you have to think that most “prayers” in the world involve money, even health related issues are largely solved with trained staff in a place that cost money (hospital), where if you wanted to kill someone and pray for it (but god does in the old testament with the flood), you buy a gun. if you are hungry, you don’t pray to be filled, you grow food, process it then eat it, where is god in these processes? and when you are cold sick or depressed? why do we need pain when we have pleasure that is what it is? to me i see money as a thing thats possibly as good as god, i challenge god to prove that we can’t buy our wants and needs, we must turn to him in some way? why?, now i dont disbelieve but i am suspicious and i like to think it over in my head and one day i might find i am proved wrong and be grateful i know right and wrong and keep it for myself that knowledge., for now i say that you can effectively “buy” your prayers, care to disagree? fly? get a plane ticket. entertainment? buy a video game eat, buy food, wash? buy shower and so on. look at third world countries, the ball game is different where the gov is corrupt and is selfish, i dont promote selfishness but the state of 3rd country is in need of repair, hygeine and so on ie zimbabwe.. that pretty much sum up this question.. i dont see family or friends as anyone special, they are just people, the meaning of them came from money they give and that we each give to each other in time, i think people get emotionally stupid, if you have a pure mind , a pure decision to do good you are paid with money not emotions is good thing, isnt that acting out prayer how someone else would see it? but not through god?… if you want to be a famous youtuber for example, you have start up money for lights the camera and your material. i would pray that we should encounter god more often to learn more about him so i m here to argue, when you need to stay alive , when you want to enjoy your life, you need money and not prayer. im not saying im right or wrong i pose this question to you as a debate, a life spectacle and how do i or we as humans come to terms with the balance between money and god or money over god, if hes reading this question right now, how does he decide on a good prayer when someone else is buying their time or investing in wellbeing in the same way. debate please
Chosen Answer:
Money is a tool. Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? To be honest what does most people want? Is it God? Majority will without hesitation seek money. Mark 8:36 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. You may ask, how then will I live if I have no money? What did Jesus said concerning that matter? Matthew 6:25-34
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Jesus said it plain in simple: Seek me first and follow me, then everything you need will be provided to you. Jesus even said don’t even THINK about these things for He will take care of them. Absorb what Jesus said, not to THINK of tomorrow nor what you will have for today for it will be there even if we don’t ask. Be warned, it does not give us the license to slack off, but Jesus gives us the assurance so that we need not worry and only focus in His teachings and commandments throughout our lives. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness… verse 33
by: Rob
on: 12th July 13