Lebell
They are a genuine set of questions that I genuinely want to discover the answers to. I'm afraid that by starting the ASK LEBELL thread you made yourself something of a shining beacon of knowledge that my moth like questions were drawn to. Having said this, I did suspect that your open invitation for questions may not be the right forum for my thoughts, hence the new thread. Also, my innocent leading question was intended to set a simple groundwork for the discussion to build upon - your child-father analogy did this perfectly.
My questions are very much open to everyone and I hope that they will give some people pause for thought.
As you might expect I do have a set of responses to the posts in this thread, but I am at work now so will have to wait till later for them. For the moment I think it would help to say that I have found Petitionary Prayer to be one of those issues that can really shine light on the nature of God and also to be a topic that people can discuss without it getting personal (unlike so many discussion of homosexuality, hell, abortion etc.). For this reason I think it is well suited to the new Philosophy board on TFP.
[PS: I include the quotes I do so that discussions have some Biblical grounding. After all, the Bible is where Christians take their insipration from and I think it only fair that if I am to say "God is green", I provide so some sort of basis for my statement. This is a purely self-imposed discipline and I do not expect it of others, who are often better versed in the Bible than me.]
Until the next post, have a nice day
