Praying to God...

cleanbluesky

cleanbluesky

cleanbluesky

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I was thinking... suppose I want something. Perhaps, a specific job.
I pray to God.
I get the job.

Does it then follow that me getting that job is more important to God than all the death and starvation around the world?


Can anyone explain this, from a religious perspective?
 
It is important in Gods plan that you get the job.

/edit coming, so the flame-war doesn't begin
 
just easier ;)

and everyone knows you always do the easy ones first! its the first rule of procrastination...

sorry i cant give a more religious insight into it.
 
God does not have a limited attention span. God does not have a priority list, especially one that puts CBS's job in front of a starving child. God is infinite in every way and as such is able to work in whatever way He wishes.
 
Well God won't give you the job, the same way it won't give you free food, or anyone else for that matter. God will give you hope though, if you believe to Him, some things that seem impossible, through God, are achievable. That's what I think praying is all about.
 
pyro said:
Well God won't give you the job, the same way it won't give you free food, or anyone else for that matter. God will give you hope though, if you believe to Him, some things that seem impossible, through God, are achievable. That's what I think praying is all about.
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No, God wont give you hope becasue he said he will give us free will so we can hope if we want, or not hope its not something He would give...

What about miracles then? Do miracles not happen?
 
cleanbluesky said:
More important than stopping famine?
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knew that was coming, but thought you wouldn't be that fast.

I am not sure why God lets bad things happen, its his plan, not mine. I did a little googling, this is a sermon given about "Why Does the Lord Let Bad Things Happen". Its 6 pages, it might make things clearer.
 
chris_r said:
Don't intend to flame at all, but wouldnt it just be a coisedence (sp?)
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Im taking it from a Christian perspective - who often pray for things they have no immediate control over and often believe that positive acts are the work of God...

(similarly negative acts are the work of Satan)
 
cleanbluesky said:
No, God wont give you hope becasue he said he will give us free will so we can hope if we want, or not hope its not something He would give...

What about miracles then? Do miracles not happen?
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He gave us free will to believe to Him or not, we are not forced to believe, if we believe then we can also get hope.

Miracles happen if you believe to them as well, for me it's a miracle that Greece managed to exist even after 400years of Otoman occupation, for someone else giving birth is a miracle itself, you choose to believe what is or isnt.
 
Brynn said:
knew that was coming, but thought you wouldn't be that fast.

I am not sure why God lets bad things happen, its his plan, not mine. I did a little googling, this is a sermon given about "Why Does the Lord Let Bad Things Happen". Its 6 pages, it might make things clearer.
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Im not asking why God lets bad things happen, I am asking why he would spend His time intervening with something comparatively trivial...
 
cleanbluesky said:
Im not asking why God lets bad things happen, I am asking why he would spend His time intervening with something comparatively trivial...
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How do you know its completly trivial, do you know your own destiny?
 
cleanbluesky said:
My job wouldn't be as important as lots of people not dying...
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For all you know, you getting your promotion could lead you on to not enjoying your job. Which might mean a career change, which could lead onto you helping the starving. I am not saying it would, I am saying it could.
 
cleanbluesky said:
My job wouldn't be as important as lots of people not dying...
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Might be in the scheme of things. You getting that job might set off a chain of events that lead to the saving of billions of lives, and you wouldn't even know it.

You might trip over a man on the way to work who was about to mug and murder a scientist who would go on to cure cancer.

If you hadn't got the job you wouldn't have tripped him over.
 
Mohinder said:
Might be in the scheme of things. You getting that job might set off a chain of events that lead to the saving of billions of lives, and you wouldn't even know it.

You might trip over a man on the way to work who was about to mug and murder a scientist who would go on to cure cancer.

If you hadn't got the job you wouldn't have tripped him over.
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Shoelaces can do that. Why would God spend his time paying attention to menial issues. Again, why isn't God helping those that deserve it now?
 
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