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Originally Posted by Gramps666
You are right on. Prayer has no effect on anything except a person's mentality. We usually only hear from those who feel prayer has helped. Never from those who have prayed and then died. Which raises another question. Why does God play favorites by answering some and not others? After all, the Bible tells us that everything will be answered. And don't give me any of that BS about sometimes he says no.
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Prayer is not only for relief of our mortal and physical sufferings, but more importantly
for our souls that live on in eternity. We are spirits created in God's own image--spirit.
We can choose to deny God exists, disobey Him
and exalt ourselves, which results in choosing for our souls to spend eternity in agony, gnashing of teeth and torture with Satan (who defied God's divine authority over him
and exalted himself).
Or we can choose to believe the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and believe that His Son Jesus is the promised Messiah who, because of our faith and trust in Him, gives our souls eternal life in heaven.
The two thieves on the cross beside Jesus are a prime lesson preserved in Scripture these two thousand years for our learning.
One chose to mock Jesus and deny Jesus was the Son of God and declared him powerless and an impostor.
The other thief chose to
- admit his guilt,
- repent of his crimes,
- acknowledge that Jesus was/is the Son of God and promised Messiah, and
- ASK Jesus for
divine forgiveness and redeem him before Holy God in heaven.
The choice is abundantly clear when choosing Satan or Christ.
Those who choose Christ as Lord over their lives have their mind and soul at peace
now thru eternity, regardless of our diseased or dying physical condition.
See verses 33-39 in Luke 23:
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