Originally posted by Jury
What is that? Take and take ... and take ... and didn't bother to give? How selfish life you have, man. no2
Actually, no I don't. I haven't asked "God" for anything since I was in 6th grade. Shit didn't work back then, and I don't expect it to now. Selfish my ass. I do my own work.
I agree with Fire, TO, and ItV... If I were to have children, I would love them and care for them whether or not they constantly praised me. In fact I would recognize that children take many things for granted and probably wouldn't praise me much. If a human can recognize this... Surely GOD himself can recognize it?
Originally posted by Fire
well then why does he want us to pray to him and praize him before he will help us, cause that is what I got from your posts FE
So, would you continuely help someone that you didn't know? You need to develope a relationship w/him. How do you get to know him, if you never spend time w/him? thats all prayer is, talking w/Jesus. You're not going to help someone alllll the time, and this same person keeps getting in the same trouble day after day, how would they ever grow up and mature if you did? they wouldn't. You have to develope a relationship.
There's a funny clip about this the end of a song on the album "Enjoy Incubus"...
Man: "...I'm going to get out of the throne that I've been sitting in for all these years, you sit there, you be my lord, I'm no longer going to trust in myself, I'm going to trust in you. When that happened, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit. Speaking in tongues: (long string of apparent gibberish) Try that. You can't do that... (more gibberish)... Try that. Come on, give it a try."
Brandon: (lead singer of the band in question) "Okay, okay. (still more gibberish, but very different sounding)"
Man: (clapping) "Nice... Now is that a demonic tongue?"