I propose a day of prayer for Our elected officials!

[hillbilly123069]

A good example of this power is the 1988 southeast drought. Governor Hunt(alabama) asked for all state residents to pray for an end to the drought with a day of prayer. Starting immediately, up to 8 inches of rain fell all across the state with the surrounding states receiving only trace amounts. This is Our best hope.
Besides, what could it hurt. All through history,mass prayer has immediately preceded miraculously saved individuals all the way to wiping out entire invading armies.Its documented.
And what would be a good date to set?
I heard August 28th. Sounds like a plan!

 

[Working Poor]

hillbilly-

I like your idea. Very gentle very cool. The kind of idea I can certainly support.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

Why do you people buy into this nonsensical superstition?

 

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

What if we all prayed for John McCain to die horribly? Obama, too.

Hell, let's all just pray that Ron somehow wins the presidency and restores the republic. By the same margin given by that rain story, it should work. Unless, of course, God is a dirty socialist. Or he just happens to care more about Alabama than bringing America back to sanity, in which case he needs to get his fucking priorities straight.

 

[familydog]

It didn't take long for the trolls to show up.

 

[Theocrat]

Answering an Inquiry of a Hypocrite

Why do you people buy into this nonsensical superstition?

I don't know, Mitt Romneys sideburns. Maybe it's because of the electrochemical processes in our brains which make us believe.

 

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

It's really entertaining that you keep throwing that out as if it's an insult.

Silly neurological science!

 

[Theocrat]

Blinded By His Own Assumptions

It's really entertaining that you keep throwing that out as if it's an insult.

Silly neurological science!

It's not an insult, really. It's more of a reminder for him to be consistent in his thinking when it comes to his reductionistic assumptions about man. If we're nothing but subjected to electrochemical responses in our brain, then the answer should've been obvious to MRS before he asked the question. Yet, his question assumes that men can somehow believe contrary to what the functions of their anatomy dictate (as if men had a free choice), and thus, he contradicts himself everytime. That's my point.

By the way, he's seriously wrong in his view of what man is, and it has nothing to do with neurological science.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

It's really entertaining that you keep throwing that out as if it's an insult.

Silly neurological science!

I dont know, maybe the round Earth he lives on makes him throw it out there.


See what I did there?

 

[Danke]

It's not an insult, really. It's more of a reminder for him to be consistent in his thinking when it comes to his reductionistic assumptions about man. If we're nothing but subjected to electrochemical responses in our brain, then the answer should've been obvious to MRS before he asked the question. Yet, his question assumes that men can somehow believe contrary to what the functions of their anatomy dictate (as if men had a free choice), and thus, he contradicts himself everytime. That's my point.

By the way, he's seriously wrong in his view of what man is, and it has nothing to do with neurological science.

Ya know Theocrat. I don't always read your posts. But keep coming to RPF often, you have something of value to add, that's for sure.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

Essentially Theocrat is stating that he doesn't believe the brain is the place where conscious thought takes place.

 

[Theocrat]

Thoughts Come From a Source Beyond the Brain

Essentially Theocrat is stating that he doesn't believe the brain is the place where conscious thought takes place.

Of course not. Conscious thought is not material in nature, so how can it derive from a material entitiy such as our brains? There is an immaterial nature to man because every man has a soul, and it is the faculty of the soul wherein thought takes place. The effects of thought on the brain are only latent in nature.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

Of course not. Conscious thought is not material in nature, so how can it derive from a material entitiy such as our brains? There is an immaterial nature to man because every man has a soul, and it is the faculty of the soul wherein thought takes place. The effects of thought on the brain are only latent in nature.

So what is our brain for?

 

[expatriot]

Yoda Knows

So what is our brain for?

It is the interface between the Light of the Force and that physical muck we call bodies.

(one of Jedi's most fundamental teachings)

 

[Dr.3D]

It is the interface between the Light of the Force and that physical muck we call bodies.

(one of Jedi's most fundamental teachings)

You may be closer to the truth than you care to admit.

 

[hillbilly123069]

When He wants your attention, your attention will belong to Him.

Why do you people buy into this nonsensical superstition?

There is no such a thing as coincidence.We all create Our own destinies and the Book of Revelations is not written in stone.Prayer and faith can move a mountain,including the steaming mountain of in DC.
Do a Google search of Virgin Mary Prophecies.Follow some other links you find there.There are documents over 1000 yrs old there.I dare you to read through it and not believe there is something going on beyond what most consider to be scientific logic.

 

[Theocrat]

"Ask, and Ye Shall Receive..."

So what is our brain for?

Wikipedia is your friend.

 

[Dary]

Yet, his question assumes that men can somehow believe contrary to what the functions of their anatomy dictate (as if men had a free choice), and thus, he contradicts himself everytime.

Free choice as in free will?

I thought god was all about free will and that those who come to him do so on their own.

I was always taught that god gave us all free will to decide for ourselves what we will do and that we will be responsible for our actions.

Does mankind not have the ability to believe in or reject Christ? Why would god call upon us to believe had we not had the ability or the will not to believe in the first place? Wouldn’t the whole point be moot?

Kinda like a contadiction in itself?

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

Wikipedia is your friend.

the brain is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for behavior.

So you are saying I am correct?

 

[Theocrat]

Freedom to Choose Rightly Comes From God, Not Electrons

Free choice as in free will?

I thought god was all about free will and that those who come to him do so on their own.

I was always taught that god gave us all free will to decide for ourselves what we will do and that we will be responsible for our actions.

Does mankind not have the ability to believe in or reject Christ? Why would god call upon us to believe had we not had the ability or the will not to believe in the first place? Wouldn’t the whole point be moot?

Kinda like a contadiction in itself?

I was speaking in terms of Mitt Romneys sideburns' own worldview that one would not expect humans to have a free will to choose if they only believe what is encoded by the electrochemical processes of their brains.

I do believe that man has a "free will" to choose what he naturally wants (sin), but man does not have a free will to choose what he ought to (as far as it relates to what God requires of man in righteous living and charity towards his neighbor). In terms of my own worldview, God saves man from such a condition when they use the means of salvation (prayer, hearing of the Gospel proclamation, and Biblical reading) to come to a realization about their sinful state before God and their need of the Savior. Without God, men would reject Christ all of the time, and this is exactly what's recorded for us in John 6 of the Bible.

Anyway, I digress...