Originally Posted By: bill
What does Joel Osteen promise if you will only use your words to claim it? Health , wealth, prosperity and the object of your desires. That's a very popular message and one that it's bringing thousands to his teachings. Why is it so popular? Because it is the same thing Satan promises and tempts with. When Satan had Jesus up on the mountain he looked over all the kingdoms of the earth and promised them all to Jesus if he would follow him. God promises our needs but I haven't read anything about him promising jet skis, private planes and 10 million dollar mansions. God doesn't desire us to struggle through life financially and he may even bless us with wealth but God's definition of success in our lives has nothing to do with money.


Joel Osteen believes if Jesus was alive today, he'd be outfitted in Armani. Joel teaches a Prosperity Gospel that uses doing good things to leverage material blessings from God. That's considered to be false teaching according to the Bible I read.


Originally Posted By: R_H_Clark
The truth is clear for all to find if they will just open their Bibles.


Open that Bible and study/compare it to Joel's teachings - the truth will be clear to you as well.