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To: trebb

If we agree that there is only one God, then there is no God of the bible, or the Torah, or the Quran, or any specific one, there is just God.

If a non-Christian prays to God, how does the one and only God, not hear that prayer?


28 posted on 02/22/2006 9:40:06 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr
One answer which explains the difference between God and "gods" is: Surrounded by pagan neighbors, God's people often encountered people who worshiped other gods. Baal, Asherah, and other fertility gods played a significant role during Old Testament times. By Jesus' day, the baals were replaced by Greek and Roman gods. Hellenistic people engaged in immoral behaviors to honor their gods and to entice their return from the underworld.

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The God of the Bible is the God of the Torah, but many who worship God are not Christians (most Jews for example). God hears all prayers, but He will not heed those who pray to "gods". The Bible contains a story of a prophet putting a pile of wood out and exhorting them to pray for their god to burn the pile. When they fail, he douses the pile with water and beseeches God to set it on fire, at which time it is totally incinerated.

The main point being, that if prays to God, God listens, if one prays to some idol or other false god, noone hears the prayers.

32 posted on 02/22/2006 10:01:35 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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