(October 14, 2012 at 4:00 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 14, 2012 at 2:05 pm)Darkstar Wrote: It doesn't matter if you do it right. God can still arbitrarily decide you have to pray more, or decide he doesn't want to answer it.what makes you an expert on the Mind of God?
1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
Luke 11:5-10 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ 7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
The first shows that god has to agree with your prayer, the second shows that you may have to ask numerous times before the prayer is answered. The problem arises when, after asking many times, you are unsure if you simply need to ask more, or if god does not intend to answer you at all.
See above. You could never know if the prayer was answered, or if it happened by chance because there is no defined limit on the number of times you must pray. Pray to win the lottery (so you can donate it to charity) for 70 years, and then win. Answered prayer?
It is true that hot weather tends to make people more irritable, but this is not part of human nature. People don't go to war jsut because they want to kill somebody.
Firstly, I'm not one of those people who needs the iphone# or the new car, or even cares, frankly. Either way, I don't see how a consumerist society=violent urges.
Drich Wrote:Darkstar Wrote:If given the choice between peace and an unnecessary war, all but the most bloodthirsty would choose peace.That is why all wars are tied to the soceities ever changing morality. So that the masses feel Obligated to move against another country.
I'm not 100% sure what you meant, but I think I understand. My point is that people don't start wars for the sake of war; even if war is started out of greed, this is different than raw bloodlust.
Quote:The bible condones slavery...So? The question wasn't does God condone slavery. I asked who actually physically owned slaves?
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People did, and god said it was okay. But how does this answer whether christians are god's slaves?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
