What is the point of praying if God is only going to answer prayers that are in accordance with his "plan"? In Matthew 7:7, Jesus says, "Ask and it will be given to you." In Mark 11:24 he says, "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." Again in Matthew 17:20 he says, "nothing will be impossible for you." Doesn't that mean what it says? Wouldn't an all knowing God know how humans interpret sentences? He didn't say, "Nothing will be impossible for you, unless it is impossible, an unambiguous situation, or it isn't part of my plan." Notice that God never grants unambiguous prayers, like praying for a deserving amputee to grow back a limb or lifting a car lifted 10 feet of the ground by his divine power if a faithful person is trapped underneath. This tells me that God never answers prayers, and when he seems to it's only coincidence. Thoughts?
2007-04-27 08:33:55 · 5 answers · asked by godofsparta 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God answers every prayer. With a yes, a no, or a 'wait'.
Problem is: you only know afterwards what He answered.
Second problem is: My cat, my goldfish and even my couch answer prayers in the exact same way God does.
2007-04-27 08:39:45 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been struggling with the same concept. As far as the first question, whatever you ask you shall recieve, sometimes I think that perhaps God gives us desires so that when we pray for them he can fulfill them. But as far as the impossible things, I have a hard time understanding. I guess it can be said like this: God can do all things, but He won't. Maybe that amputee will reach out to others who are in pain and lead them to find God. They are denied what God can do, so that He can do something else through them. "Nothing will be impossible for you"...if God wants you to do it. Jesus said that if the people were made to be quiet, the rocks would praise him. But they didn't, becasue the peolpe praised him and that is what needed to happen. I have prayed for impossible things and recieved them. Impossible does happen, but not constanly lest we become dependant on them rather than faith. The isrealites watched the freakin ocean split and they still doubted. Humans forget very easily and sign and impossible happenings would weaken us if we were surrounded by them.
Above all, God does not need our prayers. Our praying is not a magical switch that alerts God to the things we want and He says, "oh good thing you prayed or I would never have known" and then does it. He already knows what we are going to pray for. I think God has us pray because it draws us closer to Him. And it reminds us that we are limited and He is not. His plan for us may be secretly desguised as our pure desires so that when we pray, He's already desided to fullfill them. he doesn;t need our prayers to do it, but He waits for us to pray because it's our way of realizing it has to be given Him and we need to leave it alone. Keep praying, don't give up!
2007-04-27 08:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by lotr_meleth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using the Bible as a statistic base the Christian God is Negative toward humanity 75% of the time, positive 16% of the time, and silent 9% of the time.
2007-04-27 08:40:38 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, God solutions the prayers of a righteous man or woman! interior days of my spouse accepting Christ, I dropped via the abode sooner or later from my activity and became shocked to work out that she became wearing enterprise clothing. I asked her the place she became going and he or she defined that she had basically prayed approximately looking a activity and became waiting for somebody to call from a company the place she had despatched a resume. I asked if she had referred to as them and that they have been to call back. She mentioned she had not, yet she had prayed that they could call so she became waiting for whilst they did. I, having been a Christian for some years, began to describe that it would not artwork that way whilst the telephone rang - the call became from the corporate she had prayed approximately. It taught me a brilliant lesson approximately baby like faith and one i'm going to in no way overlook. "The prayers of a righteous guy availath lots!" the persons you point out would be in our prayers.
2016-10-13 22:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a question you really want answered or is this a statement of belief that you wanted to present and will argue to the death about?
2007-04-27 08:39:30 · answer #5 · answered by godsnoriel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋