A miracle that happens millions of time each day

prayer

 

i was going to guess orgasm.

 

That is a miracle to. Think about it?

 

Why do you consider every prayer a miracle?

 

For only the ones that have faith that it reaches God, those are the ones he pays attention to, but he hears all prayers, but answers only the ones who have prayed in faith and it’s within his will

 

And through his son Jesus Christ

 

lol

 

Can we pray if we have sinned prior to praying?

 

No better than random chance then.

 

So many miracles, but if I had to choose: consciousness--the most immediate phenomenon we encounter every waking moment, and one which science has yet to explain satisfactorily. Why would conscious beings have greater survival prospects than highly functioning zombies? Maybe consciousness is another one of those happy accidents or spandrels--fortuitous side effects of something that evolved for another function. If so, it was a biggie, right up there with life and the ability of Pikaia to survive the Burgess decimation (without her, we wouldn't be having this conversation). Not to minimize the Big Bang, and (if Krauss is right) the quantum vacuum fluctuations that caused it. Of course, scientists may prefer to call them flukes or coincidences or (as yet) unexplained phenomena. Either way, I'm grateful for the chain of happy flukes that got us here.

 

You can you pray anytime even after sinning. What’s your prayer should be some kind of repentance for your Sin, Otherwise what good is your prayer?

 

Stop praying to win the lottery then

 

Would you like me to pray for you Adam skip all

 

I'd hesitate to make pronouncements on whose prayers God hears. Sounds kind of presumptuous to me.

 

Have you not read this scripture?
John 14:6

And Jesus said, I am the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

That's almost what it says: "the way, the truth and the life". What does it mean? First of all, I note that none of the other gospels contain this language, or any of the other "I am" statements that are such a prominent feature of John's gospel. Most scholars think John was written last, nine decades or more after Jesus' death, and by an anonymous author--and even more so than the synoptic gospels, it's main purpose seems to be theological instead of biographical or historical. Did Jesus actually say these things, or was John just putting words in his mouth to convey his sense of Jesus' meaning and essence? They were written at a time when the best historians often composed whole dialogues to put in the mouths of historical figures to convey the scholar's sense of what they would have said, on the basis of their character. I think this is what John was doing, and interpret them metaphorically.

As a Christian, I believe that the teachings and example of Jesus, or something like them, are the path to enlightenment: love of God, love of neighbor, unconditional love for even society's rejects. That's my understanding of "the way" we're to follow. If a good Buddhist, or Hindu, or Muslim, or pagan does the same, I think (s)he's on the right path, as is an atheist or agnostic who has the same values and puts devotion to morality and the highest ideals above self.

 

If you don’t believe Jesus said that, then why consider anything in the Scriptures. This is our only channels to get this information. The Bible is the only book that shows Jesus wordsAnd yes Jesus did say that the greatest commandment is to love God with your whole heart mind and soul and the second commandment is to love the neighbor as yourself and then he gave the parable of the good Samaritan to answer the question. Who is my neighbor?

 

Jesus set a model for humans to follow

 

I believe that love of God and neighbor, and unconditional love for everyone, including society's rejects, is self-evidently true, and that the words and deeds attributed to Jesus are the closest approximations to those truths among the world's religions. I beleive that there was a first century Jew called Jesus of Nazareth who taught these things, challenged the religious establishment, and was Crucified by the Romans. I tend to share the view of the Jesus Seminar that much of what the gospels say about him, like the miracles, the birth narratives, etc., is legendary, as would be expected of any narratives based on oral traditions circulating for several decades before being committed to writing. The parable of the Good Samaritan, for example, we owe only to Luke. Is it true? Of course it its. Did Jesus say it? Not important. It's attributed to him, and that's good enough for me. I assume also that the Buddha, if he existed, likewise didn't do or say all of the wonderful things attributed to him in the sutras. I seriously doubt that his mother was impregnated by a white elephant or that he was shielded from the sun by a cobra or literally was tempted by the demon Mara. I believe in the wisdom of the teachings ascribed to him, which speak for themselves.

 

Yes. U can pray anytime.