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  • Passions over 'prosperity gospel': Was Jesus wealthy? (*BARF ALERT*)

    12/26/2009 6:09:29 AM PST · by markomalley · 229 replies · 2,486+ views
    CNN ^ | 12/25/2009 | John Blake
    Each Christmas, Christians tell stories about the poor baby Jesus born in a lowly manger because there was no room in the inn. But the Rev. C. Thomas Anderson, senior pastor of the Living Word Bible Church in Mesa, Arizona, preaches a version of the Christmas story that says baby Jesus wasn't so poor after all. Anderson says Jesus couldn't have been poor because he received lucrative gifts -- gold, frankincense and myrrh -- at birth. Jesus had to be wealthy because the Roman soldiers who crucified him gambled for his expensive undergarments. Even Jesus' parents, Mary and Joseph, lived...