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#61
Dec 28 2021 11:35am
If god replied to prayers, nobody would need faith.
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#62
Dec 28 2021 11:38am
Quote (Goomshill @ Dec 28 2021 09:35am)
If god replied to prayers, nobody would need faith.


If he never replies..
Why pray?
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#63
Dec 28 2021 11:46am
Quote (Goomshill @ Dec 28 2021 11:35am)
If god replied to prayers, nobody would need faith.


Good indictment of God's unwillingness to show himself to those who ask.

But also untrue from the Christian perspective. Plenty of people in the bible still profess faith despite having seen God. There's that old saying "Even the devil believes in Jesus".
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#64
Dec 28 2021 12:22pm
the greatest sin of ego is the expectation that your prayers are worth answering.
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#65
Dec 28 2021 01:16pm
Brain scans revealed that when you are praying you are "talking" to yourself ...
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#66
Dec 28 2021 04:09pm
Quote (Goomshill @ Dec 28 2021 12:35pm)
If god replied to prayers, nobody would need faith.


He does. He just replies in the way you need, not the way you want. In the mean time it puts your ego in a receptive state to be open to new ways.

If wishes were fishes, we would all cast nets.

Quote (thesnipa @ Dec 28 2021 01:22pm)
the greatest sin of ego is the expectation that your prayers are worth answering.


Ghost-pepper-level sauce from the saucemaster

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Dec 28 2021 04:09pm
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#67
Dec 28 2021 04:13pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Dec 28 2021 04:09pm)
He does. He just replies in the way you need, not the way you want. In the mean time it puts your ego in a receptive state to be open to new ways.

If wishes were fishes, we would all cast nets.



Ghost-pepper-level sauce from the saucemaster


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#68
Dec 28 2021 04:20pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Dec 28 2021 05:09pm)
He does. He just replies in the way you need, not the way you want. In the mean time it puts your ego in a receptive state to be open to new ways.

If wishes were fishes, we would all cast nets.



Ghost-pepper-level sauce from the saucemaster


How do you know whether it's God showing you the way or your mind playing tricks on you?
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#69
Dec 28 2021 04:30pm
Quote (duffman316 @ Dec 28 2021 06:59am)
Nice a fundamentalist christian. You might as well have opened with that when you first arrived and spared everyone the trouble of engaging with you.


and yet you engage with me yet again?

Quote (Skinned @ Dec 28 2021 04:47am)
God of the Gaps up in here.

I don't know therefore god.

Belief in god is based on faith not reason. Just a different personal authority.
If there is a creator god he has a sense of humor, creating everything, then creating humans who seem who hate most of creation enough to invent fables about other worlds that their true being belongs to, not the being they were actually created as. A lot of bad faith there.
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thats just an admission that you dont know scripture.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Dec 28 2021 07:59am)
You can contend all you want doesnt make it anything but an assertion.


shouldnt you be defending the "God of the gaps " assertion?

Quote (duffman316 @ Dec 28 2021 08:15am)
allahu akbar


the religion of pieces.

This post was edited by TiStuff on Dec 28 2021 04:30pm
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#70
Dec 28 2021 04:41pm
Quote (Goomshill @ Dec 28 2021 09:35am)
If god replied to prayers, nobody would need faith.


Quote (theCrossbones @ Dec 28 2021 09:38am)
If he never replies..
Why pray?


do you even know what faith means?

Quote (thesnipa @ Dec 28 2021 10:22am)
the greatest sin of ego is the expectation that your prayers are worth answering.


another admission that you dont know scripture

Quote (kenw @ Dec 28 2021 02:20pm)
How do you know whether it's God showing you the way or your mind playing tricks on you?


faith

as for you being a product of some kind of naturalistic random process. and therefore a mind of random chemical reactions how can you be sure of anything?
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