Is this true? If so, why do people recommend that atheists pray to God or ask God to reveal himself to them?
2007-11-12 00:53:34 · 20 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that is completely FALSE!!!! God hears the prayers of anyone and everyone. What you just said is completely WRONG!
so, God can reveal himself to anyone, like in the Bible, when God appeared to Saul...its a good story, one of my favorites (saul was a man who was stoning and killing Christians, but after meeting God face to face, (then became blind, then was healed by a follower of God) he changed his ways, and changed his name to Paul)
2007-11-12 00:57:36 · answer #1 · answered by sand_illusions 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear me......
Isaiah 1:5
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My face from you, even though you make many prayers. I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 59:1 - 2
Behold The LORD's hand is not shortened, that He cannot Save; nor His ear heavy that He cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
John 9: 31
Now we know that God hearth not sinners; but if any Man be a Worshiper of God and doth His will, him He hearth.
Based on these scriptures, I believe that you must be Saved before you can expect God to answer your prayers. Therefore, I say that the only prayer that God will answer from a sinner is a prayer of repentance, and acceptance of Christ Jesus as LORD, and Savior.
2007-11-12 01:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He hears the prayers that put his kingdom first, as in "Put the Kingdom first in your life and all other things shall be added to you..." and also those prayers which are sent in the name of his son. Whether he will act on them is a different story. He does have a bigger and better perspective of things up there, so if you are praying fervently to God to make your parents let you go bungee jumping this weekend, and he doesn't help you out, doesn't mean that he is just being spiteful. It means he knows something you don't.
2007-11-12 01:13:15 · answer #3 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That would be the decision of the relevant God.
To counter, with a question, which I know may seem rude, Why would someone pray to another's God?
As for revelation, again, I would say that would be up to the conscience of the individual God.
I'd like to say otherwise, but I'd be second-guessing a God, and that's downright disrespectful.
2007-11-12 00:58:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God also hears the prayers of a sinner repenting.
2007-11-12 00:56:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The only prayer of a sinner God will hear is God forgive me
for I have sinned.
2007-11-12 01:10:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God knows the number of hairs on your head, and when a sparrow falls, how could he not hear your prayer?
2007-11-12 01:00:56 · answer #7 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God Hears and sees all, he loves all his children, even the non believers
2007-11-12 00:56:34 · answer #8 · answered by Zenkai 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All people who seek truth and virtue are God's people
Fundamentalists of all sorts do not seem to realize tha God is love and he who abides in Love abides in God and God in him(1 John)
2007-11-12 00:57:29 · answer #9 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I believe God hears all prayers, not just of his people.
2007-11-12 00:56:43 · answer #10 · answered by crymeariver 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋