UMIRINBRAH?
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- God as Divine Vending Machine
Prayer is treated as an input (faith, tithes, declarations) that guarantees output (health, wealth, influence). Verses like Matthew 7:7 (“Ask, and it will be given…”) are stripped of their context: the ask in the Sermon on the Mount is for bread, forgiveness, deliverance from evil—not stock portfolios or luxury cars.
- Righteousness as Currency
Moral compliance (“living right”) is leveraged as spiritual capital to claim material dividends. But James 1:27 defines pure religion not as prosperity, but as visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, and keeping oneself unstained from the world. Righteousness serves the neighbor—not the self.
- The Cross as Cosmetic
The crucifixion is acknowledged liturgically but ignored existentially. If Christ’s death was substitutionary, it was also paradigmatic: His way of life—suffering, obscurity, rejection—is the pattern for His people. Hebrews 13:12–13 commands: “Jesus also suffered outside the gate… let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the reproach He endured.”
Yet the modern believer seeks inclusion—respectability, platform, comfort—precisely what the cross renounces.
