The Eliphaz Doctrine
The Prosperity Doctrine permeates American churches, and has even begun to spread its disease throughout the world, with its twisting of Scripture to feed fleshly whims and lusts. It is all about the earthy and temporal, and not at all about the spiritual, unless it relates to the supernatural obtaining of health and wealth. It reminds me of Eliphaz--Job's "friend". I suppose at one time, he had been a faithful friend to Job; when times were good, and Job wasn't experiencing any hardship. When the chips were down, though, Eliphaz became Job's judge; insisting that Job must have done something wrong to be in that conundrum. People still live with that mindset--they did when Jesus lived, too--and He quickly corrected them. When Jesus came upon the blind man in John 9, "His disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" The assumption was that if this man was blind, the cause was automatically sin. ...