The Bible is very clear and explicit about prayer:
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. [Matthew 21:21]
We know, fron the many Christians who answer questions here, that if you believe in Christ, you will go to Heaven. We also know, from the Bible that if you believe in Christ, and you pray,
If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. [John 14:14]
Ask, and it will be given you. [Matthew 7:7]
Nothing will be impossible to you. [Matthew 17:20]
Therefore, if youpray for something, and you do not get it, you can't really be a believer in Christ, and you won't go to heaven, and, if you are a believer in Christ, you wil get anything you ask for, no matter how seemingly impossible.
Therefore, if you pray for something and don't get it, you must not be a true believer, and therefore you face eternal damnation. That stuff about "God always answers, but the answer is soemtines no" is not supported in scripture, is it?
Make sense?
2007-11-12 01:23:59 · 7 answers · asked by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How amI twisting them? It all seems pretty straight forward.
2007-11-12 01:30:00 · update #1
Interesting point... i never got a pony when i was 7... guess i'm destined for eternal damnation then. Chris it seems a bit unfair that only 'true' believers understand the scriptures... how are people supposed to try to believe in the first place if they can't even understand it?
2007-11-12 01:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by roberta 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're twisting all those as an unbeliever would (not to mention the fact that you're a troll). Only a believer can understand the scriptures by the Holy Spirit.
The way for a person to know that they're saved is to believe that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again.
I am 100% sure that I will be in heaven because of this.
2007-11-12 09:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes the fact the answer is sometimes no is supported in scripture.
John and James asked Jesus if they could be on His right and left side (rule in the kingdom). Jesus told them no. That the Father chooses who will sit there. It turned out the "no" was for thier benefit.
During the last supper John was on His right and Judas on His left. I am sure James was glad it was Judas and not him.
On the cross there were two thieves. One on His right and one on His left. The one on the right saw Him in paradise (if I remeber correctly) the one on the left continued to mock Him. I am sure both brothers were gald to not be on His right and left that day. I figure if Jesus told the disciple He loved no on something, then it is okay with me when He says no to me.
Also the scriptures reveal in Roman that God works all things to the good for us, and the good He is cocnerned with in that section is us being more like Christ. So anything we ask that will work agaisnt that good, he witholds and that is good for us.
2007-11-12 09:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by inspiring_type 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Chris will be in Heaven when the Lord calls us home. No doubt about it.
If you would spend more time asking the Holy Spirit to open your heart and mind to the words you write you would not be so quick to post questions like this.
The Lord does give me everything I need... Answer to your question
2007-11-12 09:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Boomrat 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hey, I flunked that test before I was ten years old! (over 50 years ago.)
2007-11-12 10:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makes sense to me.
2007-11-12 09:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
apparently the bible doesn't say what it means, or it doesn't mean what it says....
apologetics, an atheist's best tool to disprove religions...
2007-11-12 09:32:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋