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God in eternity past, in the counsel of His own will, ordained everything that will happen;
So if you counsel a child that was molested, you would tell her that God ordained it? Why would God ordain that little girls get molested?
Then what do you mean when you say God ordained it? If God ordained it, why is he not responsible for his decisions?yet in no sense is God the author of sin; nor is human responsibility removed.
God is not the author of sin, yet allows sin to continue another day, because His final judgment is being suspended for another day.
In other words, when you look at the world, you will find it behaves exactly as you would expect if the atheists were right.
A: No one, including COVID patients, deserve life. . .period.
Do COVID patients deserve to suffer years of physical pain as a result of COVID? One would think that they do not deserve that.
Thus, prayer is not an attempt to control God. It's not even a guarantee, as one might prefer to read-into that verse. Prayer is not a cosmic vending machine.
And yet the Bible specifically says that God gives things as a result of prayer. Not only does James 5 say this, but other verse say this also:
John 15: 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
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