Posted on 05/15/2008 10:36:22 AM PDT by Terriergal
If that is what the passage meant...but, you will find no examples of that in any of the prayers recorded in the New Testament. If that was what was meant, don’t you think Paul would have included that phrase in at least one of his prayers?
Do we even know any verbatim prayers of Paul? He makes references to his prayers in the Epistles, but does he ever record fully and exactly what he prayed on a given occasion? No examples spring to mind.
I think we are going to have to go with praying as Jesus instructed.
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