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On Jul 6, 5:03 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 2:16 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >> rbwinn wrote:
> >>> On Jul 6, 1:00 am, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>> On Jul 5, 3:53�am, "Alex W." <ing...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>>>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
> >>>>>>news:62956527-c824-415d-93ab-cdbf47127a02@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> >>>>>> On Jul 4, 9:37 am, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> For the umpteenth time, we cannot tell Jesus anything.
> >>>>>>> If he existed at all, he died nearly 2,000 years ago.
> >>>>>>> Apart from an alleged brief visit shortly afterward, he hasn't been seen
> >>>>>>> since.
> >>>>>>> How can we tell him anything, huh?
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> >>>>>> Well, it is called prayer. �Christians are commanded to pray.
> >>>>>> ====================
> >>>>>> And you're sure your prayer gets through ... even though no-one in the
> >>>>>> history of Christian prayer has ever answered. �You know, if I dial a number
> >>>>>> and get no connection, I may try a few more times, but sooner or later I
> >>>>>> realise that there's no phone at the other end ....
> >>>>> Well, mine get answered.  What made you think they were not?
> >>>> Shall we do some double-blind tests? Would you like to submit that claim
> >>>> to scrutiny? It would really help me believe, because theists are always
> >>>> talking about answered prayer, and mine were met with nothing but stony
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> >>> James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth
> >>> to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.
> >>>   6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavereth
> >>> is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed,
> >>>   7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
> >>> Lord.
> >> I wouldn't expect God to start taking *my* calls now after having
> >> ignored them entirely for five years, but *you* still have faith. We
> >> could test the efficacy of *your* prayers.
>
> >> Feel up to it? :-)- Hide quoted text -
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> > Why do you want to test my prayers?
>
> So you'd be able to back up your claim that prayer (yours, mine,
> anyone's) is actually answered.- Hide quoted text -
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According to scripture unless a prayer is asked in faith it will not
be answered.
Robert B. Winn