RE: I thought your god was keeping you safe
April 14, 2019 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2019 at 11:44 am by mathetes.
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(April 14, 2019 at 5:14 am)Acrobat Wrote:(April 14, 2019 at 4:47 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: That’s a fair point, but then why do Christians pray to god for things like sick babies, missing children, and deployed soldiers?
Jesus gave a model of what prayer out to look like, in the Lord’s Prayer. You know what’s absent in that prayer? Praying to avoid death, suffering, sick babies, missing children, etc....
Praying is not about changing Gods mind, but about the changing of ours, as evident in the Lord’s Prayer.
Is prayer ONLY about changing your mind? Is that consistent biblically? That is an expressed sentiment I've heard from time to time, but is that the only/primary purpose of prayer?