(October 11, 2016 at 6:54 am)mcolafson Wrote: What can you pray for to your God?
You can pray for health of yourself and your family and other people you care about. You can pray for peace. You can pray for 1 billion dollars to come to your bank account.
But just a short while ago I read an article. Christians are admonished to pray for fear of God.
it is based on this bible quote.
Jer. 40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
It's very logical I think. As long as they will fear, they will tithe well.
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ok. I go back to work.
The fear component is more of a deterrent stick. the deterrent doesn't work if you never use it.
The literalness blow it completely out of proportion, but to say a deterrent is not needed in any group is short sighted.
anti-logical Fallacies of Ambiguity
