon - Catholic leaders in the Ivory Coast are warning against preachers spreading a so-called “prosperity Gospel” - which often includes giving large sums of money with a promise of a heavenly financial blessing in return.

Nigerian preacher Chris Oyakhilome is an example, promising that “your miracle is in your offering” and that if a person is in financial difficulty or suffering from disease, they must give generously to his ministry to receive their needed “miracle.”

“All giving is a demonstration of our faith in God and his word,” he said in a podcast widely distributed in western Africa. Oyakhilome also said believers should give generously, because it will become a pathway to wealth, health and good luck.

“Those who sow a lot will reap even more later,” he said.

The phenomenon was discussed during the first congress of the Reflection and Production Cell of Ivory Coast Theologians (CEREPTI), which took place Sep. 11-14 in Yamoussoukro.

Bishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo of Katiola, the president of the bishops’ conference in the Ivory Coast, denounced the influence such preachers were having even in the Catholic Church, and called on Catholic theologians to effectively present the “true Gospel of Christ” in the face of “the excesses and deviations which constitute an affront to Catholic orthodoxy and orthopraxy.”

The bishop said Catholic theologians had a duty to face up to the “heresies” which threaten Catholic identity - heresies promoted by “communities which mushroom everywhere by road sides claiming to be Christian, but which deny the centrality of the Cross, and preach that prosperity could come like a magic wand.”

Dogbo called on the theologians to work with the country’s bishops to constitute a rampart against these excesses, and to be true promoters of Catholic doctrine.

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1 posted on 10/02/2018 5:51:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Good for him.

More pastors should do the same.


2 posted on 10/02/2018 6:02:07 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: marshmallow
Well yeah. All the Apostles died poor and all but one were martyred. But they forgot to follow Joyce Meyer's advice: "name it and claim it"!

Too bad Joyce wasn't around in Jesus's day to set things right.
 

3 posted on 10/02/2018 6:11:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: marshmallow

It’s not a miracle, at least in the ordinarily understood sense of the word.


4 posted on 10/02/2018 6:23:04 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: marshmallow
" which often includes giving large sums of money with a promise of a heavenly financial blessing in return."

wait a minute . . . you mean we can't buy our way into Heaven?

/s

5 posted on 10/02/2018 6:35:52 PM PDT by BipolarBob (#meToo Things have gotten so bad that Caitlyn Jenner has memories of Bruce touching her.)
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To: marshmallow

and indulgences rear their ugly heads again.


6 posted on 10/02/2018 7:29:37 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: txnativegop

“and indulgences rear their ugly heads again.”

Why?

Indulgences are not connected to any “prosperity gospel”.


7 posted on 10/02/2018 8:02:40 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: BipolarBob

“you mean we can’t buy our way into Heaven?”

Nope. Thank goodness the Catholic Church never taught that either.


8 posted on 10/02/2018 8:03:36 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998
Thank goodness the Catholic Church never taught that either.

Perhaps not in your lifetime. Have you ever heard the RCC used to sell indulgences for that very purpose?

9 posted on 10/03/2018 3:05:55 AM PDT by BipolarBob (#meToo Things have gotten so bad that Caitlyn Jenner has memories of Bruce touching her.)
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To: BipolarBob

No, you’re off on that one. An indulgence only eliminates the residuals of sin that are taken care of in purgatory according to the Catholic Church. If you are there, you are going to end up in heaven anyway. It’s a common misconception. In other words, even when there was a selling of indulgences, it wouldn’t move you to heaven from hell, just shorten your stay in purgatory.


10 posted on 10/03/2018 7:04:51 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: metmom

Yes, prosperity gospel is not Biblical.

Money is such a limited human way to interpret God’s love for us anyhow.


11 posted on 10/03/2018 7:06:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BipolarBob

“Perhaps not in your lifetime.”

Not ever.

“Have you ever heard the RCC used to sell indulgences for that very purpose?”

Only from people who had no idea of what they were talking about. Canon law specifically banned the sale of indulgences. The Catholic Church never once authorized the sale of indulgences. Ignorant anti-Catholics here at FR have repeatedly made this charge over the years and every single one of them has utterly and completely failed to show a single case in which the Catholic Church sold indulgences. We know unscrupulous Catholics sometimes violated Church law and practice and sold indulgences but the Church never authorized nor approved of it.

Quite frankly I have proved this again and again here at FR: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2640719/posts?q=1&;page=51


12 posted on 10/03/2018 7:50:40 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: marshmallow

Time for an African Pope. They are amongst the most conservative of Catholics.


13 posted on 10/03/2018 7:51:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vladimir998

“Canon law specifically banned the sale of indulgences. The Catholic Church never once authorized the sale of indulgences. ”

This is no limitation to Rome.

Just look at the long-term toleration and acceptance of gays at the Vatican.


14 posted on 10/03/2018 11:00:27 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“This is no limitation to Rome.”

No, it just means what I said is true. The Church never authorized the sale of indulgences. Period.


15 posted on 10/03/2018 11:43:02 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

When Rome knowingly allows something, it endorses it with a wink.

They did it then with selling indulgences.

They do it now with their gay mafia and priesthood.


16 posted on 10/03/2018 12:22:47 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“When Rome knowingly allows something, it endorses it with a wink.”

Prove it knowingly allowed it if had already made it illegal. Oh, you’ll fail.

“They did it then with selling indulgences.”

Except the Church didn’t sell any.

“They do it now with their gay mafia and priesthood.”

Nope. Bad men do bad things. To say the Church is responsible for what bad men in it do is stupid and illogical.


17 posted on 10/03/2018 8:23:24 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

It appears someone in denial posted using your account Vlad.

Gay sex and drug parities and the gay mafia in Vatican City have been written about in Italian papers under multiple popes, who allow it to continue.

Priest child sexual abuse in Germany has gone on under seven popes.

Leaders around the world either abused children or covered up the abuse.

The Roman church was well aware indulgences were being sold and allowed it.

They were selling church offices also.

Hope you get back control of your account.


18 posted on 10/03/2018 8:30:22 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: marshmallow
This bunch has no room to be complaining about prosperity. Given we the people fund their illegal human trafficking, right here in the good ol USA. They call it ‘charities’ spit!
19 posted on 10/03/2018 8:42:27 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“It appears someone in denial posted using your account Vlad.”

In other words, you can’t prove anything for your completely dishonest claims about indulgences so you’re going to switch gears to something else.

Yeah, of course you will.

“The Roman church was well aware indulgences were being sold and allowed it.”

And, of course, you post no evidence for your claim.


20 posted on 10/04/2018 7:45:30 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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