(August 8, 2018 at 1:31 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: The OP assumes a difference of kind when it is really a matter of degree. They're all Christians; they just have various doctrinal differences.Talking about shit.... does God plan when I take it, its consistency and shape?
(August 8, 2018 at 12:24 pm)Joods Wrote: Most everyone knows that prayer doesn't do shit. Think about this: if you believe that god has some sort of master plan for your life, then your prayers are pointless because you are essentially asking the divine one to alter his plan for you and that isn't part of "The Plan".
Maybe prayer was part of "The Plan" and by NOT praying you're the one deviating from it.
4:13–15: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say” — this is what the biblical inspired writer James says we ought to say — “‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’”
What’s the point of that? That means “this or that” — anything you do — you should go into it saying, “I’m not in control here.” It’s arrogant, he says, to think you’re in control. God is in control.
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/does-god-control-all-things-all-the-time
So, is it ultimately God who controls my bowel movements? And if I happen to fart loudly during a church service, it is His plan? Maybe God also finds most services boring and needs some diversion?
I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino, and getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens.
