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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJesus' brother James on "thoughts and prayers".
James 2: 14-17--
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Have any of these "Christian" assholes ever even READ this book? There's a bunch of stuff like that in there.
dawg
(10,624 posts)The question he asked was, "Does prayer really change anything?".
The answer, which I very much believe to be true, is that at the very least, sincere prayer changes the "pray-er". And if he is truly changed, he will live out that change through his actions.
So by all means pray if you are so inclined. But then *do* something about it. Because the best miracles are the ones brought forth through our own efforts.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Wow.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Some sisters as well.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Iggo
(47,574 posts)PJMcK
(22,055 posts)It's a wonderful story of Jesus' life as told hilariously by his best bud, Biff, who is resurrected in modern times to write a new Gospel. God feels that His message has become distorted and wants someone who knew Jesus to write the truth. It focuses primarily on the years of Jesus' life that are absent from the Bible when Jesus traveled the world to learn how to become the Messiah.
Here's an excerpt from the book about Jesus' youth:
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didnt look much like the pictures youve seen of him. His eyes were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes.
Unclean! Unclean! I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
The boy took the lizard from his mouth and handed it to his younger brother, who sat beside him in the sand. The younger boy played with the lizard for a while, teasing it until it reared its little head as if to bite, then he picked up a rock and mashed the creatures head. Bewildered, he pushed the dead lizard around in the sand, and once assured that it wasnt going anywhere on its own, he picked it up and handed it back to his older brother.
Into his mouth went the lizard, and before I could accuse, out it came again, squirming and alive and ready to bite once again. He handed it back to his younger brother, who smote it mightily with the rock, starting or ending the whole process again.
I watched the lizard die three more times before I said, I want to do that too.
The Savior removed the lizard from his mouth and said, Which part?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about science book
Don't know much about the French I took
and don't know much about the Bible
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