From: stumper 

Rudy Canoza wrote:
> On Mar 27, 3:25 am, duke  wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:10:50 GMT, Rudy Canoza 
wrote:
>>>>>>> ·  Duke -- I prayed like hell for a Porche 911
and I'm still drivin' a
'73
>>>>>>> Dodge van.  When can I expect delivery ?
>>>>>> Did you ask for the Porche 911 in the name of Jesus?
>>>>> ·  Damn right, Duke.
>>>> No, you didn't.  If you had, and you needed the Porche,
you would have
gotten
>>>> it.
>>> Really?  Then why has god *never*, not once in the
>>> history of the universe, ever granted an amputee's
>>> heartfelt, sincere prayers to get his limb(s) back?
>> God always answers our prayers, we just don't always get what we ask for.
God
>> knows better what we need than we do.
>
> It isn't about "need", duck, you liar:
>
> Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
> knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
> 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;
> and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
> 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give
> him a stone?
> 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
> 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
> children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good
> things to them that ask him?
>
> Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on
> earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for
> them of my Father which is in heaven.
>
> Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer,
> believing, ye shall receive.
>
>
> Nothing in any of that bullshit about "need", duck.  
"Ask, and it
> shall be given you"; "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in
> prayer, believing, ye shall receive."
>
> You fucking liar, duck.  Are you saying that *ALL* amputees who asked
> to be made whole didn't sufficiently believe, duck?  Why are cancer
> victims inherently "better" believers than amputees, duck?
>

It all depends on what you think God is.

You don't have to believe in miracles or the supernatural to believe in the
atheistic God.

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~Stumper

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