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Two Intriguing Questions About Prayer
Is it appropriate to pray? on the face of it, it is not appropriate to pray:
- Prayer seems to be needed to give information, about what we want to the person we are asking for something. But, as (Scripture) says, " your father knows that you need all these things." (Mathew 6:32). So it( appears to be) not appropriate to pray to God.
- Prayer is a way in which we change the mind of the person to whom we are praying. so that he will do what is being asked of him. But God's mind cannot be changed or deflected." Furthermore," (the scripture says), "He who triumphs in Israel will not spare, nor will he be deflected by any repentance" (1 Samuel 1:59). So it looks as if it is not appropriate to pray to God...
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Thomas Aquinas
TheologianThomas Aquinas, Theologian, was born in 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy. He felt a call to the priesthood and the scholarly life of the Dominican Order. Eventually he received his doctorate while studying under St. Albert the Great. His best-known work, the Summa Theologica, addressed the philosophical and theological issues of his day, integrating a high view of Scripture as the inspired Word of God with a belief that God had also given human beings the gift of reason and logic. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Medieval Scholastic period of history. His Christian apologetics laid a foundation upon which apologists have built through our present day.
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Thomas Aquinas
TheologianThomas Aquinas, Theologian, was born in 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy. He felt a call to the priesthood and the scholarly life of the Dominican Order. Eventually he received his doctorate while studying under St. Albert the Great. His best-known work, the Summa Theologica, addressed the philosophical and theological issues of his day, integrating a high view of Scripture as the inspired Word of God with a belief that God had also given human beings the gift of reason and logic. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Medieval Scholastic period of history. His Christian apologetics laid a foundation upon which apologists have built through our present day.
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