Christians, do you ever pray before answering a question?

Question

I have found that there are some questions which could be answered in several ways. Personally, I have found I have had to pray, shut up , and listen before I go off saying what I think.

Answer 1

I think some people (atheists and Christians) actually drink or smoke pot before they answer a question.

For the praying. If they do it doesn't seem to be working that well!  

Answer 2

All the time!  The interesting thing is that I get emails a lot from people about what I write.  The things we're saying affect many people, even nonbelievers.  It is so very important to pray and let the Holy Spirit guide us in our words.  

We do have the choice, though, to not do this and lean on our own understanding.  Sometimes I forget to pray because I know this one, it's easy, but if we let Him speak through us we can sometimes get through the obvious question to the heart of the asker, which is not something we as humans can accomplish.  God alone knows our hearts and knows what we need.  He is what the world needs, not me!   What a messed up place if I was the answer...  I do know Him, though, and I pray continually that this be a place where I can show the world to Him.  

Answer 3

Not really, but, you know now i probably will.  thanks. great idea. prayer works! God bless you

Answer 4

That's a good idea

Answer 5

Sometimes, what you truly think is better, because it's the truth the way you see it.

Answer 6

lol me too and there are some that i have to just not answer due to the offensiveness of the question.

Answer 7

Yes, I pray.  I also am taught by prayer, to ignore insincere questions.  God bless you, it is good to know that others are also praying.

Answer 8

Excellent question ... and well-timed.   I've only been on R&S a short time and I am absolutely blown away by what I have seen.  Yes, there are the silly posts from Christians, some of which are abusive, but, the never-ending wave of unbridled vitriol from unbelievers, usually aimed at Christians, should give Christians pause.

While some of these people are simply trolls, others ask tough questions. As Christians, we need to respond with the very love, patience and grace God showed to us.   Our answers need to be well-reasoned and insightful, even if some questions/responses from others do not share those qualities.

I've spent most of my time attempting to logically form  responses, relying on my own insight and thoughts, rather than Gods. For the first time last night, I prayed for all the participants on this forum, myself included.

Initially, these questions are fleeting, getting the bulk of their interest in the first 30 minutes.  However, they live on in search engines.  

The very questions posted to mock and malign Christianity give us an opportunity to express the Gospel.   Let's respond with the heart and mind of God.

Answer 9

I pray and ask for wisdom from God to answer alot of these questions.  

Answer 10

I have sometimes, especially dealing with especially tricky subjects.

Answer 11

i always pray first that the holy spirit be my guide in my answers

Answer 12

  I always pray before I come into R&S.  I sometimes come across a question that I would love to answer or as you mentioned "Say what I think" but the Holy Spirit says no, leave it alone. So I move on. There have been times however that I still answered a question against the advice of the Spirit and I ended up deleting it because it served no useful purpose. So yup, I know what you mean.

Answer 13

OMG...! This is a funny as it can get! Do you really know the God that you pray to.. or you have it all figured out in your mind?

The Bible God worshipped by the Christians in America is the one that forced his chosen people to eat their own children for dinner NOT AS A PUNISHMENT, but as an option in time of famine. God never objected about killing and cooking a child for dinner! Bigot Christians who are not openly pro-life because of an abortion in the family are furiously anti-g*y! And vice versa!

Nothing is taken out of context here. The Bible was obviously written by some primitive “holy men of God” who knew how to control religious people... Any religion then was as savage as you can possibly imagine. The Bible is a hangover from those days... The Bible God is too bloody and wicked for just any person to believe without substantial manicuring of the Bible. America is ONE NATION UNDER GOD and IN GOD WE TRUST only because of the collapse of our gold monetary system. It did the trick of calming down a lot of Christians. Instead of reading the Bible Christians listen to their preachers!

Christians blame atheists of being “baby killers,” but that’s only to cover up their own shortcomings! The Bible writers made the “loving God” totally powerless to teach his chosen people a lesson without FORCING them to eat their own children for dinner for whatever reason in the “good and spacious land flowing with milk and honey”* (*According to the Bible, this was factual ONLY before Israel invaded Palestine. The former dwellers lived well in abundance!). This primitive Bible God takes it on the innocent children! Paradoxically, Christians are banning ALL ABORTIONS so there will be more children for dinner! Spiritually speaking, of course…!

The Bible Jehovah God's sadistic pleasures are the kinkiest ones ever to be invented in human history...!!! Throughout history not a Godless atheistic dictator in the world EVER thought of forcing his people to eat their own children for dinner...!!! This is so repulsive that no s**t publication EVER thought of publishing anything like that, either but you can enjoy reading all about it in the Bible! Christians feel that the DEVIL is seeding this information in their Bible to confuse them! Obviously, reading the Bible in an obscure King James verbiage helps to cover up any gross savagery very easily!

Leviticus 26:29 - (God says) YOU WILL eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters* (*without warning of any evil! Christians know that “if God says it I believe it… and that settles it!”)

Deuteronomy 28:53-57 - Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, YOU WILL EAT THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB, THE FLESH OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU* (*God won’t protect the innocent children, but his chosen people will enjoy eating them…! Praise the LORD! Sweet Jesus! Amen?). Even the most gentle and sensitive man* (*not a homosexual or a “Godless” atheist, but a chosen child of God!) among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children* (*after eating the youngest ones!), and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating…* (*This is so devilish! NOT SHARING!!!)

Jeremiah 19:9  I* (*God, NOT SATAN, but GOD!) WILL MAKE THEM EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS...

God won’t force you to eat PIGS, but your own children, YES! This was written for the pleasure of the bizarre oriented right wing Fundies who support this kinda God! The Holy Inquisition hardly measured up to God’s standards and the Westboro Baptist Church falls far behind!

Ezekiel 5:10 - Therefore in your midst fathers WILL EAT THEIR CHILDREN...*

Most Bible writers are going berserk conveying God’s message about eating children! Please notice that GOD NEVER SPOKE A WORD AGAINST EATING YOUR OWN CHILDREN FOR DINNER in the plentiful Holy Land! It took 2 men to carry a single bunch of grapes to show Israel how plentiful was the Heathen place that they were going to invade (Num 13:23)! Even in Egypt Israel was much better off. They never had to eat their own children! God actually tricked them to leave Egypt to make them eat their own children!  

Lamentations 4:10 - With their own hands COMPASSIONATE women* (*GODLY… Not lesbians or atheistic ladies, but God loving heterosexual “WOMEN” --plural/many!)  HAVE COOKED THEIR OWN CHILDREN...! Not in a moment of rage, but with some planning, recipes, and so on!)

These are not the only few episodes of FACTUAL eating of children in the Bible!!! Here is an episode in FULL EXPLICIT CONTEXT that is impossible for the Christian clergy to explain, but they do it for the sake of your tithes and offerings!

2 Kings 6:26-29 (NIV) As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” The king replied, “If the Lord* (*God) does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?” Then he asked her, “What's the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.’ So we cooked my son and ate him* (*BTW… it came out delicious!!!). The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”* (*…this is the actual sin!)

They were all “compassionate” Godly, non-Atheistic, heterosexual women that HAVE COOKED THEIR OWN CHILDREN FOR DINNER...! The Bible writers still say that “God is LOVE”! Christians must be blinded by the “GOD IS LOVE” commercial in the Bible… it is like a real spell… It really is!

Isaiah 49:15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I* (*God) WILL NOT FORGET YOU!*

(*The Clergy knows how to cover up and explain away the overwhelming Bible evidence to the contrary!)

These are not obscure isolated verses in the Bible, but eating your own children is part of the Bible theme. The clergy can still market Christianity in our advanced society after YEARS OF CHRISTIAN BIBLE SCHOOLING to learn how to do it just right for each brand of the Christian faith!

The Bible writers are delighted to tell us that Jesus was whipped, beaten, thoroughly marinated in Roman spit, and nailed to a Holy Cross as a “spotless Lamb of God.” Then the Christian MUST EAT HIS ROMAN SPIT FLAVORED MEAT AND DRINK HIS HOLY BLOOD to make it to Heaven! (John 6:53) The idea of eating one’s sons and daughters is part of the BIBLE story so the forever cannibalizing of God the Son Jesus Christ in the Holy Communion is not half that bad…! The Bible also promotes the killing of infants to get rid of future enemies of God!!!

Psalm 137:8-9 - O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us- he who seizes your infants and DASHES them against the rocks.

The Bible writers say that the enemies of God ought to be killed in their infancy when it is easier to get rid of them (Amen?) So abortion is not remotely that bad. In fact, IT IS VERY HUMANE...!!! Notice “humane” versus “Godly.” Godly requires that the fetus be born into a child before he/she can be dashed to pieces as an infant! The Egyptian midwives were doing this kind of abortion on the willing Hebrew ladies! No other form of safe induced abortion was known then!

Isaiah 13:16 (KJV) Their* (*God’s chosen people’s) little ones also will be DASHED TO PIECES before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished…. (How many s*x starved godly women would wish to be ravished? But the children must be DASHED TO PIECES – not just killed! Praise the LORD!)

Sadly, that the liberal media doesn’t get involved in reporting any religious story in the Bible! By the way, God the Son Jesus Christ is hardly any better than his own Daddy God up in the sky!

Revelation 2:23 (NIV) (In his apocalyptic “revelation” for the last days Jesus Christ says) I WILL STRIKE HER CHILDREN DEAD* (*No abortionist can beat Jesus at killing babies… AMEN? Sweet Jesus is the one killing the children so he can teach everybody a lesson on WHO IS THE BOSS! Preachers have earned millions printing books about Jesus love for the little children of the world without telling anybody about his vicious children killing craze. In our society today Jesus would be in jail for bullying about killing children to favor a particular religion!!!). Then ALL THE CHURCHES WILL KNOW that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.* (*I’m the BOSS says Jesus! He is far more daring than the Mafia because the Mafia doesn’t go public talking like that. Christians love this message because Jesus is God!)

We definitely need a better Bible more in accord with factual science and realistic moral values if religion needs to survive as a crutch for low self esteemed people!

Most Christians pretend to ignore that the Bible is an old religious people control device and today a money making machine exploiting human religious gullibility! Christians don’t know how to deal with plain FACTS either from science or from their own Bible that they hardly read! Their preachers, the Pope, Bush and all his spiritual advisors subscribe, worship and rule millions of people by this Bible God notion!

Romans 15:4 (Saint Paul says) For EVERYTHING that was written in the past* (*Old Testament) was written to teach us* (*Christians)...

Then Christians are forced to lie that not everything written in the Bible is for them...!!!

Answer 14

I do sometimes, other times I have thought of a scripture I thought would be right, but on the way to it another catches my eye that just feels right, and go with that instead.

God bless. <><

Answer 15

Nope.

Maybe that's why I give so many asinine answers :P

Answer 16

Yes I have.  Especially if it's someone who is truly depressed or upset and I want to comfort them.  I pray for God's guidance and wisdom.

Answer 17

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Answer 18

Many questions I know the answer to because they are straight from scripture. There are times I pray and listen to the Lord for His answer. I pray that the lord will always lead you to give His answer. In the Name of Jesus. †Prayer Warrior At Your Request†