Prayers

BitterAndTwisted

DUTR wrote: »

I think you should read the post as it was meant, the thread is a debate.

Faith is not debatable and logic will not diminish it. Insults are another thing completely.

Torry_Quine

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Faith is not debatable and logic will not diminish it. Insults are another thing completely.

any thread on religion will always have insults from some non-believers. thankfully most are more like you. :A

kingfisherblue

securityguy wrote: »

"My son was born fifteen years ago, with four major abnormalities,"

I note the way your God damages children, so that he can then show how merciful he is by answering your prayers. Some might call that cruel.

You are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine. Perhaps you missed the part where I said about respecting other people's beliefs, even if they are different than your own?

Delree

It boils my blood when people put medical successes, especially those against the odds, down to their prayers and god. Don't worry about the dedicated and highly skilled professionals who worked hard to save someone they didn't know. Don't worry about the decades of medical science that took place to get humanity to the point where it can defeat terrible diseases and disorders. No no no. It was prayer and god.

Gra76

The only thing I ever prayed for was a lottery jackpot. I've bagged a few tenners since then. Maybe whichever divine being I prayed to is giving me it in installments?

DUTR

Gra76 wrote: »

The only thing I ever prayed for was a lottery jackpot. I've bagged a few tenners since then. Maybe whichever divine being I prayed to is giving me it in installments?

Did you pray or wish for? Perhaps some are confusing the two ideas?

dibuzz

Kingfisherblue's faith obviously got her through a very traumatic time, surely that can only be good?
Some people pray, others wish for things. Do the poeple who wish get the same disrespect?
I dont believe in God or prayers but my mother does and is also a church organist in 3 different churches, it doesnt make either one of us better than the other.

zaksmum

I've had prayers answered. I don't believe for a second that it was down to coincidence.

kayl

I firmly believe that God ALWAYS answers prayer, it is simply that His answer may not always be the answer that the person praying for hopes. Sometimes His answer may be "no" or "not yet"

Voyager2002

securityguy wrote: »

"My son was born fifteen years ago, with four major abnormalities,"

I note the way your God damages children, so that he can then show how merciful he is by answering your prayers. Some might call that cruel.

I think this is a very fair comment, and I am a practising Christian.

One response is to see the world as an arena that is NOT controlled by God; where God is partially able to take part in the struggle between good and evil, and that ability depends upon us: both our prayers and our actions make it possible for God to provide assistance.