Comments on: Answering Prayers

By: George

George — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:20:21 +0000

How do you know there is someone listening to your prayer? What makes you so special that a God would even listen to you much less respond?

By: rick

rick — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:01:53 +0000

I think there is an answer, and that answer is that there is no conclusive method of determining that answers to prayers (and the antithesis of such) are more than just coincidences.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:23:09 +0000

I take it then there’s no real answer to the question I posed.

By: rick

rick — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:29:18 +0000

No, I’m saying that if all of her beliefs are the correct ones …

I have no blame for gods or anyone else for that matter.

I’m living in the here and now, she can worry about the hereafter. ;)

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:26:16 +0000

Rick, neither I nor my church preaches predestination. But when you blame God for your choices and your wife’s choices, I have to think you probably do. :)

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:15:59 +0000

So if your wife would just be happy and realize that in the end everything’s okay, then all would be well? Then consider my previous comment sent to her with hope that she can have the faith to relax and enjoy being married to a great man.

By: rick

rick — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:01:51 +0000

Now are you talking *doctrine* or social practise, Kim?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:00:58 +0000

Technically, the LDS church believes in foreordination, not predestination.

By: rick

rick — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:57:10 +0000

I don’t subscribe to that doctrine, but unfortunately my wife belongs to an organization that does.

Hence her grief – and indirectly mine.

;)

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:54:07 +0000

Rick, I never would have taken you for a believer in the doctrine of predestination.