IIIIITHE1IIIII on 10 June 2012
| tolu619 said: Anyone who has been seeing my posts in threads like this one should know by know my views on spiritual things. So please allow me to skip the introductory statements and just speak with the assumption that no one here is an atheist. As always, I will speak both from the Bible and from the real life experiences I (and people that are close to me) have had with God. Mathew 9: 38 - "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest". Same thing said in Luke 10: 2. Or what about "...give us this day our daily bread...." which wasn't meant to be a scripted prayer, but a guideline? The Lord's prayer says start your prayers by praising God before making your personal requests and asking for God's will to be done, and it goes on. God gave man dominion of the earth. The devil stole it, and Jesus got it back. Neither the devil nor God can just randomly do anything on this earth. They need to do it through a man. That's why God needs us to "pray that HE sends laborers into HIS harvest". That's why men have to perform some rituals before the devil can do some of the stuff he wants to do. Why did God always tell the prophets "Do X or Y or take these steps" before he performed any action? Why did Moses have to strike the rock before God brought water out of it if He (God) wanted to supply the water anyway? I can go on and on but I think more examples wouldn't further convince you if you disagree with my point. It might not have occurred to you, but God CAN change his mind on certain issues. I have posted in another thread some examples from the Bible where God actually changed his mind after someone asked him for something. And there were times (like when Moses asked for his punishment to be lifted or Paul asked for his 'thorn in the flesh' to be taken away) that God didn't change his mind, even when someone pleaded. You underestimate the truth that man is made in God's image. It means that many of our features are imitations of God's. We change our minds. We create. We decide. All things that God does also. |
Just keep in mind that if God ever changes his mind it is because the circumstances have changed. God has the perfect opinion.
Still, saying the likes of "God, I fully trust you to do the right thing, and to give me and everyone around me what we deserve." beats every possible prayer.
