Sentences with phrase «believe prayer changes»
I believe Prayer changes everything, in addition to prayer, there is Logic.
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If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.
If believing in God makes people feel less overwhelmed, great, good for them, but, like prayer, it doesn't change a thing in the real world.
I do believe prayer effects change, but sometimes we can not perceive the changes, sort of like the butterfly effect in nature.
I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.
You must have either read my mind, or my post (a few lines down) wherein I responded to «Atheism's» «Prayer changes things» by saying: «Yep, I'm sure those 9 -1-1 terrorists (if you believe they were terrorists, and not government operatives... but that's another post for another blog...) were doing a lot of praying... and, boy, did they change things!»
Prayer changes otherwise rational adults into believing in imaginery friends like children do.
Prayer changes otherwise rational adults into believing in imaginary friends like many children do.
nah — they believe that grocary store bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand live happily ever after if I follow some rules laid down by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.
For me I do believe in the Sacraments and the role they play in Salvation - Jesus did change wine into this blood and the bread into his body during the last supper and told believers to do this in his memory and he did foreshadow what would happen on the Cross he gave up his life so we maybe could be saved, because not all who profess Christ is Lord or believe in God will be saved, there are many people who claim they can abuse, sleep around, steal, cheat and that they'll still go to heave because 1 day they said the sinner's prayer, actions speak louder then words.
The preacher is right everyone should be who they are... but then again the Bible does state that it is an abomination to God... But get this... before God can judge you Jesus has to judge you... the BIble says NO MAN COME TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME... we have no room to judge others or talk about them because no sin is big or small they are all the same... the only big sin is not being saved and believing in God... if we are saved and if we believe we have nothing to worry about... but again we have no room to say who is right and who is wrong because it's not our place all that we can do is pray and prayer can change things...
i imagine you will come up with some lame excuse of how «god» doesn't force people to believe, but if prayer changes things then it changes god's plan and thus no one should be athiest... correct.
Believe what you want, but prayer changes nothing.
Prayer changes things The vilest offender who truly believes That moment from Jesus A pardon receives Pray to God for Salvation in 2012
Doesn't he believe that prayer is incapable of changing God's will?
Proselytizing, particularly of the hit and run kind: eg: «Believe or burn» A special case of this is copy / paste of trite, meaningless aphorisms eg: «Prayer changes things» Ummm, we all know it doesn't.
If you believe in the God of the Bible, you must believe that prayer changes things.
«They believe that prayer changes things.»
It was widely, sadly, believed that after 20 first graders were murdered in Sandy Hook in 2012 with little more than a round of «thoughts and prayers,» a call from President Obama for action, and zero action by Congress for years that nothing will change.
Religious beliefs can play a strong role in not seeking professional therapy believing that prayer, faith and hope will change the situation and bringing in a stranger won't help.