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promises to believers in the Bible that have been proven to be untrue
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<blockquote data-quote="roman2819" data-source="post: 71368827" data-attributes="member: 319568"><p>[USER=317127]@jenny1972[/USER]</p><p></p><p>Such verses are NOT promises, they are words of encouragement. Jesus was telling us to persevere and have faith, faith is the beginning, but the Lord was not saying that prayer will be answered if we have faith ie these are not words of guarantee. As an analogy, a sports coach tell his trainee, "Focus, run a good race, and you will win." Is the coach giving a guarantee? No, he is trying to encourage the athlete.</p><p></p><p>When reading Scriptures, we tend to interpret words at surface level, we take everything literally because "God said so". But meaningful application entails understanding what Jesus was really saying, what He was trying to tell us.</p><p></p><p>It is difficult to explain everything here. I wrote about this in "Understanding Prayer, Faith and God's Will" (2016 Edition) if you are interested to take a look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roman2819, post: 71368827, member: 319568"] [USER=317127]@jenny1972[/USER] Such verses are NOT promises, they are words of encouragement. Jesus was telling us to persevere and have faith, faith is the beginning, but the Lord was not saying that prayer will be answered if we have faith ie these are not words of guarantee. As an analogy, a sports coach tell his trainee, "Focus, run a good race, and you will win." Is the coach giving a guarantee? No, he is trying to encourage the athlete. When reading Scriptures, we tend to interpret words at surface level, we take everything literally because "God said so". But meaningful application entails understanding what Jesus was really saying, what He was trying to tell us. It is difficult to explain everything here. I wrote about this in "Understanding Prayer, Faith and God's Will" (2016 Edition) if you are interested to take a look. [/QUOTE]
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