Posted on 04/30/2010 8:03:48 AM PDT by Quix
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7 “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, --New Living Translation 7And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.] 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9Pray, therefore, like this: 15But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their [j]reckless and willful sins, [k]leaving them, letting them go, and [l]giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. --Amplified Pray with Simplicity 5"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? 6"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. 7-13"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: 16-18"When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well. |
Mark Kirby: O Mother of Good Counsel, I am all thine, Most Holy Mary, There is no part of my life that is not open to thee, I want to be completely transparent with thee, Praying in this way, I can be at rest, |
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Indeed, Mad Dawg — that is the best thing we can possibly do.
Contention only distracts us from what we ought to be doing.
Thank you ever so much for writing!
Conflating words, even misspelled, isn't much of an argument.
Red pencils out: If the subject is plural, ie "words" then the verb must be also, ie "are".
Carry on, it's hilarious
Reminds me of whole parts of the bible
That single church is composed of the body of believers every where for all time, not members of a specific denomination.
There are other interpretations of Matt 16:18 than the one the Catholic Church uses to justify the papacy.
http://bible.cc/matthew/16-18.htm
And whether or not individual believers choose to recognize that one can be saved and belong to a church besides the Catholic Church, is irrelevant. The Catholic church teaches that salvation is though it alone. Vatican II did not rescind that. All it did was make a few exceptions, the major one being for those who are what they call *invincibly ignorant*.
For others, like myself, they consider that I am going to hell. And they are entitled to that opinion, but it is also irrelevant to me because the Bible teaches that salvation is through Christ alone and that is who I am putting my faith in, who I have given my all to.
Bad thunderstorm coming.
Later.....
Which is greater, the Jack Daniels bottle or the Jack Daniels?
Are we talking about Ps. 113?
You said:
We read your words. We understand your tags. And we disagree with those words and morphing tags because they conflict with Scripture.
My tag is a verse from a psalm with alleluia tacked on the end.
My tag changed (and will change back. One of your co-religionists is arguing that God cannot do whatever He wants, so I thought I would put up the verse which shows her teaching is unBiblical.)
But since my tag changed from the Miraculous Medal prayer to psalm 115:3 it falls in the set of "morphing tags".
Since it is MY tag, and you are speaking to me, it falls into the set of "your tags"
Therefore you said that a quote from Scripture contradicts Scripture.
Do you ever read what we write?
From these threads the alternate view of God we keep getting a glimpse of, just keeps getting stranger and stranger
He cannot do *whatever He wants*.
The Bible says He can. I have already shown you the verse.
You have not shown that God wants to lie.
What got this going was someone said "God can do whatever He wants." You disagreed. I'm guessing that you did not think through the difference in meaning between "whatever He wants" and "anything whatsoever."
Similarly, if one holds that lying is an ability, then one has to say there is a limit on God's abilities. If one does NOT hold that lying is an ability, then the impossibility of God's lying is not a limitation but a manifestation of God's omnipotence.
As it is written: Our God is in heaven; whatever He wills to do He does.
When you have a typo or a grammatical slip, you will be excoriated and ridiculed, and even worse, by someone who can't compose a basic sentence
Count it all gain.
Keep on going—you’re on a roll today :-)
There's reading and then there's remembering. In the first waves of this issue two epistles were thrown at me in an attempt to contradict the clear statement in the Psalms that God does whatever he wants (which implies he CAN do whatever he wants.)
Since then I have endured a bunch of lousily put together logical constructions and the amusing charge that my tag which quotes Scripture contradicts scripture.
So, yeah, While I read what you guys write, I don't necessarily remember the details.
Also I think that after 2130 local time typos and lapses of grammar are to be expected and tolerated.
Unless I'm in a bad mood ....
No problem, Hebrews, Titus, some old book Paul wrote, whatever
Then it’s fair to ask: What or who is Narses?
DO you think Paul wrote Hebrews? I don't see why not, but I know a lot of people think he didn't. I simply think it is cool. I always end up smiling when they read from it at Mass.
While you tell us you're planning to morph it back to the earlier error, we can all hope prudence and truth will prevail instead.
you got me on that one
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