THE PROSPERITY DOCTRINE AND THE "MANIFESTION OF THE SONS OF GOD" BY PAUL RAPOZA


Few people know much of the history of these two doctrines much less realize that they were birthed from the same "womb" of heresy. The definition of heresy is that which divides and both the fruit of both doctrines elevated those preaching them to a status well and above that of the common "laity." In many respects they were an even deeper expression of "Nicoliatanism" (to rule over the common class) because they established a certain class system within the Body of Christ.

The founders of the "Prosperity doctrine" and the "Manifest Sons of God doctrine" walked hand in hand often sharing the same platforms and doctrinal platforms. Both doctrines took an expression of "truth" from the scriptures and built upon it something that was not intended much less expressed in the full context of the scriptures. Both movements led their adherents to a level of subtle if not outright pride so much so that if one looks at their origins and the final analysis of their outcomes, they both came from the same spirit. They were not in reality two movements but one led by the same spirit of deception masked in "holy" garments of a perceived infallability. Based upon a certain "attainment" of "faith" in what they believed and preached.

The ultimate result of both doctrines married together as such  was a certain god-like status among men where men would not dare question their doctrines and motives, especially when their excesses became apparent to some in the Body of Christ.

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