note: Praying requires a prior belief in God.
2007-10-04 07:58:10 · 9 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
unfit: Does that require a belief in God?
2007-10-04 08:02:47 · update #1
Bobo, who would I direct that request to?
2007-10-04 08:12:54 · update #2
Prayer doesn't require a prior belief in God. You can 'pray' something along the lines of;
'If you are real God, let me know, show me, I want to know.'
He says that if you seek Him, you will find Him.
2007-10-04 08:10:31 · answer #1 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answer,
yes there is.
note: praying does not require prior belief.
explanation.
from a personal standpoint.short and sweet.
did not believe in God.
suffered many years with an emotional illness,self medicated with various drugs and booze.
faced death or, Worse continuing to live like this forever.
sent to recovery hospital.was told that I could not do anything to save myself.I needed a higher power.instructed to pray for help .
because of my desperate state and fear of death I became willing to seek him out (if if he indeed existed.)
without belief I prayed that if A God was there he would make himself known to me and show me how to overcome.and he did.
I continued to do so because of the fellowship of those who came before me and had belief and had been healed.It has taken many years to come to the unshakeable faith and relationship with God that I have today.
It is possible to make an act of faith without first having faith.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you matt 7:7
peace ><>
2007-10-04 15:47:38 · answer #2 · answered by matowakan58 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I look at this prospect in a slightly different way - religion is tautological in that it sticks to the infinitely repeated ideas, phrases, and sayings, never moving OUTSIDE those set concepts. Many religions simply ARE incessant repetition, but especially in the face of new ideas - the old ones are repeated in stead of exploring the new ones.
2007-10-04 15:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if only i knew what tautological meant.
context clues, i'd say to read the supposed writings about this God. For example, if you read the gospels and say "well golly gee whilikers, this way of living sounds pretty good, if this Jesus character was right about that, then maybe He was right about being God"
lost.eu/21618
2007-10-04 15:02:27 · answer #4 · answered by Quailman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing (read into this reading too), and hearing by the word of God.
2007-10-04 15:02:40 · answer #5 · answered by Cuchulain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is simple - you receive revelation from God, and then you turn your life over to serving him.
2007-10-04 15:01:16 · answer #6 · answered by unfit_commander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think the supernatural is subject to tauto. reasoning.
2007-10-04 15:02:25 · answer #7 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/philosophy/pages/morality2.htm
2007-10-04 15:03:25 · answer #8 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2007-10-04 15:01:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋