Posted on 06/05/2007 10:53:58 AM PDT by Frank Sheed
I agree with E_T_H completely.b'shem Yah'shuaI know her testimony and have known her on FR for many years.
Exactly. Or why not pray the way the bible says?
I don't see, "unto priests, my mother, or my friend John", on the list.
First of all, praying to the dead is a sin. The dead are no less dead now than they were in OT times when that was made clear by the Word of God. But why not simply pray the way the bible says to pray and add nothing to that. Isn’t the bible sufficient?
For brevity, I left out the following:
Walk (enter)
Genuflect
Stand
Sit
Stand
Sit
Stand
Kneel
Stand
Shake (”sign of peace”)
Sit
Walk (communion)
Kneel
Sit
Stand
Genuflect
Walk (exit)
Oh, but YOU need to beware of Satan’s power yourself.
Oh, but YOU need to beware of Satan’s power yourself.
About 99 out of a hundred just look at it without seeing it, then the hundredth person starts laughing and pointing . . . .
Oops, I hiccuped.
I don't see, "unto priests, my mother, or my friend John", on the list.
Exactly. One of many many biblical teachings about prayer. There is no reason to go beyond those teachings.
You continue to judge others. It is a cause of concern.
My grandfather-in-law the Methodist minister said absolutely the longest grace before meals that I have ever heard. The food got cold!
tioga,
If you heard a Buddhist tell you x is the path to enlightenment would you not tell them they are wrong? If a Mormon told you Jesus and Satan were brothers would you not tell them they are wrong?
There is a naughty dog that wanders around at night (the trashy people up behind us never keep her tied up or in a fence) and barks at the ancient dog next door.
The ancient dog next door is a Particular Friend of Shelley's, so whenever Naughty Dog shows up, Shelley feels called on to threaten him with mayhem for bothering Ancient Dog.
Even at 3 a.m. and when she's inside.
There is a general assumption that God "hears"( attend to) all the prayers of men.
Scripture indicates otherwise.
Jer 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
Hsa 5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
Sin separates unregenerate men from God. Nothing can separate the saved from God because all of our sin was propitiated for at the cross. But the unsaved carry their own sin and God does not hear them
Psa 66:18 — If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]:
Pro 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.
Pro 21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Jhn 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
What is the will of God?
Jhn 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jhn 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Jhn 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jhn 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jhn 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
1Jo 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1Jo 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
1Jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
The only prayer God hears from the unsaved is their prayer for Salvation generated by the Holy Spirit
You continue to judge others. It is a cause of concern.
352 posted on 06/06/2007 11:00:09 AM MDT by tioga
Yah'shua commended us to Judge !
b'shem Yah'shua
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance,
but judge righteous judgment.
Exactly
I remember that, also we never took our coats off for a quick get away:)
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