Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: kosta50; Forest Keeper
It is God's Will that we pray. 'Nuff said. (:

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make [special] request for you, [asking] that you may be filled with the full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God] and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things--

That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition].

~Colossians 1:9-10


15,609 posted on 06/08/2007 3:35:32 AM PDT by .30Carbine (Sacrifice is not always simple...but let it always be glorious, holy, and good, amen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15606 | View Replies ]


To: .30Carbine; Forest Keeper
It is God's Will that we pray. Nuff said

There is only one instance that God commanded us "thus you should pray" and there is but one Prayer that He gives us to pray. That Prayer is pure supplication, because the Jews believed that prayers do change outcomes (cf Isa 38:5), and to a Jew and to Orthodox Christians, prayers make sense.

My point was based on the flawed Reformed theology of double predestination which makes any prayer a useless repetition, because prayers in a doubly predestined world cannot change the outcome God predestined.

What exactly is your point in that context?

15,612 posted on 06/08/2007 5:43:48 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15609 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson