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To: tiki

How do the saints help you to know God’s will?


500 posted on 06/06/2007 1:23:57 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly
First of all my theology can't be stated in a sentence and that really makes it hard to reply to a limited view of God. We pray to know God's will but we also pray for others and ourselves. Ultimately, we pray for our Salvation but we ask God for good things too. And sometimes even selfish things, but He is our Father and has told us to come to Him. He is not only our Father, he is our Daddy, and I don't know about you but I asked my earthly father for things, I just expected him to love me and take care of me because that's how it already was. I believe it even more for God!

How do the saints help us know the will of God? You don't understand, I don't believe that there is one church on earth separated from the one in heaven! We are all one church, the Body of Christ, everyone who has died in Christ, whether physically living or not is a part of that one body, we are all alive in Christ! And just as someone of flesh and blood can inform me and pray for me, I believe that the saints can inform me and pray for me.

Do I have to shout? GOD IS WITH US. THE SAINTS AND ANGELS ARE WITH GOD AND SO THEY ARE WITH US TOO.

By the reasoning or implied reasoning of some there would never be any reason to ask anyone in the flesh either. Or even do anything yourself because God could do that. Yeah, He could but He gave us the means to do much of it ourselves and He gave us family to help us and He also gave us people outside our families to help us and on and on and the Saints are part of our help.

529 posted on 06/06/2007 2:33:33 PM PDT by tiki
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