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29th June 2012, 04:37 PM
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Is an answer to prayer dependent upon ones merits?
For example ones thoughts, speech and deeds,
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29th June 2012, 04:51 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Robban  Is an answer to prayer dependent upon ones merits?
For example ones thoughts, speech and deeds,
It would be intressting to read what others have for views on this.
Its not fair to live a life that displeases God and expects that he will always be answering our prayers.Dnt get me wrong,the lord hears all our prayers but at times he requires us to seek him more before he will answer it. So we should all seek to develop a continuous relationship with God.We should try to emulate him in our living.We should not just remember to pray whenever we are in need.That,God does not like.When we pray we should make it a communication.Communicate with him as if you were communicating with your friends.Be friends with God
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29th June 2012, 05:01 PM
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For example ones thoughts, speech and deeds,
It would be intressting to read what others have for views on this.
What Scuba and Grannie Annie said 
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I often hear Christians say this. Said it myself a few times, but how does that practically work? If Christians are being slaughtered, is that God's plan for their lives? If a Christian becomes a millionaire, is that God's plan for his life? If a Christian lives in poverty and has a desperately horrid existence, is that God's plan for their life?
If we can suggest that all those instances are a part of God's will/divine purpose, then does that fly in the face of suggesting that He loves us all equally? Seems like some got a raw deal.
And does He love us equally?
Someone being born in India and raised as a Hindu, would not be an expression of God loving all equally. Would it? Just an act of fate can, according to some, mean that someone is destined for hell just because they were born at a certain time in a specific geographical location. So can I suggest that fate plays an intrinsic part of how much God loves us and His divine purpose?  |
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Hello
The will of God might indeed be one factor. But if all were blessed equally does that not mean all would be equal?
Here's another factor:
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
Maybe someone wins the lottery and it's part of God's plan. For others the machine just spun the winning numbers.
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The will of God might indeed be one factor. But if all were blessed equally does that not mean all would be equal?
Here's another factor:
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
Maybe someone wins the lottery and it's part of God's plan. For others the machine just spun the winning numbers.
It would appear that inequality is and always will be a big part of Christianity.
Remove `god` from the equation then you are simply left with man=want, and greed.
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