Doesn't the Bible tell you you are going to hell if you practice magic Christians?
Prayer= Getting in touch with divine forces
Magic= Manipulating diving forces into giving you something.
I read this in a nationally selling Christian religion textbook, and confirmed it with my priest, and other Christians.
Oops, left out the last part of the first one. Getting in touch with divine forces to manipulate them into giving you something, such as grades, help in marriage, stronger faith, etc.
So why do you practice magic by another name?
2007-08-25 02:53:48 · 10 answers · asked by Serpico7 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OK, I hear alot about "Its his will" "God's plan"
Well, if you are going to get something from God anyway, why pray to ask him for it? Exercise in futility? Couldn't that time be better spent in a soup kitchen?
Alternatively, if you have to pray for God to give you something, like good grades, this could mean it wasn't in his plan. Therefore, YOU have caused GOD to do something.
2007-08-25 03:29:32 · update #1
Because Moses did. He split the Red Sea, kind of stuff that magicians like David CXopperfield is capable of.
2007-08-25 02:58:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The difference is that we can't manipulate God. We can pray all we want if it's not's God's will it ain't happening. But nice try. Got another one?
Oh I so have to reply to your additional details:
It is God's will for his people to experience success and properity in there lives. It is also his will for us to suffer at times. It's what we do during each of these extremes that either strengthen our personal relationship with him, or severe it. He want's us to prosper so that we can give him the glory.
I love to pray and it's not always that I am asking for something, a lot of the time I am just thanking God for the things I have even in trials I offer thanksgiving. It's just the Christian way.
Anyway.
2007-08-25 02:59:12 · answer #2 · answered by fire_side_2003 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Prayer is not manipulation. Prayer is seeking guidance.
One textbook's definiton does not make something so. Give the title of the book,the name of the priest, his location, and the statistics concerning the number of Christians you spoke with.
Otherwise, your conjectures hold no validity.
I can't believe you have a priest if you feel this way.
Your confirming it with "other Christians" does not make it universally true.
2007-08-25 03:02:34 · answer #3 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What a bunch of bologna. Read the Bible and find out what prayer is. God cannot be manipulated. Prayer is an attempt to align yourself to what God wants.
The Lord's Prayer says, "THY will be done," not my will.
2007-08-25 03:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by theark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Praying to God is not mere 'magic'.
Magic is attempting to commune with other false gods. Prayer in accordance with the Christian faith is ordained by Christ. And that is why I practice it.
It has caused changes in the lives of people through out the Bible, through out history and through out my life.
Please don't confuse the two.
-B
2007-08-25 03:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by The Brian 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I can ask, but God decides. I'm not manipulating anybody. If I ask my dad for something, am I practicing magic? Your question makes no sense, and is somewhat offensive.
2007-08-25 03:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by Pat G 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nice try, but those are two different things. How long did it take you to think of that whole question? Because you could have put all that energy into so much more....like actually studying the Bible, so you could understand it for yourself.
2007-08-25 04:22:00 · answer #7 · answered by kaz716 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because we can :)
Seriously--It is true God will not do man's bidding but there are entities that will if they can be motivated to do so. We are better off without drawing their attention. It would take much to motivate me to disturb any of them for my own purposes.
2007-08-25 03:05:01 · answer #8 · answered by Wicked Little Lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now all you have to do is show that "getting in touch with divine forces" is equivalent to "manipulating divine forces". Don't worry, I'll wait patiently for you do so....
2007-08-25 03:23:09 · answer #9 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because we can ,and t isn't magic it is either Devinne intervention or a miracle HaAAAA!
2007-08-25 03:01:27 · answer #10 · answered by one10soldier 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋