"John Baker" <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote in message
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> On 13 Jan 2007 18:32:45 -0800, "Eris" <vithant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>From a different news group
>>
>>I would appreciate people's thoughts on the philosophy of Petitionay
>>Prayer.
>>
>>1. God is omnipotent, omni-benevolent, and omniscient (Premise).
>>
>>This means that telling God of our needs and asking him to meet them is
>>a waste of time; God is fully aware both of our needs and of our
>>desires, and will have taken them into account in making his original
>>decision. Whatever decision he has made, whether it is in our favour or
>>not, we should not question; our judgement as to what God should do
>>will surely be inferior to his, and so we should let him get on with
>>doing what he is going to do.
>>
>>It therefore seems that Christians ought not to pray petitionary
>>prayers. Prayers of worship and adoration are understandable, of
>>course, but requests for divine intervention seem to be futile;
>>whatever God is going to do he will do, whatever he is not he will not.
>>Our prayers won't change that.
>>
>>The last two paragraphs are from
>>http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/petitionaryprayer.html
>
>
> Seems to me this is nothing more than an attempt to rationalize away
> the obvious fact that prayer doesn't work.
I think we have to add Uncle Davey to the thread. He is just so damned
clever when it comes to such stuff ..%)
- nilita
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