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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Do you think God was surprised by the prayer

No. God foresees all possible scenarios. If you pray, then I give you this. If you don't then I don't. Otherwise, what would be the purpose of making Adam and Eve, if He foreknew which of the many possible scenarios was going to play out. What would be the purpose of being angry at wicked people and drowning the whole lot? Disappointment?

The point I was making was that God does intercede in our lives and He is letting us know that. If He predestined every step then there would be no need for His intervention. Things would play out as God is sitting on the sidelines so to say, and watches the movie play itself out. No, no. This is not a static, passive God. The entire Bible is God's conditional if-then offer.

13,598 posted on 04/26/2007 2:41:13 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; wmfights; HarleyD; 1000 silverlings; blue-duncan; Quix; Alamo-Girl; ...
God foresees all possible scenarios.

Just the "possible scenarios?" Not the actual occurrence, the true reality of what did and does occur?

If He predestined every step then there would be no need for His intervention.

Are God's "interventions" known to Him before they occur; before we pray for them?

If so, then they would be prefigured into His plan for creation before any actual intervention in time.

Nothing is unknown to Him, most especially our "choices." Thus every action that occurs in time is known by God in its entirety from before the foundation of the world.

His "interventions" aren't contemporaneous with our prayers. They are part of God's plan for creation, every speck ordained by God for His glory.

That's why even though we are reminded that "your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." (Matthew 6:8), we are to ask anyway.

Our prayers are not to inform God, but rather to conform us.

13,616 posted on 04/26/2007 1:41:11 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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