Why would anybody want to live forever? Sooner or later, the boredom’d get ya. I don’t want a car, but there are some other things I’d be interested in.
Well, Janis asked the Lord for a Mercedes Benz.
Thanks for posting that.
Sounds like a false choice fallacy.
Can’t you have both?
Reminds me of my 3 year old granddaughter when I asked her if she wanted to go on a train ride OR the merry go round.
Without the slightest pause she quickly answered “the train ride AND the merry go round.”
I have a retort but it'd get me in trouble with the mods.
Luce also cites in his report this quote from another prosperity gospel preacher, Paula White: “Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is Satan.”
One of POTUS' disreputable gaggle of religious advisors.
Instead, Osteen preaches that “It is finished,” means, “The guilt is finished. The depression is finished. The low self-esteem is finished. The mediocrity is finished. It is all finished.”
That's just staggeringly bad.
For a Ferrari? Absolutely not. However I am prone to Road Rage, so perhaps a fully functional Abrams tank...
“Nowhere do the Scriptures tell mankind that if we just do our part, God will do his. Instead, the Bible reveals that God accomplished everything needed for our salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on his cross.”
The above quote was taken from Mohler in the OP. God has done His part in man’s salvation by sending His Son to die as a sacrifice on the cross. Yet man does have a part, a role in his own salvation and that part is obeying the Lord, Heb 5:9. Jesus Himself said those who doeth the will of the Father are the one who enter the kingdom, Matt 7:21. Even the rich young ruler (Luke 18) had a part in his own salvation in obeying the Lord in going and selling all he had, distribute to the poor and ‘come, follow me’. Yet his not doing his part left him being disobedient to the Lord and short of having salvation.