Some people anticipate life with God to be a solution to their problems and choose God much as one would choose a spouse in a romantic-love culture, by seeking desirable results. They expect God to bring them good things; they tithe because they believe money will come back tenfold; they try to live right in hopes that God will prosper them. No matter what the problem — unemployment, a retarded child, a crumbling marriage, an amputated leg, an ugly face — they expect God to intervene on their behalf by arranging a job, patching together the marriage, and curing the retarded child, amputated
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