(October 5, 2016 at 5:42 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: A devout Christian woman heard from her ex whom she hasn’t seen in decades. He convinced her that they are mature now and he is not the same person he was before. He still loved her and she still loved him. This meant moving out of state to go live with his family. They’d have a farm and he’d buy her a horse.
Well, she prayed and asked for god’s direction and he told her yes she should go with his blessing and providence.
Wasn’t out there for but a few months when his family started abusing her. He underwent surgery that took his leg so he could not protect her. With the help of her daughter from yet another state she got out of there with her life. She believes they were planning to kill her. She lost all her possessions, but thanks god she came out alive and that’s what’s important.
Recently, the husband and the other man who was abusing her died and she is sure that was god’s retribution. Shocked, I asked her if she had actually prayed for god to kill them and she said yes.
If god knew the men were bad and wanted to kill them, he could have done so without telling her to go out there and be abused.
This whole think of praying for god’s direction then thanking him for damage control when things go awry is just the theists’ way of justifying acting against their better judgment then refusing to take responsibility for their bad decisions. If Christians knew what effect their testimonies have on me, they would just shut up.
Again (meaning what I said in the other thread about prayer) There is nothing here that resembles a prayer.. Including the 'hit' she ordered.
Prayer is a way for us to ask God to change us and our mind sets, not a way for us to ask or bug him for crap till he caves in.
For example she should have forgiven this man no matter what he did to her, yet here she is calling for his death.
There is nothing christian or scriptural in what she did concerning her prayers. She prayed about what she wanted and found a reason to just follow through with what she wanted to begin with. Again prayer is not about us getting what we want up front it is meant as a way for God to work in us. to change us to what he wants... which btw is far above and beyond anything we could even imagine to ask for ourselves. We were built for a specific purpose, and prayer along with some humility will see us placed in the position God has made for us to fill.
This lady did what she wanted and good or bad tried to come out 'spiritual' by assigning the outcome to God's will.
