The prosperity gospel espoused by many television and media ministries asserts that it is possible, through their methods of tithing, sowing and giving to place God into their debt, as it were, and as a consequence corral His blessings upon them. A typical figure often quoted is a hundred-fold return. In other words if one sows, say $100, then one could reap $10,000 in return. The basis for this argument is that one cannot out-give God and that passages...