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Health and Wealth Gospel is the name given to the teachings of a branch of Christianity which emphasises material prosperity. The essence of ''Health and Wealth'' teaching is that God desires for all his followers to be materially prosperous and to live a healthy, fulfilled life. They claim that the true Christian has only to ask for these things and they will be granted to them. By contrast if a Christian is not enjoying these benefits then it is because they either have not asked for them (thus denying themselves for no reason) or because they have some Sin in their lives which is preventing God from blessing them. '''Health and Wealth'' is not an organised movement, but a name applied to groups and people with similar teachings. It is also called "Prosperity Gospel", "Word of Faith" (or "Word Faith"), "Name-it-and-claim-it", "Positive Confession", and others. Preachers espousing these teachings generally draw on various parts of the Hebrew Bible where God promises to Israel that they will enjoy peace, contentment, and prosperity if they will stay faithful to him. Critics of the movement claim that the teachings represent at best a part of the message of God. They point out that many prominent Christians, and Jesus himself, did not receive prosperity as a result of their dedication to the faith, and that to attribute poverty to sin or lack of faith in the individual denies social and institutional causes of poverty that Christians should be seeking to remedy rather than attributing to God's will. |
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