Any claims that wealth and possessions are promised in this life to followers of Christ are not substantiated by the experiences of Jesus Himself nor of the NT church. To make any such claim demonstrates poor exegesis of the biblical text.18 A number of theological problems can be discerned within Osteen’s book and the larger Prosperity movement. Most, if not all, of these problems result from the hermeneutical and exegetical shortcomings identified above.
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