brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.” The prosperity gospel takes the age-old interpretative strategies that scholars have used for generations and turns them upside-down. The rules for hermeneutics (how to interpret Scripture) are tossed out the window! It takes passages that are plain in meaning based on what they literally say in Scripture and makes them to mean something completely different. Like an evil imposter taking a heartfelt letter from a king to his royal