Hebrews 11:6 declares, “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him MUST BELIEVE THAT HE EXISTS and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” The Bible reminds us that we are blessed when we believe and trust in God by faith, “Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN AND YET BELIEVED” (John 20:29). The fact that the existence of God must be accepted by faith does not mean belief in God is illogical. The Bible teaches that God’s existence is clearly seen in the universe (Psalm 19:1-4), in nature (Romans 1:18-22), and in our own hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
IN THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH THE WORDS IN CAPS ARE WHATS REQUIRED FOR GOD TO ANSWER PRAYER. U CANT SIMPLY TEST HIM BY ASKING OUTRAGEOUS THINGS SUCH AS HEALING THE WHOLE WORLD. GOD HAS HIS REASONS FOR NOT ANSWERING EVERY PRAYER SPOKEN. OUR FINITE MINDS CANT COMPREHEND THE REASONS WHY.
2006-09-02 18:47:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thats a great point to people that obviously don't read the bible and dont know God,If these people that claim "God is imaginary
would take half that effort to pray and read the bible they would know that He is real.
2006-09-02 19:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Toooo Sexy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you didn't actually read the site, probably got your knickers all twisted after a sentence or 2 . Pray for anything, anything at all, and I can guarantee you it will come true in the same frequency as predicted by natural laws or random chance.
There has never been a prayer "answered" that couldn't have happened by chance or natural law. The real test...or should I say opportunity for god, would be to answer a prayer that is outside of the laws of nature...but he won't, never has, never will can't...because god doesn't exist. Prayer is a superstition.
Why does god choose to "answer" only 0.5% of prayer and not the other 99.5%? In the bible it states in several places, unambiguously that if you pray with faith and believe that god will answer ALL prayers, and if you have the faith you can move mountains. So there's been an awful lot of very devout, pious, faithfull Xians. praying for many years....all the mountains are still where nature put them.
I don't expect god to answer my prayers, because he could clearly see that I don't believe in him...but why would he tell his faithful that he will, but doesn't.? Try and answer this without resorting to "god works in mysterious ways" "we can't know the mind of god" or "sometimes he answers no" because those are just lame, copout excuses....not answering the question.
2006-09-03 01:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok obviously you dont think your too smart. and your not actually so thats better. The bible is an interesting source to quote. On the one hand, stuff like that above is ok. but there is some ridiculous things. like being stoned for working on the sabath etc. Quote the good with the bad, or else just keep being dumb
2006-09-03 01:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by iknoweverythingsoaskmeanything 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think about this....the bible was written by men for purposes of control.....they have created this unseen, all powerful being that they need people to believe exists in order to make their con effective and yet they can't produce this god for anyone to actually see...what can they do.......I know,,,let's put this line in our book, "blessed are those that have not seen and yet believed"......now we're covered.....it was probably that simple
2006-09-03 02:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do you know the Bible is true though?
2006-09-03 01:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by Soda Popinski 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aparrently you did not read the entire article.
2006-09-03 01:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by upallnite 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋