-- then I will live forever?
Have I got that right?
2007-06-23 01:02:42 · 14 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(Amusing detail: The "Suggested Categories" thingy came up with Health Care - Pain and Pain Management as the category for this question. ! )
2007-06-23 01:03:56 · update #1
yes, it's 1,2, 3 pray after me, get your ticket to heaven and your license to sin (similar to 007 James Bond) and all is well with your soul..
lmao at the suggested category!
2007-06-23 01:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
— Quentin Crisp, (1908-1999)
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
— Herbert J. Muller
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
— Ambrose Bierce
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
— Abraham Lincoln,
Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.
— Ruth Hurmence Green, (1915-1981)
The person much inclined to ask God's assistance, learns to repose on the hope of its obtainment, instead of actively seeking the good desired by his own labour.
— Emma Martin, (1812-1851)
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
— Dan Barker
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
— Robert Heinlein
2007-06-23 19:38:20 · answer #2 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Wrong. The first step takes place in your heart. Anyone can say anything. It gets you nowhere. According to Acts 2:38, to be saved we must:
1) repent
2)be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
3) we will then receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (the proof of which is speaking in a foreign tongue)
2007-06-23 08:31:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike all of us who are very easily distracted by what's on the outside, God can see down to the very depths of our souls. Prayer, and especially a prayer for salvation, given from a heart that is not humbled, can't help you to receive anything.
2007-06-23 08:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by Graham 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know a lot of people who have tried... and died. If it's worked for anyone, please let me know too, so I can get knee pads! ;)
Who wants to live forever? I have very few wrinkles now, but I am sure if I lived to be... let's say, over 200 yrs old- yuck!
Life is short, make it sweet.
2007-06-23 08:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by Shay 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, I just have a good laugh. That remind me of the asylum I've visited previously.
Seriously, you don't have to do that. Just submit yourself to Him, He will show you His mercy.
2007-06-23 10:20:17 · answer #6 · answered by z_jepoh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you read it right you make your works your prayer
simply by chosing to do well to others is a prayer
2007-06-23 08:13:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its good as far as you went. You just need to add that part about wanting to change.
2007-06-23 08:12:31 · answer #8 · answered by Glen 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You do NOT have it right.
Your body position means diddly-squat!
It is your heart condition that matters.
2007-06-23 08:19:03 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some will tell you so, but there is much more involved in it than that.
Peace.
2007-06-23 08:13:20 · answer #10 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋